by Rafael Hernandez on July 31, 2007
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The Tech Report has a look at the Diamond Radeon HD 2900 XT 1GB graphics card. This card ditches the 512MB total and GDDR3 memory chips and goes full bore at 1GB of GDDR4 RAM which offers better performance at…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 31, 2007
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Virtual Hideout has a look at the Silverstone SG03 mATX case. The enclosure is designed to be extremely compact settling for the PSU above the CPU trick of old and a new trick in the harddrive mounted on the bottom…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 31, 2007
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DailyTech has details on the new Eurocom D900C PHANTOM-X desktop replacement (notebook). While it conforms to most notebook rules (technically portable) it is a beast sporting an Intel Quad Core 2 processor, your choice of Nvidia GeForce graphics chips running…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 26, 2007
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HardOCP has quite a bit of information for everyone coming straight out of AMD’s Analyst Day. To start it off they have information on AMD’s direction in both CPU and GPU technology which includes their Fusion efforts. To cap things…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 26, 2007
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TheTechLounge has a look at the Alienware Aurora m9700 notebook. The performance-seeker oriented notebook comes equipped with a 2.4GHz AMD dual-core mobile Turion, two Nvidia GeForce Go 7900GS graphics cards in SLI, and two 7200RPM notebook drives in a RAID-0…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 26, 2007
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DailyTech has the story on AMDs demonstration of a Quad-core CPU running at 3GHz. Its Phenom chip has had a number of setbacks in the clock-rate race but this demo (which happens to run with three HD2900XT cards) may show…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 25, 2007
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XtremeComputing has a look at the Antec Fusion MATX PC case. The case is designed to gracefully sit on your AV rack disguised as any other piece of equipment. A nice enough case but it’s a bit lite in the…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 25, 2007
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DigiTimes writes of VIA’s next set of CPUs set to debut in 2008. The “Isaiah” core will be 64bit capable, manufactured with a 65nm process, supports a 1333MHz front side bus and touts a larger 1MB cache. It might not…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 25, 2007
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AnandTech takes a look at how the hardware accelerated physics market is doing. Of course last year saw Ageia’s PhysX chipset jump onto the scene with promises of insane amounts of debris in action games without the high CPU overhead….
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 24, 2007
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the Inquirer writes of Seagate’s plans to phase out the IDE interface on its top of the line drives over the next few months leaving SATA and SAS as the favored interfaces. They’re sure to keep support going for IDE…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 24, 2007
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AnandTech has a look at the Gigabyte Odin GT 800 Watt Power Supply Unit. The device seems to be your run-of-the-mill PSU but it features an innovative option to control the unit through software, measuring its power usage and allowing…
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