February 2005

by Rafael Hernandez on February 28, 2005 · 0 comments

HardwareZone somehow manage to maintain their sanity long enough to post their shootout between 17 motherboards based on Intel’s 915P chipset. DDR vs DDR2 doesn’t appear to make a huge difference although several of the boards do enjoy higher scores,…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 28, 2005 · 0 comments

The Tech Report paid a visit to the ATI sponsored Texas Gaming Festival’s ATI Ultimate LAN Party. The get-together featured mention of ATI’s 512MB high-end X850XT and a whole lot of overclocking using insane cooling methods. Looks like a waste…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 28, 2005 · 0 comments

HIS has been adding exotic heatsinks to every card they can get their hands on, this time they tackle the high-end market. t-break has a review of the HIS x850XT IceQ II graphics card featuring ATI’s top end chip and…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 28, 2005 · 0 comments

GamePC has a roundup of four PCI Express capable boards for AMD’s Athlon64 (s939) CPUs. The boards each tout a different chipset with entries from ATI, VIA, and two from Nvidia making a showing. The MSI/ATI board is one of…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 28, 2005 · 0 comments

AnandTech has gathered four motherboards from a number of manufacturers which support Nvidia’s SLI graphics technology. Each board has its own distinct feature set and layout making it a bit more difficult to choose the right SLI board. Great choices…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 25, 2005 · 0 comments

HotHardware has a look at the Skyhawk echo-Q IMC6375 small form factor barebones PC. The machine makes use of Intel Pentium 4 (s478) CPUs and includes on-board audio and video for an inexpensive setup or tack on your own graphics…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 25, 2005 · 0 comments

MSNBC/Forbes teamed up to create a list of the ten coolest gadgets for gamers. The list includes a number of portable game systems and a highly tuned gaming PC. They’re all game related but most of them can’t be considered…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 25, 2005 · 0 comments

Guru3D has a review of the HiS Radeon X800XL graphics board. HiS has done its usual cooling upgrade to the reference X800XL design mating a massive heatsink and fan to their latest board. Good performance and modest overclocking potential from…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 25, 2005 · 0 comments

BetaNews has the details on the newest version of Firefox. The web browser update has a few fixes and patches for various security vulnerabilities and stability issues. The biggest fix on the list is a change to the way the…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 25, 2005 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a look at the Nvidia GeForce Go 6800 Ultra mobile GPU. The chip is an improvement over their previous mobile 6800 GPUs and when paired with a powerful processor it’s capable of impressive performance in games that rivals…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 24, 2005 · 0 comments

PC Stats tested the performance of two MSI NX6600GT-TD128E graphics cards in an SLI setup. The Nvidia GeForce 6600GT based cards are a midrange solution by themselves but when paired together they near and sometimes exceed the performance of high-end…

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