vnunet has the details on an improved strained silicon process, that AMD and IBM have been working on, which could see cooler running and higher clocked processors from both companies. They claim the technique could lead to 24% faster transistors…
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AnandTech has a look at a range of video cards which feature ATI’s Radeon X700 Pro GPU. They cite the lack of availability of the X700 XT line as a reason to look at the boards which are priced as…
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AnandTech has a look at one of the slimmer laptops available, the Dell Inspiron 700M. A 12.1″ widescreen display graces this miniscule PC, although, it’s limited to the graphics capabilities of the integrated Intel Extreme Graphics 2. The notebook appears…
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t-break took some time, asked some questions, and gathered up useful info on products manufacturers will be bringing PC users in the following months and what they think of current market trends. PCI Express is what’s hot in the future,…
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PC World has a bit of info concerning Microsoft’s upate for their Windows Server 2003 OS. The company is currently selecting testers from its pool of resources in what will be almost a year long beta process. Many additions and…
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Bjorn3D has the skinny on VisionTek’s XTASY X800XT video card, one of the current top boards in the market. There isn’t much in the way of a bundle with this particular card, instead, a solidly designed card with a nice…
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SystemCooling took a look at the Arctic Cooling NV Silencer 5 heatsink/fan combo for the NVIDIA GeForce 6800 series of video cards. The latest and greatest in video cards pump out a large amount of heat but this product handles…
AnandTech has a look at the way 11 different NVIDIA GeForce 6600GTs from 11 different manufacturers handle some overclocked speeds. An interesting look at the performance potentials but, in the end, each board is different and many factors contribute to…
Techworld writes of Microsoft’s plan to make their upcoming operating system, code-named Longhorn, more modular than their previous products. The only portions of the OS which will be loaded are the ones that are needed to perform a particular machine’s…
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D-Link, known widely for its networking gear, has launched the GamerLounge wireless router. Four Gigabit ethernet ports and 802.11g wireless LAN capability provide connectivity for your gear while a high powered CPU manages your packets efficiently (supposedly). Benchmarks with this…
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X-bit labs has a look at the performance of integrated SerialATA controllers and their RAID characteristics. Intel, VIA, and SiS are represented in this roundup with quite the performance disparity between the top performer and the rest. It’s an area…
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