by Rafael Hernandez on January 17, 2006
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DV Hardware has a look at the ThermalTake Eclipse DV VC6000 PC enclosure. The case would be a run-of-the-mill chassis but it includes a nifty feature, namely a built-in slim-line combo DVD/CD-RW drive in the door. An interesting setup but…
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by Rafael Hernandez on January 17, 2006
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AnandTech has the details on a pair of new chipsets, from Nvidia, for Intel CPUs. The chipsets are designed for the more budget oriented systems and are more limited in their “extreme” options but some new additions, like Azalia HD…
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by Rafael Hernandez on January 16, 2006
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AnandTech has a review of the Asus P5WD2-E Premium motherboard. The product features Intel’s 975x chipset and it, being Asus’ premium line its spec sheet is stacked with plenty of additional on-board hardware. A great performer although its pricing will…
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by Rafael Hernandez on January 16, 2006
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hardCOREware has a look at the Zalman FS-V7 Fatal1ty graphics card cooler. The usual Zalman fin design is there bumping up the cooler’s surface area which has a nice effect on cooling performance over the usual stock cooler. A nice…
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by Rafael Hernandez on January 16, 2006
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HardwareZone ran some tests on MSI’s Geminium-Go concept graphics board. The card can take two MXM graphics modules usually found in notebook PCs with dedicated graphics. A very interesting take on SLI which has been getting quite a bit of…
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by Rafael Hernandez on January 13, 2006
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SFFTech caught the sights and sounds of the Consumer Electronics Show last week but they were only (mostly) interested in small form factor PCs. Shuttle was represented as well as some other manufacturers with small motherboards and components and eventually…
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by Rafael Hernandez on January 13, 2006
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AnandTech has a look at a trio of PC cases each from a different price point. The pricier, of course, has the well thought-out design and high quality paints and it usually goes down hill from there but their high-end…
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by Rafael Hernandez on January 13, 2006
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bit-tech has some details on a pair of booster packs for EA’s popular Battlefield 2 first person shooter. As you would expect a number of new campaigns and assorted weaponry and player skins will be available making it a fresher…
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by Rafael Hernandez on January 12, 2006
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Mozilla has released the latest version of its email/newsgroup client Thunderbird. Version 1.5 adds a few new features and quite a number of bug fixes under the hood. A nice alternative to Outlook Express and not as security lapse prone….
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by Rafael Hernandez on January 12, 2006
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Legion Hardware has a look at the Gigabyte Radeon X1600XT Silent-Pipe II graphics card. The cooler is they key selling point on this board but without its own dedicated fan you’ll need to have some dedicated airflow cooling this one…
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by Rafael Hernandez on January 12, 2006
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GamePC has a review of the 150GB version Western Digital Raptor. The drive doubles the size of the previous large version and still maintains its 10,000RPM speed. A bit faster than the older drives and quite impressive in a RAID…
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