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Marco Chiappetta

Managing Editor

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com

Recent posts

The State of DX10 - Image Quality & Performance

by Marco Chiappetta - Wed, Oct 03, 2007

When DirectX 10 was first introduced to the market by graphics manufacturers and subsequently supported by Windows Vista, it was generally understood that adoption by game developers was going to be more of a slow migration than a quick flip of a switch. That said, nearly a year... Read more...

OCZ Announces Turbo-Cool 1200

by Marco Chiappetta - Wed, Oct 03, 2007

OCZ Announces the Highly-Anticipated PC Power & Cooling Turbo-Cool 1200, the Industry’s Most Powerful NVIDIA SLI Certified Single-Rail PSU Sunnyvale, Calif.—October 3, 2007—OCZ Technology Group, a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance memory and PC components, today announced the release of the Turbo-Cool 1200 power supply... Read more...

NVIDIA to launch IGP chipsets for AMD Platform

by Marco Chiappetta - Wed, Oct 03, 2007

According to a report on the Digitimes website, NVIDIA is planning to launch a few new chipsets for the AMD platform complete with next-gen IGPs and PCI Express 2.0 support."The chipset will come out in two versions, the high-end MCP72XE and the mainstream MCP72P, both support HyperTransport... Read more...

Hardware Round-Up

by Marco Chiappetta - Wed, Oct 03, 2007

Video: XFX 8800 GTS 320mb Fatal1ty Edition @ Overclock3D Gigabyte GeForce 8600GT Video Card @ OCC Motherboards & Chipsets: Asus P5K Deluxe WiFi-AP Motherboard @ Viper Lair Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H @ Techgage Memory & Storage: OCZ DDR3 PC3-12800 2GB 1600MHz Memory Kit @ Legit Reviews Hard Drive Failure: Warnings and Solutions @ PCMech... Read more...

AMD Licenses 3D Core Technology to Qualcomm

by Marco Chiappetta - Tue, Oct 02, 2007

AMD Licenses 3D Graphics Core Technology to QUALCOMM, Delivering The Ultimate Visual Experience to Tomorrow's Phones Advanced QUALCOMM Wireless Chipsets to Include AMD Graphics Technology for Immersive Mobile Gaming SUNNYVALE, CALIF. -- AMD (NYSE: AMD - News) today announced an agreement to... Read more...

Hardware Round-Up

by Marco Chiappetta - Tue, Oct 02, 2007

Video: Viewsonic 42-inch N4261W 1080p LCD @ I4U Current-gen video games are most often NOT in HD @ HardCoreWare Motherboards & Chipsets: DFI LanParty UT P35 T2R Review @ Ninjalane Memory & Storage: OCZ DDR3 PC3-14400 Review @ Neoseeker Mushkin HP3 10666 DDR3 Memory Review @ OCC Patriot PC3-12800LLK Low Latency Memory Review @ ClubOC.net... Read more...

Budget Core 2 Platforms from ECS and Gigabyte

by Marco Chiappetta - Tue, Oct 02, 2007

Today at HotHardware, we have looked at two affordably priced Core 2 platforms based on the Intel P3x series chipset, to see if there were any major differences in terms of performance, features, and overclockability between the two. Representing the P35 Express, we have the ECS P35T-A... Read more...

Hardware Round-Up

by Marco Chiappetta - Mon, Oct 01, 2007

Video: The Graphics Shuffle @ PenStarSys XFX 8800 GTS 320mb Fatal1ty Edition @ Overclock3D Philips 200XW 20 inch WSXGA LCD Monitor @ OCC Insignia NS-LCD32 32 Inch 720p HDTV Monitor @ BMR ATI Radeon HD 2600XT vs Nvidia GeForce 8600 GTS @ TechSpot ViewSonic VX2255wmb 22-inch Widescreen LCD @ ThinkComputers MSI RX2600XT Diamond @ [H] Processors:... Read more...

Diamond Viper HD 2900 XT 1GB CrossFire

by Marco Chiappetta - Fri, Sep 28, 2007

For those of you that like to jump right down to the news, we wanted to pop in and let you all know that we've just posted a new article here at HotHardware. We recently got our hands on a pair of Diamond’s Viper HD 2900 XT 1GB cards and have compared their performance to the original 512MB Radeon HD 2900 XT, and to a trio of GeForce 8800... Read more...

Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900 XT 1GB

by Marco Chiappetta - Fri, Sep 28, 2007

Just prior to the Radeon HD 2000 series' introduction, numerous rumors circulated regarding an ultra-high clocked ATI R600-based video card, that featured a large 1GB frame buffer. Some went so far as to say the GPU would be clocked at or near 1GHz. Spy shots even cropped up on the web showing the card in all its glory. But sometime between... Read more...

