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by Rafael Hernandez on September 24, 2004 · 0 comments

ZDNet has coverage on HP’s decision to drop the usage of Intel’s Itanium chip in its workstation lines. Not that they would have sold many to begin with and most people probably didn’t know anyone built workstations with the Itanium….

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 24, 2004 · 0 comments

AMD’s Athlon 64 processors have gone without a PCI Express capable system chipset for a few months while Intel has grabbed all of the attention, that is until now. VIA has announced its K8T890 chipset which supports the new interface…

Read more VIA K8T890 Athlon 64 Chipset Previewed

by Rafael Hernandez on September 22, 2004 · 0 comments

GamePC has a review of the Intel Pentium 4 560 processor which runs at 3.6GHz. It seems like a speedy enough chip able to handle the applications that they threw at it but heat concerns have dogged the CPU line,…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 20, 2004 · 0 comments

HardOCP has tested four video cards based on ATI’s X600XT chipset which features a native PCI-Express interface. The card is sure to be popular with many Intel based PC builders since it offers “decent” performance for the price, that is…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 16, 2004 · 0 comments

bit-tech has a look at a new entry in the very popular small form factor PC barebones line from Shuttle, the SB81P. They manage to cram in tons of features and support for high power CPUs and graphics cards into…

Read more Shuttle Intel LGA 775 SFF Reviewed

by Rafael Hernandez on September 14, 2004 · 0 comments

Legit Reviews has written up their impressions of this year’s Fall Intel Developers Forum and they toss in a small sample of some of the products that were on display. Tons of neat gear and future technologies were presented at…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 13, 2004 · 0 comments

Legion Hardware treads in budget territory with a look at how the integrated graphics cores of Intel’s 915G and ATI’s RS350 chipsets perform. Both products are designed for the Pentium 4 and while neither can outperform even low budget add-on…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 13, 2004 · 0 comments

Ars Technica had their usual detail oriented writing style in mind with their latest article covering Intel’s shift to the dual-core CPU approach. Many great points and observations in this article which will make for some exciting times ahead for…

Read more Intel and its Dual-Core Plans

by Rafael Hernandez on September 13, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech tests out Intel’s top Xeon processor against AMD’s current top (dual capable) Opteron in a handful of database tests. Some very nice results this time around from Intel’s top chip which manages to at least stay in the same…

Read more Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron Head-to-Head

by Rafael Hernandez on September 12, 2004 · 0 comments

Hardware Zone stuck around for day 3 of the Intel Developers Forum where there was talk centering around the future of the internet, new memory interfaces and configurations for the server world, and snapshots of a few products in the…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 12, 2004 · 0 comments

ExtremeTech has a little coverage on what’s going on with the HD Audio specification Intel has been pushing with its latest generation of chipsets. It seems Dolby Labs is jumping into the fray with their very own certification program and…

Read more PC HD-Audio Spec Developments