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Latest News - February 2006
- AMD AM2 Explored
- Upcoming NVIDIA Chipsets?
- Antec P150 Silent ATX Case
- ASUS Extreme N7300GS GeForce 7300 GS Graphics Card
- 2GB of RAM: Do We Really Need That Much?
- SLI vs. Crossfire
- JPD GPU Market Share Numbers
- Shuttle Plans Smaller SFF
- PS3 Developer Fired
- OCZ PC3500GX Memory Review
- How To Select A LCD For Gaming
- Antec P150 Silent ATX Case
- New NVIDIA nForce 4 SLIX16 Platform Drivers
- Corsair XMS-3200C2 XPERT 2GB Launches
- GeForce 7800 GS (AGP) Reviews
- 512MB GeForce 7800 GTX Cards Back In Stock
- ASUS Extreme N7800GT Dual
- Google Busts Dell NDA
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All News for February 2006
Anandtech has posted an in-depth preview of AMD's upcoming AM2 processor platform. Without question, a large majority of the industry knows that the largest change this new platform brings is the introduction of DDR2 memory to the AMD architecture. However, there are several additional changes with AM2 that accompany that new technology....
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T-Break has supposedly received some information from a reliable source regarding NVIDIA's chipset plans for AMD's upcoming Socket M2 processors. Looking at the breakdown of chipsets, one cannot help but see the remarkable similarities to the current crop of nForce4 chipsets with SLI x16 sitting at the top of the group and the "vanilla"...
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Antec knows a thing or two about cases, so it's always nice to see what their currently up to. Tonight Hardware-Review.net takes a look at Antec's P150 Silent ATX Case, equipped with three 120-mm fans, and sound dampening side panels."Finding a computer case that's silent and chocked full of features is very challenging. Most modern case manufacturers...
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Adrian certainly makes a good point with the fact that the majority of people aren't gaming on the fastest hardware, as hardware surveys such as the one at Steampowered.com will show. Today they review the ASUS Extreme N7300GS, which is part of Nvidia's 7x00 family, but is it fast enough to...
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Is 2GB more than enough? It wasn't that long ago that we were having the "Is 1GB too much?" discussion. While 2GB could be the norm in the future, X-Bit labs decides to see if it's actually needed with todays software. "How much RAM should a contemporary computer system have? This...
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GamePC has posted a very interesting article which compares the performance of X1900XTX cards in Crossfire against GeForce 7800 GTX 512MB cards in SLI. Beyond stock reference speeds, the editor also overclocks each setup to see which vendor offers the ultimate in stability and performance. Those assuming the test is a landslide victory for...
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Jon Peddie Research (JPD) has just released their market share numbers for Q4, 2005. Overall, the results were not too suprising given ATI's widely publicized struggle to get product into the channel. Here, NVIDIA capitalized on the situation and managed to gather 52% of the discrete desktop market. Fortunately for ATI, their popular IGP products...
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SFF vendor Shuttle is spreading word that the company will be introducing a new SFF platform that is even smaller than their conventional XPC systems. Aimed squarely at the living room, it is likely that these new systems will place a large emphasis on aesthetics and low-noise such that the PC belnds nicely with the other home theater components...
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Playstation 3 Week brings word that outspoken (former) Playstation 3 developer Josh Robinson has been fired by Sony for violating NDA and smearing the PS3 name in his highly-publicized "review" of PS3 development. The website managed to interview Josh to see what the fallout of the article entailed and what his plans moving...
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OCZ appears to have produced yet another set of highly overclockable ram. As Motherboards.org explains, when given the right amount of voltage, the new OCZ PC3500GX can be pushed far beyond it's standard specs. "Considering that we easily pegged 245MHz at 2-2-2-5 with just 3.2V and no errors,...
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While any old LCD monitor is fine for your average web surfer, gamers have stricter criteria for what's needed. After all, what's the use of having a high-end system, only to view your high resolution, anti-aliased game on a sub par monitor? The Tech Zone has taken their time to help explain away what you should be looking for."Specs are a...
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For the last couple of years, I have been obsessed with keeping my personal rig silent, and have tried just about every type of noise dampening material, every brand of fan, a handful of enclosures, and a ton of different CPU coolers. So I'm always intrigued when a new product hits that has the word "Silent" somewhere in its description....
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Hey All. I just wanted to let you know that NVIDIA has just released two new sets of drivers for the nForce 4 SLIX16 chipset. One set is for Windows 2000/XP and the other is for Windows XP Pro x64. They can be download from here: Platform/nForce Drivers > nForce4 AMD/Intel x16 > Windows...
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Corsair Memory has just announced the launch of the company's new XMS-3200C2 XPERT 2GB memory kits. Here, hand-picked memory modules that are guaranteed to run at 400MHz with tight 2-3-3-6 timings are paired with Corsair's unique XPERT display to report voltage, temperature, and frequency. Corsair has been a longtime member on Hot Hardware's...
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AGP fans and users can now rejoice as NVIDIA has just launched the new GeForce 7800 GS as an AGP graphics card. Armed with 16 pipelines and all the bells and whistles of the G70 core, this new GPU will be a heatlhy upgrade from nearly any previous AGP-based graphics card. Of course, you can see how NVIDIA's latest and greatest AGP GPU performs...
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We just got word from NVIDIA that some of their partners have begun shipping 512MB GeForce 7800 GTX cards to some popular on-line retailers again. Right after the launch, the initial batch of 512MB GTXs sold out incredibly quickly, and were nearly impossible to obtain for the last few weeks...
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HardOCP has managed to get their hands on the new ASUS Extreme N7800GT single-card SLI behemoth and run it through its paces. I'm sure many of us wouldn't mind the ability to have SLI performance with a single graphcis card in our already cluttered systems. Head on over to the review to see if the switch to a single PCB results in any degredation...
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The sharp eyes in the forums at Notebook Review have come across some very interesting information regarding Dell's upcoming notebooks by using a simple search on Google. This search exposed a spreadsheet on Dell's FTP server that outlined in explicit detail the company's plans for launching their wave of Intel Core Solo and Core Duo notebooks....
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