Overclock your way to savings
Subject: Systems | September 5, 2006 - 03:47 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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With a bit of tweaking, and a good cooling system, [H] will show you how to put together a budget system with the performance of an Intel Extreme Edition or an AMD FX processor. Make sure you read it.
You can also get a second opinion from Ryan, he has just updated the Hardware Leaderboard, and for the first time ever, 3 of the 4 systems are Intel.
Complete Core 2 Duo system for those on a budget
Subject: Systems | August 30, 2006 - 05:54 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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AnandTech reviews the PC Club Enpower Sabre Extreme, a Core 2 Duo system with 1Gb of RAM, a 19' LCD, a 250Gb hard drive, a 7900 GT and more. At $1,400 it won't empty your wallet as badly as some other new systems will, so take a look to see if it's what you want.
Viiv versus AMD Live, just your standard battle for dominance
Subject: Systems | August 29, 2006 - 03:20 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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HTPC's are quickly becoming a common thing, so Intel and AMD have decided to each offer their own standards. They take 2 very different approaches, Intel's is to only allow pre-made machines to carry the Viiv label, while AMD has made a list of approved components, so you can choose between buying a complete system, or building your own. TweakTown has gathered a lot of information on this battle to rule the Digital Home.
No, it's not an iMac
Subject: Systems | August 16, 2006 - 02:19 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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ENlight has gone and made a SFF PC case, that is essentially shoved into the back of a 19" touchscreen LCD. They even managed to do it without making it look too ugly. HEXUS has a full write up of this mATX setup, and found it very flexible.
Adopt a Core 2 for less
Subject: Systems | August 14, 2006 - 06:10 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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The Tech Report points out the pricing of the Core 2s, and AMDs price cuts, have made it fairly cheap to set yourself up with a new system. Check out the 4 system recommendations they offer, and their subsititions for those who don't like the basic setup.
Don't forget we have our own Hardware Leaderboard here at PCPerspective, with links right to New Egg to buy all the components.
PC Club's new Tech Support
Subject: Systems | August 9, 2006 - 02:47 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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[H]ard|OCP has gone through 4 systems from PC Club, but ran into some serious difficulties with their tech support. Giving them another chance, they try out a new system priced at just over $1200, and call up tech support to find out what, if anything, has changed.
Shuttle launches AM2 SFF system
Subject: Systems | August 1, 2006 - 02:42 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Shuttle's new XPC SN27P2 could bring back their dominance in the barebones SFF PC market. The Tech Report puts the system through it's paces, and discovers what could be a problem for people trying to save money by buying a cheaper, but easily overclockable AM2 processor.
SLI and PPU, read to play, no effort required
Subject: Systems | July 25, 2006 - 01:54 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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The Systemax Wildcat SLI Gaming PC is pretty impressive for it's $4499 price tag. You get 2 BFG GeForce 7900GTX 512MBs in SLI and an Ageia PhysX 128MB GDDR3 Physics Accelerator Card, all ready to play GRAW. Head to Hot Hardware to see it in action.
This HTPC is a pyramid scheme
Subject: Systems | July 19, 2006 - 01:58 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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In their newest system review, [H] looks at the Maingear Prysma HTPC. Maingear has manged to put a lot of powerful components in a uniquely shaped case, and bundled lots of goodies to make the setup easier.
[H] gets their game on
Subject: Systems | July 12, 2006 - 12:14 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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The ABS Sniper is a rather nice gaming machine, based around 2GB of Corsair DDR400, an A64 4000+ and a pair of eVGA 7900GTs in SLI. The stats sound great, but you need to read the full article at [H]ard|OCP to see how the service and tech support performed.
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