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Just in case you just straight to the news this morning, we’re popping in to let you all know that we have just posted a new article here at HotHardware, in which we evaluate the features, performance, and overclockability of PNY’s XLR8 GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB graphics card. Like other 512MB GTS cards, the PNY XLR8 GeForce 8800 GTS...
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Seattle has been a boomtown a half-a-dozen times over the years. Looks like it is again. The entrepreneurs of the digital age seemed to have settled on the Seattle area as the next big thing - the overcast version of Silicon Valley. “The Seattle start-up ecosystem is vibrant, and...
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Yesterday OpenID added Google, IBM, Verisign, Microsoft and Yahoo! to the board. Now if they could just add some "consumers."By bringing on these companies and their resources, the OpenID Foundation will now be able to better serve the needs of the entire OpenID community. In 2008...
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Yahoo's board of directors is reportedly meeting today to consider what to do about Microsoft's unsolicited $44.6 billion buyout offer. There's been quite a bit of advice, unsolicited and otherwise, offered to Yahoo to avoid being taken over. The offer so far exceeds the value of the stock involved that the board would likely be blamed for...
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Is Apple planning a sneaky launch event or other announcement in the last week of February? According to TUAW, it looks like they might be.TUAW has received a tip that the company that does television for Apple's live events and Macworld is apparently hiring for an unannounced Apple...
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The battle for ultra-low power x86 capable CPUs is reaching amazing new heights, or perhaps 'lows' is the more appropriate term. Just imagine a CPU that fits in a mobile device, can run Vista, and won't burn your hands or run out of battery power in about 15 seconds.The first thought is that we must be talking about something a bit on...
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OCZ Releases the PC2-8500 Reaper HPC 4GB kit, One of the Fastest High Density Memory Solutions Available Sunnyvale, CA—February 7, 2008—OCZ Technology Group, Inc., a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance and high reliability memory, today unveiled the OCZ PC2-8500 Reaper HPC...
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Video: Palit GeForce 8600 GT Super+1GB Video Card Review @ ThinkComputers.orgLeadtek WinFast PX8800 GT 512MB Graphics Card Review @ X-bit Labs Motherboards & Chipsets: ASRock 4Core1600P35-WiFi+AP Motherboard @ CPU3D MSI K9A2 Platinum Motherboard, AMD 790FX Chipset (Socket AM2+) @ Digit-LifeASUS P5K Deluxe/WiFi-AP@n Motherboard Review @...
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“At an ISSCC session yesterday afternoon, IBM announced details of a smaller, lower-power version of the Cell BE processor that powers Sony's PlayStation 3. The Cell BE is currently fabricated on IBM's 65nm SOI process, but IBM will soon move the console chip onto the company's much-ballyhooed, next-generation 45nm high-k process.”The move...
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The answer of course is Intel's upcoming Itanium brand CPU codenamed Tukwila.While we tend to focus a lot of our attention on the desktop market, we cannot help but be impressed by server CPUs when we hear figures like 2 billion transistors or 30 MB of on-die cache that make up a good portion...
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Israeli mobile phone technology company Modu has announced their modular mobile phone system, the modu. By including only the components necessary to send and receive voice and data, their module is designed to be integrated into "modu mates," and "modu jackets": mobile phone skins and various...
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I remember the good old days when banks would offer new customers gifts like toasters or other housewares when you opened up an account. Of course, the good old days weren't really very good, because you had to stand in line at the bank fairly often instead of using direct deposit, internet...
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Seriously, is anyone surprised?Paying customers may not get their hands on Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) or Windows Server 2008 for weeks, but pirates can download the brand-new code for either today, according to searches at several BitTorrent trackers.The RTM, or release to manufacturing, versions of both operating systems can easily...
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3D Realms made the mistake of speaking to mainstream media, meaning that what they felt was a "no comment" answer did not translate properly. No, Duke Nukem Forever does not have a release date.I'd like to address the article the Dallas Business Journal put up today. In what appears to...
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Video: GeCube Radeon HD 3870 X2 X-Turbo Dual (O.C Edition) @ HardwareZoneMSI NX8800GTS-T2D512E-OC GeForce 8800GTS review @ TWEAK.DKASUS EN8800GTS TOP @ Bjorn3DPowerColor passive HD3870 SCS3 @ techPowerUp Motherboards & Chipsets: Asus Maximus Extreme Intel X38 Express Motherboard Review @ PCSTATS.comASUS Maximus Extreme Mainboard Review...
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According to a forum post at the IsoHunt website, the good folks at AMD were nice enough to hook up the admins with a pair of pre-production B3-stepping Opteron 2352 processors, what appear to be the first processors of their type to be "out in the wild". AMD's B3 stepping is supposed to...
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Researchers at MIT have developed chip architecture that runs on 70 percent less voltage than a conventional processor. The savings in power consumption would have profound effects on the battery life you could expect from portable devices. They may even require only movement and body heat to...
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All cubicle workers have stories about the time they hit "Reply All" instead of "Reply" and embarrassed themselves in the office. But in what might be the mother of all misdirected e-mail disasters, a lawyer representing drugmaker Eli Lilly in confidential settlement talks with the government...
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A massive volume of telecommunications data flows through undersea cables. We've seen the havoc that's created when one of them is severed, and it looks like the middle-east and western Asia are now experiencing the trouble created when 4 of them are damaged in a little less than a...
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Starting in May, sellers will no longer be able to give buyers negative, or even neutral feedback.EBay said problems were occurring, and slowing down trade, when buyers left negative comments about sellers who then retaliated with their own views.From May, those selling on eBay will not be able to leave unfavourable or neutral messages about...
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As with all rumors, please take the following news item with a grain of salt until we can receive official confirmation or denial from AMD.For those of you who've been hoping for a more competitive high-end CPU landscape, it seems that your wishes might be met as early as the end of this year:“...the inputs from trusted Far Eastern friends...
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Video: Vvikoo Geforce 8800GT Max (1Gb DDR3) @ CPU3DSamsung 743B 17-inch Monitor @ TechgageBENQ G2400W 24" LCD Monitor @ t-breakBFGTech 8800 GTS 512MB OC2 WC Edition @ [H] Motherboards & Chipsets: Intel Skulltrail Performance Preview @ Sharky ExtremeIntel SkullTrail Platform Review @ Motherboards.orgIntel SkullTrail Preview - Dual Core...
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