Monday Morning News
I hope everyone had a great holiday weekend and made it safely back to the daily grind of work. Not too much news going on today yet, so I thought I’d just link to some Continue reading “Monday Morning News”.
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The Sapphire ATI X850 XT PCI-Express Graphics Card
Now that the high end ATI cards are finally showing up on the market en masse, Legit Reviews takes a look at Sapphire?s X850 XT video card. LR tests the X850 XT in a variety of configurations against a pair of XFX 6600GT SLI mode on the ever popular DFI NF4 SLI-DR Athlon 64 motherboard.
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First Look: Sony’s Impressive PlayStation Portable
“It’s black and shiny with clear acrylic buttons; it plays games, music, and movies; and it’s coming to a store near you March 24. It’s Sony’s $250 PlayStation Portable, and after two days of intense Continue reading “First Look: Sony’s Impressive PlayStation Portable”.
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Amazon
“Extra zeros on Amazon.com’s listing for a ViewSonic Tablet PC drew a blizzard of bogus “buyer” reviews of a system so powerful that one claimed “the singularity used to power this device is unstable” and Continue reading “Amazon”.
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Intel looking for market to migrate to 600-series CPUs by 3Q, mobo makers disagree
“Intel is hoping the market will migrate from 500-series Pentium 4 CPUs to 64-bit 600-series by the third quarter of this year, with the chip giant promoting the fact that 915- and 945-series chipsets will Continue reading “Intel looking for market to migrate to 600-series CPUs by 3Q, mobo makers disagree”.
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Broadband scuffle reaches Supreme Court
“Two competing visions of the future of high-speed Internet services will face off before the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, in a closely watched case that could set the rules of the road for broadband Continue reading “Broadband scuffle reaches Supreme Court”.
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Super-cooled AMD Venice benchmarked
“ SPODS at Xtremesystems have gotten themselves all in a lather over some AMD chips. After fiddling with a pair of 90nm ‘Venice’ samples, the overclockers reckon to have unearthed evidence that the Prince Harry* Continue reading “Super-cooled AMD Venice benchmarked”.
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Taiwan vendors sign-on with Samsung for NAND flash
“The average consumer?s demand for mobile storage will top 100GB by 2007 ? a five-fold increase from current levels ? as a wider variety of consumer electronics applications and richer content become available on the Continue reading “Taiwan vendors sign-on with Samsung for NAND flash”.
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Yahoo bolsters e-mail storage to 1GB
“Yahoo on Tuesday said it plans to once again boost its free e-mail storage limit–this time to 1GB, the same amount offered by archrival Google. Beginning in late April, Yahoo will upgrade free users to Continue reading “Yahoo bolsters e-mail storage to 1GB”.
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PCI Express represents 15 per cent of add-in cards
“ PCI EXPRESS ADOPTION is taking its time. It is having a hard time to establish itself as the primary choice for consumers and gamers. Regardless of all reviews and the noise that reviewers and Continue reading “PCI Express represents 15 per cent of add-in cards”.
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Pentium M on your Socket 478 platform: Part 2
The ASUS CT-479 CPU Upgrade Kit is a newly launched solution that brings the quiet and cool performance of the Intel Pentium M Socket 479 notebook processor onto ASUS? Socket 478 desktop motherboards. Read on and take a look and see what the future holds for Pentium M lovers.
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Mid-Week Reviews
Today’s Interesting Read: The Future of SLI @ [H] Brent Justice has spent some time recently with some SLI cards and takes a look at how the have progressed over the past months. I’m glad Continue reading “Mid-Week Reviews”.
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ABIT Cancels VT8 Motherboard & Use of VIA PT800 Pro Chipset
It is official; the ABIT VT8 motherboard will not make it to the retail market. Yesterday we confirmed the news through our contacts at ABIT?s head quarters in Taiwan. We first saw a pre-production board Continue reading “ABIT Cancels VT8 Motherboard & Use of VIA PT800 Pro Chipset”.
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Slow season for DRAM
A slow DRAM season means cheap prices for consumers as companies try to push out existing stock and cut their losses on the DRAM they already purchased. “A combination of the slow season for DRAM Continue reading “Slow season for DRAM”.
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Thermaltake Silent Purepower 680W
With consumers needing bigger power supplies to power their new high end systems we are starting to see massive PSU’s hit the market. Today Legit Reviews takes a look at the Thermaltake Silent Purepower 680W PSU and checks out how it performs on our DFI nF4 Ultra board and AMD A64 3500+ CPU overclocked to 2.53GHz.
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