Published January 11, 2006 · 0 comments

HardOCP has a look at Maingear’s Prelude pre-built PC. They test out the company’s build quality, tech support, and customer service and move on to actually torturing the machine. Overall it looks like a very capable PC and they appeared…

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Published January 10, 2006 · 0 comments

Beyond3D has a bit of a chat with Bethesda Softwork’s producer Gavin Carter on the technology behind their soon to be released title “The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion”. All you’ll want to know about the game’s graphics engine is in…

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Published January 10, 2006 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a look at the AMD Athlin 64 FX-60 processor. The FX chip-line is the top of the heap for their consumer chips, this particular model rolls in with two cores running at 2.6GHz. An impressive CPU which is…

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Published January 9, 2006 · 0 comments

NGOHQ has a review of the Arctic Cooling Accelero X2 VGA cooler. The company was one of the first to bring bulkier VGA coolers to the market with their impressive Silencer line and their new Accelero maintains that great performance…

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Published January 9, 2006 · 0 comments

The Inquirer has the details on a Sapphire X1600Pro graphics card that comes equipped with an HDMI interface. The HDMI link carries digital video and audio signals which the card has covered with its own dedicated audio chip. An interesting…

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Published January 9, 2006 · 0 comments

AnandTech has their usual mass of information with their Day 3 coverage of the Consumer Electronics Show. Most of the focus is on various storage devices and display technology including SED. A great amount of hardware on its way, just…

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Published January 7, 2006 · 0 comments

AnandTech continues its CES coverage with their day 2 compilation. 21 pages of tech goodies with more info on that Quad SLI Dell gaming monster and other assorted hardware….

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Published January 6, 2006 · 0 comments

FrostyTech has a look at how heatsink and thermal interface material testing should be done. A number of CPUs have been pushing heat boundaries lately and more than a few heatsinks have failed to cool them off properly which would…

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Published January 6, 2006 · 0 comments

A number of websites have prime info from the Consumer Electronics Show currently going on in Las Vegas. Here’s some of the coverage: AnandTech’s Day 1 bit-tech Engadget…

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Published January 6, 2006 · 0 comments

bit-tech has a look at the MSI RD480 Neo2 motherboard. The ATI CrossFire capable board is nicely equipped with plenty of SATA and USB2 ports as well as firewire connections. Impressively enough its performance with X850XT cards manages to keep…

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Published January 5, 2006 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has a photo of an MSI creation that could have mobile graphics cards working SLI magic on a single board. The card has two slots for the MXM notebook graphics modules which usually feature enhanced power efficiency…

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