Dave Altavilla
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OK, so we're dropping this week's Old School update from Sully in here and then we're gonna duck.... If the title doesn't get ya, Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunctions and pre-dipped chips ought to! Sully sounds off again, with "The Old School Perspective": Xbox 360, I think NOT...
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I'm not one to toot my own horn typically (well OK, maybe just a little) but this article over at ZDNet speaks volumes about our little "community" here on the net. We've been growing in leaps and bounds at HotHardware.com and like the technology we cover, so has the online...
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On this day of Thanksgiving we'd like extend our sincere appreciation to you our readers and friends here at HotHardware.com. Living in place like the United States, with the many gifts and privileges we're afforded, there are just so many things we can all be thankful for. For example, the Disco Turkey... Happy Thanksgiving all! ...
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And I thought our little shop here at HotHardware had some hot-stuff hardware capacity coming on line with our new fancy-pants Dual 3GHz Xeon front end web box. Google on the other hand likes to throw a few thousand Opterons at a time at the situations and own the backbone connection as...
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Legion Hardware has a look at the A8N32 SLI Deluxe tonight as well. Our take can be found here, with recent updates.The A8N-SLI Deluxe is now worth just $170 US, so what has ASUS done to justify the A8N32-SLI Deluxe price premium? Well they have actually done quite a bit, as the board now includes an 8-phase power design and a seriously...
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When our Asus A8N32 SLI Deluxe article first launched on 10/18/05, we reported to you our findings based on the hardware and related driver versions we had in hand at the time. Unfortunately the Asus A8N SLI Deluxe motherboard we tested in comparison to the A8N32 SLI Deluxe, needed a new BIOS update to take advantage of NVIDIA's recently...
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So it's probably obvious by now that we've been re-investing a little bit in things around here lately. All for your benefit of course! :) Last week we launched the new site design and asp.net backend database which, all told, went relatively smoothly. Today we just got the high sign from our host, Data 393, that our new...
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Well now, there's a surprise eh? Welcome to HotHardware.com's 5th edition site. As you can see we've revamped the graphics a bit courtesy of our in-house stylizers Mario Mirabella and Marco Chiappetta (team Cinzano baby!). And of course there's our Ultra Code Ninja (UCN for short) Dominic Plouffe, our Canadian connection,...
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We've been playing with a couple of sticks of new DDR Memory from Corsair. Here's a quick look at their XMS series TWINX2048-3500LLPro module kit. Two 1G sticks matched together, CAS2,3,2,6 and 1T command rate capable rated up to 437MHz, just the thing for more Battlefield 2 performance. And here's what they were capable of in...
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We certainly do evaluate and showcase our fair share of ASUS products here at HotHardware, and it's no great mystery because Asus is also typically one of the first out of the block with a new chipset technology. The company's new A8N32 SLI Deluxe motherboard is no exception. ...
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The hardware scene certainly seems to be buzzing with all things 3D Graphics lately, as ATi has decided to make good and deliver both CrossFire and next generation X1K series video cards to the retail channel. New Egg specifically sent word today of immediate availability... CITY OF INDUSTRY, Calif. - Newegg.com is pleased to announce...
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Those of you who have been around the scene long enough, may remember back in the day of he good ol' Pentium III Coppermine, that the Thermaltake Golden Orb was an HSF force to be reckoned with. Well today, JeffB lays down the cold hard truth about the Thermaltake Golden Orb II. A second coming of divine coolness? Pehaps... read...
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NVIDIA's recent announcements of three new chipset product offerings weren't punctuated with a lot of hype or fan-fare but never the less, the new technology is compelling for market segments at completely opposite ends of the...
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We have the world's first full review and showcase of Asus' new "Extreme N7800GTX Top" Graphics card for you today. This card comes equipped with a great cooling solution that exhausts warm air from the card outside of the system chassis and allows for much lower temps under pressure at the card level and even for the entire...
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When NVIDIA launched the GeForce 7800GTX back in June, most of the retail cards we saw were cookie-cutter replicas of each other, at least physically. About the only things that differentiated one card from another were various clock speed tweaks depending on the manufacturer or the...
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Although we didn't get the opportunity to make it to this year's summer IDF, Intel has made a number of interesting and newsworthy annoucments about their processor roadmap that we're sure many of you may have already caught wind of. Of particular note of course is the fact that Intel is completely re-architecting their Desktop Dual...
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It's late on a Saturday night/early morning and things are quiet around the HH labs except for one dedicated (crazed perhaps?) Tech Editor. A shot of the mayhem is below... We got a hold of a couple of Asus' soon to be available GeForce 7800GTXs - entitled the "Extreme N7800GTX Top". These cards are clocked at 486MHz...
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NVIDIA most definitely has been on a roll as of late, with the introduction of a very successful 4th generation motherboard chipset with the nForce 4, and more recently with their GeForce 7 series launch and market introduction of the GeForce 7800GTX. In these launch articles we often times work with platform "reference" hardware...
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We probably haven't stressed this often enough, whether to you our faithful readers or to our OEM contacts in the PR and Product teams at various companies we work with here at HotHardware. But let it be known unequivocally now, we LOVE board revisions. Don't get us wrong...
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Good evening all. As a July 4th cool-down, I've decided to do a little blogging tonight. I wouldn't normally call your interest direct to the blog but since I've been remiss for so long in my blogging efforts and since this one is a bit special, please stumble over this way for what I think is some fairly interesting and enjoyable...
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This early Monday morning we step you through an overview of the killer single-core performance that the new AMD Athlon FX-57 is made of. AMD took the Athlon 64 FX architecture down a notch in process geometry, cranked up the clock speed another 200MHz, goosed the memory controller and dropped in SSE3 instructions. The results...
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Good Morning All, NVIDIA's next generation, 24 pixel pipeline, flagship Graphics Card has been on our test bench for the last couple of weeks. Come feast your eyes on the power and performance that is now known as the new NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX. ...
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