GamePC has a review of AOpen’s i915GMm-HFS motherboard. The board brings Intel’s i915GM mobile chipset to the desktop bringing along its DDR2, PCI Express support, and, naturally, support for Pentium M processors. Impressive looking board but a comparison with the…
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AnandTech has a small guide on what’s available, processor wise, in the market. Things can get confusing with both AMD and Intel using different sockets within their own chip lines and different code names for each cache size. The guide…
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CDRinfo has a look at Microsoft’s XP Professional x64 Edition operating system. The OS supports both Intel (sans Itanium) and AMD’s 64-bit processors which can improve performance. A number of 64-bit apps saw a nice jump while most 32-bit apps…
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ECS has a good idea going with its ECS PF88 Extreme motherboard. At first glance it appears to be another Intel Pentium 4 LGA775 supporting motherboard, which it is, but their proprietary connector allows the user to drop in an…
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GamePC compares SLI performance on Nvidia’s nForce4 SLI chipsets. Their testbeds include both an Intel EE and AMD FX55 chip run under a number of graphically intense gaming titles. Good numbers on both platforms, although, with newer cards being announced…
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AnandTech runs their batch of tests on the new Asus P5WD2 Premium motherboard. The board features Intel’s 955X chipset which supports their dual-core CPUs and offers up a pair of PCI-E 16x slots which may or may not support SLI….
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BIOS has a review of Dell’s gaming oriented XPS Gen 2 laptop computer. The massive notebook sports an Intel Pentium M CPU paired with a Nvidia GeForce Go 6800 Ultra graphics chip. The included, massive, 17″ widescreen LCD makes it…
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Viper Lair has a look at the Soltek EQ3901-300P small form factor PC. Taking its design ques from the BMW mini the system is a bit taller than the average SFF which allows it to accept two optical drives. LGA775…
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Gigabyte has rolled out its princely 8I955X Royal motherboard. The board makes good use of Intel’s 955X system chipset, which happens to be required in order to run dual-core CPUs, on top of which they pile on their DPS module…
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The Tech Report throws everything they have at Intel’s Pentium Extreme Edition 840 CPU. The chip is Intel’s first dual-core “consumer” chip and is capable of mighty good performance. The downsides are that it requires a new, pricey, motherboard, pumps…
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HotHardware has a look at the IBM Thinkpad R52 laptop computer. IBM’s notebooks have a reputation for being solid machines and this R52 appears to be just as hearty. It’s not as slim as some of their other series but…
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