Published July 17, 2006 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has a look at a pair of motherboards based around the Nvidia nForce 590 SLI chipset. The AMD AM2 socket boards from Asus and Foxconn take different approaches in their feature sets making one a bit more…

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Published July 14, 2006 · 0 comments

Intel’s “Conroe” core, now officially the Core 2 Duo, has been making news for months before it was even released. Now with the official launch day upon us all sorts of NDAs are lifted and we can finally see what…

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Published July 13, 2006 · 0 comments

TechSpot turns the screws on a defenseless AMD Athlon 64 3000+ (AM2) CPU and pushes it to new extremes. They managed a relatively impressive 50% overclock over its stock settings which isn’t bad for a “budget” processor. A quick peek…

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Published July 13, 2006 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a look at Intel’s Woodcrest core CPU. The chips are destined for the server market and with their dual core goodness and much lower power consumption than past efforts along with great performance they’ll be a welcome competitor…

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Published July 12, 2006 · 0 comments

HardOCP has a look at the ABS Ulitmate M6 Sniper gaming system and overall ownership experience. Their system came equipped with a good bit of performance hardware and after their thorough testing of the PC and its support they seem…

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Published July 12, 2006 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has a look at the Super Talent 2.5″ IDE flash hard drive. The 8GB version is jam packed with flash memory and not a single data platter in sight. While it does sound like it would be…

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Published July 11, 2006 · 0 comments

OCModShop has a look at the Antec P180B mid-tower PC case. The B version forgoes the silver paneling of the P180 and turns it into the sleek all black version. It’s a slick looking case with plenty of expansion capability…

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Published July 11, 2006 · 0 comments

AnandTech has put together a few systems out of budget parts and tested their performance. It’s all about keeping the costs low without skimping too much in this one but they managed to put together a few respectable setups that…

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Published July 11, 2006 · 0 comments

Legit Reviews tackles putting together your own gaming capable notebook with the Clevo M575U/Sager 5760. The notebook is barebones, except for your choice of mobile graphics chip, you supply the Intel Core Duo CPU, memory, WiFi, and hard drive. A…

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Published July 10, 2006 · 0 comments

Bjorn3D has a review of the PowerColor X1900 GT graphics card. The ATI GPU on this board shares many of the same features as its bigger brothers XT and XTX but it has some pared down pipes here and there…

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Published July 10, 2006 · 0 comments

Phoronix has a look at the Tyan Tiger i7520SD S5365 motherboard. The board is designed for Intel’s low voltage “Sossaman” Xeons, or rebranded core duos to you and me. It’s another solid server motherboard from Tyan with the added bonus…

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