Editor profile

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

Super Talent Releases DDR3-1600 CL7 RAM

by Marco Chiappetta - Tue, Jul 03, 2007

Super Talent Ups the Ante with DDR3-1600 CL7 And Ships World's First 2GB 1333MHz DDR3 Module San Jose, California - July 3, 2007 -- Super Talent Technology, a leading manufacturer of DRAM memory modules and flash storage solutions, today launched three significant new DDR3 kits.... Read more...

More AMD Barcelona Benchmarks Surface

by Marco Chiappetta - Tue, Jul 03, 2007

The gang at The Inquirer has aquired some new information regarding AMD's upcoming native, Quad-Core processor, dubbed Barcelona. They've got a number of synthetic benchmark results that paint a very good picture of Barcelona's performance, should they turn out to be correct... "These performance numbers were based on systems using... Read more...

Hardware Round-Up

by Marco Chiappetta - Tue, Jul 03, 2007

Processors: Intel Desktop Processor Series Performance @ Legion Hardware Motherboards & Chipsets: Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R @ TechGage Memory & Storage:... Read more...

Shuttle SDXi Barebones XPC

by Marco Chiappetta - Mon, Jul 02, 2007

Hello everyone. We're writing to let you all know that we’ve just posted a new article at in which we evaluate the features and performance of Shuttle’s flagship SDXi barebones small form factor XPC. The SDXi features a number of unique features like dual PEG slots, a built-in water-cooler for Radeon GPU-based graphics cards, and a slick,... Read more...

AMD Phenom Delayed Until Q1 2008?

by Marco Chiappetta - Mon, Jul 02, 2007

Although AMD sent out a press release last week stating that native quad-core chips based on their 'Barcelona' core would ship in August, some rumors are spreading today that claim AMD's Phenom processors for desktop machines won't ship until early 2008... "AMD intends to modify its process technology to increase the yield rate and... Read more...

Hardware Round-Up

by Marco Chiappetta - Mon, Jul 02, 2007

Video: Sapphire ATI Radeon X1950 PRO AGP @ Tweaknews XFX Fatal1ty 8600 GT Professional Series @ Overclock3D Motherboards & Chipsets: Sapphire Pure 690G @ ChileHardware... Read more...

New HotHardware Forum On-Line!

by Marco Chiappetta - Fri, Jun 29, 2007

Hey HotHardware Fans! As you've probably noticed, we've had a lot going on here in the last few weeks. We recently revamped the home page to speed things up and to incorporate new features that allow you add your own comments to our news, that ease social bookmarking of our news and articles, and to generally make it easier to navigate through... Read more...

Hardware Round-Up

by Marco Chiappetta - Fri, Jun 29, 2007

Video: MSI NX8600GTS-T2D256E-HD-OC @ XBIT Processors: Weighing the value of today's processors @ TR Intel "Mysterious" Celeron processor revealed @ InsideHW.com... Read more...

AMD To Ship Barcelona In August

by Marco Chiappetta - Fri, Jun 29, 2007

AMD to Ship Industry's First Native x86 Quad-Core Processors In August AMD's Stable Infrastructure Strategy Enables Availability of Systems from Platform Partners in September SUNNYVALE, Calif. - June 29, 2007 - Continuing to lead the shift of mainstream... Read more...

Hardware Round-Up

by Marco Chiappetta - Thu, Jun 28, 2007

Video: ATI Radeon HD 2600 / 2400 Articles @ TechPowerUp, Phoronix, Technic3D Dell UltraSharp 2707WFP LCD Monitor @ HardwareZone Processors: Intel E6300 Budget Overclocking Review... Read more...

AMD Unleashes The ATI Radeon HD 2600 / 2400

by Marco Chiappetta - Thu, Jun 28, 2007

AMD Unleashes The ATI Radeon HD 2600 and ATI Radeon HD 2400 Series, Delivering DirectX 10 Graphics with Built-In High-Definition Video Processing SUNNYVALE, Calif. — June 28, 2007 — AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the arrival of the ATI Radeon HD 2600 and... Read more...

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT, 2600 Pro, and 2400 XT

by Marco Chiappetta - Thu, Jun 28, 2007

At the time of the HD 2900 XT's debut, AMD disclosed a multitude of details regarding mobile and mainstream GPUs derived from the R600 architecture. In our coverage of the Radeon HD 2000 series as it became known, we talked about not only the Radeon HD 2900 XT, but five other members of the... Read more...