November 2004

by Rafael Hernandez on November 30, 2004 · 0 comments

TweakTown has a review of the NVIDIA GeForce 6200, the latest entry in the low-end video card market. The chip is based on the company’s well received 6800series with a few extra features disabled but the same great image quality…

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by Rafael Hernandez on November 30, 2004 · 0 comments

The Inquirer believes Intel will be moving a series of high end features over to its desktop line of Pentium 4s starting next year. Its 600 series of CPUs may or may not integrate 64-bit extensions pulled from their Xeon…

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by Rafael Hernandez on November 30, 2004 · 0 comments

Yahoo! News is running an article that states the obvious, unpatched/non-firewalled PCs can be taken over in the blink of an eye. Investment in an inexpensive router is the best course of action. Not the most ground-breaking of news but…

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by Rafael Hernandez on November 30, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech has grabbed seven LCD monitors from a wide range of manufacturers and tossed them through their usual test setup. These 19-inch displays offer great visuals and performance in many applications and videos with their only drawback being a relatively…

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by Rafael Hernandez on November 30, 2004 · 0 comments

EE Times has some tidbits of info on Sony/IBM/Toshiba’s much hyped Cell processor which will make its high profile debut in the Sony PlayStation 3 and other hardware. Tons of money and engineering expertise is riding behind this project which…

Read more More Cell Details Emerge

by Rafael Hernandez on November 29, 2004 · 0 comments

Yahoo! News writes of potentially good news for the HD-DVD standard being pushed by Toshiba and other companies. The standard now has four Hollywood studios backing it which should give it some more clout in its fight for the title…

Read more HD-DVD Gets Hollywood Backing?

by Rafael Hernandez on November 29, 2004 · 0 comments

ABC News has a fluff piece on IBM/Sony/Toshiba’s joint collaboration on a CPU design dubbed “Cell”. With the focus on multiple cores and SMP systems on the table for many chip makers their approach is unlikely to be very different…

Read more More Cell Details

by Rafael Hernandez on November 29, 2004 · 0 comments

XYZ Computing has tried out the HighSpeedPC Tech Station, a temporary testbed of sorts. Not the fanciest piece of equipment out there but it does offer a stabilizing bar for video adapters which is sort of innovative I suppose. The…

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by Rafael Hernandez on November 29, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech has an early look at the Asus P5AD2-E motherboard based on the Intel 925XE chipset for the LGA775 P4 CPUs. All sorts of clock rates being thrown about such as the 1066MHz front-side-bus and its ability of running DDR2-711…

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by Rafael Hernandez on November 29, 2004 · 0 comments

The Tech Report tested out all forms of SLI setups using NVIDIA GeForce 6600 and 6800 video cards strapped to an Asus A8N-SLI motherboard designed for the AMD Athlon 64/FX. It’s really, really fast, as is to be expected, but…

Read more More GeForce 6*00 SLI Fun

by Rafael Hernandez on November 28, 2004 · 0 comments

t-break has a review of the upcoming MSI K8N Neo4 motherboard based on the NVIDIA nForce 4 Ultra chipset for the AMD Athlon 64 (Socket 939) CPU. PCI-Express and SerialATA2 support are some of the bigger draws for the new…

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