Microsoft is moving right along with its Windows OS on a supercomputer plan releasing a SDK to “choice” application developers for their upcoming, newly renamed, Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Edition. They have a large chance at changing how the…
PC Perspective has tested ATI’s latest desktop system chipset, the Radeon XPRESS 200. The new chip comes in two flavors, with or without integrated graphics and offers up PCI Express support for AMD’s Athlon 64 lineup. So far it looks…
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ExtremeTech has a look at the new NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 GPU for mobile systems as well as a peek at ATI’s M28 GPU. Exciting times for laptop enthusiasts as the advanced feature sets that were, in the past, limited…
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Bungie Software/Microsoft’s highly anticipated Halo 2, for the Xbox, will be hitting store shelves soon which leads to early reviews by the gaming press. Lots of great technological achievements in this title which will, no doubt, begin raking in large…
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Adrian’s Rojak Pot tried out Arctic Cooling’s NV Silencer 5 heatsink/fan designed for the toasty NVIDIA GeForce 6800 series of video cards. The new generation of cards pump out major amounts of heat and noise under load but given this…
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New companies touting low latency, high speed RAM seem to be popping up every week. The Crucible has tested a pair of SuperTalent’s PC3500 512MB DDR RAM. The memory looks like it performs well enough but it doesn’t live up…
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Viper Lair tested out FIC’s sorta small form factor barebones PC for the Intel Pentium 4 socket 478 platform. Its slighty larger chassis allows for better cooling solutions to be used compared to its competitors. A solid performer and good…
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DesignTechnica tried out Compaq’s latest gaming PC, the GX5000Z. The gaming market has been a lucrative niche for system builders and by looking at this Compaq’s spec sheet they seem to be on the ball component wise, now they just…
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DigiTimes has a write-up concerning Intel’s possible reintroduction of their integrated wireless on the desktop scheme. They removed the feature from their i915/i925 chipsets a few weeks before they launched due to security concerns or some such frivolous concern, but…
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The Crucible has a look at the AMD Athlon 64 supporting MSI K8N Neo Platinum(socket754) and K8N Neo2 Platinum(socket939) both of which feature NVIDIA nForce3 chipsets, 250Gb in the former and Ultra in the latter. They both perform well with…
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GamePC knows a thing or two about building a mean gaming rig so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that they have a review of the gaming focused Gigabyte Radeon X800 XT 256MB. Good performance at a lower than platinum…
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