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Processors: Intel Core 2 Duo E4400 @ Digit-Life Quad 6600 Review Updated @ OCC Motherboards: ECS NF650iSLIT-A @ Motherboards.org DFI Lanparty NF680i LT @ PCTuner...
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According to a story reported by the New York Times, Microsoft and Yahoo! have re-entered negotiations for a proposed takeover. Microsoft wants to acquire Yahoo! to better compete with Google in a number of on-line arenas. "Stung by the loss of Internet advertising firm DoubleClick to Google last month, Microsoft has intensified its pursuit...
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Engadget has the scoop on some brand new Asus laptops built around Intel's upcoming Santa Rosa platform. They've got some specifications and pics posted, and even mention some yet-to-be announced NVIDIA mobile GPUs. "Just in case the recent outpouring of Santa Rosa wasn't doing enough to keep you satisfied, ASUS just announced five laptops...
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Last month, nearly 10% of the Class of 2008 at Duke University's business school were caught cheating on a take-home final exam. But is it really cheating to collaborate on projects anymore? How dumb would you have to be to work that way in the real world? Still, many believe that a...
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Creative is out with an inexpensive, tiny MP3 player. They call it the ZEN Stone. Its 1 GB of storage will hold about 250 songs, unless you're into Wagner, and the $39.99 price has Creative executives dreaming of customers buying a handful of them. "The Creative ZEN Stone, at just $39.99, opens up a huge new market for MP3 players,"...
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OK, it's actually a 'typewriter' not a true keyboard, but it's still a waffle iron too. Who could really call him/her-self a true geek without a keyboard / typewriter waffle iron in their kitchen? Today we get our answer... "There's no need to spell out why this waffle iron rocks harder than most. Fleeing the cubicle for the kitchen,...
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A Chinese-American high school student from Fort Bend Indiana developed a CS level based on his local high school, and what did he get for his trouble? An A+ in his computer science class? Nah. How about a contract from Valve to make levels for their upcoming games? Nope. He got picked...
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Video: GeForce 8800 Ultra Coverage @ TR, [H], Bit-Tech, Legit Reviews, PCPer, Digit-Life Sapphire X1950 Pro Dual @ Overclock3D Motherboards: XFX nForce 680i LT SLI @ Bootdaily MSI P6N Platinum @ Neoseeker Memory & Storage:...
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AMD Delivers the Ultimate Mobile Platform with New 65nm AMD Turion 64 X2 Dual-Core Mobile Technology NVIDIA and Broadcom join AMD to showcase platform performance advantages in 3D graphics, Wireless Range and Throughput, and Battery Life SUNNYVALE, Calif. - May 2, 2007 - NVIDIA and Broadcom...
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The internet riot over the posting of a decryption code for HD-DVD discs yesterday at Digg was fascinating and amusing. But the end result for Digg, and others that post-- or allow to be posted-- that mundane but magical string of numbers and letters could be very severe. The Electronic...
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IBM has pioneered a new method to make chips that essentially assemble themselves into a usable framework. It should yield a savings in power consumption and a goose in speed. The technique works by coating a silicon wafer with a layer of a special polymer that when baked...
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Game sales have been in a bit of a slump recently, but Gamasutra is reporting that we're seeing a pretty large sales spike: "According to data from research firm NPD Group, sales of PC games have risen by 48 percent on the previous year, during the first two months of 2007, with sales lead by the success of Blizzard’s World of WarCraft and...
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Mozilla has a new alpha of the next major release of Firefox (i.e. 3.x) available for download. As with all alphas and betas, this is not a finished product, so don't disregard the final product based on what you see in the alpha. "Gran Paradiso Alpha 4 is an early developer milestone for the next major version of Firefox that is being...
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Information week is reporting that Apple has a patch out to fix performance issues with their Intel powered laptops: "Problems associated with the batteries included them not being recognized by the computer or the battery not charging when the notebook is plugged into an AC outlet. Also, the batteries could exhibit low-charge capacity or...
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Jon Peddie Research Reports First-Quarter PC Graphics Shipments: Nvidia leaps to first place in desktop graphics chips displacing Intel Overall market down 5.5% quarter-to-quarter; laptops soar 24.6% year-to-year ...
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We hardware fanbois at HotHardware always keep a close eye on the horserace between Intel and AMD. But you know who's making real money in the chip world? Analog chipmakers: Research firm iSuppli forecasts a 10.1% jump in analog chip sales this year, to $47.5 billion. ISuppli analyst Gary Grandbois says that analog sales growth...
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NVIDIA has officially taken the wraps of their new flagship GeForce 8800 Ultra graphics card. As you probably expect, it's similar to the GeForce 8800 GTX it replaces at the top of NVIDIA's GPU line-up, but it offers better performance thanks to its higher clock speeds and improved cooler. We took a pair of GeForce 8800 Ultra cards for a spin...
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Apple has an update for its ubiquitous Quicktime multimedia software, to fix the exploit discovered at a security conference two weeks ago. Remember, the exploit works if you're running Windows too, so everybody should get the update if you have Quicktime. The exploit with...
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It's springtime here in the United States. The rain is pouring, the trees and flowers are blooming, and as usual NVIDIA is ready with a new product to refresh their existing high-end GPU line up. A few weeks ago we showed you the new mid-range GeForce 8600 GTS, GT and 8500 GT cards, which expanded NVIDIA's DirectX 10-compatible offerings...
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Video: eVGA GeForce 7600 GS 512MB Video Card @ Legit Reviews Pure Digital Technologies Flip Video @ InternetVideoMag Motherboards: P35 Series from Gigabyte @ Hardware Secrets Memory & Storage: OCZ Reaper HPC PC2-8500...
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According to a story on EE Times, Sun Microsystems has taped out its next-geNiagara 2 and Rock processors, but the company faces a major hurdle getting access to leading edge 45 and 32nm process technology for its future Sparc CPUs... "In an exclusive interview with EE Times in his...
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Although they are very common nowadays and they all seem to offer pretty much the same functionality, USB flash drives can actually differ in a number of ways. In this USB flash drive roundup, we take a close look at the features and performance of a 4GB OCZ Rally2, a 16GB OCZ Mega-Kart, a 1GB Kingston DataTraveler ReadyFlash, and an 8GB...
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