Published October 15, 2004 · 0 comments

InsaneTek has a look at the Thermalright XP-90 Intel Pentium4/AMD Athlon64 heatsink. This little-brother to the XP-120 features a ton of surface area, heatpipes, and an anti-corrosive nickel plating as well as a mounting surface for 92mm fans, all of…

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Published October 15, 2004 · 0 comments

ATI has launched its monthly release of drivers with their new 4.10 version of their software. The drivers feature their A.I. technology which can dynamically change texture filtering and other options to improve image quality and performance. Interesting features in…

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Published October 14, 2004 · 0 comments

Designtechnica has a review of the sleek and well-rounded Gateway M320XL notebook computer. The system features the ubiquitous Intel Centrino setup and uses the onboard video instead of an add-on chip which leads to some horrible 3D performance, but as…

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Published October 14, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech pushes the new 90-nanometer versions of the socket 939 AMD Athlon 64 3000+ and 3500+ to their limits. The default performance for these chips is impressive but that’s not the only reason they will become popular with the enthusiast…

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Published October 14, 2004 · 0 comments

HardOCP has the enviable task of putting four NVIDIA GeForce 6800s to the test. They have a pair of Ultra boards and a pair of plain 6800s both of which are more than capable of handling today’s games with the…

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Published October 14, 2004 · 0 comments

DigiTimes has a few more details on the upcoming Abit SU-2S motherboard capable of running two AMD Opteron processors. Its choice of slots were somewhat confounding when it was announced but it all makes sense now since the board will…

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Published October 13, 2004 · 0 comments

BargainPDA has a look at the new Dell Axim X50 line of PDA devices. The slick new PDAs sport decent memory sizes and obligatory expansion slots as well as (the option of) a crisp VGA screen which makes things easier…

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Published October 13, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech has tested id Software’s system intensive DOOM3 first person shooter under both Windows and Linux. The results are not encouraging for Linux this time around, then again video chip makers don’t put the same resources into Linux drivers that…

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Published October 13, 2004 · 0 comments

GamePC compares the Shuttle SB83G5 and SB81P XPC barebone computers. They both feature similar features on board, although the SB83G5 does not have the highly touted HD-Audio features. It all boils down to how many harddrives you want with these…

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Published October 12, 2004 · 0 comments

FiringSquad has a look at the performance that high end video cards have to offer in Valve Software’s highly anticipated and recently released Counter Strike: Source. It looks like they’re all up to the challenge, now all we need is…

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Published October 12, 2004 · 0 comments

mini-itx.com has some details and pictures from last week’s Fall Processor Forum covering VIA’s dual CPU EPIA Mini-ITX form factor boards. They also had a four processor setup going on at the show. Interesting stuff although, sadly, the CPUs aren’t…

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