HotHardware has run a few tests on Intel’s V8 platform. It is, for the most part, a dual socket board capable of accepting two Quad core CPUs making for 8 physical cores which gives it quite a bit of computing…
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XSReviews has a look at the MSI 8800GTX OC Liquid graphics card. MSI has decided liquid cooling its 8800GTX is a far better choice than using the usual, and sometimes noisy, heatsink/fan assembly. A nice card with plenty of performance…
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PCSTATS has a look at the Biostar TA690G MicroATX motherboard. The board features AMD’s 690G chipset which sports a rather potent integrated graphics core perfect for that office PC or light 3D graphics work. A nice board if you like…
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DailyTech has some early numbers for the ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT graphics card. The board will sport a mid-range configuration of ATI’s first Direct X10 capable chip and, going by these numbers, it’s going to be some solid competition…
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Phoronix has a look at the SilverStone Sugo SG03 SFF PC case. The “small form factor” chassis can actually hold your favorite MicroATX motherboard. The case maintains its tiny proportions by moving the powersupply over the CPU which could lead…
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Digital Trends has a review of the Lenovo ThinkPad T60p notebook computer. The PC is designed for the “professional” on the go sporting up to 4GB of memory, all manner of connectivity options, and ATI Mobility Fire GL V525 on…
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TweakTown has a look at the GigaByte and XFX versions of the GeForce 8600GT graphics cards. The mid-range DirectX 10 capable cards sport some advanced filtering and video playback features but they lack a bit of performance in existing DX9…
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AnandTech pondered whether a pair of 1TB hard drives were worth running in RAID 0. The storage load is balanced between the two drives in RAID 0 giving you (supposedly) better performance but if one drive were to fail all…
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AMD has released a new set of drivers for its Radeon line of graphics cards bringing them up to version 7.4. The drivers sport, supposedly, massive gains in OpenGL based titles under Microsoft’s Windows Vista for Radeon X1000 series cards…
Read more Catalyst 7.4 Released
Auzentech, maker of various audio related products, is getting audio chips from an unlikely source: Creative Labs according to DailyTech. Creative has has a dominance over the audio add-in card field but this news might find another player getting some…
Read more Auzentech Sources Creative Chips
AnandTech managed to get some bench time on an Intel “Penryn” core CPU. The chip sports a number of improvements over the Core 2 design it will replace in a years time and early results show it as quite a…
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