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An interesting tid-bit just came in over the wire and I thought I would share this with you all. Someone was kind enough to point me in the direction of Voodoo PC CEO, Rahul Sood's blog that has an interesting post about Intel's launch event tomorrow and the inevitable...
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It seems Michael Schuette is rather impressed with Intel's new Core 2 Duo processors. As usual, Michael give plenty of technical detail in his write up, and in a rare move he gave the Core 2 Duo an "Exceptional Hardware Award". For reference, our coverage of the new Core 2 Duo E6700 and Core 2 Extreme X6800 is available...
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GamePC has an interesting article on-line detailing their experience testing a Quad-SLI setup. Some of the numbers look absolutely fantastic, while others will leave you scratching your head. There is no doubt that Quad-SLI is the most powerful graphics configuration currently available. But...
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Once you've read our interview with AMD regarding the company's proposed merger with ATI, head on over to GD Hardware and see what some of the other major players in the industry have to say. Some good information here. "We've been asking lots of questions from Industry folks...
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In part 6 of the Multi-GPU World Tour, the guys over at nV News take a look at some "uncommon" benchmarks. They put the test rigs through several games not commonly used for benchmarking purposes in an attempt to see how they stack up in a variety of real-world situations. The games they used are Morrowind, Brothers in Arms,...
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Would Microsoft ever forget about it's core set of free games like Minesweeper, Solitaire, and Hearts? Of course not. But they have given them a bit of a touch-up job, which is no surprise considering the emphasis their putting on the OS' looks. In one of their latest articles, GameSpot checks out Vista's version of the Window...
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All the goodness that is Google maps can now be accessed from your cell phone. Location searches, maps, satellite imagery, all of it's there, and there's also the new feature of real-time traffic information. Click here for the details. "Combining directions, maps, and satellite imagery,...
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Yahoo has teamed up with software developer Symantec, and will be providing the services Symantec is well known for. Symentec currently offers virus scanning for Yahoo mail users, but will soon be providing a spyware scanner for their toolbar, and will provide firewall and anti-virus...
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Hello All. We spent some sit-down time with a few folks close to the AMD and ATI merger, asked some probing questions and received some insightful answers in return. We dug in deep with AMD specifically and learned all there is to know currently and even got a hint of what the future...
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Rumors have been circulating for weeks, but yesterday the two companies involved made it official. AMD and ATI announced that the two companies planned to merge in a deal worth approximately $5.4 billion dollars. The quote below from the initial press release...
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Corsair Launches Flash Readout USB Drive with Bi-stable Cholesteric Display -- Shipping now, the New CMFUSBREADOUT in 1GB and 2GB capacities -- Fremont, CA (July 25, 2006) - Corsair Memory, the worldwide leader in design and manufacture of...
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Intel and Micron Sample Industry's First 50 Nanometer NAND Flash Memory Devices BOISE, Idaho, and SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 25, 2006 - Demonstrating their commitment to move quickly up the technology leadership curve, Micron...
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Whether you're in the market for a small form factor system or not, you're bound to think the Shuttle X100 is one sexy piece of hardware. It may not be the fastest SFF system out there, but its feature set and form factor make the X100 truly impressive. Who needs a Mac-Mini when these things are available? "Shuttle is taking...
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DigiTimes has managed to sit down with AMD's EVP Henri Richard to hear his comments regarding the company's recent acquisition of ATI. In short, it appears as though AMD sees several aspects of the industry which they needed to focus their attention on and be sure to participate in to remain a successful company in five years. Unfortunately,...
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Back in 2001 America Online merged with media giant Time Warner, and since then AOL has seen a massive decline in business. The merger has cost around $200 billion in shareholder value, and AOL has been facing some stinging competition from other content based services such as Yahoo! and Google. Though Steve Case still thinks the...
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Hello Everyone. If you are in the market for a high capacity hard drive, the Western Digital WD5000KS 500GB SATA HDD we've just evaluated will be of interest. This drive is relatively affordable and it strikes a great balance between capacity and performance. Here's a snip from the article... "If we were to play a word association...
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If we were to play a word association game with a PC enthusiast and said "Western Digital," it's likely his geek reflexes would immediately trigger and force him to reply "Raptor" before he even realized he had spoken. Western Digital makes many more storage products other than just the speed demons known as Raptors,...
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Microsoft can't seem to catch a break when it comes to operating system security. The classic complaint has been that their operating systems are bloated with legacy code that have been passed down from one version of Windows to another, all in the name of backwards compatibility...
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Get 'em while they're HOT, new price cuts on Athlon 64 processors, Dual-Core and others, announced today! Scroll down the page for that Energy Efficient 4600 at $276 - tasty. Athlon 64 X2 5000+ (socket AM2 only) $301 Athlon 64 X2 4600+ (Energy Efficient*) $276 Athlon 64 X2 4600+ (socket AM2 and 939) $240 Athlon 64 X2 4200+ (Energy...
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All of the rumors that have been circulating these past few weeks seem to have been true. The official announcement of a merger of AMD and ATI is posted on both companies' respective websites. Major news here folks... "On July 24, 2006, AMD and ATI announced a plan to join forces, in a transaction that will combine AMD's technology...
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By now you've probably heard all the buzz going on around the rumored AMD buy-out of ATI. CNN Money has a quick-take on the deal, which supposedly clocks in at a neat round number of about $5.5 Billion. Advanced Micro Devices, the No. 2 supplier of computer processors, is close to a deal to buy graphics chip maker ATI for $5.5 billion,...
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Neoseeker hosts part five of the Multi-GPU World Tour. They are looking at how multi-GPU platforms perform using a sample of the most popular games being played according to XFire and Gamespy. "Although this article series leans towards a heavy slant of comparing ATI performance versus NVIDIA, our particular portion of the series...
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