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- Polywell Poly 430AM2
- Polywell, a company whose high-end gaming and Media Center systems we're accustomed to seeing, has put together a basic box suitable for back-to-school shoppers, with the Polywell Poly 430AM2. This PC won't win any awards for design or performance, and at $1,350 (including a 19-inch LCD monitor and 5.1 speakers),...
- Tags: Video cards, Games, Processors, Polywell Poly 430AM2, Poly 430AM2, Geforce 7600 GS, GeForce 7600, Nvidia GeForce, video card, Cyberpower
- Product reviews 2006-06-30
- Nvidia GeForce 7600 GT (256MB)
- Gamers frustrated with the expense of the relentless 3D card upgrade cycle can rejoice. Until recently, you had to spend more than $300 to get all the bells and whistles and good frame rates at high resolutions. Enter the Nvidia GeForce 7600 GT, a card that delivers top-notch gaming performance...
- Tags: Games, card, Nvidia GeForce, GeForce 7600 GT, GeForce 7600, NVidia Corp.
- Product reviews 2006-05-05
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- ZT Affinity 7221Xa
- The $600 ZT Affinity 7221Xa is the cheaper sibling of the recently reviewed ZT Affinity 7225Xi-35. Its fixed configuration includes most of what we expect to find in a system in this price range. Like the 7225Xi-35, the 7221Xa is geared toward those who need a simple desktop with basic...
- Tags: Desktops, DVD, Flash memory, Memory, Consumer electronics, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), ZT Affinity 7221Xa, ZT Affinity 7225Xi-35
- Product reviews 2008-07-17
- NVIDIA: Nothing to see here, move along
- NVIDIA: Nothing to see here, move alongThe fact that Nvidia is not telling us...the whole story tells us the whole story. If it wasn't "that bad", they wouldn't be afraid to come forward with all the facts. This is typical behavior for a corporation, if the news is...
- Tags: Notebooks, Semiconductors, store owner, NVidia Corp., laptop computer, Hewlett-Packard Co.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-17
- Sony's Centrino 2 laptop lineup
- Details of Sony's new laptops have been trickling out for several weeks, but Sony held off on an official announcement to coincide with Intel's Centrino 2 launch this week. Sony introduced four new VAIO lines ranging from the 3-pound Z-series ultraportable with a 13.1-inch display to the...
- Tags: Sony Corp., IBM zSeries, Hard Drive, Sony Vaio, Intel Centrino, Memory, Microsoft Windows Vista, Intel Core 2 Duo, Series, Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium, Graphics, Laptop Computer, Intel Corp., SP1, SR Series, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Desktops, Processors, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- ZT Affinity 7225Xi-35
- The $750 ZT Affinity 7225Xi-35 is a fairly ambitious lower-midrange PC. This fixed configuration includes a lower-end quad-core chip, 4GB of memory, and a discrete graphics card. The result is solid everyday performance, and if you need a basic, capable desktop, this system will serve. Its lack of 64-bit Windows...
- Tags: Desktops, Processors, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Network technology, ZT Affinity 7225Xi-35, Velocity Micro Vector
- Product reviews 2008-07-14
- NVIDIA slashes price of GTX 260 and 280 GPUs
- About four weeks after the release of the GeForce GTX 200 series, NVIDIA has slashed the price of the GTX 260 and 280 GPUs in responce to competition from AMD/ATI. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: NVidia Corp., ATI Technologies Inc., GPU, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- Velocity Micro Vector Campus Edition
- We normally have good things to say about Velocity Micro's Campus Edition back-to-school desktops. This year's model, the $999 Vector Campus Edition, leaves us disappointed because of its uninspired configuration. We still find Velocity Micro's desktop design among the best in the industry, and this system's visual appeal and...
- Tags: Processors, Network technology, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Velocity Micro, Velocity, Vector Campus Edition
- Product reviews 2008-07-10
- Report: NVIDIA issues cover all G84 and G86 GPUs
- Report: NVIDIA issues cover all G84 and G86 GPUsADVANTAGE - ATII sure glad AMD / ATI took the steps they did... they dont overclock the chips as bad... they use less power.. and just overalll better design chips...I Love how NVIDIA went out and said the future is...
- Tags: Corporate governance, Notebooks, NVidia Corp., laptop computer, G86 GPU, ATI Technologies Inc., G84, motherboard, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., board
- Discussion threads 2008-07-10
- Report: NVIDIA issues cover all G84 and G86 GPUs
- According to The Inquirer, the heat issues affecting "significant quantities" of older mobile GPUs affects all NVIDIA G84 and G86 GPUs which are used in GeForce 8400M and 8600M graphics cards. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Nvidia GeForce, NVidia Corp., GPU, Desktops, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-07-10
- NVIDIA stock ... Good buy or goodbye?
