Items tagged with K8
The news has been a bit sluggish this weekend, but today we have enough items to keep you busy for awhile :) As I look outside, the wind is blowing pretty hard and the tree right in front of my window is looking a little threatening... and hey! You know what it means for me when the wind blows? There's a 90% chance my internet connection will...
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Well I just finished HL2 a few hours ago. It's a great game with a questionable registration system(That's right folks, I'm talking about STEAM). After this post, I'll be off to record some time demos and then do some benchmarks. With the Doom3, Source, and Cry Engine available for developers, gamers will be in for a...
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Hey everyone, I've got a piece of news that wasn't in the mail... another memory contest! From the guys over at FiringSquad, there is a contest for Corsair TWINX1024-3200LL Pro memory. So make sure to stop over, enter the contest, and then check out the rest of FiringSquad(plenty of good stuff there). Oh and Catalyst...
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Hey everyone! So here I am, posting the news on a friday night. Nerd, or dedicated news jockey? A little bit of both actually ;) Seriously though, I'm heading out in a few minutes so I've got to do this fast. Let's get it on! Mentor HSMT-UD headphones @ Legit Reviews "I first listened to music and then watched a...
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Hey everyone, as my first news post I'd like to remind you all it's November 2nd, so if you haven't already, get registered to vote and support your candidate! But that's politics, and I know why your really here, so get ready for your mid-afternoon fix of tech news. Thermaltake Tsunami Dream Case @ PimpRig.com...
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Good Evening Folks! BW here, stopping by to let you know that we've just posted a new review of Asus' K8N-E Deluxe Socket 754 motherboard. This board, which is based on the NVIDIA nForce 3 250Gb chipset, sports a very complete BIOS and host of useful integrated features. Click here and check it out! ...
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Although AMD's socket 939 platform has moved into the mainstream with the recent release of 939-pin Athlon 64 3000+ and 3200+ CPUs, products based on the older socket 754 platform are still in demand. While the new socket 939 processors have been met with much fanfare (and relatively high price tags), the older socket 754 Athlon...
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Hey there gang, welcome back! Man, it has just been one of those stretches where nothing seems to be going right for me. The last few weeks I've been dealing with an ailing pet, who is looking much better thankfully. Now my neck has decided to give me a lesson in pain, to the point that I am looking...
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Judging by the amount of "you have mail" notifications I have received over the past few hours, I think it is time for another shot of juice. So, run over to the water cooler, grab a cold drink and shut the cubical door. It is time for round two... Chaintech SK8T800 Review @ AMD Zone "Well the big plus of the...
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Good evening friends, welcome back to HH :) Thanks for bearing with me this morning, I made it to my meeting on time, but, not with much room to spare. Nonetheless, taking a gander into my inbox-o-wonders, it looks like my fellow editors from around the net had quite the busy day themselves. So...
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Welcome back, NJ here with your AM shot of juice. I just put my good friend, Mr. Coffee, to work behind me and fired up some new tunes from the slightly deranged crew of Prodigy. All in all, I am settled in for this wonderful Monday morning. The news front is flowing at a fairly steady rate already. So, go grab a mug and...
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Hello everyone, JeffB stopping in for your afternoon news fix. Today has been an insanely busy day for me and it's only 12 noon! Between friends having computer problems, intermittent connectivity, and of course, reviews of hardware, I'm really juggling today. Hopefully I will get through the day unscathed and can get a normal...
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Good morning all! VIA is officially unveiling their latest chipset for the Athlon 64 / Opteron today, the K8T890. The K8T890 sports all of the features of the popular K8T800 Pro, with the added benefits of PCI Express. The "Pro" flavor of the K8T890 even offers dual PEG slots, for full support of dual PCI Express graphics...
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When AMD's Athlon 64 was initially introduced, all of the major players in the core logic chipset business immediately jumped on board, and introduced, or released, full-featured chipsets for the new processor. And although SiS, ALi, VIA and NVIDIA all had similar Athlon 64 chipsets on their respective road maps, it was VIA and...
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Good evening friends, welcome back :) Along with Jeff, I was also having issues with my internet today. Though I am on a totally different ISP then my counterpart, I was unable to access anything HH related today (e-mail, web-page or forum). Yet, when I called in to complain, I was magically able to access everything after...
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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 over. Not too much going on this morning, but...
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Good evening friends, NJ stopping in with another dose of HH's special brand of juice. On tap tonight we have a variety of flavours that should suit just about everyone's taste. So, go grab a mug and pull up a stool, I am starting to server... DDR vs. DDR2 @ Legion Hardware "After recently reviewing the Gigabyte 8GPNXP...
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Since the release of AMD's Socket 939 processors, motherboard manufacturers have wasted little time transitioning to the newer design, but that doesn't mean previous AMD platforms are now completely obsolete. Like the older Athlon XP, the 754 pin Athlon 64 processors still have some life left as a relatively economical alternative. With...
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Good morning friends, how is everyone doing? Things around the Canadian portion of the HH labs have been fairly mundane so far today. Between applying a few Ghost Images and taking a few pictures for a review, I think the coffee machine has been doing the brunt of the work ;) Nonetheless, let's take...
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Good evening friends, how are you? Nothing terrible exciting happened in my world today. I did however pick up a new CD which I ordered a while back. I doubt most of you have heard of the record label before, but, it is a new release from NinjaTunes. If you can imagine mixing Downtempo Jazz...
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Good morning friends, N.J. here with yet another edition of the H.H. Times. If you managed to miss last nights news shot, AMD just released their new 939-pin AMD Athlon 64 FX-53 and Athlon 64 3800 processors. If AMD is your cup of tea, you won't want to miss-out Marco's thoughts of the new core... Marco's...
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Good morning all. It looks like this week has shaped up to be quite a busy one. The hardware news has been developing all week long and today is no different. There's good stuff going on, so let's get down to business: VIA Reveals Details of Next Generation C5J Esther Processor Core With...
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