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Good morning all. The folks at S3 just sent us some information regarding a few new GPUs they've got coming down the pipeline. We'll be meeting with S3 sometime next week for a hands-on look, but for now we've got a snip from the official PR... S3 Graphics Unveils Chrome S20 Series PCI Express Graphics Processors Advanced 90nm lead-free...
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When we last took a look at some DDR2 memory back in October of 2004, the technology was still a bit new and didn't seem to offer any tangible performance benefits over standard DDR RAM. Higher speeds could be obtained with DDR2 though, and these modules required...
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Unless you live under a rock, most of you have heard about NVIDIA's new GeForce 7800 GTX. If you haven't done so yet, check out Marco's comprehensive report on NVIDIA's 24-Pixel Pipe powerhouse. After that, we've listed out a fair collection of other coverage from around the web. Whether you want a brief overview or more...
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Good afternoon all! The news has been flowing in at a steady clip today, so we've got a decent amount of the good stuff to get posted. Our colleagues over at Beyond3D have an interesting article posted outlining ATI's Xenos GPU, which will be found in the XBox 360 and the [H] has posted their first full-system review. Here are some links and...
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Good morning everyone, how are we all doing this morning? Myself, I am not to shabby; just hiding out in my office for the day. I am not a big fan of this whole "spring showers" thing that Mother Nature keeps trying to pull on us every year. Who really needs real flowers when you can just plant silk ones in your...
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Good morning everyone. We're starting off the weekend with some news out of ATI and SiS. ATI is unveiling the Radeon XPRESS 200 with DX9 and DDR2 support. SiS follows that up with the release of their latest AMD64 PCI Express chipset, the SiS761GX. We close things out with a NEC DVD 16X...
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The Friday night news update is here, so sit back folks and enjoy the read. I'd like to throw a little console gaming news in with the rest of the bunch, so get this... we might be seeing the Next Box(X-Box 2) before the year's end. I still don't own an X-Box, so I'm hoping this thing is going to be backwards...
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Good evening folks, it's time for the last news post of the day. Coming straight at you are reviews for the ThermalTake PurePower 680w PSU, and Logisys LED Stove Fan. You can try your luck with a contest for some Sunbeamtech Chameleon products, and there's also a much needed guide for the WindowsXP Command Prompt...
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Asetek has big news this morning with a release of their newest VapoChill unit. The XE II sports a new case design with, USB ChillControl unit and support for Socket T. There are also a couple of mid-range video card reviews worth checking out as well as a PSU shootout. NEW VapoChill Extreme Edition II 115V released including Socket...
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Morning there folks, you've got a sleepy JeffB checking in with your latest news bit. A couple of nights ago I picked up HL2 so I could use it in future benchmarks. Surely, I took a few minutes to see how it played, even though time is precious these days. Needless to say, it's been 2 days since I bought...
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Welcome back everyone :) The news front is moving slowly this morning, but we managed to dig up a few tasty tidbits for your reading pleasure. So, since it is getting later, let's get things rolling... DFI Answers to the Enthusiastswith Launch of LANParty™NF4 SLI-DR and LANPartyUT™NF4 Ultra-D...
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Hey there folks, JeffB stopping in for a little news update. Actually, there is some big news coming from the team at DFI this AM. Check out the full release below regarding interesting new Pentium-M boards that boast some serious performance. After that, we have several MSI motherboard reviews on tap as well as a sweet X800XT...
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When we think of TV/Video combination cards, we often think of ATI's All-In-Wonder series and NVIDIA's Personal Cinema. Each company has been offering various hybrid cards for quite some time, covering the spectrum from high-priced enthusiast-class to the value-priced solutions. ATI clearly has the name recognition with its All-In-Wonder...
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Good morning all. Sorry if I'm later than usual with your morning news. The past few days my Cable connection has been very slow and the folks at RoadRunner say everything looks good. While it may look good on their end, I'm slogging along at Dialup 5x speeds. Hopefully I can make enough noise...
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A few years back, if you wanted the best of DVD playback and CD burning, you had to buy separate drives for each task. With the advent of combo drives hitting the mainstream market, however, users can now get top-notch CD and DVD performance from a single optical device. MSI's XA52P for example, reads DVD-ROM discs at 16x, writes...
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Good evening friends, glad to see you are back. My buddy and I decided to hit the local computer store after work to pickup a few totally unneeded accessories. Personally, I was on the hunt for a new CPU Cooler for my AMD rig. In the end I decided upon Zalman's CNPS7000-Cu. Though it is not the best for overclocking,...
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Intel's recent new platform launch of the i915 and i925X chipsets marked a major overhaul of the Pentium 4 system level architecture and brought with it a host of new features and technologies. At the processor and IO levels, the addition of DDR2 memory and the PCI Express interface significantly...
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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 morning everyone. Man-o-man the news just keeps flowing this week. After seeing Marco's post last night, I was worried I may not have much for you this morning, but that certainly is not the case. Once again we pulled together a hefty dose of hardware reality for you to start your morning off...
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Good morning everyone. JeffB checking in to ring in the new weekend. Since I've started working from home, weekends have a lot less meaning than they used to, but I still look forward to them. If all goes well I will be snuggling up with a new piece of hardware this afternoon. Otherwise I think I will be getting out...
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Good evening friends, welcome back to HotHardware :) The news flow slowed down this afternoon, but we managed to scrap up a few interesting articles for your reading pleasure. Here is your evening shot of juice... Klipsch ProMedia Ultra 5.1 Review @ The Tech Zone "With a subwoofer enclosure that is 20...
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Good morning and happy Friday to all. Today starts off Memorial Day weekend here in the states. For starters that automatically means a three day weekend and a boatload of traffic on the highways. It also is a sign that summer is rapidly approaching. Traditionally this is a time of year where...
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