bit-tech has a look at the MSI RD480 Neo2 motherboard. The ATI CrossFire capable board is nicely equipped with plenty of SATA and USB2 ports as well as firewire connections. Impressively enough its performance with X850XT cards manages to keep…
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The Tech Report has a photo of an MSI creation that could have mobile graphics cards working SLI magic on a single board. The card has two slots for the MXM notebook graphics modules which usually feature enhanced power efficiency…
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Microsoft has released a patch for its Graphics Rendering Engine which allowed for some malicious actions with just a simple WMF file. You can grab the update from their security bulletin or Windows Update can take care of you as…
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Laptop Logic has a review of the Asus A7G notebook PC. The laptop pairs the usual Intel Pentium M CPU with a large 17″ widescreen display and ATI’s Mobility Radeon X1600 graphics chip. A competent portable gaming machine, and, its…
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AnandTech has an early look at ATI’s OCUR CableCard/HDTV technology. It’s a collection of hardware that’s capable of displaying HD cable TV content on your PC via a USB2 port. It appears limited to Vista but it should finally fix…
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GamePC takes a look at ATI’s Radeon X1800 Crossfire master card. The board makes multi-GPU gaming goodness possible on ATI’s Crossfire motherboards. There’s a little ways to go to catch up with Nvidia but it looks like a much smoother…
Storage Review has a look at the Western Digital Raptor WD1500 hard drive. Normally a 150GB drive is not all that impressive but the Raptor drive line has the benefit of a 10,000RPM spin speed making it one of the…
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Elite Bastards has tried out two patches for id’s Quake 4 and Activision’s Call of Duty 2 that improve performance in multi-core and hyperthreaded CPUs. Quake 4 managed some nice boosts at lower resolutions while the CoD2 patch shows the…
HardOCP has a guide on how one might get going, if they’re so inclined, to adding liquid cooling to their Microsoft Xbox360 console. It’s purely for bragging rights and their solution is less than pretty but they had some tremendous…
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The Tech Report has some thoughts on the best and worst goings-ons in the computing world in 2005. The year was full of high powered hardware and painful, wallet crippling, lessons to be learned but their list sums up the…
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Hexus.net spent some quality time with the Intel Xeon “Paxville” dual-core processors. Their quad-core testing rig is somewhat impressive but they seemed underwhelmed by the sub-systems, most notably the memory controller, that was attached to the chip. A bit weak…
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