Published October 18, 2006 · 0 comments

ProClockers has a look at the Asrock ConroeXFire-eSATA motherboard. Asrock is up to its old tricks again with a decent board featuring ATI CrossFire and Intel Core 2 Duo support all on the older Intel 945 chipset. It’s a strange…

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Published October 17, 2006 · 0 comments

Legion Hardware has a look at the SLI performance of Nvidia’s Geforce 7900GS graphics cards. The card, by itself, is a solid mid-range offering at a good price point paired up with another board it’s a compelling choice compared to…

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Published October 17, 2006 · 0 comments

MadShrimps has a look at a number of XSPC’s water cooling products. The hardware they tested included a fancy CPU water block, pump, all aluminum reservoir, and a 3 fan radiator. This is some serious hardware, especially on the radiator’s…

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Published October 17, 2006 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a look at the ATI Radeon X1950 Pro graphics card. The board is a direct replacement for the X1900 GT and features a new cooler and internal CrossFire connectors. It’s a bit faster than the card it replaces…

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Published October 16, 2006 · 0 comments

Tweaknews has a look at the ZALMAN FATAL1TY FC-ZE1 PC enclosure. The case has that snazzy black and red theme going for it that most other FATAL1TY branded products do. It has a slightly military look to it and plenty…

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Published October 16, 2006 · 0 comments

Guru3D has a look at the Alphacool Ready2Go Stacker case. It comes with a preinstalled passive water cooling kit with a giant radiator mounted to the side of the case, it sounds odd and looks strange but it does perform…

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Published October 16, 2006 · 0 comments

The Tech Report checks out the performance and power usage of the newest beta Folding@Home client running on ATI’s Radeon X1900XTX graphics chip. The software is capable of making use of the powerful piece of silicon in the graphics card…

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Published October 13, 2006 · 0 comments

HardwareZone has a look at the Asus EN7900GS TOP graphics card. The board is based on Nvidia’s GeForce 7900GS graphics chip although it deviates from the stock clock rates by quite a bit giving it the performance edge over many…

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Published October 13, 2006 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has a look into the current state of Quad SLI technology. Two Nvidia 7950GX2 graphics boards sure offer up quite a bit of gaming power but the fellas decided to test its image quality as well, not…

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Published October 13, 2006 · 0 comments

Boot Daily had a nice chat with Chris Donahue concerning Microsoft’s DirectX 10 APIs. The graphics portion has received quite a bit of work and includes all sorts of fancy technologies that allow for more realistic graphics, but it’s limited…

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Published October 12, 2006 · 0 comments

arstechnica has the details on AMD’s quad-core K8L CPU. The chip is expected some time next year and is expected to improve on performance over their current core designs while adding another pair of computing units. All sorts of exciting…

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