Sharkoon CPU-Cooler with "Golf Ball" Fan

by Marco Chiappetta - Thu, Sep 27, 2007

CPU-Cooler with Golf Ball Fan Silent Eagle CPU Cooler: multi-socket heatpipe cooler with preinstalled Silent Eagle 2000 Fan / Frameless fan design Sharkoon introduces a new CPU-Cooler for AMD (939) and Intel (775) systems. The Sharkoon Silent Eagle CPU Cooler consists of a... Read more...

HIS Unleashes the ATI Radeon HD 2900 Pro 512MB

by Marco Chiappetta - Thu, Sep 27, 2007

HIS Unleashes the ATI Radeon HD 2900 Pro 512MB GDDR3 (LIMITED EDITION), Delivering the Ultimate Visual Experience — Graphics card unleashes the power of DirectX 10 for immersive high-definition gaming, and delivers exclusive HD multimedia features such as HDMI for... Read more...

Hardware Round-Up

by Marco Chiappetta - Thu, Sep 27, 2007

Video & Sound : Sapphire Radeon HD 2600 XT Ultimate Review @ AMDZone ASUS Xonar D2 sound card review @ Elite Bastards AMD's Integrated Gambit @ Penstarsys NVIDIA... Read more...

Dell Set To Launch SP2008WFP 20" LCD

by Marco Chiappetta - Thu, Sep 27, 2007

We have just received word that Dell plans to launch a brand new LCD today. We're told that at 12:00PM Central Time the new $289 Dell SP2008WFP display will be available on www.dell.com. Click for full view... The new SP2008WFP is Dell's first flat panel monitor with integrated webcam and... Read more...

Exclusive Crysis MP Screenshots

by Marco Chiappetta - Wed, Sep 26, 2007

We just got our hands on some tasty new screenshots from the Crysis multi-player beta that we thought you'd all like to see. According to a recent poll, Crysis what the game a majority of you were most interested in playing, and after seeing these screenshots, we're sure your interest isn't going to wane one bit...... Read more...

Hardware Round-Up

by Marco Chiappetta - Wed, Sep 26, 2007

Memory & Storage: Interview: John Beekley of Corsair Memory in 2007 @ Legit Reviews Corsair DOMINATOR TWIN3X2048-1800C7 DDR3 @ Bjorn3D Power:... Read more...

XFX GeForce 8600 GT Fatal1ty

by Marco Chiappetta - Wed, Sep 26, 2007

Just in case you missed to new link at the top of the page, we’re writing to let you all know that we have just posted a new article here at HotHardware in which we evaluate the features, bundle, overclockability, and performance of XFX’s GeForce 8600 GT Fatal1ty. The XFX GeForce 8600 GT Fatal1ty is one of the few GeForce 8600 GT cards on... Read more...

SLI Under The Microscope: Vista vs. XP

by Marco Chiappetta - Tue, Sep 25, 2007

We thought it might be interesting to see what the numbers looked like for the extreme performance junkies in our midst, running dual-graphics SLI setups with high-end DX10 capable GeForce 8800 graphics cards. Is SLI mode on Vista still two steps behind in performance in comparison to XP? In this article we offer a quick-take assessment... Read more...

AMD Announces ATI Radeon HD 2900 Pro

by Marco Chiappetta - Tue, Sep 25, 2007

AMD Announces ATI Radeon HD 2900 Pro AMD is excited to announce the newest member of its flagship ATI Radeon HD 2900 series, the ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO. The ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO features the powerful next-generation unified shader architecture with 320 unified stream processors, comprehensive DirectX 10 support and... Read more...

VIA and QSound Labs Team Up

by Marco Chiappetta - Mon, Sep 24, 2007

VIA and QSound Labs, Inc. Bring Superior Sound Systems to Windows Vista VIA Vinyl Audio and QSound’s QHD enhanced audio capabilities to reach growing Windows PC market Taipei, Taiwan, and Calgary, Canada, 24 September 2007 - VIA Technologies, Inc., a leading innovator of high performance audio silicon, and QSound Labs, Inc., a leading technology... Read more...

Hardware Round-Up

by Marco Chiappetta - Mon, Sep 24, 2007

Video: Matrox TripleHead2Go Digital Edition @ [H] GeForce 8000 series Shader Clock Overclocking @ Legion Hardware Vista 3D graphics performance: Part 4 - NVIDIA (DirectX 10) @ EB Motherboards & Chipsets: Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6 (Intel X38) @ HardwareZone Memory & Storage: Western Digital's RE2 750GB Hard Drive @ TR WD Passport - 60GB External... Read more...

IDF Day 2: Mobility, Silverthorne, Moorestown

by Marco Chiappetta - Fri, Sep 21, 2007

Day 2 at this year’s IDF began with a mobility keynote hosted by Intel’s David “Dadi” Perlmutter and Anand Chandrasekher. The keynote was broken up into two parts; the first focused on notebooks and Intel’s mobile platforms as a whole and the second focused on “ultra mobility” featuring a... Read more...

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