Published April 11, 2007 · 0 comments

PCSTATS has a look at the ABIT AB9 Pro motherboard. The board doesn’t stand out much on the features front, the simple Intel Core 2 support, silent chipset cooling, and plenty of BIOS options is about as good as it…

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Published April 11, 2007 · 0 comments

HotHardware has a look at the GTR GT3-BH PC Case. The snazzy looking unit is designed for MicroATX motherboards but given its highly compact form factor a bit of careful planning and delicate maneuvers seem to be required in order…

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Published April 10, 2007 · 0 comments

Boot Daily has a look at the Gigabyte GA-965GM-S2 motherboard. The board comes in the Micro-ATX form factor for that smaller PC look and feel. It features four DIMM slots for plenty of memory expansion and quite a few S-ATA…

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Published April 10, 2007 · 0 comments

Legion Hardware has a look at the 320MB and 640MB versions of the Nvidia GeForce 8800GTS based cards. It’s not always clear cut how they’ll perform given how card manufacturers pick random clocks speeds to ship them at but their…

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Published April 10, 2007 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a look at the EVGA nForce 650i Ultra motherboard. The board sports a nice enough feature set although don’t expect SLI support or Dual ethernet ports on it. A great performer with some nice enthusiast options all at…

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Published April 9, 2007 · 0 comments

PC Perspective has a look at the VTBook CardBus Display Adapter. The device plugs into an open CardBus slot in your notebook PC and works as a secondary graphics card for another display. It’s not the most potent of solutions…

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Published April 9, 2007 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a look at the Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6800 CPU. The chip is the fastest consumer processor Intel offers featuring four cores and is almost 300MHz faster than the previous top chip. Quite the performer but you’ll be…

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Published April 9, 2007 · 0 comments

X-bit labs has a look at three of the larger LCD displays on the market. On their testbench are 30″ displays from Dell and Samsung as well as a 27″ monitor from Samsung. A nice collection of screens with plenty…

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Published April 5, 2007 · 0 comments

t-break has a look at the MSI NX8800GTX OC Liquid graphics card. The board is a “run-of-the-mill” 8800GTX powered beast with a fancy liquid cooling rig preattached and some higher clock speeds to go along with it. It’s not all…

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Published April 4, 2007 · 0 comments

DailyTech writes of Intel’s Centrino Pro platform. It’s designed with IT admins in mind allowing for remote access to any company machine for management or support purposes. With notebook computer sales overtaking desktops it was only a matter of time…

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Published April 3, 2007 · 0 comments

AnandTech started out with a simple plan of attempting to get CableCard support going under Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system only to run into issues along the way. The hardware/software itself is fine but when the cable companies get involved…

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