Published August 9, 2007 · 0 comments

PC Perspective has their own go at the Diamond Multimedia Viper HD 2900 XT graphics card. The board features 1GB of DDR4 memory which is much and about twice as much total memory as other XT cards. A great performer…

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Published August 9, 2007 · 0 comments

phoronix has a look at the ASRock ConRoe1333-DVI/H motherboard. The board is another strange design from ASRock providing 1333MHz FSB support for Intel’s latest Core 2 chips as well as integrated graphics all from the rather “ancient” Intel 945G chipset….

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Published August 9, 2007 · 0 comments

Legit Reviews has a look at the ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT, 2600 Pro, and 2600 XT graphics cards. The boards hit the low-end to mid-range price points in style with decent 3D performance but its most sought after feature…

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Published August 6, 2007 · 0 comments

Legion Hardware has a look at the effect CPU speeds have on game performance under Nvidia GeForce 8×00 GPUs. CPU scaling is a forgotten variable when looking at the latest and greatest in gaming hardware while it’s one of the…

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Published August 6, 2007 · 0 comments

GideonTech has a review of the Antec Nine Hundred PC case. The enclosure has that “either you love it or hate it” styling and is loaded with no less than 4 fans and can go as high as 6 if…

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Published August 6, 2007 · 0 comments

DigiTimes writes of AMD’s plans to tap TSMC for production of the graphics core portion of its Fusion chips. The platform will initially see a CPU and GPU sharing the same socket on a chip while future versions will combine…

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Published August 6, 2007 · 0 comments

HKEPC Hardware (bring your translator) has an early look at an Intel Penryn powered Wolfsdale dual core processor. The Penryn core features SSE4 support and is built at a 45nm process (among other improvements) compared to today’s 65nm sse3 capable…

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Published August 1, 2007 · 0 comments

Hardware Secrets has a look at a reference design motherboard based on the SiS 672FX chipset. The board supports Intel LGA775 CPUs with the chipset being designed for value builds sporting its own integrated graphics core. A decent performer in…

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Published August 1, 2007 · 0 comments

bit-tech has a look at the Commodore XX Gaming computer. The company makes use of its trademark rights and slaps the good lod Commodore logo everywhere possible on their system but don’t let the nostalgia fool you, this system is…

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Published August 1, 2007 · 0 comments

HardOCP tries to gauge GPU performance with Capcom’s Lost Planet video game running its DirectX 10 patch. DX10 has promised all sorts of features to make games richer and more lifelike which graphics chip makers obviously want to use as…

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Published July 31, 2007 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has a look at the Diamond Radeon HD 2900 XT 1GB graphics card. This card ditches the 512MB total and GDDR3 memory chips and goes full bore at 1GB of GDDR4 RAM which offers better performance at…

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