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by Rafael Hernandez on May 24, 2005 · 0 comments

BFG continues a fine tradition of manufacturers using confusing product names with their BFGRNF4U motherboard. The company is better known for its graphics cards which have been quite popular. HardOCP has a review of their Nvidia nForce4 Ultra powered AMD…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 23, 2005 · 0 comments

InsaneTek has a look at Abit’s AX8 motherboard for AMD’s Athlon 64 processor. The board makes fine use of VIA’s K8T890Pro chipset which offers PCI Express support (although no SLI option). A solid and cheaper alternative to some of the…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 19, 2005 · 0 comments

AnandTech tested out their hunch on a few budgets graphics boards and different memory timings. ATI’s HyperMemory and Nvidia’s TurboCache both rely on PCI Express’ quicker access to the system memory in order to support the meager, or non-existent, memory…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 18, 2005 · 0 comments

bit-tech has a look at Nvidia’s SLI technology using both 6800Ultra and 6800GT based cards. A bit of time has passed since it was initially launched giving them time to work out driver and game issues and, so far, it…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 12, 2005 · 0 comments

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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by Rafael Hernandez on May 11, 2005 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has a beefy roundup consisting of three dual AMD Opteron motherboards. The server boards all feature the Nvidia nForce Pro 2200 with the Tyan product going overboard with the addition of a nForce Pro 2050 daughter-chip. A…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 9, 2005 · 0 comments

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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by Rafael Hernandez on May 6, 2005 · 0 comments

PC Perspective has tested versions of ATI and Nvidia’s budget graphics chip for the PCI Express interface. PCI-E allows for quite a bit of bandwidth to system memory which makes these budget boards a bit more potent than the cheaper…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 28, 2005 · 0 comments

The Tech Report pit the four major Athlon 64 supporting chipsets against each other. The Nvidia nForce4 Ultra, SiS 756, VIA K8T890, and ATI Radeon Xpress 200 can all handle PCI Express peripherals, some more than others, with the Xpress…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 28, 2005 · 0 comments

t-break has a review of the MSI P4N Diamond motherboard. The board sports Nvidia’s nForce 4 SLI chipset for Intel’s Pentium 4 CPU with on-board audio being handled by a Creative SB Live! chipset. A feature-rich board aimed at the…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 27, 2005 · 0 comments

It’s HotHardware’s turn to take a crack at the Shuttle SN25P XPC. The familiar small form factor design hold’s Nvidia’s nForce 4 chipset, for AMD Athlon 64s, as well as a host of on-board peripherals including VIA’s Envy24 chip which…

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