Dave Altavilla
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Today, we're bringing you a Dual-Core Pentium quick take, on short notice from the folks at Intel. With only a few hours of testing at our disposal, we're attempting to make time with some level of meaningful analysis for you and hit Intel's NDA embargo lift time this morning. Would we have liked to spend more quality lab time on such...
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Good Evening Folks... Just checking in here with a heads-up from our buds at NewEgg. They're currently running some great deals and free or .99¢ maximum shipping costs on everything on their site, from this past Thursday until Monday 4/4. So, here are some great ideas.... Personally, I like all the new stuff Rosewill is punching...
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Good evening all! We invite you to feast your eyes on a couple of beastly new graphics cards from HIS - The HIS X850 XT IceQ II Turbo and HIS X800 XL IceQ II Turbo. We cover these cards top to bottom, from the standard gaming benchmarks to a brand new Doom 3 engine based title and of course a bit of...
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In January we took a look at the HIS X700 Pro IceQ Turbo because it piqued our interest with its somewhat unique cooling solution. HIS took a page from the book of "OTES", which stands for Outside Thermal Exhaust System, a thermal management approach pioneered by Abit Computer, that has been out on the market in various...
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Good Morning Peeps, how goes the battle? Things are clicking along nicely here in the HH Labs this weekend. Yet another white-out with snow going on in the area, adding another 8-10" of the stuff before the day is through. It's all good though because there are many of us here on the HH Team in the Northeast and it only forces...
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Good afternoon all and Happy Sunday... Davo just dropin' in here to tell you about an massive upcoming LAN Event that HotHardware.com will be attending and sponsoring in the month of April. The Nor'Easter LAN is a 500 seat capacity LAN Event coming to Massachusetts on April 16th and 17th. BigWop and I will both be there. We'll...
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Get your HotHardware Threads here from our buds at Hacker Threads! These stylish Tees with the HOT logo bustin' through will be sure to score you the Chicks. And Ladies, we hope to be cooking up some nice Baby-Tees and HOT Mamma threads shortly for you as well! Of course these stylish Tees will look good on any human - male,...
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Good morning folks. We sleepily bring you our Pentium 4 6XX Sequence and 3.73GHz Extreme Edition Processor showcase today, as the NDA embargo lifts at 3AM EST / 12AM PST. With EM64T extensions for 64-bit computing, 2MB of L2 cache, Execute Disable Bit for virus - buffer overflow protection and...
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It's no secret that Intel has occassionally been playing a bit of catchup this year in the desktop and workstation processor arena. AMD's Athlon 64 releases have recently positioned the company in the lead from a general performance standpoint. Additionally, the Athlon 64 was the first processor to...
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Evenin' folks and happy Friday to you. I've taken down the memory poll here and replaced it with a new poll. It seems the folks at OCZ saw fit to stack the numbers a bit and send folks from their site to ours, just to vote in the poll. Now, we do agree OCZ does manufacture some quality product but we know for a fact that...
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Refinements and performance optimizations in PC motherboard designs often track chipset re-spins and tweaks, as a new base architecture matures. Intel is absolutely famous (or shall we say infamous) for releasing a new chipset only to set sail with a re-spin or further characterization of the product, just a few months later. ...
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Hello Everyone, We've posted our Consumer Electronics Show 2005 Photo Report here at HotHardware. Swing on by and take a look at all the new leading edge gear we saw, when you get a moment! ...
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This years 2005 CES show, was certainly a whirlwind adventure for us as we literally ran from meeting to meeting in the two short days we were able to attend the event. For us this year, the show was about meeting up with all the good people at all of the various OEMs we work with and hearing about their roadmap product efforts, as much...
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Hello all! We've taken a long hard look at Pentium M "Dothan" CPU core performance tonight on DFI's new 855GME-MGF motherboard. Based on Intel's Pentium M embedded chipset architecture that utilizes their mobile i855GME Northbridge and the i6300ESB Southbridge, this combination actually gives the fastest Pentium 4 Extreme...
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In this our first article of 2005, we're going to take a look back at recent history and examine a driving force in computing technology that was dominant throughout much of 2004. Intel launched its mobile Centrino technology in mid-2003. It took a while to ramp up but once this new platform initiative gathered steam,...
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Good afternoon all! JeffB took MSI's new i915 based motherboard for a spin today and gives us his impressions of the product after spending some quality time with it on the bench. Learn why this new PCI Express enabled P4 mobo steals the HH Editor's Choice Award versus other i915 boards in its class. HotHardware's...
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Hello All... Just stopping in here to formally introduce you to the newest member of the HotHardware.com team, Matt Beauvais (golf clap please!). Matt has been with us as a very active member of our forum community for years now and recently has been doing the news on a regular basis for us as well. We're breaking the man in slowly here
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Our buds over at the PC Chat radio show have one of their segments streaming now on their web site that has a telephone interview with yours truly in amongst their regular programming for the show. We talk or should I say "chat" about the history of HotHardware.com a bit and then they pepper me with questions about what I like...
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We've got NVIDIA's SLI for PCI Express Graphics on showcase today, along with Asus' ever fabulous A8N-SLI Deluxe nForce 4 motherboard for the Athlon 64. Dual GeForce 6800GTs and 6800 Ultras punching out the pixels in a big way. You've just gotta love it. ...
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There's a certain allure in being able to make the claim that you can double the performance of anything. All too often, overzealous marketing campaigns in the high-tech field have made a "theoretical" claim of this sort, all the while falling well short in real-world performance metrics. The PC graphics industry has had its...
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Good afternoon all! Jeff takes a look at two new i915 Motherboards for the Pentium 4 that do a nice job of straddling the line between legacy and leading edge Intel architectures. Want to use that DDR RAM you have, instead of buying new DDR2 sticks? No problemo amigo. Check them out here......
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From the entire HotHardware.com staff, we wish you a happy and healthy Thanksgiving!...
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