May 2006

by Rafael Hernandez on May 29, 2006 · 0 comments

SilentPC Review has a look at the VIA EPIA EN12000E motherboard/cpu combo. It’s by no means a powerhouse as it comes equipped with their Eden or C7 CPU but it does offer some of the lowest power draw and heat…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 25, 2006 · 0 comments

Hot Hardware has a look at the Nvidia DualTV MCE tv tuner card. As its name would suggest the add-on has two TV tuners with plenty of input capabilities but if you’re looking forward to pulling digital signals out of…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 25, 2006 · 0 comments

The Tech Report spent some quality time with the Nvidia GeForce 7900 family of GPUs. They took a look at five graphics cards, four GTs and one GTX, at various clock speeds. The 7900 series is a great performer and…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 24, 2006 · 0 comments

ATI has released the latest version of its Catalyst driver set numbered 6.5. Quite a few bug fixes made it into this set as well as adaptive anti-aliasing for the Radeon 9500 series on up. Some nice features in this…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 24, 2006 · 0 comments

HardOCP(Consumer) had some interaction with the fine folks who manage Dell’s XPS high-end gaming system division. They had come under a bit of fire concerning all of the “bloat” they loaded on their PCs but it now looks like they’ve…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 24, 2006 · 0 comments

Anandtech is all over this year’s Windows Hardware Engineering Conference keynote speech. Manufacturers getting their hardware going on Windows is the direct target for this even but there’s sure to be some interesting tidbits that leak out as this show…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 23, 2006 · 0 comments

DailyTech has the details on Microsoft’s beta software release. The company has copies of its Vista, Longhorn Server, and Office 2007 available with the latter open to just about everyone. Some highly anticipated software which will no doubt be torture…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 23, 2006 · 0 comments

Legion Hardware has a look at the Gigabyte GeForce 7600GS Silent-Pipe graphics card. The silent approach isn’t always the best of cooling methods in the mid-range but Nvidia’s 7600GS GPU runs sufficiently cool enough that a board like this starts…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 23, 2006 · 0 comments

AMD has officially launched its new AM2 socket and CPU lineup which features a few processor improvements and an integrated DDR2 memory controller. To go with the new CPUs ATI and Nvidia have some new chipsets of their own offering…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 22, 2006 · 0 comments

Techgage has a review of the Zalman 9500AT Intel S775 heatsink/fan combo. The giant mass of copper features a nifty loop of heatpipes giving it plenty of cooling area which leads to some great performance on the hot running Intel…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 22, 2006 · 0 comments

Legit Reviews has a look at the Super Talent T800UX2GC4 PC2-6400 2GB memory kit. The set is designed for some very high clock rates, if you’re adventurous enough, which leads to exciting performance possibilities. A nice kit for your Intel,…

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