Gateway has made a cautiously optimistic comeback with earnings above what market analysts were expecting. Not the largest profits ever seen by a company which used to be one of the largest PC builders in the U.S., but it’s a…
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One of the lesser known motherboard manufacturer’s gets the star treatment from AnandTech today. The Soltek K8TPro-939 comes in at a nice price-point but it still offers all of the great features an AMD Athlon64 board is expected to deliver…
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InfoWorld has news on VIA’s plans to put two chip cores on one CPU package. Just to make things clear both cores aren’t in the same silicon chip, it’ll be two seperate cores on one package. The approach is strange…
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Guru3D has a look at the NVIDIA powered Galaxy GeForce 6600. The card is aimed at the lower end of the market but it packs respectable performance in both today’s titles and games out of the past. It’s interesting how…
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HardOCP has a look at the latest 1.3 patch for Crytek’s popular FarCry FPS. The lastest patch includes Shader Model 2 and 3 support, which has been a point of contention between ATI and NVIDIA fanatics, and some nifty High…
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CNET News has word that Sony will be launching their PSP portable gaming system mid-December at a lower pricetag than many analysts were predicting. The new price will no doubt be very enticing and may make many forget about its…
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GamePC does their thing with the AMD Athlon64 FX-55, the current top-of-the-line processor in AMD’s lineup. The chip has some of the fastest performance seen in a dekstop chip, now it’s just waiting for chipsets that can complement its power…
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AnandTech has a look at the Sun w2100z workstation which features dual AMD Opteron CPUs. The rig is well engineered and features great hardware throughout making it a no-brainer as a brute of a workstation but the pricetag will knock…
Silent PC Review has a nice chat with the VP of System Development at Shuttle. Some interesting stats and PR plugs of course with mention of a BTX form factor based SFF in a steel enclosure coming from the company…
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EPIACenter has a review of the IBASE MB860 Mini-ITX motherboard which sports the Transmeta Efficeon CPU, one of the first products to use the processor in a desktop feasible form factor. It certainly makes for an interesting mini-PC board but…
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PenStar Systems has word from NVIDIA that “SoundStorm is dead”. The integrated audio processor that was made popular by their nForce2 system chipset appears to be disliked by motherboard manufacturers. Considering the number of problems that crept up in the…
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