Editor profile

Dave Altavilla

Founder, Editor in Chief

With nearly two decades of experience as a semiconductor sales engineer, Dave Altavilla founded HotHardware.com over 25 years ago with perspective as an industry insider and a passion for the wonders of system-level development and performance that culminate into the next generation, cutting-edge devices of tomorrow. Cultivated with the sweat-equity of time spent in the engineering backrooms and offices of Chief Architects of Wall Street bellwethers like Motorola, Cisco and EMC, Dave's insight into the design and manufacturing of leading-edge technologies, brings a laser-sharp understanding of what it takes to deliver a best-of-class product to market. Dave handles final editorial responsibilities of HotHardware's content, along with the site's creative vision and business development efforts. In addition to feature product launch articles at HotHardware for major OEM releases, Dave is also a published author in various technology-based print publications and has been a featured guest on various webcasts and Tech radio shows. In his spare time Dave likes to spend time on the ocean and coaching youth Baseball. - Contact: davea(at)hothardware(dot)com and follow him on Twitter if you like. He also has an About.me page here.

Recent posts

by Dave Altavilla - Thu, Jul 15, 2004

ABIT AA8 DuraMAX and ASUS P5AD2 Premium- New Alderwoods From The Big Dogs

Intel's recent new platform launch of the i915 and i925X chipsets marked a major overhaul of the Pentium 4 system level architecture and brought with it a host of new features and technologies. At the processor and IO levels, the addition of DDR2 memory and the PCI Express interface significantly... Read more...

by Dave Altavilla - Thu, Jul 08, 2004

A new life enters the world and it is good. -

OK, so this one is a couple days late but that doesn't minimize its tremendous importance! Fellow HH'er Azwrath from our forum and his wife, are the proud parents of a brand new bouncing baby boy, Derek Joseph (DJ for short)! DJ and Dad are pictured here sporting their HH pride. DJ and Dad on DJ's Birthday! Good lookin' little... Read more...

by Dave Altavilla - Mon, Jun 28, 2004

NVIDIA's Multi-GPU Technology - SLI, it's baaack!

Let's take a walk down memory lane, shall we? Where were you in 1999? If you were into the technology scene, especially personal computing, most likely you were scampering about like Chicken Little, wondering what you would do when the sky fell at the end of the year, as the clocks ticked over to the year 2000. The Y2K support... Read more...

by Dave Altavilla - Sat, Jun 19, 2004

Intel i925X and i915 Chipsets - Alderwood, Grantsdale, PCI Express and DDR2 Take Flight

Good Morning All, Intel lets fly with their new i925X and i915 chipsets today, along with a couple of LGA775 based P4's to go with them. PCI Express, DDR2 and a host of other new goodies are on the bench at HotHardware.com. Have a look at all this new good stuff, right here!... Read more...

by Dave Altavilla - Sat, Jun 19, 2004

Intel i925X and i915G Architecture, Pentium 4 560 and 3.4GHz EE - The LGA775 Debut

Major product launches don't seem to be getting any easier these days, at least on our side of the fence here in the online media community. Competition is fiercer than ever in all of the major functional blocks for personal computing, whether it's Graphics, Platform Chipsets, Drive technology or... Read more...

by Dave Altavilla - Tue, Jun 08, 2004

Asetek Antarctica WaterChill Water Cooling Kit

Water cooling is becoming increasingly more popular amongst hardcore overclockers. Not only does water cooling provide the utmost in cooling potential, short of refrigeration, but it can also quiet things down significantly. With today's processors producing upwards of 100 Watts of heat energy, cooling them down has becomes... Read more...

by Dave Altavilla - Sat, Jun 05, 2004

Computex coverage, Monster Prescott Sinks and The P4-M 735

It's feeling like the calm before the storm here around the HH Northeast labs. There is an onslaught of new gear on its way to us and a few of very large OEMs preparing for some major launches in the next few weeks. If you take a look around at some of the Computex coverage on the web (I'll provide a link or two for you in the... Read more...

by Dave Altavilla - Tue, Jun 01, 2004

ATi PCI Express Sneak Peek

Recently ATi spent time with us going over their soon to be launched PCI Express based offering of 3D Graphics cards. Although we're unable to share performance metrics with you today, due to the current NDA embargo status of Intel's forthcoming i925X, i915G and i915P chipsets (and ATi's coordination of availability for that launch),... Read more...

by Dave Altavilla - Fri, May 07, 2004

Radeon X800 Series Article Update

Good morning all... I've gone in and made updates to two sections of our ATi Radeon X800 article, that I think you all will find somewhat interesting. First, we discovered that the particular NV Forceware driver revision we were using in our Wolfenstein Enemy Territory tests, had issues relative to its setting of NV's trilinear optimization... Read more...

by Dave Altavilla - Tue, May 04, 2004

ATi Radeon X800 XT and Radeon X800 Pro's Reviewed!

Hello All, I don't think we need much of a flowery introduction here! ATi's Radeon X800 XT and Radeon X800 Pro are live and on showcase at HotHardware:... Read more...

by Dave Altavilla - Tue, May 04, 2004

ATi Radeon X800 XT & X800 Pro - Heart Burn For The NV40

There is no question, the year ahead in 2004, is shaping up to be a banner one for leading edge PC technology. New features and performance abound, as new technologies such as PCI Express, DDR2 and GDDR3 find their way into the mainstream. While the past few iterations of platform products have been more or less, "kicker"... Read more...

by Dave Altavilla - Sun, Apr 25, 2004

GPU Guide, NVIDIA Inside and a cool breeze

Hello all... I'm sure a few of you have found a few miscellaneous issues with the site here and there. This is all part of the deal unfortunately. The move of our static html site to a database driven engine and importing all our content in the process, is an enormous undertaking, as I'm sure you can imagine. We currently... Read more...

by Dave Altavilla - Mon, Apr 19, 2004

TA DAH!!!!!!

Well then, how do you like them apples huh??? :) Welcome to our new home here at HotHardware.com. What you're looking at now is a fully dynamic version of our site built on a Cold Fusion database backend. We hope you like it. Please leave your feedback in the poll on the top right of the page, if you have a spare... Read more...