Marco Chiappetta
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Good afternoon HotHardware fans! Marco here, with an mid-afternoon update to let you all know that we've just posted a brand new review of Asus' rather unique small form factor barebones PC, the S-Presso Deluxe (S1-P111). This mini-PC has quite a few unique features, but is ultimately hampered by some questionable design issues....
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Good evening folks! BW here, stopping in with an evening update. Just in case you missed the fresh link at the top of the page, I'm here to let you know that we've just posted a new review of Compaq's Presario V4000 notebook. Andrew had somewhat mixes feelings with regard to the V4000, but for the money it may be tough to beat....
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Good morning folks! Long time no see. I apologize for my extended absence. Can you believe that was the longest I've been away from HotHardware for over 6 years! But I have a good excuse - I was on my Honeymoon! Adrienne and I tied the not on May 14, 2005 and then...
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Although the transition to PCI Express is in full swing, the huge installed base of AGP equipped systems is still a major market that's continually being targeted by every major video card manufacturer. As proof of this, we present you with Sapphire's new AGP Radeon X850XT Platinum Edition. This card sports nearly the exact same feature set,...
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Good morning HotHardware fans! Marco here, dropping by to let you all know that we've just posted a new review of AMD's brand spankin' new Athlon 64 X2 4800+ processor. The Athlon 64 X2 line of processors is AMD's answer to Intel's dual-core desktop CPUs. Click this link to see how the X2 architecture compares to Intel's, and then...
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Hello HotHardware fans! BW here, dropping in to let you all know that we've just posted a new article where we investigate the overclocking potential, thermal characteristics, and power consumption of AMD's new .09 micron, Venice-core based Athlon 64 3800+ processor. Our results were really...
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Although desktop dual-core processors from AMD are on the horizon, engineers there are still hard at work refining their single-core processor designs. The latest revision to the Athlon 64 core, internally code named "Venice", recently made it way onto the mass market...
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Good Afternoon All! The headline says it all. We've got one of the first retail ready nForce 4 SLI Intel Edition motherboards on the test-bench today. The Asus P5ND2-SLI Deluxe is loaded with features and expandability in typical Asus fashionl, and the board lit up the benchmarks like no other...
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Memory has come a long way in the past few years. What was once a nondescript PC component, consisting of nothing more than a few black chips on a green PCB, has since evolved into a brightly colored, and lighted, crucial system component with a multitude of different heat spreader types and speed grades. Just take a look at this pair of Corsair...
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Good Morning All! Marco here, to let you all know that we've just posted a new review of Shuttle's SN25P XPC. This XPC is based on NVIDIA's nForce 4 Ultra chipset for AMD's socket 939 platform, and incorporates some value-adding features like an Envy24 audio controller and a 6-in-1 card reader. Click right here to check it out......
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It seems that Shuttle consistently expands their line of XPC small form factor systems as new core logic chipsets are released. A quick trip to their product page reveals a current line-up of XPCs based on chipsets from Intel, NVIDIA, ATI, SiS and VIA. There are no less than six different chassis designs available as well, with each one designed...
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Good Evening HotHardware fans! Marco here, dropping by to let you all know that we've just posted a new article entitled, Revisiting SLI: Asus Extreme N6600GT x 2. In this article, we've taken a single Asus Extreme N6600GT, and a pair of N6600GTs, and benchmarked them with the latest set of official Forceware drivers. We've also got scores...
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A few months ago, we assessed the performance of a pair of GeForce 6800 GTs and a pair of GeForce 6800 Ultras running in SLI-mode, and were impressed by the platform's performance. We did have some concerns over driver support and the TCO of the platform, however. NVIDIA's current SLI...
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Good afternoon folks! If you are in the market for a high-performing, silent video card, you'll probably want to check out the Gigabyte GV-RX80256D X800 Turbo Silent Pipe video card review we've just posted. This card sports a completely silent, custom heat-pipe cooling apparatus, it...
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Good Evening All! It's your friendly neighborhood Italian here, dropping by for a quick Sunday evening update to let you all know that we've just posted a new review of Soltek's SL-K890 Pro-939. This socket 939 motherboard for Athlon 64 processors is one of the few out there based on VIA's PCI Express enabled K8T890 chipset. Click here and...
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Good afternoon HH fans! It's BW here, dropping by to let you all know that we've just posted a new review of Shuttle's latest i925XE based XPC, the SB95P v2. This mini-pc is loaded with a ton of features, and it performed very well throughout our battery of benchmarks. Click here to check it out......
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Good afternoon folks! We just got word from NVIDIA that they've launched a new website full of information about their SLI (Scalable Link Interface) technology. And to help get things started, they're giving away a ton of hardware, courtesy of MSI. Here's the full scoop.. NVIDIA has launched a new website dedicated to SLI information....
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Hot on the heals of the official announcement of Intel's new dual-core Pentium Extreme Edition 840 processor, we have more news for those interested in Intel platform solutions. Today, NVIDIA is finally taking the wraps off of their nForce chipset for the Intel platform, a chipset now known as the nForce 4 SLI Intel Edition. For months there...
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Good evening HotHardware fans! It's BW here, stopping by to let you all that we've just posted a Socket 939, NVIDIA nForce 4 SLI motherboard round-up, where we pit DFI's LANParty NF4 SLI-DR against MSI's K8N Neo4 Platinum/SLI and Gigabyte's K8NXP-SLI. Click here to find out which one we...
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Every so often a new technology, or a new piece of hardware, comes along that polarizes the PC enthusiast community. One such product is the recently released NVIDIA nForce 4 SLI chipset. The nForce 4 SLI chipset is the preferred platform for NVIDIA's Scalable Link Interface technology, that gives users the ability to use a pair of GeForce...
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Hello All! This is BW here, dropping by to let you all know that we've just posted a new review of Albatron's GeForce 6600 powered PC6600U. The PC6600U is clocked much higher than standard GeForce 6600 reference cards, however, and it sports a custom cooling apparatus complete with large heatsinks and heat-pipes. This card is definitely a...
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Hello HotHardware Fans! And Happy St. Patrick's day! Just in case you've jumped right to the news and missed the fresh link at the top of the main page, I'm here to let you know that we've just posted a new review of Sapphire's Toxic Radeon X700 Pro 128. This is a PCI Express based Radeon X700...
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