ZDNet writes of PC manufacturer’s hopes that Apple’s Mac mini PC will have people clamoring for smaller computers. Small form factor systems, from companies such as Shuttle, have been growing in popularity, just not for the large system builders. Sensible…
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The Tech Report has a review of a 300GB Maxtor DiamondMax 10 hard drive. The Maxtor supports SerialATA connections and supports Native Command Queuing and also includes a hefty 16MB cache. It all adds up to a sizable and quick…
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GamePC has a high-end piece of hardware on the testbench today in the form of an Asus K8N-DL nForce4 Pro 2200 motherboard. The board can handle a pair of AMD Opteron processors and uses Nvidia’s latest workstation chipset. Some early…
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HardOCP does their thing with the DFI 855GME-MGF MicroATX motherboard. The board features support for Intel’s Pentium M processor normally found in laptop PCs which have now been adopted by PC enthusiasts as a very quick and cool running desktop…
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AnandTech ran various tests using Valve Software’s popular Half-Life 2 video game on a variety of CPUs from both Intel and AMD. Quite a few chips were tested measuring frame rates and how well CPUs scaled across various graphics cards….
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A True Review has tested Saitek’s Gamers Keyboard. The product is obviously targeted at a certain group of PC users and includes some of the “cooler” features such as backlit keys and a programmable pad for access to complicated or…
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bit-tech has tested 8 different PC cases from various manufacturers in their very subjective roundup. Quite a number to look at from the plain, sleek, and outlandish samurai inspired case all of them should be able to handle a modern…
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HotHardware has the mid-range HIS X700 Pro IceQ Turbo VIVO 256MB video card on their testbed. The card is designed for PCI Express boards and has one of those nifty IceQ (Arctic Cooling-like) heatsinks which keeps things cool and noise…
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EE Times has some info on VIA’s next CPU which boasts a bumped up clock rate. Their previous processors have been panned by most enthusiasts as extremely slow chips although they have the advantage of running very cool and consuming…
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CNET News writes of Microsoft’s plan to limit its patches and updates to genuine copies of their Windows operating systems. The company will now verify the OS before it allows updates to be downloaded starting in February for a handful…
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Overclockers Australia has a look at 6 heatsinks for Intel’s Pentium 4 (s478)processors. The batch they tested is on the smaller size of the cooler spectrum, compared to the massive heatsinks on the market, which threaten to break motherboards in…
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