AnandTech has a review of the Asus P5WD2-E Premium motherboard. The product features Intel’s 975x chipset and it, being Asus’ premium line its spec sheet is stacked with plenty of additional on-board hardware. A great performer although its pricing will…
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hardCOREware has a look at the Zalman FS-V7 Fatal1ty graphics card cooler. The usual Zalman fin design is there bumping up the cooler’s surface area which has a nice effect on cooling performance over the usual stock cooler. A nice…
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HardwareZone ran some tests on MSI’s Geminium-Go concept graphics board. The card can take two MXM graphics modules usually found in notebook PCs with dedicated graphics. A very interesting take on SLI which has been getting quite a bit of…
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SFFTech caught the sights and sounds of the Consumer Electronics Show last week but they were only (mostly) interested in small form factor PCs. Shuttle was represented as well as some other manufacturers with small motherboards and components and eventually…
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AnandTech has a look at a trio of PC cases each from a different price point. The pricier, of course, has the well thought-out design and high quality paints and it usually goes down hill from there but their high-end…
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bit-tech has some details on a pair of booster packs for EA’s popular Battlefield 2 first person shooter. As you would expect a number of new campaigns and assorted weaponry and player skins will be available making it a fresher…
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Mozilla has released the latest version of its email/newsgroup client Thunderbird. Version 1.5 adds a few new features and quite a number of bug fixes under the hood. A nice alternative to Outlook Express and not as security lapse prone….
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Legion Hardware has a look at the Gigabyte Radeon X1600XT Silent-Pipe II graphics card. The cooler is they key selling point on this board but without its own dedicated fan you’ll need to have some dedicated airflow cooling this one…
GamePC has a review of the 150GB version Western Digital Raptor. The drive doubles the size of the previous large version and still maintains its 10,000RPM speed. A bit faster than the older drives and quite impressive in a RAID…
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GDHardware had a short visit with the Ageia crew which has been working with developers on implementing PhysX support in their games. The PhysX chip is a dedicated physics processor which should help make games a bit more interactive. A…
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AnandTech put together a list of some of the PC hardware on display at the CES this year. Some interesting hardware on the horizon with some inexpensive phase change cooling from OCZ and mounds of memory and interesting motherboard configurations….
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