Published March 22, 2005 · 0 comments

Gamers Depot has a look at four motherboards which support Nvidia’s SLI technology. All four boards use the nForce 4 SLI chipset which supports the AMD Athlon 4 (s939) CPU line. The boards cram many great features in and the…

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Published March 22, 2005 · 0 comments

MadShrimps has a review of the Cooler Master Aquagate mini water cooling unit. The gadget comes pre-assembled/pre-filled and just requires installation on your CPU. Impressive kit that managed good temperatures but fan noise levels could be a problem….

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Published March 22, 2005 · 0 comments

GamePC has the Tyan Thunder K8WE nForce 4 Pro based board on the test bench today. The motherboard supports two AMD Opteron processors and uses a pair of nForce 4 Pro chipsets which enables it to offer a pair of…

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Published March 21, 2005 · 0 comments

CNET News writes of the various possible functions of Sony’s PSP portable gaming console which is to launch in North America this Thursday. It’s capable of quite a number of entertainment functions but several other gadgets perform them much better…

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Published March 21, 2005 · 0 comments

HotHardware has a look at the HIS IceQ II Radeon X850XT and X800XL graphics cards. The two cards represent, respectively, the high-end and mid-range of ATI’s graphics chip offerings. The snazzy cooler strapped on to each board allows for some…

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Published March 21, 2005 · 0 comments

Hexus.net has a look at the DFI 855GME motherboard paired with an Intel Pentium M 1.7GHz processor. The performance and thermal properties of the chip are well known which help it keep up with faster competitors while pumping out very…

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Published March 21, 2005 · 0 comments

HardwareZone has a review of the slim MSI S250 notebook computer. The laptop features a 12.1″ LCD screen and uses the Intel Celeron M CPU coupled with a SiS system chipset. The combo has some shortcomings in power consumption and…

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Published March 21, 2005 · 0 comments

AMDGamer has the details on the Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 400GB hard drive. Besides its obvious massive storage size the drive uses the much more widely adopted (now) SerialATA connection with native command queuing thrown in. A solid drive mixing good…

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Published March 18, 2005 · 0 comments

PC World has the details on Sony’s moves to make its PSP portable gaming system a popular movie player. The company has seven titles lined up for their gaming device, besides the Spiderman 2 movie it shipped with early models,…

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Published March 18, 2005 · 0 comments

Silent PC Review has a writeup on the Intel Developer Forum and the various technologies demoed there. Quite a bit of new and exciting gear on the horizon from Intel’s labs including dual-core processors for both desktops and mobile computers….

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Published March 18, 2005 · 0 comments

HardwareZone has a review of Abit’s KV8 Pro motherboard. The board is one of the few to take VIA’s K8T800 Pro chipset and bring it to AMD’s Socket 754 based Athlon 64s. There are faster options available for the 754…

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