General News

by Rafael Hernandez on October 13, 2006 · 0 comments

Boot Daily had a nice chat with Chris Donahue concerning Microsoft’s DirectX 10 APIs. The graphics portion has received quite a bit of work and includes all sorts of fancy technologies that allow for more realistic graphics, but it’s limited…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 12, 2006 · 0 comments

arstechnica has the details on AMD’s quad-core K8L CPU. The chip is expected some time next year and is expected to improve on performance over their current core designs while adding another pair of computing units. All sorts of exciting…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 12, 2006 · 0 comments

HardOCP does their usual PC (and technician) torture testing in their look at the VooDoo PC Hexx system. The case is a custom setup with underwhelming hardware under the hood for its price range. A strange series of events, here’s…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 12, 2006 · 0 comments

Legit Reviews has a look at the Nvidia GeForce Go 7950 GTX GPU. The module should be finding its way into high-end notebooks from your favorite vendor and their early tests show that it can really perform. A nice option…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 11, 2006 · 0 comments

Guru3D has a look at a 520Watt and 720Watt power supplies from Zippy/Emac. They’re unknown to the masses but the company has been making server level power supplies for quite a while now so they’re commited to providing a rock…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 11, 2006 · 0 comments

HKEPC has the details on AMD’s plans for making that system upgrade a little less annoying. They plan to include a unified register code which will allow your brand new 65nm chip to boot up even if the motherboard doesn’t…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 11, 2006 · 0 comments

PC Perspective has a look at the Asus M2N32-SLI motherboard. It’s based around the Nvidia nForce 590 SLI chipset for AMD AM2 CPUs. SLI is available and it includes some other nifty features such as silent chipset cooling and plenty…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 10, 2006 · 0 comments

HotHardware has a review of the Bigfoot Networks Killer Network Interface Card. The NIC has had its fair share of critics over nebulous performance benefits but now that it’s here it does seem to improve on performance although, for the…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 10, 2006 · 0 comments

HardOCP has a review of the ASUS EAX1600 XT Silent graphics card. As you might expect it uses a silent cooler which means plenty of heatpipes and fins. A decent gaming solution and a good choice for quiet home theater…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 10, 2006 · 0 comments

MadShrimps has a look at the Silverstone NT06 CPU cooler. The company is best known for its PC cases and powersupplies but with their latest heatsink they snag a bit of the cooling market as well. A good performer with…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 9, 2006 · 0 comments

Guru3D has a review of the Galaxy Technology GeForce 7900GT Dual Core Masterpiece graphics card. The board features two 7900GT GPUs each commanding 512MB of video memory. A massive board which, sometimes, manages better performance than a SLI 7900GTX setup….

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