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.
“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”.
“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”.
“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”.
“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”.
“ 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”.
“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”.
“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”.
“ 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”.
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.
SkyHawk traditionally is known for their PC cases, however they do manufacturer other computer products, one of which is SFF PCs. Today we look at the SkyHawkThe IMC6375 SFF PC that features the Intel 865G (Springdale) and the ICH5 chipset w/ dual-channel DDR400, SATA-150, 6 channel audio, integrated Intel Extreme Graphics 2, and more.
“EPOX AND ABIT confirmed our previous news where we reported that Nforce 3 and 4 have some problems with Athlon revision E CPUs. These companies also confirmed that it can be fixed at the BIOS Continue reading “Abit and Epox confirm Nforce 3/4 problem”.
“Windows XP may be updated to support a new file system technology that Microsoft is working on for the next version of Windows. Called WinFS, the technology promises to make it easier for users to Continue reading “Windows XP May Gain Longhorn Features”.
“Back in 1346, it didn’t take a CSI unit to uncover the culprits behind one of history’s first cases of bioterrorism. Nobody could miss the plague-ridden corpses and heads catapulted over the walls of the Continue reading “Bioterror CSIs Target Germs”.
With the majority of today’s processors becoming hotter water cooling is something that is becoming more mainstream. Corsair has been doing watercooling for years with the Hydrocool 200 and has decided to bring out a new product called the COOL to replace their old unit. Can Corsair’s new “Cool” unit bring water cooling to the masses and still perform well?
