Legion Hardware did some temperature testing with Thermaltake’s Silent Tower heatsink. The cooler is designed for both Intel Pentium 4 and AMD Socket A platforms. It uses six heatpipes to pull away heat to a large number of aluminum fins…
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The U.S. Senate has banned taxes on broadband internet connections for four years according to ZDNet. I’m sure this is a load off for many web users but once broadband is more pervasive there will be, no doubt, an urge…
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VR-Zone took a little trip down to AMD’s fabrication plant in Singapore and has a bunch of pictures from their trip. Like most chip plant tours a lot of the areas weren’t able to be photographed so competitors can’t see…
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Guru3D spends an awful lot of time with NVIDIA’s latest high end graphics chip the GeForce 800 Ultra. A total of 24 pages covering the new technologies introduced into the company’s line of chips as well as various benchmarks with…
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PCSTATS goes into the details surrounding DDR-2 memory which is set to become the standard next year. Some intriguing new features are being used by the new memory which is sadly not compatible with current DDR boards so you’ll have…
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CNN Money notes that Google, the search engine company, has filed for an IPO with the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission today. The offering has been eagerly anticipated by many but some talk of another internet “bubble” has taken place…
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eWeek had a nice little chat with AMD’s Hector Ruiz covering many interesting topics covering OEMs and market opportunities to the CEO’s relationship with Michael Dell. There’s also an interesting tidbit concerning the dual core Opteron which should be showing…
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ZDNet has news of a delay in the official launch of Microsoft’s Service Pack 2 for its Windows XP operating system. The delay will “supposedly” only be a month while they try to work in suggestions from beta users. Hopefully…
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The Tech Report keeps on rollin’ with a review of VIA’s KT880 chipset, designed for AMD’s Athlon line of 32-bit processors. The chipset itself features a ton of integrated peripherals such as built-in ethernet and SerialATA with RAID support. Overall…
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Legion Hardware managed to get an MSI Mega 865 small form factor PC in their hands. The system is a bit more “media centric” than most other SFFs out there with Instant-On capability for playing CDs, from its Radio Tuner,…
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Future manufacturing technologies are causing some reliability concerns in the chip industry according to the EE Times. With more transistors and roles being imposed on processors and newer creation processes on the horizon the fear is chips may start exhibiting…
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