December 2005

by Rafael Hernandez on December 29, 2005 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a look at Sun’s UltraSparc T1 processor. The new chip isn’t about blazing speeds instead it’s capable of handling quite a few instructions, and threads at once making it a great multi-threaded server app chip and it runs…

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by Rafael Hernandez on December 29, 2005 · 0 comments

X-bit labs has more than you ever wanted to know about the Asus A8N32-SLI motherboard. The board features two PCIe 16X slots for full bandwidth SLI-goodness along with a ton of other high-end features. A very pricey AMD Athlon 64…

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by Rafael Hernandez on December 29, 2005 · 0 comments

Legion Hardware has a review of the Thermalright V-1 Ultra GPU cooler. The heatsink is one of the fancier, and innovative, designs out there which snakes the bulk of the aluminum fins over to the back of the card sparing…

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by Rafael Hernandez on December 28, 2005 · 0 comments

X-bit labs has a group of 5 power supplies ranging from quaint to supposedly powerful. An uninteresting group until you hit Hiper’s Type R 580Watt monster which features some of the neater modular cable systems out there. A nice group…

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by Rafael Hernandez on December 28, 2005 · 0 comments

X-bit labs has a few pcitures and more “details” on ATI’s upcoming X1900 graphics card. The chip is supposed to clock in with some hefty speeds and performance potential late next month which should make things in the graphics arena…

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by Rafael Hernandez on December 28, 2005 · 0 comments

AMDZone has a look at Quake4’s performance with the latest dual core enabled patch. They ran into a few issues with Nvidia’s latest driver set but with some tweaking they got it all working in the end. Vast improvements for…

Read more Quake4 Dual Core Patch Analysis

by Rafael Hernandez on December 28, 2005 · 0 comments

Hexus has some thoughts on some of the best and worst trends/hardware of 2005. A varied list to be sure with some valid concerns and some technologies that could use improvements going into next year. 2005 was a good one…

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by Rafael Hernandez on December 27, 2005 · 0 comments

HotHardware has a look at the latest top-end consumer CPU from Intel, the Intel Pentium EE 955. The dual core chip is made with their 65nm process which, no doubt, required the all new i975X chipset as well. An impressive…

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by Rafael Hernandez on December 22, 2005 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a look at the ATI All-In-Wonder 2006 PCIe Edition graphics board. The usual AIW formula is there with their TV tuner attached to an X1300 graphics chip this time around. An inexpensive option if you’re looking to add…

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by Rafael Hernandez on December 22, 2005 · 0 comments

Just in time for the holidays Nvidia has released a new set of ForceWare drivers for their graphics card line. The version 81.98 drivers sport a number of bug fixes and enhancements most notably for their SLI setups and dual-core…

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by Rafael Hernandez on December 22, 2005 · 0 comments

Another year gone and another batch of monthly driver updates from ATI that TweakTown has so graciously benchmarked for all of us. As we can see the drivers have improved performance quite a bit in gaming titles. They’ve also got…

Read more 2005 Catalyst Driver Analysis