eMachines is well known for their inexpensive desktop machines, infamously so, but their line of notebooks comes with decent spec sheets and some rather tempting price tags. InsideHW has a look at the eMachines G520 and G620 notebooks and what…
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Bigfoot Network’s original Killer NIC had quite a bit of FUD surrounding it but testing did show it to improve ping times and, in some cases, frame rates. The company has announced its new Killer Xeno network card which…
Read more Killer Xeno Announced, Magically Reduces Ping Times
Pairing a rather low power, low-cost CPU with a low-end chipset is bound to get everyone really excited. Nvidia’s Ion platform takes Intel’s Atom processor and pairs it with their GeForce 9400M chipset giving it enough power to do some…
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Shuttle is known mostly for their popularizing the small form factor computer design which has won them plenty of praise. Apparently the company isn’t content to stick with a single product line so they’ve come up with their X Vision…
Read more Shuttle's X Vision X50, Making The Nettop Touchable
If you’re putting together an enterprise level server odds are you’re going to be doing something that’ll be thrashing your storage space quite a bit. AnandTech has a look at how solid state disk, serial attached SCSI, and plain old…
Read more SSD Versus Enterprise Level Hard Drives, A Tad Overkill For The Desktop
There’s nothing quite like another round of vulnerability scares to take your system security worry levels to the next level. Security researchers have come up with a way to load code into the System Management Mode which, by no simple…
Read more Intel Chip Flaw To Be Exposed, Let The Hand Wringing Begin
Intel’s Core i7 CPU has been tearing up the benchmarks these past few months but the company’s new chip also happens to pump out quite a bit of heat. Benchmark Reviews has gathered up a few coolers and pit them…
AMD’s Phenom II has been getting a bit of attention recently, seeing as how they’ve finally managed to match up with Intel’s Core 2 Quads and come in at a decent price point you can’t blame people for being curious…
Read more AMD Phenom II Performance Scaling, Or Overclocking Til It Breaks
With all of the hub-bub surrounding Intel and AMD’s high end chips you may be shocked to find out that there are still those that may prefer a dual-core CPU of the Core 2 era, especially on the enthusiast front….
Read more Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 VS E8600, A Tale Of Two Caches
Solid state drives have been gaining plenty of attention as of late, what with their performance, power consumption, durability, and silent running being major selling points. Some drives are quicker than others though so Driver Heaven has run some tests…
Read more SSD Roundup, The Performance Party
Dell is looking for a slice of the industrial, ruggedized laptop market with the new Intel Core 2 Duo-powered Latitude E6400 XFR. The armored portable sports a 14.1-inch widescreen 1280×800 display, GbE networking, 802.11g (or n option) and tons of…
Read more Dell's Ruggedized XFR Laptop on Video
