This is for the ABIT AA8. PQI Turbo memory has been doing a marketing push in North America. Is the memory something to take a look at or something to skip over? Today we pull out all the spots and punish the PQI Turbo PC-3200 memory with our RST Pro2 memory tester and a bunch of memory bandwidth benchmarks!
Intel Socket 775 + ? = Lower Than Expected Sales Recently many in the media have been writing articles pointing out the low sales of Intel’s socket 775 processor. These articles touch on how Intel Continue reading “Overclocker’s Lack Of Choices: cooling the LGA775”.
Introduction: After attending Quakecon 2004 and meeting some dedicated readers we found that one of the most asked questions at Quakecon 2004 was: “How well does Doom 3 play on laptops?”. We had our laptop Continue reading “How Will Doom 3 Play On My Notebook?”.
Introduction: Quakecon 2004 is here! We usually drive to Dallas from St. Louis as a tradition, but with some upcoming meetings and IDF around the corner we jumped aboard a plane to head the 600 Continue reading “Quakecon 2004; Dallas, Texas (USA) | Pre-Show”.
Introduction: While we have looked at many of Corsair’s XMS modules over the past couple years we have yet to review any of their value memory. Seeing how many consumers cannot afford or are not Continue reading “Corsair PC-3200 Value Select Memory”.
Marketing Departments + DDR2 = One Very Confused Consumer When DDR2 memory hit the market I was honestly anxious to see what the memory companies and their marketing departments would do. During the months leading Continue reading “Behind The Scenes: DDR2”.
Introduction: In Part 1 of our three part notebook series we showed what pieces were needed to build your own “custom” notebook. Once you get all the pieces for your notebook you then just have Continue reading “Building a Whitebox Notebook: Part 2”.
Introduction: To get a better understanding of DDR2 memory we need to go back to when it all began! It was back in October of 2002 that things started looking good for DDR2 memory and Continue reading “Is DDR2 Ready To Replace DDR1???”.
Introduction: Now that DDR2 platforms are out how are DDR2 prices? The next generation motherboards that will be using DDR2 are now out and many consumers are looking into building their next system. Since your Continue reading “June 2004 DDR2 Pricing Update”.
Introduction: We all knew that Intel had a bunch of new products coming, but by the time all the working parts got there we had little time to get the benchmarking done let alone anything Continue reading “Socket T Arrives & Comes With A Plethora Of Goodie”.
Introduction Popular PC-3200 Memory & Socket 939 (VIA K8T800-Pro): After being asked by our readers to look into benchmarking memory on a Socket 939 platform we have had the chance to take a look and Continue reading “AMD Socket 939 Memory Testing”.
Introduction We all know that the upcoming LGA775 platforms are coming real soon from Intel. The original Prescott made a lot of news with it’s high temps and we wrote a couple articles about cooling Continue reading “Attack of the Prescott Heat Sinks! @ Computex 2004”.
Introduction: A couple days ago we published a “preview” of the new Corsair XMS 3200XL Memory and now we are publishing our regular full review! The new series of Corsair memory is going to be Continue reading “Corsair XMS 3200XL Memory”.
Corsair XMS XL Arrives: It seems that Corsair has been developing a new line of memory for their successful XMS Series of memory. They managed to keep it a secret up until today! The new Continue reading “Corsair Introduces XL Memory!”.
Can I build my own laptop? ASUS M6N “Whitebox Notebook” Open ASUS M6N Side View Closed For years the only way to buy a notebook computer was to buy a bundled notebook from a major Continue reading “Building A Whitebox Notebook: Part 1”.
