HardOCP has some info on Ageia’s recent moves in the benchmarking world. The company has signed up with Futuremark, the 3DMark benchmark creators, to provide technical expertise while Ageia themselves are going to be working on a physics benchmark….
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The Tech Report just so happens to have an early sample of Intel’s upcoming “Kentsfield” CPU. The chip features 4 cores, basically two Core 2 Duo chips on one package, and, as you might expect, absolutely rips through multi-threaded applications….
Read more Intel Kentsfield Performance Preview
Reuters has the details on Microsoft’s pricing for its Zune portable media player and the music in its upcoming store. The player will come in at $249.99 in the US with 99 cent songs, similar to its main competitor in…
Read more MS Zune/music Pricing Announced
The Tech Lounge has a look at a trio of 500GB hard drives, one each from Western Digital, Seagate, and Hitachi. The testing goes back and forth between the Hitachi and WD drives performance wise while the Seagate appears to…
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GamePC does their usual thorough testing job on the Nvidia GeForce 7950GT and the ATI Radeon X1950 XTX graphics cards. The 7950 represents another solid mid-range choice while the X1950 is ATI’s current top board. The two companies now have…
Read more GeForce 7950GT / Radeon X1950XTX Reviewed
AnandTech continued their visit to the Intel Developers Forum with a part 2 of day 1 and continued into day 2. Alan Wake demonstration shows how quad cores could help gaming, while SSE4 shows promise in the future high-def world….
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Another IDF, another glut of exciting technological previews. This round AnandTech has information and some images of an overclocked Kentsfield running Alan Wake, 80 core 1teraflop CPUs, and the future of UMPCs. A good bit of gear to take in…
Read more Intel Developers Forum Fall 2006: Day 1
DigiTimes has the info on AMD’s CPU plans for its 4×4 consumer platform. The concept is based on dual-CPU/dual-core system and, perhaps, even multi-GPU support. The new FX chips will be using the socket 1207 which the new Opteron line…
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HardOCP continues their complete PC system testing trend with a look at the Dell XPS 410. The XPS line is designed for gamers/performance freaks and gives you some better hardware options (mostly graphics cards) than Dell’s other home PC lines….
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t-break has a look at the Thermaltake Pure Power graphics card power supply. It’s a secondary supply you can mount in any open 5.25″ bay and feed power through an open expansion card slot. An interesting piece of hardware that…
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Hexus.net has run some tests on bridge-less Nvidia SLI setups as well as dongle-less ATI CrossFire. It can be done with all sorts of driver trickery but going by their results it’s not a good method as it can seriously…
