Published March 17, 2004 · 0 comments

EEDesign covers some crazy ideas being bandied about by the fine people at SiliconPipe. They’re proposing connecting chips to each other directly from the chip’s core instead of the usual “through the printed circuit board” method. Interesting idea being proposed…

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Published March 16, 2004 · 0 comments

SystemCooling takes a look at the Koolance EXOS water cooling solution. It’s an ingenious package which includes everything you need to cool off your CPU and video card without the need to hunt around for parts to build your own…

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Published March 16, 2004 · 0 comments

Tech Report did some digging around and came up with news of Shuttle’s plans to offer complete XPC computers. Their mini-PC line has been very well received with a pre-built line sure to be a hit as well….

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Published March 16, 2004 · 0 comments

HardwareHell has a short article featuring this year’s lineup of Cooler Master PC case products. Their previous cases have been sleek works of art made out of aluminum, so far these cases haven’t impressed me at all, except for the…

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Published March 16, 2004 · 0 comments

Envy News got in some testing time with a pair of SMC Networks antennas designed for 802.11x wireless networks. They take a look at both directional and omnidirectional flavors which can boost a wireless signal quite a ways but depending…

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Published March 15, 2004 · 0 comments

Epiacenter has a review of the VIA EPIA MII 10000 a miniscule Mini-ITX board designed for computing in tight spaces or duty as a home theater PC board. It really is amazing how they cram so many features onto a…

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Published March 15, 2004 · 0 comments

CNET News has a run down of the new CPUs AMD will be releasing soon. Half the cache and a higher clock speed seems to be a decent tradeoff if they do in fact bring these new chips in at…

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Published March 15, 2004 · 0 comments

FastLaneHW throws caution to the wind and their warranties out the window with some serious tweaking done to their motherboard and equally sick cooling in order to push a mobile AMD Athon XP 2400-M to disturbing new heights. Going from…

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Published March 15, 2004 · 0 comments

HTPCnews put together a list of the most popular hardware choices when it comes to building a home theater PC. Quite the informative guide with pictures and links to their reviews of some of the products and where you can…

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Published March 14, 2004 · 0 comments

I Am Not A Geek (who are they kidding) is covering some of the changes Microsoft’s upcoming Windows XP SP2 patch will bring about. They lay out some of the lesser known changes which other SP2 articles passed over, some…

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Published March 13, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech has some news on Intel’s purported change in processor naming. Up until now it was useful for them to just label their processors at its clock rate, for example P4 3.2GHz, but with upcoming architecture changes seeing something like…

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