by Rafael Hernandez on October 29, 2006
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BigBruin has a look at the Ultra Products XVS Modular 600Watt Power Supply. The unit does its duty with a single large fan which gives it that silent feature which is all the rage nowadays. A solid PSU but multi-GPU…
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by Rafael Hernandez on October 29, 2006
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techPowerUp has a review of the Sapphire Radeon X1300 XT OC graphics card. Normally the X1300 is nothing to get excited over but Sapphire has souped up this version with high clock rates which gives it extremely good performance at…
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by Rafael Hernandez on October 29, 2006
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Bjorn3D has a look at the PowerColor X1950 PRO graphics card. The board sports one of the newer mid-range GPUs out there (R580+) which features an internal CrossFire bridge that makes their multi-GPU solution a little simpler. A great card…
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by Rafael Hernandez on October 27, 2006
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3DAvenue has a short write-up on ATI’s Radeon X1950XTX graphics card comparing it to the older X1900XTX. They both use the same graphics chip although the 1950 benefits from faster GDDR4 memory and a much improved cooler. A great choice…
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by Rafael Hernandez on October 26, 2006
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Hot Hardware has a look at Intel P965 chipset based boards from Abit and Gigabyte. The boards feature Core 2 Duo support and their choice of expansion ports but, from an enthusiasts point of view, the Gigabyte just about steals…
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by Rafael Hernandez on October 26, 2006
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bit-tech tossed a few what-ifs at Microsoft over its activation program for its upcoming Windows Vista operating system. Enthusiats have been a bit worried on whether or not their constant need to upgrade may invalidate their OS purchase. The terms…
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by Rafael Hernandez on October 26, 2006
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PCSTATS has a look at the MSI NX7950GX2-T2D1GE graphics card and compares it to the reference Nvidia 7950GX2. The board is a monster with two cards doing their SLI duty in a single slot which allows for a pair of…
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by Rafael Hernandez on October 25, 2006
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Hexus.net has a short write-up on AMD/ATI’s move toward a combo CPU/GPU processing chip. It’s an expected move but nobody, outside of the two companies, knows what it will lead to yet though with the boundless imaginations everyone has both…
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by Rafael Hernandez on October 25, 2006
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GamePC has a look at the Intel Core 2 Duo desktop chip (Conroe) and the mobile version (Merom). It’s an interesting test as the system using the mobile version, with the appropriate motherboard, uses up much less power than the…
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by Rafael Hernandez on October 25, 2006
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techPowerUp has a look at the ATI Radeon X1900 XT 256MB graphics card. The card sports 256MB less video memory than the three boards above it in ATI’s line up which can hurt it in high resolution/high image quality situations…
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by Rafael Hernandez on October 24, 2006
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neoseeker has a look at the Sapphire Pure CrossFire 3200 motherboard. Sapphire is best known for their ATI based graphics cards so a motherboard using ATI’s latest AMD AM2 capable chipset the RD580. It’s an impressive enough performer with a…
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