Media center PCs from MSI and Gigabyte

Monday, November 21st, 2005 by Peter

Both MSI and Gigabyte have entered the home media center market with their own name branded offerings. Some other motherboard manufacturers like ECS have decided to stay out of that game and stick to plain motherboard manufacturer.

Retail prices on home entertainment computers is much higher than that of desktop computers, (Read the rest of this review…)

SLI-ready GeForce 6800 GS graphics card from Chaintech

Monday, November 21st, 2005 by Peter

Chaintech is releasing a new graphics card based on the nVidia GeForce 6800 GS GPU. It featuers all of the normal featues expected from a 6800 series graphics card. It comes with 256MB of SDRAM and a 256-bit interface.

Source: Digitimes (Read the rest of this review…)

ECS nForce4-A939 Socket 939 motherboard

Monday, November 21st, 2005 by Peter

This board is strictly aimed at the budget oriented buyer looking for new stuff at a low price. It manages to get all the new parts you would need for an Athlon 64 system, without having to resort to old stuff to get that value.

It is not a board aimed (Read the rest of this review…)

Enermax 600 watt ATX power supply with 2 80mm fans

Monday, November 21st, 2005 by Peter

This highly specced, highly rated power supply, provides all the power needs any computer could need. With a rated 600 watts of power its more than enough to run the most powerful processor, paired up with dual-graphics SLI graphics cards.

New computers put continuin strain on power supplies. As the parts (Read the rest of this review…)

Asus A8N SLI Premium nVidia nForce4 Socket 939 motherboard

Saturday, November 19th, 2005 by Peter

The range of high quality boards for AMD Athlon chips, namely socket 939 is fairly big. With a range of boards to choose from big manufacturers like MSI and DFI there is a good chance to get all you need from a board with a little investigation.

If you have or (Read the rest of this review…)

Acer TravelMate C310 TMC214XCi Intel Centrino 2.0GHz Tablet PC

Saturday, November 19th, 2005 by Peter

The TravelMate C310 is a very powerful laptop from Acer. It provides all the functionality of a laptop, but the screen can be flipped over to convert it into a tablet. The laptop comes with an Intel Centrino 2.0GHz, which is very fast and combined with 1GB or RAM gives (Read the rest of this review…)

Montecito launch delayed due to power issues

Friday, November 18th, 2005 by Peter

Integrated power management issues may push back the launch of Intel’s dual-core Itanium processors till the middle of next year.

The dual-core Itanium will also no longer support Foxton and DBS power management, neither will the Xeon core “Tulsa”. Intel also gave up on the 667MHz FSB sticking to the current (Read the rest of this review…)

Intel 65nm Yonah names revised

Friday, November 18th, 2005 by Peter

Intel revised its naming convention of it’s new Yonah processor line. There will now be differentiation between single and dual core processors in the naming.

There will be an initial letter to denote the Thermal Design Power followed by number representing the model. First number of “1″ indicates single-core, “2″ indicates (Read the rest of this review…)

Foxconn 975X motherboard in December

Friday, November 18th, 2005 by Peter

Foxconn will release an Intel 975X chipset based motherboard in December.

Intel 975X is basically exactly the same as the older 955X but has dual-graphics capabilities. ATI’s crossfire is supported, while nVidia’s SLI in not, although it should be supported too.

Source: Digitimes (Read the rest of this review…)

Asus P5WD2 Premium Intel 955 Socket 775 motherboard

Thursday, November 17th, 2005 by Peter

There is a huge range of options when buying motherboards these days. All the big manufacturers have one for you to choose from, and there are new companies joining the game as well.

When you are actually picking a board, you can limit your options fairly easily. First, decide on what (Read the rest of this review…)

Aspire X-plorer ATX case with clear sides

Wednesday, November 16th, 2005 by Peter

The X-plorer is aimed at the mid-range custom computer case market. At around 60 dollars of so it lacks a few of the features of its more expensive brothers and sisters. It’s still a good case for the money, but as you will see it has a few issues that (Read the rest of this review…)

Acer TravelMate TM8104 Intel Pentium M 750 1.86GHz TM8104WLMi Notebook

Monday, November 14th, 2005 by Peter

The Acer TravelMate TM8104 is in the Company’s performance series. It’s big but sleek design give it a look of good qualities in terms of performance, without giving making it too heavy for travelling with.

The TravelMate 8100 provides practically everything for those on the move. The computer is powerful enough (Read the rest of this review…)

Aspire X-cruiser Mid-Tower ATX case with clear sides

Monday, November 14th, 2005 by Peter

An ATX sized offering the range from Aspire computer cases, this case has a retro feel with a lot of good features. Some only cosmetic, but some useful ones too.

Aspire PC cases have established themselves as good reliable cases, but as well as that they actually do appeal to the (Read the rest of this review…)

ECS Elitegroup PF21 Extreme Intel Socket 775 ATX P4 motherboard

Monday, November 14th, 2005 by Peter

At a price tag of around $150, this board is not attempting to appeal to the entry level computer. With its array of features, some of which are quite unique, it puts up a good fight in a market segment that is dominated by big brands.

The ECS PF21 is designed (Read the rest of this review…)

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