Ars Technica has the various goings-ons at the LinuxWorld Expo being held in Boston. Their Day 1 coverage is lite on details but it lists some of the major players at the conference. Let’s hope their Day 2 coverage has…
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AMD has demonstrated its dual-core Opteron processors at Linuxworld Boston. The chips were shown off in various configurations ranging from a supercomputer on down to a dual CPU workstation. Dual-core Opterons should be showing up in the middle of this…
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AnandTech put the Apple Mac mini to work as a video media centric PC. They cover the pros and cons of the computer in such tasks as DVD playback and DVR roles and encounter mixed results. Future revisions of the…
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Microsoft has come around to the idea that a security focused web-browser is in its best interests. Internet Explorer 7 should begin testing in the summer and will be one of the more sought after applications to be released by…
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AnandTech grabbed a handful of small form factor barebones PCs and tested them against each other. Intel and AMD are represented, although, all of the test systems use older chip lines from both companies keeping things on equal footing. They…
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HardwareZone has a look at 7 different video cards based on ATI’s Radeon X800 Pro chipset. A wide array of features in this batch with differences in software bundles and cooling solutions. There’s also a pair of boards that support…
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ExtremeTech has a look at the Dell UltraSharp 2405FPW display. The monitor is a 24-inch widescreen display which comes in at a very attractive price-point compared to its competitors. Low response time and DVI/Component/S-video/VGA in give it a good amount…
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HardOCP has a review of the MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum/SLI motherboard. It comes in with an Nvidia nForce4 chipset and ties in their SLI technology and on-board audio provided by a Creative SoundBlaster Live! chip. The HardOCP gang was able…
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The Tech Report takes the Shuttle XPC SB95P V2 for a spin. The barebones PC has all of the modern features associated with a high-end Intel 925XE based Pentium 4 system although it does away with any PCI slot at…
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GamePC has a review of the top-of-the-line, PCI Express, dual-slot cooled ATI Radeon X850XT. The board holds quite the speed record in many a game title compared to other single card setups. Nvidia’s SLI technology is capable of performing faster…
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AnandTech has tested updated versions of Intel’s Xeon and AMD’s Opteron processors in a series of database tests. A surprising turnaround for the Xeon line in this set of tests, the last test setup the AnandTech gang tried out had…
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