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Almost anyone who's ever spent a few minutes with Wikipedia can start appreciate the vast wealth of knowledge the site has to offer. Though the free encyclopedia is open to a whole host of problems, such as inaccurate information, questionable sources, and vandalism, its popularity...
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Last Tuesday it was reported that Hewlett-Packard was having an ongoing internal investigation over who was leaking information to the press, and the source was assumed to be one of the company's directors. CNet news is now reporting that HP may have illegally accessed the phone records of the companies directors, as well as a few...
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Daily Roundup #1 Motherboards: ECS 945GTY-M MoDT (S479) Intel 945GT @ OCWorkbench ASUS P5W DH Deluxe Socket 775 Motherboard @ ProClockers Processors: AMD Sempron 3600 2.0GHz Socket AM2 @ PCStats Battlefield 2142 Beta CPU Shootout @ FiringSquad Memory: Corsair Dominator Twin2X2048-8888C4DF @ Bit-tech Corsair Twin2X1024-8500 C5 PC2-8500...
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WinFast PX7950 GT TDH Extreme and WinFast PX7950 GT TDH --The smart New Choice for the Gaming Enthusiast who wants everything-- Taipei, Taiwan -- Leadtek Research, a world leader in extreme visual graphics technology, today announced the WinFast PX7950 GT TDH series for the enthusiast gaming...
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AT&T today announced that it would be bringing 20 channels for viewing over broadband including such stations as Fox News and the Weather Channel. This new service is designed with the mobile and web-based user in mind. With a monthly charge of $19.99, users would be able to view stations from any broadband connection of 500kbps...
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Tivo has officially announced the much anticipated and talked about Series 3 DVR today. This series brings to the table a slew of new features such as high definition recording, THX certification, and CableCard slots. Armed with a 250GB hard drive and dual tuners the DVR will be able to record up to 32 hours of HD video and...
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Hello Everyone. We just wanted to let you all know that we have a new article posted where we evaluate the salient features and performance profile of the new Asus P5W64 WS Professional motherboard. This product targets the workstation professional and enthusiast segments by offering four X16 PCI Express slots through the implementation...
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AMD PIONEERS INTERACTIVE ONLINE RESOURCE, REDEFINING TRADITIONAL WAYS IT INDUSTRY ACCESSES INFORMATION - AMD Virtual IT Experience Brings Industry Together, Using Cutting Edge Gaming Technology to Create an "Always On" Resource - Sunnyvale, Calif. - Sept. 12, 2006 - AMD (NYSE: AMD) today unveiled the AMD Virtual IT Experience, a...
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What's the greatest tool the world has ever known? The lever? Bah! The wheel? Handy, it's true. The gun? Great for taking away other people's levers and wheels, but of doubtful utility in many settings. C'mon you know exactly what the most important tool, and the pinnacle of...
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The call of most computing enthusiasts or workstation professionals has always been "more power, more bandwidth and more features, please". The advent of serial PCI Express-based computer architectures was the foundation of an enabling technology that provided a much needed solution to the bottleneck problems...
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The Inquirer reports that sources are indicating NVIDIA's next generation G80 GPU which was slated for a late September or early October release will now be pushed back to a November launch. Apparently, the company opted for a minor re-spin of the silicon at the fab which has resulted in the slight delay to market for the new GPU. Little...
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Anandtech has just posted a follow-up article to their initial preview of Apple's new Mac Pro flagship desktop / workstation. Here, Anand focuses primarily upon the Mac Pro's upgrade path as well as overall performance when running Windows XP. Although there are relatively few GPU options at this time for the system, the Mac Pro still...
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Plan A: 1. Buy or steal one copy of expensive software 2. Sign up for Google adwords 3. Sell a whole bunch of it 4. Buy yachts and mansions and antique cars and pretty much have a Nelly video party running at your house day and night...
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Cortina Systems Purchases Intel's Optical-Networking Components Business SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sep. 11, 2006 - Cortina Systems Inc. and Intel Corporation today announced that they have completed the sale of product lines and associated...
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OCZ Technology Unveils the Exclusive PC2-6400 Platinum DFI Special Series Capable of 1T Command Rate Sunnyvale, CA - September 11, 2006 - OCZ Technology Group, a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance and high reliability memory, today announced the PC2-6400 Platinum DFI...
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Daily Roundup #1 Motherboards: MSI K9N nForce 570 SLI Platinum Review @ nV News ASUS A8N-SLI Bios Mod @ NGOHQ Graphics: ATI Radeon X1950 @ Rage3D GeCube Radeon X1650 PRO Platinum @ HardwareZone Memory: Intel Core 2 "Conroe" Memory Settings Guide @ TweakTown Drives/Storage: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB @ Techgage Seagate Barracuda...
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Sonny, I remember when you had to add and subtract and multiply. And they made you do it right there in front of the questioner, in your young empty head. Occasionally they'd take pity on you and allow a pencil and paper. The real wild and crazy guys that could work a slide rule would...
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Some look at plumbing and ask why? Some look at plumbing and ask why the hell not? Well, the folks at Think Geek have a cool plumbing add on to illuminate your faucet water into a luminous blue color. And the installation sounds easy; any case modder should be able to install it. Plumber's crack optional. Tired of that same old monotonous...
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In addition to TSMC, UMC, and IBM, NVIDIA will now be adding Chartered Semiconductor to their list of current foundry partners. The driving factor behind this new business relationship is to provide NVIDIA with more leverage in terms of pricing with key foundry partner TSMC. This will be accomplished by having NVIDIA allocate a certain...
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In the immortal words of the world-famous Popeye The Sailor, I-yam-what-I-yam... No, wait, not yams, spinach, that's what made Pops all cut-up and beefy right? It seems Pops wasn't too far off the mark either. Spinach, the high-tech food product? "The work has immediate implications for basic science research, as the configuration...
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Who doesn't like a good ol' fashioned video card round-up? The dudes at GameSpot have been punchin' doggies and pixels it seems lately in this quick-take look at all the big bulls in graphics. Now, we know you prefer a bit more in-depth analysis ala HH-style but GS does cover the basics pretty well here. "You should...
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A little bored with life at the moment? Need something to occupy your brain-waves? Feeling somewhat unchallenged by every-day thought process? Yeah, we feel your pain. Why just the other day we were all sitting around the test bench thinking "dang, we're just too...
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