Marco Chiappetta
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About a month after Intel officially unveiled their flagship Pentium Extreme Edition 840 processor, the crown jewel of their initial dual-core Pentium D processor line-up, AMD revealed their inaugural assortment of dual-core Athlon 64 X2 processors, which included the current flagship Athlon 64 X2 4800+. After assessing the Athlon 64 X2 4800+...
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Almost immediately after we begun working with NVIDIA's reference GeForce 7800 GTX cards in the days and weeks leading up to the launch, we were contacted by a handful of NVIDIA's launch partners and informed that they'd have retail hardware ready to coincide with the official announcement of the GeForce 7800 GTX. Leadtek, Gigabyte,...
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Tomorrow on nZone.com, NVIDIA will release a new set of Forceware drivers that bring with them a few new features, and the prerequisite list of bug fixes. And whether you're a budget conscious gamer or a hard-core graphics junkie, the new features unveiled in these drivers are sure to...
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Montreal, Canada, July 13, 2005 -- Matrox Graphics Inc., the leading manufacturer of graphics solutions for professionals, announces Millennium G550 PCIe, the world's first PCI Express x1 graphics card. The x1 design allows this card to be compatible with any compliant PCI Express slot. The...
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Today we're going to take a look at three enthusiast class motherboards based on the NVIDIA nForce 4 Ultra chipset, the Abit Fatal1ty AN8, the MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum, and the ECS KN1 Extreme. All three of these motherboards take the...
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Good morning everyone. We just got some interesting information from Rambus regarding their new high-speed XDR memory interface that we wanted to send your way. If you think GDDR3 RAM running at 1.3GHz is impressive, wait until you see what Rambus has on tap. Here's a snip from their press release... RAMBUS UNVEILS NEXT GENERATION XDR MEMORY...
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Hello everyone. ATI has just announced the latest edition to their All-In-Wonder line of video cards, the All-In-Wonder X800 XL PCI Express. Below is a snip from the official announcement; we hope to have a review posted as soon as samples become available... ATI Brings High-End Multimedia Entertainment to the Latest PCs; New All-in-Wonder(R)...
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Good Evening Folks! Marco here to let you all know what we've just posted a new article, where we pit Foxconn's 945P7AA-8EKRS2 against Gigabyte's GA-8I945P-G. These two new i945P based motherboards for LGA775 processors offer very similar feature sets, and are ready for Intel's Dual-Core line...
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Good afternoon all! It's your friendly neighborhood Italian here, dropping in with an early afternoon update to let you know that we've just posted a new review of MSI's NX6600GT-VTD128SP. As its name implies, the NX6600GT-VTD128SP is based on the 8-pipeline GeForce 6600 GT GPU, and has 128MB of on-board RAM, but this card is also equipped...
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Gigabyte GIGABYTE's GV-NX78 series provide studio-quality color and incredible cinematic gaming effects, without breaking the bank. Powered by NVIDIAGeForce 7800 GTX graphics processing unit (GPU), GV-NX78 series guarantees powerful 3D blazingly fastest performance to the enthusiast game users. Experience the power of full-throttle graphics....
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Back in April of last year, NVIDIA released the GeForce 6800 Ultra and began to rebuild a reputation that had been tarnished by a couple of products that didn't quite live up to the expectations of many hard-core gamers. The GeForce 6800 Ultra, unlike the GeForce FX line of products that came before it, had more features than competing high-end...
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Good afternoon folks! Things are a little hectic behind the scenes here at HotHardware today, so I'm going to jump right into today's first serving of news. There's some good stuff to check out today, and I'm sure tomorrow will be interesting as well. But something tells me Wednesday is...
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Hi all. We just got word from NVIDIA that there are still some positions available for the GeForce LAN 2.0, which is being held in San Francisco on June 21. Not only will there be plenty of gaming going on, but NVIDIA is handing out some nice prizes! Here's the scoop... GeForce LAN 2.0 June 21, San Francisco, CA Join NVIDIA and hundreds...
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Good morning HH fans. BW here, dropping in with your morning serving of hardware goodness. We've got a lot going on behind the scenes here today, so I'm going to jump right in and get some of the more interesting items posted ASAP. Shuttle ST20G5 Review @ [H]: (They weren't too pleased...
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Good afternoon all! The news has been flowing in at a steady clip today, so we've got a decent amount of the good stuff to get posted. Our colleagues over at Beyond3D have an interesting article posted outlining ATI's Xenos GPU, which will be found in the XBox 360 and the [H] has posted their...
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NVIDIA Corporation is pleased to announce that Microsoft Corporation has released a software update that enables NVIDIA PureVideo" decode acceleration of Microsoft Windows Media High Definition Video (WMV-HD) content in Microsoft Windows Media Player 10 with NVIDIA GeForce" 6 Series video cards. NVIDIA PureVideo" technology a combination of...
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Over the past few months, the ATI Radeon X800XL has built up a reputation for being one of the best buys in high-end PC graphics. A single-slot card, that's got relatively low power requirements, street prices hovering around $275 (give or take a few bucks) and performance that rivals flagship...
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Good morning folks. There's lots of news flowing in today, some of it due in part to yesterday's announcement that Apple will be using Intel processors in the not so distant future. There's also a full compliment of hardware news in the HH...
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Good Evening Folks! We're going to kick off the weekend right, with a little notebook review action courtesy of Andrew, by way of Dell. We've just posted a new review of Dell's Latitude D810 notebook. The D810 is the latest in Dell's line of business class notebooks, that's powered by a powerful Intel Pentium M processor, the i915...
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Good afternoon HotHardware fans! Marco here, with an mid-afternoon update to let you all know that we've just posted a brand new review of Asus' rather unique small form factor barebones PC, the S-Presso Deluxe (S1-P111). This mini-PC has quite a few unique features, but is ultimately hampered by some questionable design issues....
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Good evening folks! BW here, stopping in with an evening update. Just in case you missed the fresh link at the top of the page, I'm here to let you know that we've just posted a new review of Compaq's Presario V4000 notebook. Andrew had somewhat mixes feelings with regard to the V4000, but for the money it may be tough to beat....
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Good morning folks! Long time no see. I apologize for my extended absence. Can you believe that was the longest I've been away from HotHardware for over 6 years! But I have a good excuse - I was on my Honeymoon! Adrienne and I tied the not on May 14, 2005 and then...
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