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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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Albatron let us know their GeForce 7950GT is ready to roll. We imagine these cards will be showing up in retail shortly. The 7950GT is PCI Express compliant and is also capable of SLI functionality. The engine's core frequency is set to 550 MHz and contains 24 highly efficient pipelines. The DDR III memory on this card...
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Daily Roundup #1 Input Devices: Saitek Eclipse II Illuminated Keyboard @ Techgage Logitech diNovo Laptop Keyboard and Mouse @ LaptopGamers Graphics: ATI EAX1900XT @ OverClockersClub XFX GeForce 7900GS PV-T71P-UDE3 @ Motherboards.org XFX GeForce 7900GS Extreme @ Tweaktown Memory: Mega DDR-2 Memory Roundup @ TweakTown Cooling: Thermalright Ultra-90...
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Adrian's Rojak Pot has updated their Desktop Graphics Card Comparison to Revision 11.4. This is a large resource for graphics card comparison detailing over 290 cards against 17 different specifications. Updates to the list include: - Added the NVIDIA GeForce 7100 GS &...
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Arctic Cooling today announced the release of their latest AMD socket AM2 based cooler with PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) fan control. Utilizing a unique design with 6 vertical copper heat pipes, vibration dampened frame, and fluid...
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Do no evil, says Google. In general, people who say such things are up to no good, and want to throw you off the scent. Either that, or they're just plain feelin' guilty. How about you? Feelin' guilty? Need some corroborating information? Need an alibi for the questionnaire at the Pearly Gates? Well, you can take this "How...
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In the market for a new Core 2 Duo motherboard? GamePC published a comprehensive review of 5 motherboards from Asus which might fit your bill. They cover boards based on all 3 Core 2 Duo chipset variants currently available: Intel's P965 and 975X, and the Intel Edition Nforce4 SLI X16 chipset. Asus has long been...
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Good Morning HH fans! Our sincere apologies for our site instability over the last day or so and for the current rendering issues with our ads system (or should I say you're welcome for that?) :) The hard drive gods were not with us yesterday as a drive in a RAID5 array on our ads management server went down harder...
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Beyond3D reports that ATI has decided to significantly change the reference specifications of the Radeon X1900 GT graphics card such as the Sapphire model we reviewed here. Here, ATI has opted to lower the GPU's core frequency from 575MHz to 512MHz. In an attempt to compensate for the decreased performance from the lower speed,...
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Scroll. Toggle. Scroll. Grrrrr. Toggle. Pagedown. Control + C. Toggle. Page up. Control + V. Darn it! Toggle. Home. Page Down... Oh for cryin' out loud. The answer is right there in front of your face. What's the best computer upgrade possible, and one you can probably swing right now? Paul Boutin over at Slate thinks he knows. And...
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