by Rafael Hernandez on January 11, 2006
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GDHardware had a short visit with the Ageia crew which has been working with developers on implementing PhysX support in their games. The PhysX chip is a dedicated physics processor which should help make games a bit more interactive. A…
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by Rafael Hernandez on January 11, 2006
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AnandTech put together a list of some of the PC hardware on display at the CES this year. Some interesting hardware on the horizon with some inexpensive phase change cooling from OCZ and mounds of memory and interesting motherboard configurations….
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by Rafael Hernandez on January 11, 2006
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HardOCP has a look at Maingear’s Prelude pre-built PC. They test out the company’s build quality, tech support, and customer service and move on to actually torturing the machine. Overall it looks like a very capable PC and they appeared…
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by Rafael Hernandez on January 10, 2006
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Beyond3D has a bit of a chat with Bethesda Softwork’s producer Gavin Carter on the technology behind their soon to be released title “The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion”. All you’ll want to know about the game’s graphics engine is in…
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by Rafael Hernandez on January 10, 2006
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AnandTech has a look at the AMD Athlin 64 FX-60 processor. The FX chip-line is the top of the heap for their consumer chips, this particular model rolls in with two cores running at 2.6GHz. An impressive CPU which is…
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by Rafael Hernandez on January 9, 2006
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NGOHQ has a review of the Arctic Cooling Accelero X2 VGA cooler. The company was one of the first to bring bulkier VGA coolers to the market with their impressive Silencer line and their new Accelero maintains that great performance…
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by Rafael Hernandez on January 9, 2006
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The Inquirer has the details on a Sapphire X1600Pro graphics card that comes equipped with an HDMI interface. The HDMI link carries digital video and audio signals which the card has covered with its own dedicated audio chip. An interesting…
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by Rafael Hernandez on January 9, 2006
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AnandTech has their usual mass of information with their Day 3 coverage of the Consumer Electronics Show. Most of the focus is on various storage devices and display technology including SED. A great amount of hardware on its way, just…
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by Rafael Hernandez on January 7, 2006
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AnandTech continues its CES coverage with their day 2 compilation. 21 pages of tech goodies with more info on that Quad SLI Dell gaming monster and other assorted hardware….
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by Rafael Hernandez on January 6, 2006
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FrostyTech has a look at how heatsink and thermal interface material testing should be done. A number of CPUs have been pushing heat boundaries lately and more than a few heatsinks have failed to cool them off properly which would…
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by Rafael Hernandez on January 6, 2006
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A number of websites have prime info from the Consumer Electronics Show currently going on in Las Vegas. Here’s some of the coverage: AnandTech’s Day 1 bit-tech Engadget…
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