Marco Chiappetta
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Good Evening Folks! BW here, stopping by to let you know that Matt has just posted a new review of Leadtek's WinFast USB II Deluxe. This little white box gives users the ability to watch and record TV, as well as tune-in to FM radio stations. It ships with some decent software too. Click here and take a look......
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Good evening folks! Andrew just finished a new review of a value-priced notebook from Hewlett Packard, the ZE2000. The HP ZE2000, which is based on the Intel 855GME/ICH4-M Chipset for Pentium/Celeron-M processors, sports a 15" LCD and a great set of built-in Hardmon Kardon speakers. If you're in the market for an inexpensive notebook, you'll...
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Hello again HotHardware fans. We have some more news for you today, by way of Asetek. They are announcing a new product today dubbed the VapoChill Micro. Here's a snip from the official press release... The powerful VapoChill CPU cooler goes mainstream Powering the fastest PC's on the planet for almost a decade the compressor-based...
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Good afternoon folks! At midnight tonight, a new player in PC gaming unveiled its plans to introduce a new physics accelerator, that promises to vastly improve the realism of games. AGEIA's PhysX chip, as it's called, won't debut for a few more months, and its success depends on the adoption of the technology by the game development community,...
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Good afternoon HotHardware fans! BW here, stopping by with a quick update to let you all know that we've just posted a new review of Silverstone's sleek LC11 HTPC case. The LC11 is designed to mesh well with the various components of a home theater, while accommodating a standard Micro-ATX motherboard and other standard PC components. Click...
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Good afternoon HotHardware fans! Just in case you haven't seen the fresh link at the top of the page, I'm here to let you know that we've just posted a review of ATI's new TV Wonder Elite. This is ATI's latest add-in PCI TV Tuner card based on their Theater 550 chip, which includes the new Remote Wonder Plus. Click here and check it...
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Good afternoon HotHardware fans! We're closing out the week with yet another review, this time of Skyhawk's echo-Q IMC6375 small form factor PC. This tiny, silver system is powered by Intel's i865 chipset, for socket 478 Pentium 4 processors. Click here to check it out......
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Good afternoon Hothardware fans! Marco here, to let you all know that we've just posted a new review of NVIDIA's latest flagship mobile GPU, the GeForce Go 6800 Ultra. To test the GeForce Go 6800 Ultra we used Dell's brand new Inspiron XPS Gen 2 gaming notebook, which was powered by the fastest Pentium M currently available. Click here to...
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About three weeks ago, we tested a new Acer notebook powered by ATI's Mobility Radeon X700. With our testing complete, we found the Mobility Radeon X700 to be a well-balanced mobile GPU that offered very good performance, in a thin and...
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Good evening HotHardware fans! 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 Sapphire's Hybrid Radeon X800 XL. This card has the same base specifications as a 'Built by ATI' Radeon X800 XL, but it's built upon a blue PCB and is equipped with a much more compact...
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It has been a little over two months since we first got to play with ATI's Radeon X800 XL, and we have now begun to receive retail products based on this eagerly anticipated GPU in the HotHardware labs. For those unfamiliar with the Radeon X800 XL, it is a .11 micron GPU, with 16 pixel pipelines, 6 hardware vertex shaders and all of...
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Good evening HotHardware fans! BW here, to let you all know that I've just finished our review of Abit's innovative Fatal1ty AA8XE. This motherboard, based on the i925XE chipset for LGA775 Pentium 4 processors, has a very complete feature set and an excellent array of overclocking options. If you're in the market for a new Socket T motherboard,...
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Over the years, Abit has cultivated a well deserved reputation for building some of the most overclockable, and feature rich motherboards available. So, anytime a new core-logic chipset is released, knowledgeable enthusiasts inevitably wonder what Abit has in store. Abit tends to incorporate features that make their motherboards...
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Good Afternoon Folks! This is everyone's favorite oversized Italian, dropping in to let you all know that we've just posted a new review of a feature laden i925XE based motherboard from Foxconn, the 925XE7AA-8EKRS2. Unlike some of Foxconn's previous offerings, the 925XE7AA-8EKRS2 is targeted squarely at enthusiasts and offers a host of overclocking...
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Good Evening HotHardware fans! Marco here, to let you know that we've just posted a new review of Gigabyte's G-Max N411 notebook. The N411 is an Intel Centrino powered machine, equipped with a widescreen LCD and a sleek white, custom enclosure. Click here to check it out......
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Good Afternoon HotHardware fans! Just in case you missed the link at the top of the page, I'm here to let you know that we've just posted a new review of Foxconn's e-bot small form factor PC. The e-bot has quite a few unique features and an enclosure that's somewhat different than most of the other SFF systems currently available. Click here...
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Good evening loyal HotHardware fans! It's BW again, here to let you know that we've just posted a comprehensive Dual-Layer DVD Burner Round-Up - there's a link right at the top of the page. We've got drives from Sony, Plextor, BenQ, Lite-On, and Asus all represented. Click here to find out which drive was our favorite......
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Good Evening HotHardware fans! It's your friendly neighborhood Italian here to let you know that we have just posted a new review of ATI's recently announced Mobility Radeon X700. We were able to test this new 8-pipe mobile GPU using one of the very first notebooks powered by the MR X700, Acer's TravelMate 8100. Click here to check it out......
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Mobile Graphics technology is advancing at a fevered pace. In a little over a year, the once dominant Mobility Radeon 9600 was eclipsed by the Mobility Radeon 9700. Then, the MR 9700 was surpassed by the Mobility Radeon 9800, which itself was recently eclipsed by the Mobility Radeon X800. ATI's mobile GPUs went from 4, to 8, to 12 pixel...
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Good afternoon folks! If you advert your eyes to the top of the page, you'll notice that We've just posted a new review of Asus' excellent P5AD2-E i925XE based motherboard. This board comes loaded with an impressive array of bundled accessories, and has a full compliment of overclocking tools available via its BIOS. Click here and check it...
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Good morning HotHardware fans! If you take a look at the top of the page, you'll notice that we've just posted a new preview of VIA's PT894 and PT880 Pro chipsets for Intel's LGA775 processors. We've got information regarding VIA's plans for these chipsets, along with some benchmarks from a pair of reference motherboards powered by the PT894...
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Good afternoon HotHardware fans! BW here to ler you know that we've just posted a new article, the link is at the top of the page. It's a Notebook Buyer's Guide that answers some of the questions commonly asked by potential notebook consumers. Click here and check it out......
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