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by Rafael Hernandez on February 12, 2007 · 0 comments

AMD has been getting on the power saving bandwagon with some of the chip features on its upcoming “Barcelona” core and their upcoming K10 design. The Inquirer has some of the details behind the magic that will get these new…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 12, 2007 · 0 comments

Overclockers.com has a few new pictures of a supposed AMD “R600” based graphics card. The card does look mighty large, what with its 24W cooling impeller and all, but it should be smaller for the retail segment. All we need…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 9, 2007 · 0 comments

HotHardware has a look at iSilence and IceQ Turbo versions of the HIS X1650XT. The IceQ features a large quiet cooler designed to pump the cards heat out of your case while the iSilence goes completely passive. A nice pair…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 9, 2007 · 0 comments

Tweaknews has a look at the Noctua NC-U6 chipset cooler. The device is a completely passive design which is a nice thing to see in a world of small high-pitched fans mounted on chipsets. A potent device with proper system…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 8, 2007 · 0 comments

DailyTech has some info on Nvidia’s upcoming MCP72 chipset. It’s designed for AMD’s future Opteron/Athlon 64 AM2/AM2+ processors which means PCIe 2.0 and HyperTransport 3.0 support are in the cards. It’s shaping up to be a powerful chipset and it…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 8, 2007 · 0 comments

GamePC has a bit of a look at the various flavors of Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system and runs some performance tests. ReadyBoost, XP versus Vista, 64bit versus 32bit, it’s all in here with a fair amount of testing under…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 7, 2007 · 0 comments

HardOCP has a look at the DFI ICFX3200-T2R/G motherboard. The Intel LGA775 board features the AMD/ATI R600 chipset and is likely to be the only board the hold that distinction given chipmaker rivalries. It’s a solid board with the usual…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 7, 2007 · 0 comments

TweakTown has a look at the PCI-E X1 Galaxy GeForce 7300GT graphics card. The board has the same features as those found on X16 based cards except for the system bandwidth. It’s not pretty, performance wise, but if you’re looking…

Read more Galaxy GeForce 7300GT PCI-E X1 Reviewed

by Rafael Hernandez on February 6, 2007 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a look at the Monsoon II Lite heatsink. The cooling unit has a thermal electric cooling device attached to its base which gives it quite a bit of cooling potential in exchange for some serious power draw. A…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 6, 2007 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has a look at the Dell XPS M1210 notebook PC. The machine comes in with a 12.1″ widescreen display and your choice of Intel Core 2 Duo CPU and optional Nvidia GeForce Go 7400 GPU. It’s quite…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 5, 2007 · 0 comments

HKEPC writes of Intel’s plan to integrate all of the features of a CPU, northbridge, and southbridge into one chip. The core dubbed “Tolapai” will no-doubt be targeted to the integrated appliances market and could cause a bit of worry…

Read more Intel Preps All-In-One Chip