Marco Chiappetta
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We get to test and evaluate quite a few high-end video cards here in the HotHardware labs. Over the past few months, we've previewed numerous Radeon 9800 XTs and GeForce FX 5950 Ultras, and cards based on ATi's and NVIDIA's latest Radeon X800 and GeForce 6800 GPUs have also begun to trickle in recently. Burning through our...
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Good afternoon HotHardware Fans! We've got something brand new for you today! To compliment our relatively new layout, we've just launched a brand new forum! If you're already a member, click here and check it out!...
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Greetings HotHardware Fans! The weekend is over, and it looks like the whole world got back to work with a vengeance this morning! Our news mailbox is absolutely jammed with press releases at the moment. I've picked out some of the tastiest morsels, I hope you like 'em...
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In the weeks leading up to the release of the NV40, the base architecture for the new GeForce 6 series of cards, NVIDIA spoke at length about their new architecture's "scalability". At the high end, the flagship GeForce 6800 Ultra Extreme Edition is a 16-Pipeline machine clocked at 450MHz, that can pump out an impressive 7.2GPixels/s....
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Greetings HotHardware Fans! Can you believe it's already Wednesday? Those long weekends really throw me for a loop! They make it seem like the week is just flying by. Then again, when you've got a pile of hardware to test, stacked from floor to ceiling, there never...
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Good Evening Folks! 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 review of eVGA's Personal Cinema FX 5700. This card is eVGA's answer to the very popular ATi "All-In-Wonder" line of products. We've compared its features and performance to a Radeon 9600 XT and a GeForce FX 5700 Ultra....
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Good afternoon HotHardware fans! The long, holiday weekend has ended (here in the U.S.) and it's time to get back to work! We've got a few reviews on-tap for you, but for now it's time for some hardware news from around the...
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Good morning folks! What a weekend! The weather here in the big apple was fantastic, the Fourth of July fireworks were great, the BBQ was perfect and on top of it all, I got engaged! Woo Hoo! Here's a bit of the story and some pictures if you're interested in knowing...
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Peruse virtually any PC gaming magazine, or point your browser to any popular gaming web site, and you're bound to find a myriad of information and accolades for Crytek's smash-hit, first person shooter, FarCry. The game has some of...
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Hey All! As we alluded to earlier this afternoon, the PRs have been steadily flowing in today. I'm here to give you another sampling and hardware news and to let you know that We've just posted a review of Asus' Radeon X800 Pro powered AX800 Pro/TD. This card ships with a very comprehensive software and accessory bundle,...
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It has been a few weeks since ATi officially unveiled their Radeon X800 line of graphics cards based on the GPU formerly codenamed R420. In our initial look at the Radeon X800 Pro and X800 XT Platinum Edition back in May, we found ATi's latest flagship GPUs to be very capable performers, besting their previous high-end product,...
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Whoa! I've only been offline for about 8 hours, and already our news box is chock full of goodies! For a geek like me, there's not much better than waking up to a healthy sampling of hardware related articles. I just...
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Good Evening HotHardware Fans! We've just posted a review of Abit's K8T800 Pro powered socket 754 motherboard, the KV8 Pro. The KV8 Pro is a value priced Athlon 64 mobo, with a fairly complete feature set and an excellent selection of overclocking and monitoring options. Click here or on the link at the top of the page to check it out......
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Good evening folks! Thankfully, I have completely recovered from this weekend's festivities (my girl threw me an awesome surprise party for my birthday), and decided to stop in for a quick shot of news. Most of the action today was dominated by NVIDIA's SLI announcement and Intel's...
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Good Morning HH Fans! Today, NVIDIA is unveiling an updated version of 3dfx's SLI technology, but this time around, dual PCI Express X16 slots and two NV4x powered graphics cards will be handling the graphics workload. NVIDIA is claiming huge performance gains with the setup. Click here, or on the link at the top of the page, to take a look...
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Good afternoon folks! We've just posted a review of BFG's GeForce FX 5900XT OC. As its name implies, BFG has taken the GeForce FX 5900XT and overclocked the core a bit to give the card a little more horsepower. Click here and check it out......
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Good afternoon folks! It's a muggy, wet day here in HH's New York lab. It seems like Mother Nature is making up for the fantastic weather this Father's Day! No matter though, I've got 6 video cards running through our benchmark suite in preparation for some upcoming articles...
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Good evening folks! We've just posted a review of Prolink's Pixelview 5900XT Golden Limited. This somewhat unique GeForce FX 5900 XT is equipped with a custom, aluminum cooling solution and it's got an illuminated LCD read-out that reports the GPU temperature and fan speed. It overclocked fairly well, too. Click here...
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Greetings HotHardware fans! We've just posted a review of Plextor's latest DVD / CD burner, the PX-712A. This drive is capable of burning DVDs at speeds up to 12X and it can burn CDs at speeds up to 48X. It's got some other unique features as well, click here and check it out......
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Good afternoon folks! How is everyone? Good I hope! I just got back from a very cool trip to Montreal, where I went to see the Montreal Grand Prix F1 race. I had an awesome time, and hung out with some very cool people, but it's good to be home! But there's just...
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Good Evening HotHardware Fans! We've just posted a review of Asus' brand new A8V Deluxe "Wireless Edition" motherboard for Socket 939 Athlon 64s. The A8V Deluxe is powered by VIA's excellent K8T800 Pro chipset, and sports a host of useful features like SATA RAID, Gigabit Ethernet, WiFi and 8-Channel audio with digital outputs. It's also "Cool...
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It has been barely over a week since we first took a look at AMD's new Socket 939 Athlon 64s, and motherboards equipped with the new socket have already started to arrive in the HotHardware Labs. The first motherboard to land on our test bench is the fully-loaded Asus A8V Deluxe...
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