Published June 11, 2004 · 0 comments

Motherboards.org has a review of the ASUS A8V Deluxe WiFi, one of the first Socket 939 boards in the market designed for AMD’s latest batch of 64-bit chips. They’ve managed to include a large number of features in the board…

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Published June 10, 2004 · 0 comments

Reuters reports that broadband growth rate in the U.S. was at 42% last year, according to the FCC, with more than 8 million new subscribers to various services over 2002. That’s a blistering pace for any service, with cable companies…

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Published June 10, 2004 · 0 comments

GamePC, builders of fine PCs and quality review writers, has a look at the Sony DRU-700A, a dual-layer capable DVD +- burner. The quality of this Sony drive is impressive, able to keep up with Plextor’s comparable model all in…

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Published June 10, 2004 · 0 comments

X-bit labs has the word on just what AMD’s Sempron processor line is. It looks like the Sempron tag will go on all future “low-end” 32-bit general purpose CPUs AMD plans to release, replacing the Athlon name in Socket-A land…

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Published June 10, 2004 · 0 comments

eWeek has details on two reports that state spam emails are costing big businesses money with the loss of employee productivity averaging almost $2,000USD a year. The number seems somewhat high since it’s pretty easy to spot and delete emails…

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Published June 10, 2004 · 0 comments

Hexus.net had the pleasure of abusing a SavRow Razor laptop which featured all sorts of goodies in its extremely thin casing. The notebook has a 1.7GHz Intel Centrino processor, 1GB of RAM, and an ATI Radeon Mobility 9700 all in…

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Published June 9, 2004 · 0 comments

Virtual Zone Hardware has got themselves a retail packaged ATI Radeon X800 Pro barn-burner of a video card. Retail boards are the better indicator of performance, usually, since you don’t have handpicked graphics boards, by the company, making their way…

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Published June 9, 2004 · 0 comments

ComputerWorld has news of a pair of flaws, which the latest MS patches have not plugged, that can enable someone to take over a XP/2K/Server 2003 PC (I assume), using IE, with a single click of a link. Nasty stuff,…

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Published June 9, 2004 · 0 comments

Apple has the info on their very own new dual processor powerhouse of a PC, the renovated Power Mac G5 line. The systems boast processor speeds up to 2.5GHz using a new liquid cooling system that’s plain baffling. It’s surely…

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Published June 9, 2004 · 0 comments

The patch man cometh, as he does every month, bringing fixes to a pair of moderate flaws in Microsoft products. InformationWeek has the low-down on what looks like “no big deal” flaws affecting DirectX9 and a few MS business software…

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Published June 9, 2004 · 0 comments

Hot on the heels of Intel’s change of heart when it comes to its processor design and their switch to more efficient designs, in the future, over 4GHz dreams comes IBM’s ideas on how to speed up their Power(tm) CPU…

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