- NVIDIA stock ... Good buy or goodbye?They said that of Applethose many years ago. Thankfully, I held onto my stock which is doing quite well.I have a feeling that Nvidia will recover over time as well.I will remain loyal to nVidia.Of course, I only use desktops but I've found their...
- Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, NVidia Corp., stock
- Discussion threads 2008-07-09
- Acer announces $499 home theater-friendly mini PC
- If your geek tendencies have ever desired to shoehorn a computer into your home theater, now's the time to give in. Acer introduced the Aspire X1200 this morning, which for $450 includes on-board NVIDIA GeForce 8200 graphics, an AMD Athlon (remember those?) X2 2850e processor and, thankfully,...
- Tags: Acer Inc., mini-PC, Serial ATA, Home Entertainment, Digital Video, Processors, Storage, Hardware, Personal Technology, Semiconductors, Components, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Are all-in-one desktops a decent deal?
- Averatec, the O.C.'s other computer maker after Gateway, has released a new all-in-one desktop. The design doesn't break any new ground in this category, but it is simple, compact and reasonably attractive. And with a 22-inch LCD, Nvidia GeForce 8400 graphics and an integrated TV tuner, at first glance it...
- Tags: Desktop, Microsoft Windows Vista, LCD, Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium, Graphics, Monitors & Displays, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Hardware, Components, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- HP Pavilion dv6915nr
- We've long been fans of HP's Pavilion line of laptops, which combine an attractive design with media-friendly features at a fair price. By those criteria the Pavilion dv6915nr, a configuration available only in retail stores, is a no exception. It features the familiar glossy black case, light-touch media controls, and...
- Tags: Desktops, HP Pavilion, dv6915nr, Hewlett-Packard Co.
- Product reviews 2008-07-03
- Nvidia whacked over defective notebook chips; Offers driver to keep processors cool
- Nvidia whacked over defective notebook chips; Offers driver to keep processors coolCustomer use patterns...Translated, "We didn't plan for customers to actually turn their notebooks on."What a crock!I think this article......uses "impacted" far too many times. The correct word is "affected".RE: Nvidia whacked over defective notebook chips; Offers driver to keep...
- Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, Notebooks, Processors, processor, NVidia Corp., chip, notebook, defective notebook chip, Offers driver, notebook chip
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- Nvidia whacked over defective notebook chips; Offers driver to keep processors cool
- Updated: Nvidia said its fiscal second quarter revenue will fall well short of targets because of weak demand, pricing pressure from AMD's ATI and a faulty graphics processors on older notebook systems. In an SEC filing, the company said it is offering a driver that keeps fans running to relieve...
- Tags: Processor, Notebook, NVidia Corp., Notebook Chip, Chip, GPU, MCP, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- AVADirect Core 2 SLI DDR3 Gaming System
- If you consider this upper midrange $3,220 AVADirect's Core 2 SLI DDR3 Gaming System representative of the value and build quality available from this small custom builder, we can report that we were mostly happy with this PC, even if we found it loud and its gaming performance a bit...
- Tags: Games, AVADirect Core 2 SLI DDR3 Gaming System
- Product reviews 2008-07-02
- People lived in Paris 10,000 years ago!
- The theme of this post is slightly off focus of this blog. But it's not often that archeologists make an exciting discovery in my own town, Paris, France. In fact, these archeologists have found that human groups of hunter-gatherers were living in Paris around 7600 BC during the Mesolithic period....
- Tags: Paris, River, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Fun with openSUSE 11.0
- Fun with openSUSE 11.0Virtualized OpenSUSE 11.0I too am a devoted Ubuntu user, and decided to check out OpenSUSE 11.0. I downloaded the 32bit GNOME LiveCD and loaded in with Virtualbox in Windows XP. I got through the whole setup fairly quickly but when the "system" rebooted it crashed and said...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, desktop virtualization, openSUSE 11.0, KDE, KDE 4, Novell OpenSuse, Novell Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-26
- HP TouchSmart IQ506
- Hewlett-Packard's redesigned TouchSmart PC solves at least one of the problems of the original. The new look stays much truer to that of a traditional all-in-one, leaving behind last year's clunky hinged design that we admit we kind of liked. The $1,499 TouchSmart PC IQ506 also shares an issue with...
- Tags: Processors, TouchSmart PC, Intel Core 2 Duo, Hewlett-Packard Co.
- Product reviews 2008-06-26
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