Items tagged with 4P
Intel launched its much-anticipated Nehalem-EX processor today; the new chip could redefine performance at 4P and above. Nehalem-EX, aka Beckton, aka Xeon 6500/7500 is Nehalem at full throttle; Beckton is an eight-core/16-thread processor with up to 24MB of L3 cache or ~3MB per core compared to Nehalem's 2MB/core design. It supports up to...
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Good Afternoon Folks! If you take a gander at the top of the page, you'll see that we've just posted a new review of ASUS' DRW-1604P Dual Layer DVD+/- R/RW drive. This drive sports a very complete list of features, including the ability to burn DVD+R and -R discs at 16X speeds, and the ability to burn dual-layer discs at 4X speeds. And it's...
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Choosing a recordable DVD drive has always been somewhat of a difficult task. There was a bit of initial uncertainty as some wondered which format would win out, DVD+R or DVD–R. After all, each format has its advantages. In the end, however, unlike the Beta vs VHS battles of the early 80s, this war was quelled...
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Good afternoon, and welcome back HotHardware fans! We've just posted a review of the Asus DRW-0804P 8X DVD+/-R Burner. While there are quite a few 8X DVD burners already on the market, there aren't many others that boast 8X burning capabilities on both +R and –R media. Asus' drive, however, is able to do just that. We've compared the...
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We've taken a look at quite a few dual format DVD burners over the last few months, and found some to be better than others for various reasons. Most, if not all, of the drives we've reviewed shined in one area, but were lacking in another. Whether it be slower CD-R burning speeds, lack of options, or slow access times, we keep pressing...
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Epox 4PDA2+ V2 Motherboard Review One Step Closer to Near-Perfection "Burned" in by Robert Maloney September 3, 2003 Today on HotHardware we have another Springdale-based motherboard to add to the mix. Intel has made some recent comments about "shutting down" the PAT...
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The VIA P4PB Ultra Motherboard Review Intent on Total System Performance for the P4 By Robert Maloney March 19th, 2003 Our first impression of the VIA P4PB Ultra, when the box showed up on the testing bench, was that it screamed (literally) that it was here to play. From the no-nonsense black box with a guy yelling (at what we...
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The Asus P4PE And Intel D845GEBV2 Motherboards Intel's i845PE and i845GE Chipsets Hit The Ground Running With DDR By, Dave Altavilla October 7, 2002 As a starting point for this article, we'll offer some confessions. We admit it. For a long time now we've been die hard RDRAM fans, when it comes to Pentium 4 configurations. ...
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