AMD has been getting on the power saving bandwagon with some of the chip features on its upcoming “Barcelona” core and their upcoming K10 design. The Inquirer has some of the details behind the magic that will get these new…
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Overclockers.com has a few new pictures of a supposed AMD “R600” based graphics card. The card does look mighty large, what with its 24W cooling impeller and all, but it should be smaller for the retail segment. All we need…
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HotHardware has a look at iSilence and IceQ Turbo versions of the HIS X1650XT. The IceQ features a large quiet cooler designed to pump the cards heat out of your case while the iSilence goes completely passive. A nice pair…
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VR-Zone comes in with a supposed leaked image of a graphics card sporting AMD’s upcoming R600 GPU. The card looks mammoth but a good 1/4th of the length is attributed tto the bracket for system builders and OEMs. The card…
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Tweaknews has a look at the Noctua NC-U6 chipset cooler. The device is a completely passive design which is a nice thing to see in a world of small high-pitched fans mounted on chipsets. A potent device with proper system…
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DailyTech has some info on Nvidia’s upcoming MCP72 chipset. It’s designed for AMD’s future Opteron/Athlon 64 AM2/AM2+ processors which means PCIe 2.0 and HyperTransport 3.0 support are in the cards. It’s shaping up to be a powerful chipset and it…
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DriverHeaven has a look at the AMD Radeon X1650XT graphics card. The X1650XT GPU was released a number of months ago into the mid-range market as a competitor to some of Nvidia’s dominant products and while it provided great performance…
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GamePC has a bit of a look at the various flavors of Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system and runs some performance tests. ReadyBoost, XP versus Vista, 64bit versus 32bit, it’s all in here with a fair amount of testing under…
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AnandTech has some early tests using Silicon Optix’s HD HQV software on AMD and Nvidia graphics solutions. The competitors made great strides with their playback of older formats such as DVDs but how well would they handle 4 times the…
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HardOCP has a look at the DFI ICFX3200-T2R/G motherboard. The Intel LGA775 board features the AMD/ATI R600 chipset and is likely to be the only board the hold that distinction given chipmaker rivalries. It’s a solid board with the usual…
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Xbit labs has a look at the Nvidia based Asus EN7950GT and EN7900GS graphics cards. The cards fall into the mid-range price/performance bracket although the GT variant is the bigger brother in this roundup. A nice pair of cards which…
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