Published March 2, 2005 · 0 comments

madshrimps has a roundup of seven heatsinks for Intel Pentium 4 processors. A number of different designs are represented some showing good performance at low noise levels along with sensible pricetags. A nice array of cooling options for the warm…

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Published March 2, 2005 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has a look at the AOpen XC Cube EY855-II barebones SFF PC. The rig is set up around Intel’s Pentium M processor which offers good performance with low power consumption. It looks like one of the quieter…

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Published March 2, 2005 · 0 comments

Hexus.net has some of the bigger news to pop up out of the first day at the Intel Developer Forum. nForce for the Pentium 4 line and multiple core details were the hot topics yesterday, interesting products they have lined…

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Published March 1, 2005 · 0 comments

Viper Lair has a review of the MSI MEGA View 561 portable media player. A number of PC hardware manufacturers have jumped on the PMP bandwagon recently, some with more success than others. A useful gadget to explore the possibilities…

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Published March 1, 2005 · 0 comments

bit-tech is all over the NMEDIA HTPC 100 case. The MicroATX chassis looks like something out of the 70’s but its dimensions should match that of most hometheater setups. The included memory card reader, LCD status screen, and powersupply make…

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Published March 1, 2005 · 0 comments

Tweak News has the Iintel 660 3.6GHz and 3.73GHz Extreme Edition CPUs on their test bench today. The two chips represent the top of the line for Intel bringing in 64-bit extensions and other refinements. The new chips don’t have…

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Published March 1, 2005 · 0 comments

AnandTech has some coverage from the first day at the Intel Developer Forum being held now in San Francisco. There isn’t much info about new products, mostly chatter concerning future technologies and prototypes/concepts in their coverage. I sense many new…

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Published February 28, 2005 · 0 comments

HardwareZone somehow manage to maintain their sanity long enough to post their shootout between 17 motherboards based on Intel’s 915P chipset. DDR vs DDR2 doesn’t appear to make a huge difference although several of the boards do enjoy higher scores,…

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Published February 28, 2005 · 0 comments

The Tech Report paid a visit to the ATI sponsored Texas Gaming Festival’s ATI Ultimate LAN Party. The get-together featured mention of ATI’s 512MB high-end X850XT and a whole lot of overclocking using insane cooling methods. Looks like a waste…

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Published February 28, 2005 · 0 comments

HIS has been adding exotic heatsinks to every card they can get their hands on, this time they tackle the high-end market. t-break has a review of the HIS x850XT IceQ II graphics card featuring ATI’s top end chip and…

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Published February 28, 2005 · 0 comments

GamePC has a roundup of four PCI Express capable boards for AMD’s Athlon64 (s939) CPUs. The boards each tout a different chipset with entries from ATI, VIA, and two from Nvidia making a showing. The MSI/ATI board is one of…

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