by Rafael Hernandez on March 8, 2009
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The ever increasing amounts of storage space being crammed into ye olde hard drive does wonders for people with lots of files to store, or those trying to consolidate years of drive purchases. Western Digital’s Caviar Green WD20EADS packs in…
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by Rafael Hernandez on March 5, 2009
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Dell’s XPS lineup has largely focused on bringing some measure of gaming performance to a market that’s probably wary of scarily named boutique PC builders. Their systems were mostly based around Intel’s latest and greatest but their new XPS 625…
Read more Dell XPS 625, Phenom II Goes Gaming
by Rafael Hernandez on March 2, 2009
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You’re no doubt familiar with the concept of a gaming laptop by now, all of that powerful computing hardware crammed into a notebook and their insane power consumption. MSI’s GT725 laptop fills out that role quite nicely and Driver Heaven…
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by Rafael Hernandez on February 19, 2009
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Intel’s Core i7 chip has quite the performance advantage over its previous CPUs and the competition, unfortunately for most enthusiasts it pumps out quite a bit of heat in order to accomplish such performance feats. bit-tech has a look at…
Read more Core i7 Heatsink Roundup, Cooling The Beast Effectively
by Rafael Hernandez on February 11, 2009
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The steady, onward, progression of chip improvements allow a company to put out handy roadmaps for all of the technically minded people out there to follow along and drool at the possibilities. AnandTech has gathered up a number of Intel…
Read more Intel's Roadmap, Shrinking Chips Abound
by Rafael Hernandez on February 3, 2009
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HP’s lineup of portable computers has had an interesting mix of features and design elements that have made them a popular choice. Their HDX18-1005ea brings in an 18.4″ LCD screen and Nvidia 9600M GT on the graphics front for some…
Read more HP HDX18-1005ea: Confusing Name, Interesting Specs
by Rafael Hernandez on February 3, 2009
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Intel’s Atom processor is a great choice for all of those low-power computing situations, such as that whole new netbook market that just so happens to lean on the chip quite heavily. Unfortunately the supporting chipset Intel offers isn’t very…
Read more Nvidia Ion, Beefing Up The Atom
by Rafael Hernandez on January 30, 2009
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The concept behind a gaming laptop is to provide a rather fast platform for getting your gaming fix on the go, Alienware’s M17 laptop has the processing power to handle its fair share of games but you’ll likely want to…
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by Rafael Hernandez on January 28, 2009
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The multi-core approach has allowed for some impressive number crunching gains, unfortunately the larger these chips get the more power hungry they are. Intel has gone through the trouble of binning their chips and has put out the Core 2…
Read more Core 2 Quad Q9550S, A Power Friendlier Quad Core
by Rafael Hernandez on January 27, 2009
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If you had any doubt in the sheer graphics processing power Nvidia’s Tri-SLI multi-GPU technology brings to the table have a look at TweakTown’s go at it with the new GeForce GTX 285 graphics cards. It’s not an inexpensive setup…
Read more GeForce GTX 285 Tri-SLI, Yes It's Absurdly Fast
by Rafael Hernandez on January 13, 2009
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Intel’s Atom CPU has created a whole new market for portable devices, but that doesn’t mean others won’t find a use for it in more stationary applications. Nvidia’s Ion platform hopes to inject a bit of multimedia prowess into things…
Read more Nvidia Ion, Bringing Multimedia Capabilities To The Atom