The Tech Report has a review of the Shuttle XPC SB86i small form factor PC which employs a BTX-like design. The new design is somewhat larger than previous designs although it’s necessary to handle the thermal load of Intel Pentium…
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Intel has announced the first production run of its dual-core CPUs has been completed. Initial dual-core chips appear to be destined for their Extreme Edition line which demands a large price premium when compared to their regular chips. Hyperthreading also…
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The Tech Report has a review of the Sapphire X800 graphics card. This PCIe card has quite a bit more memory than a standard X800 configuration and it packs in a decent software bundle for the price. Interesting video card…
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Nvidia has released a new set of drivers for its nForce4 system chipset bringing them to version 6.39. The drivers feature a number of bug fixes and should work on any nForce4 based motherboard. You can grab versions for Windows…
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HotHardware has a round-up of 5 DVD burners capable of writing to dual layer discs. Dual layer discs are capable of holding almost twice as much data as a regular DVD but most early drives featured slow write speeds to…
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GamePC has a look at Sapphire and Asus’ graphics cards based on the (so far very rare) ATI Radeon X800XL GPU. The cards are meant for mid-range setups but they provide very good performance and image quality which will make…
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Driver Heaven has a look at the MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum motherboard for the AMD Athlon 64 (s939) CPUs. PCI Express has been a popular feature touted by board makers with new nForce 4 based products to hawk but this…
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HardwareZone has a review of the BenQ FP71G+ 17″ LCD monitor with a claimed 8ms response rate. Generally speaking, the lower the response rate on a monitor the lower the chance of a “ghosting” image occurring. They seemed to like…
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Adrian’s Rojak Pot has a look at the Asus S-presso small form factor PC. The rig can take Intel’s Pentium 4 (s478) line and includes a remote control along side a TV tuner which gives it that home theater PC…
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HotHardware tests out a laptop sporting the ATI Mobility Radeon X700. The GPU has most of the great features of its desktop counterpart and includes some power consumption friendly technology. Strapped to a beefy laptop the chip is capable of…
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AnandTech has compared four audio solutions ranging from on-board, consumer level, and a low-end professional sound card. The add-on cards demonstrate better audio performance than on-board chip but it shows just how far integrated audio has come with Intel’s HD-Audio…
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