Nvidia GTX 275
Posted by Robert Dow, Alex Garovi, and Jon Peddie on May 15th 2009 | Permalink
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Hardware Review
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The Nvidia GTX 275 is a gap filler for Nvidia designed to offer a SKU at every price point. It’s basically a scaled down 285 with 240 processors and a lower clock speed of 633 MHz (down from 648 MHz) less memory 896 MB (down from 1 GB), the memory clock is dropped to 1134 MHz (down from 1242 MHz), and the price is $240 (down from $350 for the GTX 285.)
A word about Game Booster
Posted by Jon Peddie on May 14th 2009 | Permalink
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Software Review
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games
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Game Booster is a free program that can be downloaded from various sites (e.g. http://majorgeeks.com/Game_Booster_d6148.html). It’s advertised as being designed to help optimize your PC for smoother, more responsive game. It works by temporarily shutting down background processes, cleaning RAM, and intensifying processor performance so you can keep all the features of Vista or XP out of the way as well as all those little applets to make opening a program faster. And you can turn them back on when you are ready to get back to work. We thought we’d try it. It’s got a convenient UI for turning things…
HP DV6Z Laptop
Posted by Jon Peddie on May 14th 2009 | Permalink
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Hardware Review
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My big bad HP Pavilion DV9700 notebook died. Actually it didn’t completely die, it just went blind, or maybe I did because I couldn’t see the screen anymore. It was kinda exciting to watch as it turned itself off, the screen flashed brilliant lines, rippled up down like a snake shivering, then got black bars with color highlights and then—flat line, except there wasn’t even a line. My first thought was, no problem, just connect an external monitor—that’s like flying to the sun at night so you don’t burn up—HUH? Obviously if the Nvidia GPU has fried itself there’s no external…
Acer Aspire Revo
Posted by Robert Dow on May 14th 2009 | Permalink
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Hardware Review
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The Aspire is a slick looking little computer, really little, measuring only 180mm x 180mm x 30mm (7.1in x 7.1in x 1.2in) about the size of a wide book. Watching a blu-ray movie on the Acer Playing Stalker on the Acer Figure 1: Performance comparison of three PCs (Source: Jon Peddie Research)The unit is powered by an Intel 1.6 GHz N230 single-core Atom processor, 2 GB of DDR2 RAM, an Nvidia 9400M GPU (aka “Ion”) and a HOW MANY GB drive and it’s running 32-bit Windows Vista Home Premium. The RAM is segmented into 1,792 MB for the system and 320…
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