Published October 13, 2005 · 0 comments

Hexus.net had a nifty tweak/piece of software delivered to them by ATI which, apparently, improves performance when anti aliasing is enabled. The tweak appears to work in OpenGL titles, most notably Doom3, and should be included in their next batch…

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Published October 12, 2005 · 0 comments

Think Computer’s “Dracos” wonders where the support is for his 64-bit CPU. A lack of hardware drivers has put a damper on the latest and greatest CPUs but it was well known that they wouldn’t get proper support and attention…

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Published October 12, 2005 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a review of the Gigabyte GA-8N SLI Quad Royal motherboard. The board is designed for Intel’s LGA775 CPUs and supports Nvidia’s SLI technology and some additional tricks allow it, with some Gigabyte branded graphics boards, to drive up…

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Published October 12, 2005 · 0 comments

CNET News has the story of Apple’s product launches today with the most attention going to the new video iPod. Its 2.5″ screen is a little on the small side but it does what it says it does and the…

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Published October 11, 2005 · 0 comments

2CPU paid a visit to one of Intel’s campuses for a round of show and tell. A number of product roadmaps and things the company is working on were displayed which makes Intels future very bright if they can deliver…

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Published October 11, 2005 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a trio of dual channel memory kits on their testbench today. The more memory crammed into a DIMM the slower its timings and performance compared to lower density memory. This roundup has shown that memory makers are getting…

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Published October 11, 2005 · 0 comments

Hexus.net has a review of the ASUS Extreme N7800GT Dual graphics card. It isn’t your run-of-the-mill 7800GT, instead Asus packed two of the chips on one large PCB doing all of the SLI action on-board. A very large and very…

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Published October 10, 2005 · 0 comments

PC Perspective has a review of the BFG 7800 GT OC Water Cooled graphics card. BFG set it up so their 7800 GT core gets cooled down properly allowing for even higher overclocks but the added speed doesn’t translate into…

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Published October 10, 2005 · 0 comments

TweakTown has a look at the Gigabyte i-Ram “solid-state” drive. The device allows you to install your DDR memory then plug it into an available S-ATA port which allows for some seriously fast transfer rates to and from the psuedo…

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Published October 10, 2005 · 0 comments

AnandTech does some light testing on a laptop sporting Nvidia’s GeForce Go 7800GTX chipset. Mobile graphics chips have, usually, lagged their desktop counterparts by up to a year, Nvidia’s new chip comes in only a few months behind their sister…

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Published October 7, 2005 · 0 comments

ViperLair has a review of the asetek VapoChill Micro heatsink. The heatsink is a massive mound of copper heatpipes threaded through aluminum fins which offers large amounts of surface area and a convenient location to place a 92mm fan. A…

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