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Benchmarks: Intel's 64-bit Pentium 4 660 @ ZDNet

Published 2005-03-06 18:36 by Newsfactory 0

With its 6xx-series Pentium 4 processors, Intel has finally jumped on the desktop 64-bit bandwagon. Intel's EM64T architecture can implement Windows' x86-64 mode, and is also compatible with the AMD64 architecture. This means that you don't need different Windows operating systems to take advantage of 64-bit processing.

Texas Gaming Festival LAN Coverage

Published 2005-03-05 16:42 by Newsfactory 0

The Texas Gaming festival is a successful LAN event that has been taking place in Dallas, Texas for the past few years. Over the years, it has become one of the top most visited and sponsored LAN events in the nation with attendance easily surpassing the 500-attendee attendance. This year was no different. In fact, this was perhaps the most successful attempt at a LAN event especially when ATI decided to launch its X850 XT PE 512MB graphics card officially.

IDF Spring 2005 - Day 2: The Yonah Scoop

Published 2005-03-03 23:46 by Newsfactory 0

Want to know everything that's been made available on Intel's first dual core mobile CPU? We've got Yonah uncovered.

AnandTech

512MB GeForce 6800 Ultra Pictured

Published 2005-03-03 23:27 by Newsfactory 0

We have just come across some pictures of the latest 512MB GeForce 6800 Ultra that we talked about at the end of last week.

Bit-Tech

Mini Hard Drive Mini Roundup

Published 2005-03-03 15:02 by Newsfactory 0

In this review, a few different portable hard drives were rounded up to be compared head to head... a Transcend StoreJet 1.8 (TS20GSJ18), a Kanguru Quicksilver (U2-HD2-20) and a ME-910 enclosure with a Fujitsu laptop drive. All three drives boast a 20GB capacity, and incorporate slightly different features and specifications into somewhat similar products.

BigBruin

Corsair 4-Gigs Memory Giveaway!

Published 2005-03-02 22:29 by Newsfactory 0

Corsair - A leading hi-performance memory storage solution provider and MVKTech - The world's largest graphic card BIOS resource center, has joined forces to give our readers and members a chance to win 4-Gigs of some of the fastest DDR modules on the planet: Corsair XMS TWINX1024-3200XLPRO.
MVKTech - Corsair 4-Gigs Memory Giveaway!

DDR-2 PC-5400 Performance Memory Shootout - OCZ vs. Corsair vs. Kingston

Published 2005-03-02 22:28 by Newsfactory 0

In TweakTown's latest article they are comparing the performance of some of the top brands in DDR-2 memory modules. We've got modules on the test bench from OCZ (PC-5400 Performance series), Corsair (XMS2 Pro series) and Kingston (HyperX series). After taking a close look at each set of Dual Channel modules, we tested them at their default speeds and as far as we could overclock them.

SLI for Pentium 4 - Spy Shots

Published 2005-03-02 14:39 by Newsfactory 0

HEXUS.net, reporting from the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, have snagged a spy shot of a NVIDIA reference board for the Pentium 4 that features two 16x PCIe lanes - ready for SLI. Only one graphics card is seen sitting in the motherboard, so perhaps it isn't fully functional yet.

Intel P4 Aircooling - Heatsink Roundup Q1 2005

Published 2005-03-02 14:33 by Newsfactory 0

part two of their P4 HSF roundup the Madshrimps compare 11 different P4 heatsinks made by Thermalright, Spire, Primecooler, Zalman, Evercool, Vantec and Titan. Using different fans at low and high speed we try to find the best bang for the buck, best performer and most silent HSF combo out there.

AMD Athlon64 PCIe Chipset Shootout

Published 2005-03-01 18:22 by Newsfactory 0

Today at GamePC, we'll be comparing the four main Athlon64 chipsets on the market with PCI Express support, along with looking at the boards which run them. We have motherboards based on nVidia's nForce4 Ultra and nForce4 SLI, along with new boards based on ATI's Radeon XPress 200 and VIA's K8T890 chipsets. Which platform is the best solution for running your new Athlon64 processor? Let's take a closer look.

