The Firing Squad has a short summary of an NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT based video card they managed to get ahold of. While its performance won’t rival that of the 6800 and ATI x800 series its $200 price tag, support…
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CNET News has the story of Orion Multisystems, a company which is trying to restore the luster of the lowly workstation to what it was a decade ago. Their approach is somewhat odd and their usage of Transmeta processors is…
Read more Company Pushes for Workstation Comeback
AMDboard has some info and pictures of a new Blade server by Tatung which will bring low-power AMD Opteron processors into a new home. Interesting hardware which will, no doubt, be high performance and high cost due to its dual…
Read more AMD Opteron in the Blade Environment
PC World has some info on Gateway’s launch of their 700GR BTX form-factor based PC. The system uses an Intel Pentium 4 processor and includes 1GB of memory and a DVD burner, sadly it’s rather anemic in the video department….
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X-bit labs writes of a possible drop in memory pricing due to a glut in the market from memory manufacturers. Usually prices tend to creep up due to the surge in purchases leading up to back-to-school and holiday seasons but…
Read more Memory Prices Predicted to Plummet
Bytesector has an early look at Microsoft’s highly anticipated Halo 2 for their X-box gaming console. The game builds on the first Halo with all sorts of new graphical touches as well as varied weapons choices and a few new…
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The Tech Report gives the FIC Condor “pseudo” Small Form Factor PC a look over. This barebones system is a bit taller than many of the other SFF systems out there but it also gives you many more upgrading and…
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PC World has some info on HP’s new line of products ranging from home theater products to new printers. The new line of displays is eye-catching and so are the MSRPs for these new products. If they perform as good…
Read more HP's New Consumer Product Lineup
Neoseeker stumbled on a problem in Microsoft’s Windows XP Service Pack two which could cause spontaneous reboots. The issue can occur, apparently, under what could be considered common circumstances (playing DVDs on a PC seems common enough). Here’s hoping for…
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CNET News seems to think that forthcoming server dual core CPUs from both Intel and AMD will feature similar amounts of cache tied to each core. This is sure to pack quite a number of transistors into very small areas,…
Read more Intel and AMD CPUs to Double Up
GamePC has a look at Serial-ATA based drives from MSI and Plextor. The MSI XA52P is a DVD/CD-RW combo drive with no DVD burning support while the Plextor PX-712SA can handle burning most, current, popular formats. The drives don’t have…
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