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Month: February 2005
CoolerMaster Hyper 48 KHC-L91
X-bit labs – Articles – High-End CPU Coolers Roundup: The Battle for Silence and Efficiency (page 16). _I normally recommend the Thermal Right XP-120 which has a massive 5 inch fan, but they got good results with a smaller cheaper (e.g., less than $50) Cooler Master model._ The best cooler among the models we tested […]
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Pentium 600 and 800
[VR-Zone Hardware] – Pentium Announcements The Pentium 4 600 series, and the Pentium 4 3.73EE was announced today. Along with their support for EM64T, Intel’s 64-bit extensions, these new CPU’s also include SpeedStep power saving technology, upgraded security features through Executable Disabled Bit, 2MB of L2 cache. The 660 runs at 3.6GHz, 640 at 3.4GHz […]
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Aopen Cube Mini
AOpen prepares Cube Mini Pentium M based SFF PC On the heels of launching the EY855-II XC Cube, its first Intel Pentium M-based small-form-factor (SFF) PC, AOpen is now preparing for the March launch of its smallest XC Cube SFF PC to date, the MZ 855, according to sources at the company. The Intel 855GME-based […]
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Sumicom choices
Ok “King Young”:http://kingyoung.com.tw makes some super small form factors machines that both “Logic Supply”:http://logicsupply.com and “Cappucinopc”:http://cappucinopc.com resell. Here are the choices: * S615. This is a fanless 6x10x3″ case that has a downclocked Celeron running at 1.33Ghz, so it should be as fast as an Eden, but is slightly bigger than mini-ITX. $495 from Logic […]
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Smartdeck
Griffin Technology. These guys at Griffin are just amazing. This is a iPod to cassette interface that is smart. Just $25 and available in 2Q05, if you fast forware, the ipod fast forwards. If you skip, then the cassette senses it and skips too. Very cool. I need this because our Volvo and MDX FM […]
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e-Otonashi
Here’s another fanless case that can use the Via Epia system. As I said before, if you can, wait for the upcoming new motherboard, the SP if you can. Should start arrving in early April. Scythe’s e-Otonashi fanless EPIA-M cooling case :: SilentPCReview.com. This is a a do it yourself kit that uses a heatpipe. […]
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Epia SP
OK here’s a technical solution to needing more horsepower to do MPEG4 decoding with VIA. First they have a super small form factor EPIA N coming in April. This will be a super small system, but with an updated memory interface. They are also doing a mini-ITX version too using a board called the EPIA […]
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PC Recommendations
Kind of a fun month for PC recommendations because for once the underlying hardware is quiet. No big announcements of processors, video cards or motherboards, so instead of high, medium and low, let’s focus on some “odd” machines that might be fun to have. Think of them as alternative PCs. Sort of like taking a […]
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Benq DW-1620
X-bit labs – Articles – BenQ DW1620A DVD±RW/R Drive Review: Joker in the Pack or a New Winner?. I just happen to have one of these drives. It does pretty well, but you have to get the B7T9 firmware update to solve lots of the bad DVD burning problems. Naturally, you can’t just go to […]
