it. This is considerably more convenient. In the test, the northbridge of the KT333 chipset caused problems on the Gigabyte GA-7VRXP (Athlon XP). It is only with an additional cooling unit for the northbridge that the sporadic crashes could be prevented in...

and the older Sonoma (Centrino) platform's 915GM to see if the former is really faster and more energy efficient.. In the W5 Asus notebooks, a heat pipe cools the Northbridge (not shown). Like its predecessor, the 945GM uses a portion of system...

costs to $2,567. Because AMD processor retail packages routinely include coolers, we stuck with a stock cooler for these builds. However, a good Zalman or Thermalright AM2 cooler won't cost you more than $50-$60. AMD System Hardware Socket AM2 Processor...

Components Table. system builder marathon. Today we build a low cost ($1,004) Media Center PC and cut corners to reduce its price to under $800. Tomorrow we'll do a top of the line model.. Computer Components Case Nmedia HTPC 500 case (Black, retail: $160)...

go head-to-head with its desktop counterpart. The verdict: it most definitely can hold its own.. IBM has touted the ThinkPad G40 as a notebook with the look and feel of a ThinkPad notebook, but for the cost of a desktop PC. It has managed this feat by replacing...

The Test Candidates At A Glance. fast and furious. Notebook hard drives with top speeds of 7200 rpm offer noticeable performance gains - but at a cost. Does the performance boost compensate for shorter battery life? Our THG benchmarks speak for themselves.....

A Closer Look At The Gigabyte GA-MA69G-S3H. system builder marathon. Yesterday we built a low cost ($1,004) Media Center PC. Today we'll do a top of the line $3,300 model and, just for fun, up the price to $4,000 and beyond.. Just as we finished our last...

reveals the two memory slots and the cooling system. This consists of a broad cooler made of aluminum, and a small copper fin cooler with a heat pipe system (HPS). The former is for cooling the GPU and Northbridge, while the HPS keeps the CPU from developing...

company, is relatively unknown. Transmeta's Crusoe TM5600 processor is much more then just a CPU. The designers put a CPU core into the 474-pin BGA package, including Caches and Northbridge. The Transmeta chip supports 100-133MHz DDR SDRAM and 66-133MHz SDRAM,...