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Good morning all. It's that time again where we bring you some morning news from the PC hardware world. The weekend is fast approaching, so let's get to it and then let the relaxing begin! Foxconn 755A01-6EKRS Athlon64 Motherboard (SiS 755) review @ hardCOREware.net: "If you have owned a computer in...
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Greetings and Salutations loyal HotHardware fans! This is your favorite oversized Italian hardware geek, checking in with a mid-afternoon helping of hardware goodness. I'm fighting off a cold (or allergies - I'm not sure yet), and need to get back to benchmarking, so I'll unfortunately have to be brief. So here goes... Mega...
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There is no question, the year ahead in 2004, is shaping up to be a banner one for leading edge PC technology. New features and performance abound, as new technologies such as PCI Express, DDR2 and GDDR3 find their way into the mainstream. While the past few iterations of platform products have been more or less, "kicker"...
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The GeForce 6800 Ultra NVIDIA's NV40 Debuts... By, Marco Chiappetta April 14, 2004 NVIDIA is poised to fire the first shot in the next battle of the war for 3D supremacy with today's official unveiling of their new NV40 GPU. The past two years have been especially hard fought. Both NVIDIA and ATI...
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Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz Performance Evaluation Another speed bump served up by Intel with ease By, Dave Altavilla June 23, 2003 Once again, Intel has decided to turn up the heat on their arch rival, AMD. In a sort of digital ying-yang, the battle for Performance Desktop and Workstation Processor leadership, presses on relentlessly. ...
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Intel's Pentium 4 3GHz With 800MHz System Bus And The i875P "Canterwood" Chipset More bandwidth and leading edge desktop technology for the P4 By, Dave Altavilla and Chris Angelini April 14, 2003 Time certainly does fly when you are clipping along at 3GHz, doesn't it? It has been a whole 5 months since Intel released...
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The ATi Radeon 9600 Pro Debut Decent card, fuzzy naming convention By - Marco Chiappetta April 16, 2003 It seems like we've been covering new video card releases on an almost weekly basis over the last few months. Since the beginning of the year, we've seen NVIDIA announce, and then release, multiple flavors of GeForce FX cards, albeit...
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The SiS 648 Chipset Debuts A Comprehensive Look at a Pre-Production Shuttle AS45GT/R By, Marco Chiappetta August 12, 2002 In early 2002 Silicon Integrated Systems Corp. (SiS) released their 645 chipset. Initially, many analysts were skeptical that SiS could deliver a high-performing DDR chipset for the Pentium 4. They...
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Intel's Pentium 4 with 533MHz Bus and The i850E Chipset 2.4 and 2.53GHz performance with a 533MHz Front Side Bus By, Dave Altavilla May 6, 2002 There are many architectural attributes of Intel's Pentium 4 processor, that will drive incremental performance for CPU core, as the months and years roll on, in their battle against their primary...
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nVIDIA's New GeForce4 Ti and GeForce4 MX The NV25 and NV17 Debut By Dave Altavilla 2/6/02 A mere 4 months ago, we turned HotHardware readers on to NVIDIA's "fall refresh" product, the GeForce3 Titanium. A new set of drivers, higher clocks speeds and all new branding of the GeForce3 product, was unleashed upon the casual...
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The Soyo SY-6ICA Motherboard Soyo's RAMBUS Driven i820 Offering By, Dave "Davo" Altavilla - 5/17/00 Here we are again with yet another look at a motherboard from a top notch supplier based on Intel's controversial chipset, the i820. Whether you are interested in SDRAM supported designs with Intel's infamous MTH (memory transfer...
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3dfx Selling Core Graphics Assets To nVidia Corp. One step closer to complete domination, nVidia moves to assimilate the competition NVIDIA To acquire 3dfx core graphics assets SANTA CLARA, CA - DECEMBER 15, 2000 - NVIDIA® Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA) today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire certain graphics...
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This just in from Hot Hardware fan and Super Cooling Freak-Man Steve Croft! I recently got the P3 500 and set about a maximum tweak... Brief highlights of how follow :-) 1.) Mobo BX6 r2 Bios (Ver KU) settings.... FSB set to 129 x 5 (1/4 pci) Core Volts set at 2.3V 2.) PC125 SDRAM (128MB) PC100 falls over badly... 3.) InWin Q500 full...
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One Hot Athlon Overclocking Card From Outside Loop Computers As the old saying goes, "where there is a will, there is a way". When AMD's Athlon first hit the market many were disappointed with the lack of user configuration options for the first round of Athlon Motherboards. Still today, there aren't many...
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One Hot Athlon Overclocking Card From Outside Loop Computers We'll let the pictures say it all... We dialed the Athlon straight up to 800MHz. with the Afterburner from Outside Loop. This particular CPU we had, held stable throughout our tests for hours on end at this frequency. Will you be able to hit this mark? ...
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