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by Rafael Hernandez on April 18, 2007 · 0 comments

AMD has released a new set of drivers for its Radeon line of graphics cards bringing them up to version 7.4. The drivers sport, supposedly, massive gains in OpenGL based titles under Microsoft’s Windows Vista for Radeon X1000 series cards…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 18, 2007 · 0 comments

Auzentech, maker of various audio related products, is getting audio chips from an unlikely source: Creative Labs according to DailyTech. Creative has has a dominance over the audio add-in card field but this news might find another player getting some…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 18, 2007 · 0 comments

AnandTech managed to get some bench time on an Intel “Penryn” core CPU. The chip sports a number of improvements over the Core 2 design it will replace in a years time and early results show it as quite a…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 17, 2007 · 0 comments

techPowerUp! has a look at the Sapphire X1950 Pro Dual graphics card. The company combined all of the bits and pieces found on a pair of X1950 Pro boards and crammed them all into one. It actually sports a reasonable…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 16, 2007 · 0 comments

TweakTown has a look at the XFX GeForce 7600GT Fatal1ty in an SLI configuration. The cards feature passive cooling for that extra quiet gaming experience, although you will wnt proper airflow to keep them from overheating in such a tight…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 16, 2007 · 0 comments

MadShrimps has a look at five different heatsinks in their latest roundup. The coolers take that grand heatpipe approach with the Coolermaster design going all out with spots for two 120mm fans. Good performance from all of them, you’ll just…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 16, 2007 · 0 comments

BIOS has a look at the Alienware MJ-12 8550i desktop workstation. It’s not the usual gaming machine you’d expect from the company and it’s aimed squarely at the kinds of companies that design things, namely in 3D. A great, although…

Read more Alienware MJ-12 8550i Reviewed

by Rafael Hernandez on April 13, 2007 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has a look at the Shuttle XPC SD39P2 SFF barebones. Shuttle has been somewhat quiet (as has the whole PC market) on the DIY small form factor front allowing the likes of Apple and Shuttle to peddle…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 13, 2007 · 0 comments

DailyTech has some spicey details on ATI/AMD’s upcoming R600 graphics chip. Boards based on it are to be named the ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT and sport a supposed 320 stream processors and 512-bit memory interface along side onboard physics…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 12, 2007 · 0 comments

DailyTech writes of Microsoft’s planned phase-out of the XP operating system at the end of this year. The company’s contract to supply the OS to OEM bulders runs until then so you can expect 2008 to be a fully Vista…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 12, 2007 · 0 comments

HARDSPELL has an AMD R600 based graphics card on their hands and they were very eager to show it off. Plenty of images including the massive OEM cooler and the bare graphics card itself. There are no performance numbers yet…

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