April 2005

by Rafael Hernandez on April 29, 2005 · 0 comments

HotHardware has a look at the IBM Thinkpad R52 laptop computer. IBM’s notebooks have a reputation for being solid machines and this R52 appears to be just as hearty. It’s not as slim as some of their other series but…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 29, 2005 · 0 comments

Bjorn3D has a review of the PC Power and Cooling Turbo-Cool 510-SLI power supply. The company creates heavy duty power supplies and cases that fills a niche market. It’s a good quality piece of equipment but with a price tage…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 29, 2005 · 0 comments

Valve and Vivendi’s dispute over Half Life 2’s, and other mods, distribution methods seems to be over. It appears there won’t be any more boxed versions of Valve’s popular games on store shelves, at least by Vivendi, which may make…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 29, 2005 · 0 comments

Koolance has been a major manufacturer of water cooling parts for a number of years now with their EXOS cooling system enjoying a good amount of success. Their new EXOS 2 external liquid cooling setup improves on their previous versions…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 29, 2005 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has a bit of info from this year’s WinHEC. Microsoft was focused on showcasing its upcoming Longhorn OS but many other interesting things were going on at the show with new hardware and XP Pro x64 driver…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 29, 2005 · 0 comments

SystemCooling has a review of the Zalman 500AF PC enclosure. Zalman has formed the case out of large, finned, aluminum plates as well as quite a few heat pipes to make a “noise-less” chassis. A few processors require fans to…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 28, 2005 · 0 comments

ars technica checks out Apple’s Mac OS X 10.4 update which goes by the code name “Tiger”. They go into their usual in-depth mode and have a go at some of the major changes and additions as well as behind-the-scenes…

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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

Thermaltake has had a long line of successful products aimed at the enthusiast PC user. They now have a lne of power supplies Legion Hardware has taken a real liking to. The Thermaltake PurePower 460W should be capable enough to…

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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 28, 2005 · 0 comments

Beyond3D has an early look at the Club3D S3 GammaChrome S18 Nitro graphics card. The latest graphics chip from S3 (now owned by VIA) is a great improvement over previous models and manages decent results for what should be a…

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