DigiTimes has a few details on PCI-E based chipsets that four different manufacturers are working to release over the coming months. There will be plenty of choices available but so many chipsets at once will be confusing. Hopefully they’ll each…
Read more Athlon 64 PCI-E Chipsets on the Way
CNN’s Game Over column has an interesting bit of bad news for video game fans which may have prices jumping up for hit titles. Production costs for hit games have gone up and publishers and developers are no doubt trying…
Read more Game Prices to Rise
GamePC has a look at an impressive new chip from Intel for its LGA775 platform. The Pentium 4 Extreme Edition caught a lot of flak over the past year for its extremely high price and weak performance compared to their…
Abit has been known to push the performance of computing with their extensive line of motherboards, this time they’ve set out to tweak their ATI Radeon X300 and X600 line of video cards with a set of features designed to…
Read more Abit Launches vGuru Graphics Card Lineup
SFFTech does enjoy a nice new small form factor PC to toy around with, this time they get a shot at Shuttle’s SN95G5 XPC. The barebones setup can handle AMD’s Socket 939 line of CPUs and sports the NVIDIA nForce3…
Read more Shuttle SN95G5 Reviewed
Freescale Semiconductor has sketched out a new chip it intends to market to the embedded computing sector but could obviously work well in other situations. Their MPC8641D processor houses two of their e600 cores which are based on modified versions…
Read more Freescale Designs Dual-Core Chip
Everyone’s favorite future looking video card benchmark has been updated. Futuremark’s 3DMark 2005 makes full use of all the spiffy graphics capabilites of today’s high end cards and I’d bet some that are yet to be hardware accelerated. Of course…
Read more 3DMark 2005 Hits the Net
PC World has details on Sony’s redesign of its Network Walkman which it plans to release in Japan next month. Most of the changes on the NW-HD2 appear to be cosmetic with a few color choices, new LCD backlight color,…
Read more Sony Tweaks MP3 Walkman
t-break has four pairs of DDR2 memory modules from manufacturers that focus on both speed and stability (as well has high price). They ran the products through various tests leading to some interesting results with faster timings on the Corsair…
Read more DDR2 Memory Roundup
HTPCNews has a review of the compact Antec Aria micro-ATX case thoughtfully designed with ample room in mind for cooling and drive/peripheral add-ons as well as a beefy included powersupply. A great product for the often under-served microATX market….
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AMDZone has a look at the new AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Socket 939 CPU produced with the company’s 90nm process. Besides the shrink in the core size this is the first low price Socket 939 chip on the market, capable…
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