Published June 5, 2004 · 0 comments

Sudhian has a review of the IWill ZMAX-AP Intel Pentium 4 based small form factor PC, not to be confused with the ZMAX-dp dual processor SFF that has gotten a lot of buzz recently. It looks like a good start…

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Published June 5, 2004 · 0 comments

GamePC has access to the nicest toys as evidenced by their review of the Intel Pentium-M 735 CPU, formerly code-named Dothan. The 735 is a 1.7GHz processor with 2MB of cache designed for laptops and based on the old Pentium…

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Published June 4, 2004 · 0 comments

Yahoo News has the story of the highly lucrative, high-end gaming PC market which the larger PC makers have recently targeted. The $2 billion a year in sales is a little surprising but I suppose it makes sense when these…

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Published June 4, 2004 · 0 comments

OCWorkBench has strolled around the Computex show grounds this week and has a large number of product images in their Day 3 coverage. A ton of interesting stuff, but comanies really do need to cut down on all of the…

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Published June 4, 2004 · 0 comments

X-bit labs has the story on ServerWorks’ plans to develop a chipset for AMD’s Opteron processors. They design chipsets with features that cater to multiple processor servers and workstations which the Opteron line just happens to be able to function…

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Published June 4, 2004 · 0 comments

BBC News has a story on the FTC’s planned proposal to overhaul the U.S. Patent system which has been severely abused over the past few years by people and companies patenting everything and anything, including things that have had blatantly…

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Published June 4, 2004 · 0 comments

Digital Photography Review writes of a new memory card from Pretec Electronics that is able to be written to at 18MB/s and read from at 22.5MB/s, generally speaking that’s blazing fast for flash memory. The 2GB card probably won’t come…

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Published June 3, 2004 · 0 comments

ExplosiveLabs put together a comparative review between three small form factor Pentium 4 based PCs from Epox, Biostar, and FIC, each featuring the Intel i865 chipset. They do a good job of going over each SFF’s features and include a…

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Published June 3, 2004 · 0 comments

HardwareZoom has a large number of photos from Day 1 at the Computex Trade Show which has been going on this week. There are a ton of innovative products coming out of the show this year but the most interesting…

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Published June 3, 2004 · 0 comments

PC Perspective had access to three AMD Athlon 64 (Socket 939) based motherboards from the likes of MSI, Asus, and a reference design by NVIDIA coupled with a beefy Athlon 64 FX-53 they’re sure to chew through tasks. This is…

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Published June 3, 2004 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has been busy. This time around they have a review of the Abit KV8 Pro motherboard designed for the AMD Athlon 64 Socket 754-pin configuration. The board sports the latest VIA K8T800 Pro chipset and since it’s…

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