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The Inquirer is reporting that gaming enthusiasts can rejoice with a late Christmas present from AMD in the way of launching their new flagship Athlon FX-60 processor in January. Without question, this will be the fastest gaming processor on the planet at that time. If you're dying to give that new GeForce 7800GTX or Radeon X1800XT some relief...
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Anandtech has been given a first-hand preview of a X1800XT Crossfire setup on the latest chipsets from ATI. Despite a few initial speed-bumps, the chipset division seems to finally be up to speed and ready to release some exceptional new products. Granted, we'll reserve final judgement until we have some retail boards in our hands though statements...
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OCZ Technology Announces the Gamer eXtreme XTC 2GB Dual Channel Kits Sunnyvale, CA -- November 15, 2005 -- OCZ Technology, a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance and high reliability memory, today announced the release of...
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With the growing demand for larger storage space in a variety of devices, we've seen some great products float into our news box. Viperlair reviews the Corsair 2GB Secure Digital 133x, which should fill the space needs of most consumers.We added the Flash Voyager simply as a scale to help put the numbers in perspective. Flash media (in it's...
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More bad news for Sony and their customers, as Sony's XCP uninstall software apparently suffers from the same problem as the DRM software its self... security flaws. Sony has announced they will pull all their XCP infected CDs from store shelves."The consequences of the flaw are severe,"...
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Well folks, it's time for a release of all the 7800GTX 512MB reviews that have been piling up in our box. Also, Josh Walrath from Penstarsys.com has taken a different approach to covering the GeForce 7800GTX 512MB with his "Creating the 512MB 7800 GTX: Behind the Scenes" article. Enjoy! GeForce 7800GTX 512MB Roundup: Techwarelabs...
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Sampling Intel's 65nm dual-core Presler processors has revealed some stability problems, according to unspecified motherboard makers, adding that the problematic CPUs include the 2.8GHz 920 and 3.0GHz 930 series. Launch of end products based on the Intel Presler core may be pushed back from the January 2006 date originally scheduled by system...
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Having worked for Alienware in the past, I can attest to the fact that they have some of the highest performance notebooks money can buy. Today, the company has completed their refresh of their notebook lineup with the release of a slick new 12" widescreen system and their first-ever shipping AMD notebook. For those looking for a killer...
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With the release of Nvidia's new GeForce 7800GTX 512MB cards, there was bound to be some record breaking. VR-Zone has gone to great lengths to set a new 3DMark 05 record, using massive overclocks made possible by some hardcore cooling. We...
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Intel Delivers New Era For Virtualization SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 14, 2005 – Delivering the industry's first hardware virtualization support for desktop PCs, Intel Corporation debuted new processors today that offer businesses improved manageability and bolstered security...
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The launch of ATI's Radeon X1K family of graphics cards last month served multiple purposes. First, it allowed ATI to showcase their next-generation graphics hardware, well before the start of the holiday buying season. Something ATI needed to do after suffering from multiple delays. But it...
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Mr. Koroush Ghazi has been at it again, creating comprehensive tweak guides for today's hottest games. The latest guide has been written for the recently released Need For Speed: Most Wanted.The game has been designed for consoles, and as such there are no major .ini/.cfg files which can be played around with. So instead the guide focuses...
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Well folks, it's time to cover what's been going on this weekend. Sony has decided to stop(temporarily) including their controversial software with their CDs. No word on what kind of software they'll include next. In a related subject, the...
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Legion Hardware has a look at the A8N32 SLI Deluxe tonight as well. Our take can be found here, with recent updates.The A8N-SLI Deluxe is now worth just $170 US, so what has ASUS done to justify the A8N32-SLI Deluxe price premium? Well they have actually done quite a bit, as the board now includes an 8-phase power design and a seriously...
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When our Asus A8N32 SLI Deluxe article first launched on 10/18/05, we reported to you our findings based on the hardware and related driver versions we had in hand at the time. Unfortunately the Asus A8N SLI Deluxe motherboard we tested in comparison to the A8N32 SLI Deluxe, needed a new BIOS update to take advantage of NVIDIA's recently...
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Unlike a traditional desktop, a notebook is a very specialized system which typically excels in one particular area. However, there are usually design constraints that impede the system's performance in other areas. For example, at one extreme we have the ultraportable notebooks that are extremely light and easy to handle. In exchange for...
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GIGABYTE Unleashes GA-8N-SLI Quad Royal Frees the Limitation of Graphics and Gaming Performance! Taipei, Taiwan November 11th, 2005–GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY, a leading manufacturer of motherboards, VGA cards and other computing hardware solutions, has launched GIGABYTE GA-8N-SLI Quad Royal, the world first SLI technology enabled motherboard...
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Epox 9NPA+ SLI Review @ AMDZone: "Epox has put together another solid Athlon 64 motherboard with a fair price. They include a number of overclocking features and good cooling which will help get the most clock out of your CPU. They have made a couple of enhancements to the Ultra version...
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Yeah folks, it's late, but the news keeps on rolling! I'm sure many of you are wanting to get your hands on ATI's new Radeon X1800XT, so I've been looking around the net a bit... nothing. A few sites list them, but the adventure stops with...
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Evercool H.D.D Air Condition @ Overclockersonline.com: "The Evercool HDAC is a very straight forward hard drive cooler that mounts in an open 5.25" drive bay. The aluminum body is solid and does a good job drawing heat out of the...
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Hey folks! ATI has sent us word that the Radeon X1800 XT should now be available. It still might be awhile before you can actually get your hands on one, doing a quick search at newegg reports 11/15/2005 as the ETA. Still, this will be some good competition for Nvidia, and will hopefully...
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Some good news for those of you looking to pick up a Xbox 360... iPod compatibility(Thanks Blue!). Microsoft's latest toy should be able to use Apple's iPod as an alternative to game soundtracks. Don't expect to be using the songs you downloaded from iTunes however, DRM makes sure of that...
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