TheNoiseReport is very interested in the future of PC audio so they had a lengthy chat with VIA’s audio marketing guru Keith Kowal. Lots of tidbits on future products and the company’s stance on issues. Their Envy line of chips…
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BIOS has a look at one of those nifty Spyder2Pro monitor calibration tools. The gadget latches onto your screen and with the included software guide you in perfecting your display’s color output. The device is aimed at imaging professionals but…
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ExtremeMHz has a look at SilverStone’s take on a heatpipe based cooler. The SST-NT01 Nitrogen cooler for the Intel Penium 4 uses a simple mounting plate with 3 moderately thick heatpipes to draw heat away from the processor to a…
CNET News has some details on a new Itanium 2 processor that Intel is set to launch next week. The new chip packs a larger mass of cache into their high end server oriented CPU, theoretically bumping performance when dealing…
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AnandTech has a thing for optical drives, or at least you get that impression with their look at 8 DVD writing capable burners. They all support the major formats, which whittles choices down to price/performance/aesthetics. Now to track down similar…
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GamePC sets their sights on a pair of Intel Xeon 3.6GHz workstation/server processors and pits them against a pair of AMD’s top of the line, dual capable, Opteron CPUs. A decent showing by Intel demonstrating that they can keep up…
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X-bit labs has a look at the Zalman ZM80D-HP passive cooling heatsink for video cards. The large mass of aluminum and heatpipes isn’t the best cooler on the planet but with no fans it’s certainly the quietest. Its performance does…
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A new chip and new subsystem brings out a ton of reviews from all over. This time the “exciting” new chip is Intel’s Pentium 4 3.46GHz Extreme Edition CPU with the brand spanking new 1.066GHz quad-pumped bus speed. Just imagine…
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MadShrimps has a comparison of 13 different heatsinks for Intel’s “old” Socket 478 Pentium 4 processors. Tons of different cooling methods are represented with heatsinks of all shapes and sizes. Impressive results from some of the lesser known brands proving…
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AnandTech had a chance to toy around with NVIDIA’s SLI feature on an nForce4 based motherboard recently. Extremely impressive numbers for the GeForce 6800GTs although the 6600GTs are anemic performance wise, most people are better off purchasing a single 6800…
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PC World writes about an advancement by Materials and Energy Research Institute Tokyo in fuelcells which could see us powering up laptops or other portable gadgets with sodium borohydride as early as 2006. An interesting option for powering gear but…
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