Published April 29, 2005
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Bjorn3D has a review of the PC Power and Cooling Turbo-Cool 510-SLI power supply. The company creates heavy duty power supplies and cases that fills a niche market. It’s a good quality piece of equipment but with a price tage…
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Published April 29, 2005
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Valve and Vivendi’s dispute over Half Life 2’s, and other mods, distribution methods seems to be over. It appears there won’t be any more boxed versions of Valve’s popular games on store shelves, at least by Vivendi, which may make…
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Published April 29, 2005
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Koolance has been a major manufacturer of water cooling parts for a number of years now with their EXOS cooling system enjoying a good amount of success. Their new EXOS 2 external liquid cooling setup improves on their previous versions…
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Published April 29, 2005
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The Tech Report has a bit of info from this year’s WinHEC. Microsoft was focused on showcasing its upcoming Longhorn OS but many other interesting things were going on at the show with new hardware and XP Pro x64 driver…
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Published April 29, 2005
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SystemCooling has a review of the Zalman 500AF PC enclosure. Zalman has formed the case out of large, finned, aluminum plates as well as quite a few heat pipes to make a “noise-less” chassis. A few processors require fans to…
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Published April 28, 2005
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ars technica checks out Apple’s Mac OS X 10.4 update which goes by the code name “Tiger”. They go into their usual in-depth mode and have a go at some of the major changes and additions as well as behind-the-scenes…
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Published April 28, 2005
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The Tech Report pit the four major Athlon 64 supporting chipsets against each other. The Nvidia nForce4 Ultra, SiS 756, VIA K8T890, and ATI Radeon Xpress 200 can all handle PCI Express peripherals, some more than others, with the Xpress…
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Published April 28, 2005
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Thermaltake has had a long line of successful products aimed at the enthusiast PC user. They now have a lne of power supplies Legion Hardware has taken a real liking to. The Thermaltake PurePower 460W should be capable enough to…
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Published April 28, 2005
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t-break has a review of the MSI P4N Diamond motherboard. The board sports Nvidia’s nForce 4 SLI chipset for Intel’s Pentium 4 CPU with on-board audio being handled by a Creative SB Live! chipset. A feature-rich board aimed at the…
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Published April 28, 2005
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Beyond3D has an early look at the Club3D S3 GammaChrome S18 Nitro graphics card. The latest graphics chip from S3 (now owned by VIA) is a great improvement over previous models and manages decent results for what should be a…
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Published April 27, 2005
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AnandTech has coverage from the second day at Microsoft’s Windows Hardware Engineering Conference. A look at some hardware “innovations” that are coming down the pipe as well as a look back at the history of computing, Microsoft style. NeoWin also…
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