Published October 29, 2006
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Bjorn3D has a look at the PowerColor X1950 PRO graphics card. The board sports one of the newer mid-range GPUs out there (R580+) which features an internal CrossFire bridge that makes their multi-GPU solution a little simpler. A great card…
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Published October 27, 2006
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3DAvenue has a short write-up on ATI’s Radeon X1950XTX graphics card comparing it to the older X1900XTX. They both use the same graphics chip although the 1950 benefits from faster GDDR4 memory and a much improved cooler. A great choice…
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Published October 26, 2006
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Hot Hardware has a look at Intel P965 chipset based boards from Abit and Gigabyte. The boards feature Core 2 Duo support and their choice of expansion ports but, from an enthusiasts point of view, the Gigabyte just about steals…
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Published October 26, 2006
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bit-tech tossed a few what-ifs at Microsoft over its activation program for its upcoming Windows Vista operating system. Enthusiats have been a bit worried on whether or not their constant need to upgrade may invalidate their OS purchase. The terms…
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Published October 26, 2006
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PCSTATS has a look at the MSI NX7950GX2-T2D1GE graphics card and compares it to the reference Nvidia 7950GX2. The board is a monster with two cards doing their SLI duty in a single slot which allows for a pair of…
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Published October 25, 2006
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Hexus.net has a short write-up on AMD/ATI’s move toward a combo CPU/GPU processing chip. It’s an expected move but nobody, outside of the two companies, knows what it will lead to yet though with the boundless imaginations everyone has both…
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Published October 25, 2006
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GamePC has a look at the Intel Core 2 Duo desktop chip (Conroe) and the mobile version (Merom). It’s an interesting test as the system using the mobile version, with the appropriate motherboard, uses up much less power than the…
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Published October 25, 2006
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techPowerUp has a look at the ATI Radeon X1900 XT 256MB graphics card. The card sports 256MB less video memory than the three boards above it in ATI’s line up which can hurt it in high resolution/high image quality situations…
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Published October 24, 2006
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neoseeker has a look at the Sapphire Pure CrossFire 3200 motherboard. Sapphire is best known for their ATI based graphics cards so a motherboard using ATI’s latest AMD AM2 capable chipset the RD580. It’s an impressive enough performer with a…
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Published October 24, 2006
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PC Perspective has a look at the Enermax Galaxy 1000W power supply. The unit sports a modular cabling system which is welcome especially when you consider the huge amount of room the supply can take up. Such a product would’ve…
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Published October 24, 2006
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BeHardware looks at Samsung’s push for their LCDs to do away with some of its perceived image flaws. Samsung plans on inserting some intelligently calculated images between actual frames in order to make ghosting/afterglow a thing of the past….
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