April 2006

by Rafael Hernandez on April 27, 2006 · 0 comments

HardwareZone has a look at the Gigabyte Radeon X1300 Pro. The passively cooled graphics card is on the low end of the spectrum, performance wise, but it does have great image quality in video playback making it a good choice…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 27, 2006 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has a look at seven 2.5″ mobile hard drives. The drives can be commonly found in your favorite laptop PC and, judging by their performance figures, it’s a smart move to go for the slightly faster drives…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 26, 2006 · 0 comments

BleedinEdge has a short and sweet review of the XFX GeForce 7900GT graphics board. The card has plenty of power for the recent title releases and, if you ever find it lagging a bit, you can always grab another for…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 26, 2006 · 0 comments

Next Generation has the details on EA’s game lineup for this year’s E3. They’ve got a number of titles cooking, such as Spore and Crysis, that many people are getting excited over. It’s going to be a mass of gaming…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 26, 2006 · 0 comments

AnandTech has tested quite a few high-end and mid-range graphics cards in everyone’s newest favorite RPG, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. The title can be heavy on the eye candy bringing all but the top of the line setups to…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 25, 2006 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has some insights on the Sharp M4000 WideNote ultraportable notebook. The laptop has a nice batch of features including that widescreen display, built-in optical drive, and a decent processor all while maitaining great battery life. An impressive…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 25, 2006 · 0 comments

MADShrimps has a look at 6 different (5 if you don’t count the stock cooler) graphics card heatsink/fan combos on a Nvidia 7800GT. The latest graphics boards can definitely benefit from a third-party cooler which performs much better than the…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 24, 2006 · 0 comments

HotHardware has a look at the Asus N4L-VM DH MicroATX motherboard. The board supports Intel’s Core Duo mobile chips which perform very well and run cool which can make for some quieter systems. A solid board for most tasks, yes…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 24, 2006 · 0 comments

SilentPCReview has part 2 on their guide to quiet down and improve temperatures in your system, theirs being an overclocked Intel Pentium D 830. It involves a few simple and inexpensive mods to create ducts which provide the proper air-flow…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 24, 2006 · 0 comments

AnandTech pits two 4-way SMP systems with each socket populated by dual-core CPUs. The 8 core AMD and Intel systems are certainly beasts packed to the brim with gear but, when it comes down to performance, one of the systems…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 17, 2006 · 0 comments

[H]ardConsumer has a look at the Vicious PC Assassin gaming system. Despite its name it really is a custom built computer from Vicious PC. The fine folks at [H] torture the poor thing then test out the company’s tech support…

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