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

Intel Wolfdale and Yorkfield Performance (Penryn)

by Marco Chiappetta - Wed, Apr 18, 2007

A little over a year ago at the Intel Developers forum in San Francisco, Intel allowed a small group of members of the technology press to run benchmarks on a pre-configured Conroe-based system, well before processors based on the Conroe core had begun to ship. This was a new strategy for... Read more...

Intel Provides Details On New Products,

by Marco Chiappetta - Tue, Apr 17, 2007

Intel Provides Details On New Products, Initiatives For Higher-Performing, More Efficient Computers Innovation, Processing Performance and Cooperation Key to Moving Forward Faster INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, Beijing, April 17, 2007 -- Intel Corporation executives today detailed more than 20 new... Read more...

Daily Hardware Round-Up

by Marco Chiappetta - Tue, Apr 17, 2007

Most of the news coming in today centers around NVIDIA's new GeForce 8600 GTS and GT, but some of our compatriots have been busy evaluating other hardware. Here's a sampling of what's been going on today around the web: Graphics: XFX GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB XXX Edition @ Benchmark... Read more...

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS and 8600 GT

by Marco Chiappetta - Tue, Apr 17, 2007

Hello Everyone. Today is the day NVIDIA chose to officially announce their new DX10-class GeForce 8600 GTS, 8600 GT, and the rest of the mainstream GeForce 8 family of products. We pulled together a few GeForce 8600 GTS and GT cards, tested them with some popular games and benchmark tools, and have posted our thoughts for all too see. Head... Read more...

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS and 8600 GT

by Marco Chiappetta - Tue, Apr 17, 2007

Today's announcement by NVIDIA should come as no surprise to PC enthusiasts. The company's modus operandi has been to launch a new flagship GPU and over the course of the next year or so scale back the design to flesh out a complete top-to-bottom line-up of products, all with essentially the same feature set. We saw this... Read more...