September 2006

by Rafael Hernandez on September 29, 2006 · 0 comments

Boot Daily has a roundup of eight AMD AM2 based motherboards. It’s a fair mix of ATI CrossFire chipsets and Nvidia nForce being represented here with all manner of on-board features. A bit light on the enthusiast details but a…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 29, 2006 · 0 comments

ATI has officially launched its Stream Computing technology. The platform relies on their current powerful GPUs to do computations normally done on CPUs and some specially designed add-on cards. A great product for some industries and, with newer GPUs just…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 29, 2006 · 0 comments

AnandTech has compiled a list of motherboards, with information directly from the manufacturers, on which of their boards should support Intel’s “Kentsfield” Core 2 Quadro CPU. It’s quite the potent chip for workstation applications and it seems it’ll have great…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 28, 2006 · 0 comments

AnandTech has the details behind HP’s purchase of high-end PC outfit Voodoo PC. HP appears to be making a similar push into the niche market similar to the one Dell made with its purchase of Alienware. How Voodoo’s funky style…

Read more HP Snaps Up Voodoo Computers

by Rafael Hernandez on September 28, 2006 · 0 comments

HardOCP has some info on Ageia’s recent moves in the benchmarking world. The company has signed up with Futuremark, the 3DMark benchmark creators, to provide technical expertise while Ageia themselves are going to be working on a physics benchmark….

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 28, 2006 · 0 comments

The Tech Report just so happens to have an early sample of Intel’s upcoming “Kentsfield” CPU. The chip features 4 cores, basically two Core 2 Duo chips on one package, and, as you might expect, absolutely rips through multi-threaded applications….

Read more Intel Kentsfield Performance Preview

by Rafael Hernandez on September 28, 2006 · 0 comments

Reuters has the details on Microsoft’s pricing for its Zune portable media player and the music in its upcoming store. The player will come in at $249.99 in the US with 99 cent songs, similar to its main competitor in…

Read more MS Zune/music Pricing Announced

by Rafael Hernandez on September 27, 2006 · 0 comments

The Tech Lounge has a look at a trio of 500GB hard drives, one each from Western Digital, Seagate, and Hitachi. The testing goes back and forth between the Hitachi and WD drives performance wise while the Seagate appears to…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 27, 2006 · 0 comments

GamePC does their usual thorough testing job on the Nvidia GeForce 7950GT and the ATI Radeon X1950 XTX graphics cards. The 7950 represents another solid mid-range choice while the X1950 is ATI’s current top board. The two companies now have…

Read more GeForce 7950GT / Radeon X1950XTX Reviewed

by Rafael Hernandez on September 27, 2006 · 0 comments

AnandTech continued their visit to the Intel Developers Forum with a part 2 of day 1 and continued into day 2. Alan Wake demonstration shows how quad cores could help gaming, while SSE4 shows promise in the future high-def world….

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 26, 2006 · 0 comments

Another IDF, another glut of exciting technological previews. This round AnandTech has information and some images of an overclocked Kentsfield running Alan Wake, 80 core 1teraflop CPUs, and the future of UMPCs. A good bit of gear to take in…

Read more Intel Developers Forum Fall 2006: Day 1