Tweaknews has a look at the Thermaltake Big Typhoon CPU cooler. The heatsink supports Intel’s S478/LGA775 and AMD’s Athlon XP through to the Athlon 64. It uses its large mass and heat pipes to cool quite well, maintaining good temperatures…
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GamePC has a look at the Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 processor. The CPU is Intel’s current top chip offering incredible performance even at stock speeds. If you want the current performance champ the Core 2 Duo line is your…
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LostCircuits has a look at how the Intel Core 2 Duo and AMD’s X2 CPUs handle media encoding. It’s a performance hungry category with each chip trying its best to come out on top and, surprisingly, AMD doesn’t receive as…
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Techgage has a review of the AMD AM2 4600+ Energy Efficient version. The chips run at their stock speeds with lower voltages than the norm which leads to lower temperatures and power usage, that’s great for those cramped case situations…
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Xbit labs has some details on AMD’s “freshening-up” of their Athlon 64 (K8) core. The K8L features a number of improvements which should help it compete with Intel’s current Core 2 Duo and will work with the current AM2 socket…
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PCSTATS has a look at the ASRock AM2V890-VSTA motherboard that pairs AMD’s AM2 socket with the VIA K8T890 chipset. ASRock has been mixing and matching odd combinations for a bit over a year now and while they seem strange they…
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The Tech Report has a look at the MSI K9N SLI Platinum motherboard. The board supports AMD’s AM2 processors and Nvidia’s SLI technique and makes an attempt to go for the silent route with a massive northbridge cooler. A solid…
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Legion PC Gamers has a look at the Alienware Aurora m9700 notebook/DTR. The PC isn’t much of a portable system what with its 17″ screen, SLI Nvidia 7900GS graphics and RAID hard drives with a 2.4GHz, 1MB cache AMD Turion…
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X-bit labs managed to get their hands on an AMD X2 3600+ AM2 processor and ran it through the usual tests. The chip features the same clock rate as the 3800+ but it features half of the cache and while…
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DriverHeaven has a look at 7 different sets of DDR2 PC2-6400 memory kits. Memory modules vary in quality but this batch seems to handle some poking and prodding quite well with one particular set rising above the rest. A nice…
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Phoronix has a review of the Abit KN9 Ultra motherboard. The board supports AMD’s AM2 CPU and features a nice silent heat-pipe cooling setup for its chipset. Although it lacks the ever popular SLI support it’s a fairly fast single…
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