HardOCP has the details on ATI’s physics processing plans. It would seem they teamed up with Havok in order to have one of their graphics cards, in a multi-GPU system, act as a dedicated physics processor. A crazy arrangement, especially…
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Bjorn3D has a look at the PowerColor X1800 GTO graphics card. The board is a slightly crippled version of the higher end X1800XTs and, as of late, have been at a modest price range. A good performer for the money…
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AnandTech has a ton of info out of this year’s Computex trade show. Quite a bit of interesting hardware on the way including news of some very power hungry graphics cards and a slew of new motherboard designs. Those 300Watt…
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TweakTown has some thoughts and insights before this year’s Computex Taipei begins tommorrow. It’s a massive show and while very little earth-shattering news is uncovered there it’s a huge showcase for much of the hardware we’ll be seeing, and purchasing,…
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Hardware Secrets has a review of the Arctic Cooling NV Silencer 6 (Rev. 2) GPU cooler. The design does take up a slot that’s below the graphics card but the expansion trade-off leads to some great cooling performance with a…
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The Tech Report has a look at the dual GPU, dual slot Nvidia GeForce 7950 GX2. The boards are the basis for Nvidia’s Quad SLI plans but it doesn’t want end users mucking with the hardware, rather if you want…
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SilentPC Review has a look at the VIA EPIA EN12000E motherboard/cpu combo. It’s by no means a powerhouse as it comes equipped with their Eden or C7 CPU but it does offer some of the lowest power draw and heat…
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Hot Hardware has a look at the Nvidia DualTV MCE tv tuner card. As its name would suggest the add-on has two TV tuners with plenty of input capabilities but if you’re looking forward to pulling digital signals out of…
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The Tech Report spent some quality time with the Nvidia GeForce 7900 family of GPUs. They took a look at five graphics cards, four GTs and one GTX, at various clock speeds. The 7900 series is a great performer and…
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ATI has released the latest version of its Catalyst driver set numbered 6.5. Quite a few bug fixes made it into this set as well as adaptive anti-aliasing for the Radeon 9500 series on up. Some nice features in this…
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HardOCP(Consumer) had some interaction with the fine folks who manage Dell’s XPS high-end gaming system division. They had come under a bit of fire concerning all of the “bloat” they loaded on their PCs but it now looks like they’ve…
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