June 2006

by Rafael Hernandez on June 28, 2006 · 0 comments

Sudhian has a review of the Corsair Nautlius 500 external watercooling kit. The rig comes with everything you need to cool off your CPU and it does a good job of it all for a low price. A nice entry…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 28, 2006 · 0 comments

HardwareZone has a look at the Toshiba Portege M500 notebook PC. The laptop is all business with its Intel Core Solo CPU and integrated graphics but its small footprint and light weight make it a great choice if you find…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 28, 2006 · 0 comments

PC Modding Malaysia has a look at the Thermalright HR-05 northbridge chipset heatsink. The northbridge has been getting quite a bit more power hungry as time has gone on and a cooler like this makes sense for many performance enthusiasts,…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 27, 2006 · 0 comments

HotHardware has the Asus EN7950GX2 graphics card on their testbench today. The “card” is really a pair of lower clocked 7900GTx’s mashed together with a bridge chip enabling single slot SLI. It’s all so very much confusing but the performance…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 27, 2006 · 0 comments

Continuing with the deluge of board reviews comes HardOCP with their look at the ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe. The AMD AM2 based motherboard crams on quite a few interesting features. Usually so many “nifty” additions end up causing system issues but…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 27, 2006 · 0 comments

AnandTech has an early look at the Nvidia nForce 590 SLI Intel Edition chipset. Intel’s 975X is the current big-name for Intel’s high-end dual core CPUs and future Conroe core chips but it has so far been limited to ATI…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 27, 2006 · 0 comments

PCSTATS has a review of the Epox 9U1697 GLI ULi M1697 AMD Socket 939 motherboard. The board’s ULi chipset isn’t as well known as the Nvidia and ATIs of the world (although Nvidia has recently purchased the company) it’s a…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 26, 2006 · 0 comments

CPU3D has a review of the abit AW8D motherboard. The company was thought to be in dire straits last year but with an opportune buy-out they’re ready to tackle the enthusiast market again. The Intel 975X powered board looks like…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 26, 2006 · 0 comments

OC3D has gathered up four water cooling kits from various manufacturers and giving them a thorough testing. The all-in-one kits on the market all use varying levels of quality parts which can be “dangerous” when dealing with fluids and the…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 26, 2006 · 0 comments

HotHardware has a look at the Sony VAIO VGN-SZ150. As with Sony’s other notebooks this one is quite stylish but it also packs in a fair amount of power with an Intel Core Duo processor and Nvidia GeForce Go 7400…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 22, 2006 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a look at the Foxconn C51-XEM2AA and Gigabyte GA-M59SLI-S5 AMD AM2 based motherboards. They both feature Nvidia’s nForce 590 SLI chipset and various levels of enthusiast features. An odd pair but they both perform well and sport features…

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