Marco Chiappetta
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In May of this year, we had the chance to evaluate ATi's Mobility Radeon 9700. When our evaluation was complete, we came away impressed. And we weren't alone. The ATi Mobility Radeon 9700 has been almost universally praised by the press, and declared the fastest mobile 3D gaming GPU of its generation. Then, only a few short months later, ATi...
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Good morning folks! Today is definitely much busier on the news front than yesterday. I've only been away from the keyboard for a few hours (ie sleeping), and the news box is loaded with good stuff. I'm going to get right...
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Good morning folks! How's everybody doing today? I hope you're all doing well. We here in the HH labs are up to our usual hijinks, overclocking, benchmarking, evaluating, and the like. Before we get to posting our next review though, we've got some news to tide you...
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Hey there HotHardware fans! For those of you that jump right to the news, I'm here to let you know that we've just posted a new review of XGaming's very cool, very retro, X-Arcade Dual Arcade Joystick. Just seeing this thing takes me back to my early teens when I spent each summer working in an arcade in a local amusement park. And after...
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Good Evening HotHardware Fans! BW here, checking in to let you all know that we've just posted a big Socket 939 Motherboard round-up featuring four high-end motherboards from Abit, Gigabyte, and MSI. Two of the mobos, the Abit AV8 and MSI K8T Neo2-FIR, are based on VIA's K8T800 Pro chipset and the other two, the Gigabyte K8NSNXP-939 and MSI...
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With the release of each new processor platform comes the inevitable wait for "enthusiast-class" motherboards to support them. We've seen the same scenario play out time and again. When Intel released its Socket 478 Pentium 4 processors, for example, it was a few months...
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Good evening HotHardware fans! We've taken NVIDIA's and ATi's flagship video cards, the GeForce 6800 Ultra and the Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition, and tested them across various Doom 3 maps using all custom time demos, as well as a multiplayer deathmatch demo. We've also loaded up the recently released Counter Strike Source and its Graphics...
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Good evening folks! BW here, stopping by to let you all know that we've just posted a review of PQI's new PQI3200-1024DBU - Low Latency Turbo DDR400 RAM. These modules posted some impressive benchmark scores, overclocked very well, and they're priced to sell. Click here and...
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Welcome back HotHardware fans! Considering it has only been a few hours since my last post, things have been busy. After checking the new mailbox, I was greeted with quite a few noteworthy items. Here's what we've got so far... Sapphire Toxic X800 PRO VIVO Review @...
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Good evening folks! BW here checking in with a late night shot of hardware goodness. I'm engrossed in a huge article for you AMD fans out there, and want to get back to business, but I thought you'd all like to what's been going on in the hardware world the last few hours...
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Good afternoon HotHardware fans! Just in case you missed the new link at the top of the page, I'm here to let you know that we've just posted a three i915P motherboard round-up. We've looked at the Abit AG8, Asus P5GD2 Premium...
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Hello All! BW here to let you know that we've just posted a review of Asus' V9999 Gamer Edition GeForce 6800. ASUS went over the top with the V9999 Gamer Edition, offering a hefty collection of games, a USB camera, and several software packages to put the USB camera to good use. The card is also clocked much higher than standard GeForce...
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Hello all! How is every one doing today? I hope you're all doing well! I'm still in a fog trying to comprehend some of this theories put forth by Stephen Hawking and his contemporaries in the special / interview that aired on the Science Channel last night. I love...
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Good afternoon HotHardware Fans! I apologize for the late start today. I've been sorting, sizing, and organizing a couple of hundred images for a huge Socket 939 motherboard round-up we have in the queue, and I lost track of the time! It's a good thing I came to my senses...
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Good Evening Folks! BW here checking in to let you all know that we've just posted a review of Foxconn's i925X based motherboard for LGA775 Pentium 4 processors, the 925A01-8EKRS2. The 925A01-8EKRS2 is a feature-rich motherboard that takes full advantage of all of the i925X chipset's inherent capabilities including Gigabit Ethernet,...
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It has been about eight weeks since Intel officially launched their i925X (Alderwood) and i915 (Grantsdale) chipsets, and their new LGA775 "pinless" Pentium 4 processors. Since the launch, we've taken a look at two i925X based motherboards from Abit and Asus (seen here), and we had tested Intel's own D925XCV motherboard in...
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Good evening and welcome back HotHardware fans! I'm just getting in after a night of food and movies with a buddy, and figured I'd stop in and hook you all up with another shot of hardware goodness. After this I've got to feed...
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Good afternoon folks! How is everyone doing today? I take it you're all doing well. We're all doing fine too. Things here in the New York HH labs have been fairly busy recently, but that's just the way we like it! Better to have too much hardware on the...
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Good afternoon HotHardware fans! This is BW checkin' in to let you all know that we've just posted a review of the Asus AX800 XT. This card sports all of the features of a "built by ATi" X800 XT Platinum Edition, but unlike the ATi branded cards, the Asus AX800 XT has a uniquely colored PCB, lighted cooling fan, and it ships with...
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Hardcore gamers, with the large disposable incomes necessary to feed their hardware addictions, have a lot to be thankful for at the moment. Both NVIDIA, with the GeForce 6 Series of products, and ATi, with their X800 Pro and X800 XT, have extremely powerful GPUs in their arsenals that...
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Back in May '04, NVIDIA introduced the GeForce 6800 Ultra Extreme Edition to counter the launch of ATi's Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition, and gamers the world over took notice. Just a few weeks earlier, the GeForce 6800 Ultra was unveiled, and at the time it was smoking through benchmarks like nobody's business. Then, about a month...
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Good afternoon folks! I apologize for the later than usual start today. I've been grinding away at a couple of reviews and totally lost track of time! I'll make it up to you though - there's LOTs of good stuff to get posted. And if I'm productive in the next couple of...
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