Published November 13, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech managed to grab a pre-release version of the Gigabyte K8NXP-9 motherboard. The board is designed for the AMD Athlon 64 Socket939 processors and uses the NVIDIA nForce 4 chipset to bring PCI Express capabilities to the platform. Nice benchmark…

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Published November 13, 2004 · 0 comments

Spode’s Abode has a thing for data storage as can be witnessed by their comparison of 15 different hard drives split between 5 manufacturers. SerialATA drives and PATA drives are both represented as well as a mixture of 5400/7200/10000RPM drives….

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Published November 12, 2004 · 0 comments

Guru3D takes a look at the Gigabyte GeForce 6600GT 256MB video card, a new mid-range entry into the market. The card isn’t the fastest available but given its middle of the road price tag and included copy of Doom3 it’s…

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Published November 12, 2004 · 0 comments

Crucial has been conservative with its memory products for years up until recently when the started up their high-speed Ballistix line of memory. Bjorn3D has a look at their PC2-5300 DDR2 memory solution which matchs speed and looks with a…

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Published November 12, 2004 · 0 comments

Legit Reviews appears to like Antec’s somewhat new NeoPower 480Watt power supply. This particular PSU has some impressive features such as a modular cabling system, two 12volt rails, and Active PFC for better energy efficiency. Being one of the earliest…

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Published November 12, 2004 · 0 comments

PCUnleash has a look at one of those wild and wacky new heatsinks from Gigabyte, the 3D Rocket Cooler. The design goes vertical with its concept using multiple heatpipes and tons of fins in order to keep your favorite Intel…

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Published November 11, 2004 · 0 comments

hardCOREware has a review of the HighPoint RocketRAID 1640 4-port SerialATA hard disk controller. It’s evident that the device functions best in a RAID environment and it does a decent job of things until it hits the nasty limitations of…

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Published November 11, 2004 · 0 comments

GamePC threw a new suite of tests against their AOpen i855GMEm-LFS motherboard/Intel Pentium-M 2.0GHz testbed focused on the gaming potential of the highly mobile CPU. With a little coaxing the chip is capable of putting up up numbers that make…

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Published November 11, 2004 · 0 comments

ExtremeTech has a few nifty tricks up it sleeves when it comes to optimizing your Windows XP network and/or internet connection. Great tips which have been shown to boost speeds on most connections and is absolutely free to try, then…

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Published November 11, 2004 · 0 comments

DVD-Recordable has the specs on the new Sharp BD-HD100 Blu-ray disc recorder which should go on sale, in Japan, next month. The device features an internal harddrive for storage and playback of HD content and a second optical drive for…

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Published November 10, 2004 · 0 comments

GamePC has a look at the AOpen i855GMEm-LFS motherboard paired up with the Intel Pentium-M 755, better known as a Dothan 2.0GHz CPU with 2MB of cache. This mobile chip on a desktop is something of a screamer in gaming…

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