With new CPU prices ranging from $28.00 low end to well over $600.00 high end, the consumer is wise to analyze the current price curve. The best deal, which is a compromise between speed and price, is to buy the fastest processor on the shallow part of the curve, just before the incline goes […]
This May we’ve conducted some price comparisons to determine the best price per gig for IDE and SATA hard drives, by the major manufacturers, available from online vendors. Before you shop at Best Buy, or another retail store, you should consider purchasing from an online vendor such as newegg.com or mwave.com. More importantly, […]
PCI Express (not to be confused with PCI-X) is the replacement for both PCI and AGP. While the classic PCI Bus is based upon a parallel architecture, PCI Express is serial based, drastically reducing pin count. It is a point-to-point protocol much like AGP. Devices do not share bandwidth. PCI Express means X16 […]
The GeForce 7800 GTX 512’s increase comes from a faster core clock and a bigger memory clock speed: 850MHz (1.7GHz effective), the latter yielding the 54.4GBps of bandwidth provided by the chip’s 256-bit memory bus. Nvidia said GTX 512-based boards are shipping from the likes of Asus, Gainward, MSI, XFX and Point of View. […]
Gaming with an LCD monitor used to be a big no-no until major improvements have broken the LCD gaming sonic barrier. This time the sonic boom comes from VewSonic with their new nineteen inch LCD display with a 3ms response time. XYZ Computing has this review of the ViewSonic VX924 3ms Display. […]
Armed with the Radeon X1800, deep-pocketed gamers may have an edge over traditional high-end Nvidia performance card users. ATI has announced that the Radeon X1800 XL and Radeon X1300 cards are now being shipped. More Radeon X1800 configurations, such as the X1800 XT, and Radeon X1600 cards are scheduled to ship late October or […]
Business, Home Office, and Gamer audiences will all find the ThinkVision L170 flat panel LCD monitor a great deal for the price range. We tested this monitor and it performed exceptionally well for the First Person Shooter Medal of Honor game. Displaying an optimum resolution of 1280 x 1024, the L170 has a […]
Approved as a standard on April 17 2002, PCI-Express is intended to be an evolutionary upgrade to the existing PCI bus. It will maintain complete hardware and software compatibility with all recent PCI devices. In terms of form though, it is something completely new.
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Once upon a time computer cooling was not very important. Back in those days computers were slow and had few components, producing little heat. With over 100,000,000 transistors crammed into a space smaller than a fingernail, a modern processor consumes over 80 watts of electricity alone. Without proper cooling, a processor will […]