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Dave Altavilla

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With 18 years of sales engineering experience in the Semiconductor industry, Dave Altavilla founded HotHardware.com over 15 years ago with perspective as an industry insider and a passion for the wonders of system-level development and performance that culminate into next generation, cutting-edge devices of tomorrow. Cultivated with the sweat-equity of time spent in the engineering backrooms and offices of Chief Architects of Wall Street bellwethers like Motorola, Cisco and EMC, Dave's insight into the design and manufacturing of leading-edge technologies, brings a laser-sharp understanding of what it takes to deliver a best-of-class product to market. Dave handles final editorial responsibilities of HotHardware's content, along with the site's creative vision and business development efforts. In addition to feature product launch articles at HotHardware for major OEM releases, Dave is also a published author in various technology-based print publications and has been a featured guest on various webcasts and Tech radio shows. In his spare time Dave likes to spend time on the ocean and coaching youth Baseball.  - Contact: davea(at)hothardware(dot)com and follow him on Twitter if you like. He also has an About.me page here. 

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Good Morning All, Today we've got a double-header showcase of new Intel Processor and Chipset technologies being launched by the company affectionately known as "Chipzilla".  Intel has officially taken the wraps off their new mainstream Pentium D 820 Processor and i945 Express series chipsets. ... Read more...
  Though clock speed is no longer a true measure of processor performance, it's hard to argue with a few hundred more MHz no matter which CPU architecture you'd consider.  Regardless, it's clear the industry as a whole, as well as the world's largest chip manufacturer, Intel, has now embarked on an effort to provide more computing... Read more...
Asus stepped up to us with one of the first third party Radeon X800 XL boards to hit the market after ATi's recent launch. We gave it our standard run-down in typical HH fashion with benchmarks galore.   Have a look-see...... Read more...
One for the weekend?  Sure, why not...    MonsterGecko - an over-grown lizard or manufacturer of innovative Gaming Controllers?  If you hazard a guess at the latter you'd be on the mark. Which by the way is exactly what their new PistolMouse is aimed to provide you, precision fragging with a classic "gat" kind... Read more...
He may be sippin umbrella drinks on some sandy beach in the Eastern Carribean right now with the new Mrs. BigWop but he was good enough to load up one of his patented Graphics Card showcases before he left! Here's hoping Marco comes back... Here's our take on Sapphire's New Radeon X850 XT PE AGP card.  Who says you need a PCI Express... Read more...
Good evening all...  By now you've probably read a few of the articles post around the web regarding the new Microsoft Xbox 360 console and the ATi Graphics Processor technology that will be the main rendering engine in the machine.  If you haven't had the chance to dig into the scene yet, there are articles up at the following sites:... Read more...
Known as arguably one of the best selling Notebooks in the Corporate sector, IBM's T series of Thinkpad Notebooks has historically earned high marks for its build quality, feature set and general well-rounded performance. Today HotHardware's Andrew Ku takes a look at the new IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad T43 Notebook. Can IBM pass the Thinkpad's illustrious... Read more...
Good Morning All! This is the day, THE DAY of days... for our brother, good friend and HotHardware.com's "back-bone" of the organization – Marco "BigWop" Chiappetta.  Marco Chiappetta and Adrienne Matero will be joined today in holy matrimony.  Let's wish them All-The-Best as they take the first step on... Read more...
Good Afternoon All, Stealth steps out of the shadows this afternoon long enough to give us his insight on MSI's new GeForce 6800GT PCI Express card. Fast, quiet and overclocker friendly, not a bad set of characteristics for one of the high end models from NVIDIA.   Catch all the spy-shots right here!... Read more...
Hello Everyone, HotHardware's Jeff Bouton gives us his performance evaluation of ATi's X300 SE 128MB HyperMemory based card vs. NVIDIA's GeForce 6200 128MB TurboCache offering.  It was a battle royale in the budget graphic arena for sure. Check it out here. Thanks!... Read more...
Heya Folks! What's red and shiny, looks like a it stepped out of a Ferrari show-room floor and has 120mm fans keeping things cool inside?  Asus' new Vento 3600 Gamer's case, of course! Check it out here, the Stealth Man tells all... :)... Read more...
  Over the past several years, NVIDIA has not only made a name for themselves in the Desktop Motherboard Chipset business but they have also cultivated a profitable and highly successful business unit in this area as well, commanding approximately 48% market share in the AMD Athlon 64 based market segment. With design wins at virtually... Read more...
Good morning all!   Make sure you scan down the page here a bit to catch JeffB's latest Tech News from around the web but I also have a couple of recent happenings in the land of Graphics and Dual Core CPUs this AM.   First, S3 Graphics checked in this morning to let us know that their cards are now available for sale at... Read more...
Good afternoon all!  Asus just checked in with us and delivered an image and some specs on their first nForce 4 SLI Intel Edition board, the P5ND2-SLI Deluxe.  This tight little plank-o-silicon certainly has some features that promise serious performance. Asus P5ND2-SLI Deluxe - NVIDIA™ NFORCE4 SLI - Intel Edition - Intel LGA775... Read more...
Good Morning All, NVIDIA steps out today with the launch of their nForce 4 SLI platform for Intel processors and we've got a full review and showcase chock full of benchmarks at HotHardware.com. Stop on by and see how NVIDIA's new platform stands up against the likes of the i925XE as well as their own AMD based nForce 4 solutions. Enjoy!... Read more...
  Today, we're bringing you a Dual-Core Pentium quick take, on short notice from the folks at Intel. With only a few hours of testing at our disposal, we're attempting to make time with some level of meaningful analysis for you and hit Intel's NDA embargo lift time this morning. Would we have liked to spend more quality lab time on such... Read more...
Good Evening Folks... Just checking in here with a heads-up from our buds at NewEgg.  They're currently running some great deals and free or .99¢ maximum shipping costs on everything on their site, from this past Thursday until Monday 4/4.  So, here are some great ideas.... Personally, I like all the new stuff Rosewill is punching... Read more...
Good evening all!   We invite you to feast your eyes on a couple of beastly new graphics cards from HIS - The HIS X850 XT IceQ II Turbo and HIS X800 XL IceQ II Turbo.  We cover these cards top to bottom, from the standard gaming benchmarks to a brand new Doom 3 engine based title and of course a bit of... Read more...
  In January we took a look at the HIS X700 Pro IceQ Turbo because it piqued our interest with its somewhat unique cooling solution.  HIS took a page from the book of "OTES", which stands for Outside Thermal Exhaust System, a thermal management approach pioneered by Abit Computer, that has been out on the market in various... Read more...
Good Morning Peeps, how goes the battle?  Things are clicking along nicely here in the HH Labs this weekend.  Yet another white-out with snow going on in the area, adding another 8-10" of the stuff before the day is through. It's all good though because there are many of us here on the HH Team in the Northeast and it only forces... Read more...
Good afternoon all and Happy Sunday... Davo just dropin' in here to tell you about an massive upcoming LAN Event that HotHardware.com will be attending and sponsoring in the month of April.   The Nor'Easter LAN is a 500 seat capacity LAN Event coming to Massachusetts on April 16th and 17th. BigWop and I will both be there.  We'll... Read more...
Get your HotHardware Threads here from our buds at Hacker Threads!  These stylish Tees with the HOT logo bustin' through will be sure to score you the Chicks.  And Ladies, we hope to be cooking up some nice Baby-Tees and HOT Mamma threads shortly for you as well!  Of course these stylish Tees will look good on any human - male,... Read more...
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