ATI FireGL V7100 v Quadro FX 3400 ? Update

Published 2005-03-01 18:02 by Newsfactory 0

Some months ago the FireGL V7100 pre production model landed on the door and we promised as time progressed that we would show an update on just the card and its drivers have advanced since launch to now. This has to be one of the biggest uptakes we have seen in some time as we found out below.

3D Professor

ATI Extends its Line of High-end Graphics Cards

Published 2005-02-28 20:05 by Newsfactory 1

ATI have announced in a press release that its X800 XL and X850 XT are now both available in an AGP flavour. Great news for those of us not ready to jump onto PCI-Express just yet.

TXGF's ATI Ultimate LAN Party @ TechReport

Published 2005-02-28 14:05 by Newsfactory 0

This weekend in Dallas, I attended the Texas Gaming Festival's ATI Ultimate LAN Party, a nice-sized event attended by around 500 people. The party featured the usual mix of LAN gaming, tourneys, and sleep deprivation, but it was unique for a few reasons. ATI, the event's title sponsor, saw to that. First, they showed off what they claimed was the world's first 512MB graphics card, a Radeon X850 XT with twice the RAM of the usual variety.

22 Coolers reviewed @ Todoreviews.net

Published 2005-02-26 17:15 by Newsfactory 0

Aerocool, Artic Cooling, Coolermaster, Gigabyte, Glacialtech, Scythe, Silverstone, Swiftech, Thermalright, Thermaltake and Zalman with one o more models are present in this comparison for Socket A, Socket 939 or LGA775. Temp and noise was measured on a Innovatek KT-3 measurement system.

What is the best cooler? Visit Todoreviews.net

Comparing Pentium4 & Athlon64 x64 Performance

Published 2005-02-25 22:43 by Newsfactory 0

We compare the difference between the RC2 version 32-bit & 64-bit Windows XP with Intel and AMD CPUs.

T-Break

Battle Royale, Pentium 4 at 5.2GHz

Published 2005-02-25 14:55 by Newsfactory 2

Ever wondered what clock speed Pentium 4 you would need to beat AMD?s flagship Athlon 64 FX55 on the PCIe platform? We clock the Pentium 4 660 to various clock speeds and run a plethora of benchmarks, here are the results.

Hardware Analysis

Radeon X950XT 3DMARK05 Benchmark?

Published 2005-02-25 14:09 by Newsfactory 0

Just got word from the Chinese site PC POP that they've snagged some 3DMARK05 scores for ATI's upcoming Radeon X950XT aka R520!

We this morning obtain one ATI X950XT (R520) 3DMARK05 the Detail truncation chart, sees from the truncation chart, ATI next generation of Radeon X950XT (R520) the indicator at present core operating frequency is 750MHz, matches 512MB reveals saves, reveals saves operating frequency 900MHz, the hardware supports Shader3.0,

SLI Test

Published 2005-02-25 13:46 by Newsfactory 0

There is an interesting SLI test at polish web site IN4.pl! They tested the following cards:

2xGeForce 6600 GT ,2xGeForce 6800 2xGeForce 6800 GT ,2xGeForce 6800 Ultra ,Gigabyte 3D1

The most interesting is 2x6800 based on NV41 chip!

First pictures of ATI's 512MB Radeon X850

Published 2005-02-24 23:59 by Newsfactory 1

We've just received the first images of the 512MB variant of ATI's Radeon X850 board!

Elite Bastards

Gainward Launch 512MB Graphics Card

Published 2005-02-23 18:43 by Newsfactory 0

HEXUS.net is reporting that thanks to Gainward we will now see a 512MB consumer graphics card hit the market. That's more graphics memory than many PCs have system memory. Is Doom III really that demanding?