MADShrimps has a look at 6 different (5 if you don’t count the stock cooler) graphics card heatsink/fan combos on a Nvidia 7800GT. The latest graphics boards can definitely benefit from a third-party cooler which performs much better than the…
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HotHardware has a look at the Asus N4L-VM DH MicroATX motherboard. The board supports Intel’s Core Duo mobile chips which perform very well and run cool which can make for some quieter systems. A solid board for most tasks, yes…
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SilentPCReview has part 2 on their guide to quiet down and improve temperatures in your system, theirs being an overclocked Intel Pentium D 830. It involves a few simple and inexpensive mods to create ducts which provide the proper air-flow…
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AnandTech pits two 4-way SMP systems with each socket populated by dual-core CPUs. The 8 core AMD and Intel systems are certainly beasts packed to the brim with gear but, when it comes down to performance, one of the systems…
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[H]ardConsumer has a look at the Vicious PC Assassin gaming system. Despite its name it really is a custom built computer from Vicious PC. The fine folks at [H] torture the poor thing then test out the company’s tech support…
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MVKTech spent a little time with a NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GX2 Quad SLI graphics card setup. The graphics rig is the fastest around topping pretty much every benchmark available and it offers up some impressive anti-aliasing options. A great product…
The Tech Lounge has a look at the XFX GeForce 7900GT XXX Edition graphics card. The board has much higher clock rates than the stock settings and only a slight bump up from XFX’s own Extreme version. A great performer…
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Viper Lair comes in with a review of the low-end MSI GeForce7300 GS graphics card. The board won’t win any speed contests but its half-height design is the perfect fit for a media-PC or other miniature computer. Decent performance in…
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Elite Bastards has a look at the Chuck driver patch for ATI X1xxx series cards running Bethesda Softwork’s latest title, TES:Oblivion. The game has some impressive visuals already but one of ATI’s employees found a way to enable anti-aliasing while…
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HotHardware has a look at the Sapphire Blizzard Radeon X1900XTX graphics card. It would be a run-of-the-mill X1900XTX except for the single slot water-cooling rig they managed to attach to it. An impressive package that should run a bit quieter…
HardwareLogic has a look at the MSI K8N Diamond Plus motherboard. The board comes with a pair of 16X PCIe slots for full bandwidth SLI fun and on-board Creative Audigy audio which is a better option than the usual integrated…
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