Neoseeker attempts to explain what PCI Express is and just what to expect out of the new peripheral connection. One thing is for sure, it will mean a complete system upgrade for most people, although it shouldn’t be as tough…
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HardOCP has on their plate a review of the MSI K8N Neo Athlon64 motherboard sporting the NVIDIA nForce3 250Gb chipset. The board comes loaded with features like SATA RAID support, Firewire, and Gigabit ethernet with some solid performance to match….
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ExtremeTech has reviewed a selection of 9 PC enclosures ranging from a sleek case designed for MicroATX motherboards to a, well uh, hideous monster facade case that screams “tacky”, but to each their own huh? The Antec Performance One appears…
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Antec is one of the larger PC case manufacturer with a big retail presence so when they drop a new and different product out there it gets some attention. GamePC just so happens to have a review of their Aria…
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LostCircuits is taking a close look at the Shuttle SB75S today, the latest in the company’s line of mini-box barebone PCs. As usual Shuttle has managed to stuff a whole load of features, such as Gigabit ethernet and Serial ATA…
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Hexus.net has a review of the ASUS SK8V, a motherboard designed to handle AMD’s current high end 64-bit chips, the Opteron and Athlon FX. It appears to be a high quality board with some very impressive performance numbers and enough…
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The Tech Report ran a barrage of tests against three motherboards which are all capable of running dual AMD Opteron 64-bit processors. The two Tyan boards, Thunder K8W and Tiger K8W, come in sporting AMD chipsets while MSI chose to…
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AMD’s recent launch of the Athlon 64 2800+ at the $178(per 1,000 cpus) price point may just drive sales of motherboards that support the chip according to DigiTimes. Lower prices can make system building somewhat cheaper of course so here’s…
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EPIACenter has some info and photos of the first cases, and some prototypes, that will take VIA’s recently announced Nano-ITX motherboard the EPIA-N. Stylish, sleek, and small; a winning combination….
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VIA has launched one of its smallest all-in-one creations to date, the VIA EPIA N. This Nano-ITX motherboard crams onboard video, audio, ethernet, an embedded processor, and much more into a space about 4.8 inches square….
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AnandTech takes a look ahead at DDR2, which will become the high speed memory favored by both Intel and AMD later this year and on into next. No performance numbers as of yet since no motherboards use the memory, just…
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