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Killer Gaming Rig: Spring 2006
This time, we dispense with the monster water-cooling case, and still bring you overclocking and faster performance. Powered by an Athlon 64 FX-60 and dual ATI CrossFire graphics and housed in a case you can carry to LAN parties, this rig will cause you no shame.
ExtremeTech
ExtremeTech
Stunning Infrared Images Reveal Serious Flaws in PC Case Design
A £30,000 FLIR digital camera exclusively reveals which cases are capable of supporting a performance PC, in the Labs test of seven cases in the May issue of Custom PC
Socket AM2 VS Socket 939
Our friends at HKEPC Hardware have thrown up their review of AMD's upcoming Socket AM2 Athlon 64 X2 4800+ processor.
Intel Dual-Core Gaming Performance Analysis
The first thing I would like to point out about this article is that it has been a while in the making. By that I mean, not only has this been a piece that has been needed in general, but my writing of this piece has been mired with roadblocks and washouts.
NVIDIA Talks G80
NVIDIA gave some interesting tidbits on the company's next-generation G80 graphics processing unit at the Morgan Stanley Semiconductor & Systems Conference earlier this month. We discuss these statements.
Bit-Tech
Bit-Tech
Foxconn Leaks Geforce 7900GX2 Images, Details
Foxconn's Dual GeForce 7900GX2 1024MB adaptor sports a 500MHz core clock with 1.2GHz DDR3 memory support. These clocks are lower than the GeForce 7900GTX, which has a 650MHz core clock with 1.5GHz DDR3 memory.
DailyTech
DailyTech
GeForce 7900 GTX Roundup
Last week, NVIDIA launched the GeForce 7900 GTX, GeForce 7900 GT and GeForce 7600 GT. We've managed to round up a selection of GeForce 7900 GTX's from some of NVIDIA's board partners. Does the it live up to expectations? We have all of the answers inside.
Bit-Tech
Bit-Tech
Intel's Robson Boosts Hard Drive Performance
Imagine Battlefield 2 starting up in just a few seconds. Imagine significantly extending your laptop battery's life. Intel's Robson disk caching technology may do more to save power and speed up your system than a faster CPU.
2560x1600 Gaming Performance with Dell's 3007WFP Part 1
With its jaw-dropping 2560x1600 native res, Dell's 3007WFP is capable of dishing out some very impressive visuals provided you have the graphics card to handle it. And just which cards would that be? In Part 1 of today's article, we attempt to find out, running NVIDIA's latest GeForce 7900 cards against ATI's Radeon X1900/X1800 lines in single-card and dual-GPU configurations.
Video Card Memory Analysis: 256MB vs. 512MB
How many forums have you visited in the last month with threads discussing whether 512MB video cards are really necessary? Well hopefully this article will shed some light on this topic.
CeBIT 2006 in Germany
Guru3D.com just posted an article on the CeBIT 2006 exhibit that is taking place in germany as we speak. CeBIT is easily one of the biggest IT exhibits that takes place in Europe every year. Roughly two million visitors and well over 8000 exhibitors are attending the CeBIT. CeBIT focuses on the professional visitor, rather than the end-user. The majority of exhibitors were IT/Enterprise oriented and only handfuls in attendance were for the consumer level.
Intel Conroe Processor: A Performance Preview
At the spring 2006 Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco the entire focus of the industry was squarely set on the release of detailed information on Intel?s new microarchitecture.PC Perspective
AMD announces three new dual-core AMD Opteron's
announced three new models in the Dual-Core AMD Opteron? processor family that lead the industry in x86 performance and performance-per-watt capabilities. The new Dual-Core AMD Opteron processors help minimize overall server power consumption and cooling requirements. AMD Press Release
LaCie Two Big 1TB eSATA drive
It wasn't very long ago that having a terabyte (1TB) of storage in a home PC was considered far-fetched. But now just about every hard drive manufacturer has a 500GB drive in its product range, and having a terabyte or more in a desktop PC isn't really a big deal. However, LaCie has figured out a different approach to give you 1TB with the Two Big external Serial ATA (eSATA) enclosure... Reg Hardware
Up Close with Quad SLI
During NVIDIA's 6th Annual Editors' Day, the media was given the chance to try out the Quad SLI systems that will soon be offered first by the System Builders such as Dell and Alienware. We took the chance to examine Quad SLI closely and ran some benchmarks on the Extreme HD Gaming Monsters.
The Core of Intel's New Chips
The Core microarchitecture is at the heart of Intel's plans to regain the desktop performance crown. We delve into white papers to find out just exactly what Core is, and how it will affect performance.
Bit-Tech
Bit-Tech
AMD Turion 64 X2 Prototypes Pic's
There were two reference designs for Turion 64 X2 (dual-core version of Turion 64) running, one based on ATI chipset (Xpress) and the other based on nVidia?s (SLI Power).
HardwareSecret
HardwareSecret
Conroe Performance Preview Follow-Up
We took a second look at Conroe. We ran the AMD system with an updated BIOS, ran our own Quake 4 demo on Conroe and re-ran some of our original tests. Find out what's changed.
NVIDIA's SLI Gets Busier - Notebook and Quad SLI Versions
Not only does NVIDIA announce a new series of GPUs dubbed the 7900 and 7600, we also have the official unveiling of Quad SLI and Notebook SLI in limited form. You can't quite get it yet, but soon.
PC Perspective
PC Perspective
