BIOS has word of an innovative product called the Trust 312KC USB calculator keypad which sports an integrated LCD display so you can view your calculations while you work. A nice little gadget that is sure to have a number…
Read more USB Numeric Keypad Announced
InformationWeek looks at the good, bad, and the ugly in the upcoming Microsoft Service Pack 2 for Windows XP. The update is getting a ton of “buzz”, rightfully so since it appears to be a turning point for Microsoft where…
Read more XP SP2 Preview
R&B Mods has a review of a rather nifty device which allows you to plug in any IDE device into a USB(2) port. While you can do that, for the most part, with any external drive chassis though this device…
Read more IDE to USB Adapter Reviewed
DigiTimes writes of Intel’s planned price cuts to its upcoming Celeron D line of processors as well as a few of their older designs which will put pressure on AMD’s upcoming Sempron chip. Moderate drops in price for the most…
Read more Low-End Price Battle Brewing
DigiTimes has word that ATI is planning to launch a pair of motherboard chipsets with integrated graphics for both the Intel and AMD. The chipset’s graphics performance is expected to be above par with the current choices out there, which…
Read more ATI to Roll Out New Chipsets
VR-Zone Hardware has a brief article with a picture of the new AMD Athlon 64 sporting the “Winchester” core. The new design is mostly a die shrink using the smaller 90nm process which will increase yields per wafer and, hopefully,…
Read more Peek at Winchester
TweakTown has the goods on four pairs of high speed DDR memory sticks from the likes of OCZ, Kingmax, Mushkin, and TwinMOS. Many current and future motherboards support dual channel memory which does give a nice performance boost so memory…
Read more Memory Compared
HotHardware has a review of the ASUS AX800 Pro which, as you may have guessed, uses the ATI Radeon X800 Pro chipset. This board would be just like any other X800 Pro board except for the rather large software bundle…
Read more ASUS AX800 Pro Reviewed
The Tech Report has a short guide filled with some cheap tips on how to cut down on the noise your PC may create. Most cases are not designed with low noise production in mind, rather, many designs want to…
Read more Reduce PC Noise
AnandTech questions if RAID 0 is worth the money and effort on a desktop system. There have been a number of motherboard chipsets shipping with RAID functionality built-in and with storage prices as low as they are many have been…
Read more RAID 0's Benefit on the Desktop
Designtechnica has a review of the Sony Vaio U50, a sleek little portable PC more at home in a sci-fi flick. An intriguing gadget with all sorts of nicely integrated features but by looking at it I would have to…
Read more Vaio U50 Mini PC Reviewed
