DigiTimes writes on AMD’s plans to move 90% of its desktop chip production to 65nm process by the end of next year. They also have goals of 45nm by 2008, which should improve the number of chips per wafer leading…
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techPowerUp has a look at the Zalman HD135 HTPC Case. Zalman is known for their “quiet” solutions and their previous cases have been efforts in absolute silence but, this time around, they do away with the heatpipes and aluminum fins…
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Hexus.net has a look at the MESH Elite Fire X1950 PC. The British PC builders have put together a monster of a system with CrossFire ATI Radeon X1950s and an Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 processor which make sure it…
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DigiTimes seems to believe that Nvidia’s GeForce 8800 based graphics cards will launch mid-November. The GPU will be the first DirectX 10 compatible chip on the market, at least a month and a half before Microsoft Windows Vista itself is…
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AnandTech has a look into ATI’s Stream Processing technology and what it could mean for several industries. The current high-end GPUs from ATI are impressive performers in the graphics realm and in other specialized applications which makes this move a…
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Elite Bastards has a look at the Sapphire Radeon X1650 PRO graphics card. The board sits towards the top of the current low-end boards and its main competition is the Nvidia 7600GS. It won’t play the latest titles at high…
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Big Bruin has a review of the Antazone AS-C1000 universal CPU cooler. It is a massive chunk of copper in a radial pattern with heatpipes running through its fins, One of the more elaborate coolers available and it looks like…
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Boot Daily has a roundup of eight AMD AM2 based motherboards. It’s a fair mix of ATI CrossFire chipsets and Nvidia nForce being represented here with all manner of on-board features. A bit light on the enthusiast details but a…
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ATI has officially launched its Stream Computing technology. The platform relies on their current powerful GPUs to do computations normally done on CPUs and some specially designed add-on cards. A great product for some industries and, with newer GPUs just…
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AnandTech has compiled a list of motherboards, with information directly from the manufacturers, on which of their boards should support Intel’s “Kentsfield” Core 2 Quadro CPU. It’s quite the potent chip for workstation applications and it seems it’ll have great…
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AnandTech has the details behind HP’s purchase of high-end PC outfit Voodoo PC. HP appears to be making a similar push into the niche market similar to the one Dell made with its purchase of Alienware. How Voodoo’s funky style…
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