Published November 4, 2004 · 0 comments

DFI has earned a name for itself with its enthusiast/overclocker friendly motherboards and they don’t deviate from their formula with their new 855GME-MGF motherboard. The board can play host to Intel’s Pentium M processors usually found in “Centrino” based notebooks….

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Published November 4, 2004 · 0 comments

DigiTimes has details of plans by Compal, a run of the mill large OEM/ODM maker of rebranded gear, to phase out CRT manufacturing by 2006. CRTs have slowly been making way for LCD displays, which consumers adore, forcing CRTs into…

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Published November 4, 2004 · 0 comments

PC World thinks it has a pretty good grasp on what technologies will make it big in 2005 and 2006. Their list of technologies is practical and workable although some of them have been on the drawing board for years…

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Published November 4, 2004 · 0 comments

eWeek has coverage on a new IE exploit which could cause a buffer overrun and allow all sorts of malicious code to run. Surprisingly (not in the slightest) the flaw seems to affect mostly Windows XP pre-SP2 users, of which…

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Published November 3, 2004 · 0 comments

eWeek has news on a “new” niche that Microsoft is targeting with a suite of software aimed at Project Managers. The Project PC looks like an underpowered Shuttle SFF clone with two 17″ LCD monitors for a boost in productivity….

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Published November 3, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech has quite a bit of info, direct from the manufacturers, on varied subject matter. Their trip to Taiwan dug up details pertaining to new chip revisions from AMD, motherboard chipset popularity, and what we can expect to be on…

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Published November 3, 2004 · 0 comments

NEAsia has a few details on how Samsung managed to pull off what it did and an intriguing enough picture of a 32″ CRT display with a 38 centimeter depth, or about 15 inches. They aren’t the thinnest option out…

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Published November 3, 2004 · 0 comments

Phoronix has a review of the Thermaltake Fanless103, another entry into the growing line of heatsinks with heatpipes. This particular product has a ton of fins and 6 pipes to get the heat moving somewhat efficiently. Despite the site’s view…

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Published November 3, 2004 · 0 comments

PC World believes that the price premium low-latency ram carries around isn’t worth it for the meager performance boost it provides. The finding is true, to a point. Most of the low latency memory can also be pushed, by enthusiasts,…

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Published November 2, 2004 · 0 comments

X-bit labs has a look at the ASUS W1B00Na notebook PC. The laptop is similar to most of the widescreen Intel Centrino/Dothan based products available but this one tosses in a TV tuner for an extra entertainment facet. A nice…

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Published November 2, 2004 · 0 comments

HardOCP is all over Shuttle’s latest barebones PC, the XPC SN95G5. The system comes stocked with NVIDIA’s nForce3 Ultra chipset and can handle all flavors of AMD’s Athlon 64 Socket 939 chips. The performance out of this small box is…

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