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TOM'S HARDWARE Guide claims it's seen internal Intel documents that show Intel Smithfield dual core chips have a thermal design rated at 130 watts. That's 13 per cent more than Intel's current 5xx Prescott range, claims The… Go To Full Article

ATI learned that yields on R480, X850 PCIe are much better than on the R420 or R423 chips and decided to make one more AGP part based on R480 marchitecture. ATI had to do two tape outs, one for the… Go To Full Article

ONE MORE BIT ABOUT AMD and memory to expand on yesterday's DDR2 story. One of the biggest updates to the E0 step Athlon64s that will be announced soon is the memory controller. Go To Full Article

Most of you already know about these so called "Winbond UTT" a.ka CH-5 a.k.a BH-4 chips that run like legendary Winbond "B" series. These chips don´t have anything to do with discontinued Winbond "B" series, but they actually are improved… Go To Full Article

Microsoft's next-generation Xbox console, whether it will be dubbed 'Xbox 2' or 'Xbox Next', is going to ship late 2005, according to reports citing what's alleged to be a press released that leaked out of games publishing giant Electronic Arts. Go To Full Article

VIA Technologies, a leading developer of computer chipsets, may change its approach to core-logic design within the next few months, as its presumable roadmap located on an Asian web-site lists a single-chip product code-named Tahoe. The latter features unusual design… Go To Full Article

Intel Corp. on Wednesday officially unveiled its new mobile Centrino-branded platform previously known as Sonoma targeting users seeking for multimedia capabilities, higher performance and longer battery life out of their notebooks. “The platform’s new consumer and office-friendly… Go To Full Article

The nForce4 Ultra-based mainboard from Chaintech is among the least expensive products in its class. We are going to check out if this fact affected its consumer characteristics in any way. At the same time we will continue our study… Go To Full Article

"Corsair is a well established company with a good reputation for making high performance memory, and is oÂ*ne of the leading RAM manufacturers for the overclocking community. While waiting oÂ*n my BH-5 memory order, I bought 3 pairs of 2… Go To Full Article

"Wintec was raving about their memory’s ability to adjust its timings to the system. They claimed that if your system was running at 400fsb that these modules should be able to hit Cas 3. This is a very impressive for… Go To Full Article