Trusted Reviews puts the Alienware Aurora 5500 through its paces. The system they tested comes fitted with an AMD Athlon 64 3800+ CPU, Nvidia nForce 4 SLI motherboard, and a single GeForce 7800GTX graphics card. No matter the brand the…
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AnandTech has some info on AMD’s upcoming Socket M2 CPUs. The upgrade won’t allow for older 939 chips to be dropped in but they do plan on a top to bottom line-up of CPUs which feature dual channel DDR2 support….
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AnandTech has a look at the Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe motherboard. The board features Nvidia’s nForce4 northbridge and southbridge combo which allows for 16 lanes on the second SLI slot. Good speed improvements in SLI, 8 phase voltage regulation, and mounds…
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The Register has the scoop on ASUS’ upcoming silent X1600XT graphics card. The board obviously uses ATI’s Radeon X1600XT chipset but their silent cooler differs from the norm by wrapping around the back of the card. A nice setup for…
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GamePC has a look at the Tyan Tiger K8WE Dual AMD Opteron motherboard. The board makes use of Nvidia’s nForce4 Pro chipset giving it PCI Express capabilities but it does not support NUMA which would’ve given it a sizable memory…
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DigiTimes has the details on LED backlights moving into notebook PCs. Current LCDs use cold-cathod fluorescent lamps to provide light but they containt some nasty chemicals that are out of favor so the move to LEDs is on. Thinner notebooks…
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GDHardware has a chat with Ageia’s CEO Manju Hegde. Ageia is working on a physics accelerator which should make for more interactive games but, recently, some news from certain GPU makers it seem likely that they’re planning some physics acceleration…
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One of the Tech Report’s writers chronicled his system upgrade to something a bit more up-to-date. He picked the hardware and went about putting it all together which didn’t go as smoothly as he had hoped. An interesting story with…
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MADSHRIMPS has a look at the Alphacool CORA 662 liquidcooling kit. The product is passive so no fans whirring around, instead they use a large mass of aluminum with plenty of surface area to cool off your gear. A nice…
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HardOCP has a review of the ABS Mayhem G4 notebook computer. The system isn’t all that cutting edge in the CPU or GPU department but they do pack in practical components which should offer decent performance in many titles all…
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The Tech Report ran a number of benchmarks using a few different memory timings in an attempt to see if those fancy low latency memory kits are offering much of a performance boost. AMD’s memory controller is on the CPU…
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