Published June 16, 2005
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PC Perspective has a review of Intel’s Pentium D 2.8GHz processor. The D stands for dual core (amazing?) although you’d expect it to have a high pricetag it’ll be the cheapest dual core CPU on the market. A good chip…
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Published June 16, 2005
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AnandTech took a stroll around Kingston’s memory assembly plant in Taiwan. Kingston is one of the larger memory producers pumping out products for both retail consumption and OEMs. An interesting look behind the scenes where one of the easiest PC…
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Published June 16, 2005
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HTPCnews has the skinny on the VisionTek XTASY Theater Pro 550 PVR card. The board combines ATI’s Theater 550 Pro Chip with a TV/FM tuner and a software bundle that is a bit more useful than other solutions making a…
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Published June 16, 2005
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HotHardware has a look at Dell’s power user/gamer focused “notebook”, the Inspiron XPS Gen 2. As you would expect it’s packed with impressive features such as a 17″ widescreen LCD and Nvidia GeForce Go 6800 Ultra graphics chip give it…
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Published June 15, 2005
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GamePC straps some SerialATA drives into four different add-in and onboard RAID controllers. They focus on RAID 5 performance which is a favorite due to its good performance and fault tolerance. Intel’s onboard RAID puts in some surprisingly good performance…
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Published June 15, 2005
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The Tech Report has a review of the multimedia friendly ATI All-in-Wonder X800 XT graphics card. The board packs in a TV/FM Tuner and video-in/video-out with a Radeon X800 XT graphics chip all on the same card. It’s one of…
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Published June 15, 2005
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AMDZone has tested EA’s upcoming modern combat game, Battlefield 2, on a number of today’s graphics cards. Their method isn’t the best, limited to a third person perspective on playback, but it could be an indicator of what boards will…
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Published June 15, 2005
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PC Stats has a review of the MSI RS480M2-IL Micro-ATX motherboard. A regular old board normally would not get as much attention but this particular model packs in ATI’s Radeon Xpress 200 chipset with integrated graphics in a smallerr form…
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Published June 14, 2005
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Hardware Analysis has a mini-review of the Toshiba Libretto mini-notebook. The device makes use of low power versions of the Intel Pentium M CPU crammed into an ultra portable chassis. The high-res screen and small size make it a less…
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Published June 14, 2005
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Legit Reviews pushes Mushkin’s Redline DDR memory to the limit. The company’s red heatspreader clad memory sticks are designed to run at low latencies at some high speeds but, unfortunately, require insane amounts of voltage (by memory standards) to reach…
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Published June 14, 2005
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HardwareZone got their hands on the Asus EN6800GT dual GPU graphics card. The board is one long device packing in the two Nvidia GeForce 6800GTs along with 512MB of memory, 256MB of it for each chip. A massive card which…
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