AnandTech has a look at a mobile version of the Intel Core 2 Duo, code named Merom, and the original Core Duo. The chips are both impressive performers but the Merom CPU brings along 64-bit extensions which should speed up…
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DigiTimes has some details on Nvidia’s MCP61S northbridge chip for the AMD AM2 CPUs. The chip contains the various southbridge functions as well as integrated graphics whcih should make for some cheaper motherboards and slightly slimmer designs….
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gD Hardware has a look at the ASUS A7J Notebook PC. The laptop is one slick looking device featuring a 17″ display and an Intel Core Duo CPU. A nice machine but the underpowered graphics choice on these larger systems…
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Monopoly Powers according to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. The company gained the upper hand on DRAM manufacturers by obtaining patents on technologies that were still in development and while they were a part of the industry wide design and…
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bit-tech has a look at a number of Intel Core 2 Duo compatible heatsinks. Instead of testing them on a Conroe they slapped them on one of the hottest consumer chips known to man, the Pentium Extreme Edition 955. Some…
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Hot Hardware has a look at the ASUS EAX1900XTX graphics card. The current top of the line from ATI features an impressive amount of processing power under the hood that makes those shader intensive games fly. A great card but…
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HardOCP has a look at the Gateway NX860X notebook PC. The system is quite large with its 17″ display and somewhat potent, featuring an Intel Core Duo CPU and Nvidia GeForce Go 7600 graphics . A nice setup but its…
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Hexus.net has a look at the Vadim Fusion Cetus gaming system. The UK shop has take Intel’s impressive Core 2 Duo CPU and mated it with an Nvidia GeForce 7950GTX graphics chip all cooled by a monstrous liquid cooling kit…
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Guru3D has part 9 of the Multi-GPU World Tour which comes up with an overall picture of the current Nvidia SLI and ATI CrossFire landscape. Some positive impressions about both camps but there are definite issues to be ironed out…
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TweakTown has a look at the AMD AM2 platform with its fancy DDR2 memory controller and benchmarks it against the older 939 DDR arrangement. In the usual day-to-day office and media work there isn’t much of a difference but when…
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The Multi-GPU World Tour continues with Legit Reviews pairing a number of Nvidia SLI and ATI CrossFire configurations in game performance competition. They’re not just your usual Unreals, Quakes, and Fears, these are some of the titles that get ignored…
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