Published May 4, 2005
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BigBruin has a review of Ultra’s 1GB Dual Channel DDR kit. The high-end memory offers speeds that match the other top memory available but it comes in at a cost that’s also slightly above the competition. A very nice set…
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Published May 4, 2005
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HardOCP tests Microsoft’s recently released Windows XP Professional x64 Edition against its 32-bit counterpart in a number of gaming tests. Their game lineup are all 32-bit applications so there won’t be a miraculous increase in performance, instead it’s more of…
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Published May 4, 2005
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The Tech Report has a look at the 512MB version of ATI’s X800XL graphics card. The extra memory is tacked on for those games that require quite a bit more storage for game texture and shader information and higher resolutions…
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Published May 3, 2005
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HotHardware has a review of the Leadtek Winfast PX6200 TC TDH 256MB. The 256MB in its name relates to how much system memory this TurboCache card is capable of “commandeering”. Good performance compared to on-board solutions and it comes in,…
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Published May 3, 2005
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DigiTimes has the scoop on AMD’s price drops across its Sempron CPU lines. Their Opteron and Athlon 64 chips seem to be left out this go around but some of their budget chips see a small drop….
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Published May 3, 2005
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Techniz has a look at the Vantec Iceberq 5 graphics card cooler. The heatsink and fan combo is designed to replace the stock cooling on many video cards which often perform poorly and make a whole lot of noise while…
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Published May 2, 2005
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Bytesector has a look at some higher performance RAM in the form of OCZ EL PC-4000 Gold VX. The fancy name and heatspreader covers some mighty fast chips capable of high speeds at low latencies. A great set of memory…
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Published May 2, 2005
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LostCircuits spent some time with a Venice core AMD Athlon 64 CPU. The Venice core is a more refined process of AMD’s previous cores which improves power consumption and includes SSE3 instruction sets. A nice improvement, overall, which should help…
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Published May 2, 2005
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Toshiba has pulled off a nifty feat with its demonstration of the Cell chip which it co-developed with Sony and IBM. Their chip/OS environment combo was capable of decoding 48 standard resolution mpeg2 streams simultaneously on one screen. Tech-On! has…
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Published May 2, 2005
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Legit Reviews has the details on Antec’s upcoming Titan 550 server case. Antec’s case lines have been popular due to their solid contruction and availability just about everywhere. The Titan 550 improves on older designs byincluding larger, slower spinning fans…
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Published April 29, 2005
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HotHardware has a look at the IBM Thinkpad R52 laptop computer. IBM’s notebooks have a reputation for being solid machines and this R52 appears to be just as hearty. It’s not as slim as some of their other series but…
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