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by Rafael Hernandez on June 20, 2007 · 0 comments

Hardware Secrets has a review of the MSI P35 Platinum motherboard. The Intel P35 chipset builds on the great work they did with the P965 and looks towards the future with suport for the upcoming Intel core refresh. A good…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 20, 2007 · 0 comments

Driver Heaven has a look at a pair of AMD 690G chipset based motherboards. Their latest offering pulls together a nice feature set with a decent integrated graphics core. Good performance from both boards, atlhough their high def playback leaves…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 17, 2007 · 0 comments

Boot Daily has a look at the Gigabyte GA-P35-QD6 motherboard. The board features Intel’s latest P35 chipset which carries on the fine performance tradition of its P965 predecessor while adding support for Intel’s next batch of CPUs. A fine choice…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 22, 2007 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has a look at Intel’s new P35 Express motherboard chipset. It’s one of the more forward looking chipsets they’ve released with 1.333GHz front side bus and 45nm CPU support to go along with DDR2 or DDR3 memory…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 22, 2007 · 0 comments

AnandTech has some thoughts on the LCDs included with your laptop purchase. As notebooks become the largest sellers there will be some cutting of corners to reduce costs, which LCDs would be a large target for. Interesting results but these…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 7, 2007 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has a look at the Gigabyte N680SLI-DQ6 motherboard. It’s based on the Nvidia 680 SLI chipset and boasts a massive silent chipset cooler and plenty of other enthusiast features. If you’re going the SLI route and are…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 7, 2007 · 0 comments

EPIACenter has a look at the Commell LV-669 motherboard/CPU kit. The setup is on a Mini-ITX motherboard and sports a VIA CPU. You won’t be getting much performance wise out of this kit but it’s perfect for those cramped areas…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 7, 2007 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a look at the Super Talent 16GB solid state drive. The device uses no moving parts, like hard drives tend to do, which makes them more rugged and all sorts of cool. An interesting drive but its price/performance…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 2, 2007 · 0 comments

bit-tech has some insight into the rapid increase in computing performance. They have a look at Intel’s 80core general purpose CPU which is crunching out some impressive performance figures and also have some insight on your local graphics chip crunching…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 2, 2007 · 0 comments

Ninjalane has a look at the DFI LAN Party UT NF680I LT SLI-T2R motherboard. The company takes a crack at the very powerful Nvidia 680i chipset and with their usual megaload of BIOS options it’s sure to be one of…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 27, 2007 · 0 comments

techPowerUp! has a look at the Zotac GeForce 8500 GT graphics card. It sports Nividia’s latest low-end chip bringing DirectX 10 support and some welcome high-def video features. A nice enough card but don’t expect it to be much faster…

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