PC Components, Peripherals And Gadget Reviews And News
Dig into our deep-dive product reviews and news of PC components from processors, to motherboards, graphics cards (GPUs), sound cards, and storage, along with other gadgets and peripherals that complete the computing experience. Whether you're a DIY PC enthusiast builder or just looking to read-up on what should be inside or connected to your next pre-built PC, here's where you'll find all the nuts and bolts sorted on what makes modern computer systems tick, as well some of the best user interface devices to go with them.
Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz Prescott And Pentium 4 3.4GHz Extreme Edition Significant changes in P4 architecture bring future scalability By, Dave Altavilla February 1, 2004 During the course of the year in 2003, AMD and Intel were engaged in a rigorous competition of raw MHz versus IPC...
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Ideazon Zboard Interchangeable Keyboard System Tom Laverriere December 23rd, 2003 Every once in a while a company will develop an innovation that makes an ordinary piece of hardware exciting. In the arena of input devices, more specifically, keyboards, there have been many innovations to aid with the ever monotonous task of typing. ...
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The Springdale Showdown Which board should you "spring" for? Brought to you by Robert Maloney July 10, 2003 This is the kind of article that PC Hardware Tech Editors live for, not only a simple one-on-one comparison, but a full-blown, knock-em-down, street fight for bragging...
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3-Way i875P "Canterwood" Shoot-Out MSI, DFI & Chaintech Square Off... By, Marco Chiappetta June 18, 2003 Intel's i875P "Canterwood", as well as the i865 "Springdale" chipsets, have generated quite a buzz within...
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Intel D865GBF 865G Motherboard Review Springdale Goes Mainstream, With Graphics By: Chris Angelini and Dave Altavilla May 21st, 2003 We've come to know Intel as a conservative company, generally unwilling to take precarious risks on unproven technology. Yet, just last month, Intel unveiled its first true flagship platform since the i850E,...
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The Centrino Mobile Technology Launch Event Intel Takes Mobile Computing to the Next Level By - Jeff Bouton March 12, 2003 After a few remote illustrations, the demonstration portion the presentation was over and the focus shifted to input from high ranking executives from T-Mobile, Boeing, Marriot, MacDonalds, Toshiba, SAP, Cisco and several...
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An Interview With ATi's VP Of Software, Ben Bar-Haim Executive Management at ATi shares their vision By -Dave Altavilla January 21, 2003 Hello Ben Bar-Haim, and thanks for letting us steal a few moments of your time here. With the 3D Graphics market poised for yet another...
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Intel D845PEBT2 i845PE Motherboard Review Intel Appeals to the Enthusiast By: Chris Angelini December 29, 2002 Intel certainly has an established reputation when it comes to motherboards. In most regards, its reputation is solid but hardware enthusiasts generally don't recognize...
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The I845PE Motherboard Shootout Clash of the Titans! By Robert Maloney December 11, 2002 The vast majority of motherboards for the Pentium 4 generally come in two varieties, those using RDRAM and others using DDR SDRAM clocked at 266MHz. While the consensus was that RDRAM was the performance leader, pricing and availability...
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The IWILL P4ES Motherboard Review Serial ATA is on the way! By, Robert Maloney October 10, 2002 The one true constant, when it comes to the world of computers, is change. Even as new items hit the market, or even during our evaluations early on here at HotHardware, newer technological breakthroughs are being developed to get more and more...
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The Iwill P4R533-N Motherboard & Kingston's PC1066 RDRAM An i850E setup for PC1066 and validated By Dave Altavilla July 15, 2002 Iwill has been designing and assembling motherboards for over 13 years but only recently broke into the high end enthusiast motherboard scene. We haven't had the occasion to review many boards from...
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The Pentium 4 2.8GHz Processor Intel ups the ante once again By, Dave Altavilla August 26, 2002 Strategic Marketing, most larger brand name companies have this function rolled up into a Marketing Manager's responsibilities. Otherwise, in the case of Intel and AMD, they actually have a Strategic Marketing team who's sole purpose...
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Intel's Pentium 4 with 533MHz Bus and The i850E Chipset 2.4 and 2.53GHz performance with a 533MHz Front Side Bus By, Dave Altavilla May 6, 2002 There are many architectural attributes of Intel's Pentium 4 processor, that will drive incremental performance for CPU core, as the months and...
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Intel's New 2.4GHz Pentium 4 Northwood 200MHz more, like a walk in the park By, Dave Altavilla April 2, 2002 When Intel released it's 2GHz and 2.2GHz Northwood Pentium 4 Processors, we were here to show you the finer points of increased on chip cache sizes and a few more MHz to play...
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Intel's Pentium 4 2.2GHz. and 2.0AGHz. Processors "Northwood" Enters The Arena By, Dave Altavilla January 7, 2002 Intel and AMD's perpetual GHz. race continues in the new year, at a fevered pace that is almost more than the sluggish PC...
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Intel's i845 DDR Chipset Debuts MSI's 845 Ultra-ARU & DFI's NB70-SC DDR Solutions Based On Intel's New Value Platform By, Dave Altavilla December 17 2001 The market has been waiting for this one for a long time. Intel has...
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IBM's DDRS34560D - 4.5 Gig Ultra 2 SCSI LVD Drive SCSI for the masses! SCSI, use to conjure up memories of difficult set up and lots of time spent tweaking with settings in the SCSI BIOS trying to get a drive to run at peak performance. Not so with many of today's...
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The Iwill KK266Plus KT133A Motherboard Its Nice, but DDR is here... By, Marco Chiappetta September 27, 2001 Recently, we were presented with the opportunity to review one of Iwill's Socket-A motherboards. We haven't had much experience with Iwill's products here at HotHardware, so we...
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The Intel Pentium III 933MHz. Filling the gap between 866MHz. and 1GHz. June 22, 2000 - By Dave Altavilla Technology marches on at a relentless, blindingly fast pace. The high end technology of today will quickly be the main stream "bread and butter" product of tomorrow. In the Semiconductor space, tomorrow often...
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The Intel Pentium 4 1.7GHz. Processor The "Hyper Pipelined" CPU takes it up a notch By Dave Altavilla - April 24 2001 IC Engineering, it's an exacting science. When a Design Engineer or Engineering Manager sits down to architect his or her next chip, there are a myriad of decisions that must be made that will affect...
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