Dave Altavilla
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Check it out folks, dual GeForce 6800 GTs just ready for the bench. We're waiting for our friends at Asus to deliver the motherboard goodness to go along with these but it's safe to say we'll be burning the midnight oil on this one shortly. This SLI (Scalable Link Interface) connector interestingly enough, is a flexible ribbon cable...
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Shuttle went through a complete metamorphosis as a company a few years back, and they haven't looked back ever since. Their wildly successful line of "XPC" small form factor (SFF) PCs has taken off like no other physical incarnation of the PC has in a very long time. Not even Mr. Jobs could have predicted the kind of...
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Well now, I'm glad at least some of you have taken a 5 minute Half Life 2 breather here and can focus your eyes on something other than a gun sight and mutant alien baddy. ;-) Sad truth be told, I haven't even played the game yet. There's just been too much work to do around here lately. Ahh but that's the life...
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The folks out in Sunnyvale have been releasing new additions to their Athlon 64 processor lineup with the kind of fevered pace we've come to expect from major-league semiconductor manufacturers. So too has the ever-dominant Intel. With 78,000 employees worldwide and almost 10 times the revenue of its nearest competitor at...
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Good Morning and Congratulations to the Boston Red Sox, the best team in professional baseball! The World Champion Boston Red Sox defeted the St. Louis Cardinals last night in a final 4 game sweep of the World Series of Baseball! The Curse of The Bambino has been lifted! Since 1918, generations of Boston Red Sox Fans have been waiting - Curt,...
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We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to congratulate our boys from Fenway Park, the Boston Red Sox! Last night they upset the New York Yankees in an amazing 10 - 3 victory in the Bronx. It was history in the making for sure, as the Red Sox showed the world what champions are made of. Never-say-die, always believe,...
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ATi' s TV Wonder USB 2.0 is on the HotHardware.com Test Bench today. Tom takes us through the ins and outs of this new little PVR nugget from the folks up in the Great White North. TV Tuning and TiVO-like capabilities driven with ATi's Mutlimedia Center software, all over a USB 2.0 connection, just what the doctor ordered for those...
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Good morning all. Asus starts our day off right, here at HotHardware.com, with a new high end GeForce 6800 Ultra card that really calls attention to itself. Asus' V9999 Ultra Deluxe is a GeForce 6800 Ultra with style, flare, a great bundle and the icing on the cake, a stock out-of-the-box overclock in its GPU. Come get some - right...
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It seems that high-end graphics cards are always in the lime light upon the initial launch of a new graphics processor architecture from any of the major players. Although there's a limited number of potential consumers, relatively speaking, for these flagship enthusiat-class boards, they pave the way for their more modestly priced siblings,...
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Good morning all. Here's a quick cold shot of hardware news to get you going today. There's a lot going on behind the scenes here at HotHardware, so make sure you stick around over the next week as well. We'll have new graphics cards, motherboards and even a new Shuttle XPC coming at you this week. The holidays are...
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Good morning all! VIA is officially unveiling their latest chipset for the Athlon 64 / Opteron today, the K8T890. The K8T890 sports all of the features of the popular K8T800 Pro, with the added benefits of PCI Express. The "Pro" flavor of the K8T890 even offers dual PEG slots, for full support of dual PCI Express graphics...
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Brutally honest. That phrase is a bit of an oxymoron, is it not? Seriously, what's so brutal about truth and honesty, anyway? Perhaps this term stems from another old saying: the truth hurts. Certainly that is the case with respect to NVIDIA's recent launch of its initially PCI Express-based GeForce 6600GT series product, versus...
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Turn any PC into a High End TV and Personal Video Recorder With ATI's Revolutionary Video Processor September 14, 2004 - Multimedia personal computers take a giant leap forward today, finally reaching the video quality levels associated with high-end $2000 consumer televisions. ATI Technologies Inc. (TSX:ATY, NASDAQ:ATYT) is proud to...
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Happy Sunday all! It's turning out to be another gorgeous day here in the North East. Makes a guy almost want to get out in it and get a life... What is that round bright yellow thing in the sky anyway? OK, so once you're done with this morning's shot of HH News goodness, you need to go do just that, cool? On...
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Good Evening All, DJ Jazzy Jay Gibson, spins all the hot stacks of wax and all the platters that matter, through the new Philips PSC724 Ultimage Edge PCI Sound Card tonight. This is a 24bit/192kHz capable sound card that steps up and takes on the likes of a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS and for a bit less out of pocket expense. Go...
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As the old saying goes, "hindsight is 20/20". That is to say, if you were in the market for a new high end graphics card, back in early August, as a direct result of the launch of Id Software's much buzzed about title Doom 3, you may have opted to go the way of an NVIDIA product. For sure...
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Heya Folks, how goes it? We're plenty busy around the HH Labs this week and we have a ton in store for you in new hardware showcases. Looking into the queue here I see we've got a i915 Motherboard Round-up in store, something new in the way of software from ATi, Low Latency Turbo DDR400 RAM, a Socket 939 Mobo Round-up and even...
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Wow... With over 1900 entries into our 1G Corsair Pro Series RAM Give-Away contest, I'd say it was a huge success! Go figure, you folks like free RAM? Who'd a thunk it? The only thing better than top quality, high end DDR RAM is, free top quality, high end DDR RAM I guess! ;-) And our 4 winners are... (drum...
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HotHardware's Jeff Bouton steps up to the plate tonight with a showcase of the HIS X800 Pro VIVO Edition with IceQ II cooling. A cooler and quieter ATi X800 Pro based card? Come find out!...
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Well it's about time I showed my face again around here, eh? ;-) Between all the backend work here with the new forums , our new site design and new product launches, I've become a real stranger here, a real behind the scenes guy. Yay... NOT. I'd rather be in the mix for sure. Never the...
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Shuttle steps into the flat panel LCD arena tonight at HotHardware.com and we've got their 17" XP17 display on showcase. With its all glass black bezel, base free chassis and zip up and go carrying case, this LCD seems to be a perfect accompaniment to a Shuttle XPC. Take a look here and see for yourself! ...
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When Shuttle augmented their marketing strategy for their Small Form Factor PC line-up not long ago, they moved from a barebones only model to a full system approach, which also required them to compete in a different arena. Full system sales require not only the components of the main PC chassis and assembly, but also the related peripherals...
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