Published September 6, 2006 · 0 comments

Phoronix has a look at the ASUS WL-500g Premium wireless router. They do indeed make wireless routers and it provides some compelling features such as USB ports for some network attached storage and printer support although it lacks some good…

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Published September 6, 2006 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a look at the Nvidia 7900GS graphics chip. It’s a slightly modified 7900GT chip so you can expect good performance although a few of its pipelines have been snipped which will see the GT maintain a performance advantage….

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Published September 5, 2006 · 0 comments

Sudhian has a look at the ATI Radeon X1950XTX graphics card. The company hasn’t done much to the GPU on the board, it’s still the same as the one in the X1900XT(X) series, they’ve just added much faster graphics memory…

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Published September 5, 2006 · 0 comments

Guru3D has a look at the Sparkle Calibre P790+ 512MB graphics card. The memory total is higher than your plain 7900GT, as is its default clock rate, but they managed to push their cards a bit further and when paired…

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Published September 5, 2006 · 0 comments

HardOCP has a look at the Diamond Viper X1600 PRO 512MB graphics card. The board has quite a bit more memory than other X1600 PROs which might’ve helped it at high resolutions if it weren’t for its crippled memory bandwidth….

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Published September 4, 2006 · 0 comments

bit-tech has a look at the Dell XPS 700 desktop system. The XPS line is their stab at the gaming segment and the new 700 series has a slick, albeit large, new case and an Intel Core 2 Duo under…

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Published September 4, 2006 · 0 comments

VRZone has an early look at the DFI LAN Party NF590 SLI Intel motherboard. Nvidia’s SLI chipset for Intel is sure to be sought after by the performance crowd especially with the latest Core 2 Duo chips floating around and…

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Published September 4, 2006 · 0 comments

Virtual Hideout has a review of the Buffalo FireStix PC2-6400 2GB dual channel memory kit. The performance memory comes with its snazzy red heatspreader and an equally fancy marketing name, but it isn’t all for show, this memory seems to…

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Published September 1, 2006 · 0 comments

TrustedReviews has a look at four AGP graphics cards, the last in a dying breed. The boards could be classified as low-end to mid-range with the 7600GT working with a complete feature set and pulling in some impressive numbers. A…

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Published September 1, 2006 · 0 comments

A writer for Digital Trends believes that Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system will be a great thing for gamers. DirectX 10, Games Explorer, Xbox Live-like functionality, it’s all so very exciting. Judging from beta builds its new driver models and…

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Published September 1, 2006 · 0 comments

TechPowerUp has a look at the Thermalright Ultra 90 heatsink. It uses a common cooling method which usually means a few heatpipes and a large number of aluminum fins and it turns out to be very effective. A nice cooler…

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