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Antec's Skeleton Looks Cool in Literal SenseOct 14, 2008 - in News
Talk about turned inside-out! Antec’s skeleton case looks more like a national monument than a PC case.
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Intel Core i7 (Nehalem): Architecture By AMD?Oct 14, 2008 - in Reviews
Intel's new Core i7 processors represent a major evolution of the Core 2-series, though a lot of the additions look like they come from AMD's playbook. Is there any truth here or are we the only ones thinking it?
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Asus Launches 'Dark Knight' Graphics CardsOct 13, 2008 - in News
Looking to upgrade your current video card? Looking to upgrade to something that looks cool AND has functionality for cooling? ASUS has launched a few customized cards based on ATI and Nvidia GPUs.
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Three High-End Liquid-Cooling Cases ComparedOct 12, 2008 - in Reviews
High-quality liquid cooling normally requires a great deal of planning and effort at moderate expense. For a few dollars more, these case and cooling systems put an end to custom fabrication and fragile external parts.
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Hackers Use Nvidia GPUs to Crack WiFiOct 12, 2008 - in News
Most people grumble and complain about the high cost of top end GPUs. Now it appears that these GPUs are cost-effective ways to breach wireless network encryption. Russian Hackers reportedly broke through WPA and WPA2 encryption using a brute force attac
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Bad Nvidia GPU Show Up in MacBook ProsOct 10, 2008 - in News
Nvidia originally assured Apple that its Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT based MacBook Pros had narrowly averted the defect – Apple now counters back saying it was actually not so lucky.
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Foxconn Introduces 'Green' MotherboardOct 10, 2008 - in News
Foxconn has announced its second board in its ‘Green Series’ line up. Based on Intel’s G45 chipset, the G45MG is said to offer many new power management capabilities to reduce overall power consumption without impacting system performance.
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G31 And E7200: The Real Low-Power StoryOct 9, 2008 - in Reviews
While Intel and VIA are battling for the low-power market, an optimized desktop motherboard and an efficient processor can already take your idle power down to almost 30 W, while still providing solid performance. We put Intel's G31 chipset to the task.
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Intel Purchases Netbook.com for Atom-based NetbooksOct 9, 2008 - in News
Intel has bought netbook.com and rumours suggest the company plans on turning it into a portal for Atom-based netbooks. Currently, visiting netbook.com redirects users to the Intel’s page about the company’s Atom processor.
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Overvolted RAM May Kill Your Core i7 CPUOct 8, 2008 - in News
Memory controllers built into the upcoming Core i7 processors could change the way some enthusiasts push their systems beyond spec
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ATI: Expect DirectX 11 and 40 nm GPUs in 2009Oct 8, 2008 - in News
During Ceatec in Japan this past week, ATI said that it expects to see DirectX 11 GPUs based on a 40 nm manufacturing tech sometime next year.
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Crucial DDR3 Memory — Now With More Bling!Oct 8, 2008 - in News
Just in case the whir of fans and the occasional tick-tick of a hard drive doesn’t provide enough clues that that yes, your PC really is powered on, Lexar Media is now offering its LED-laden Crucial Ballistix Tracer SDRAM in DDR3 trim.
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AMD Ditches the Costly Chip Manufacturing to Focus on DesignOct 7, 2008 - in News
The media this morning is busy working itself into a frenzy about an announcement from AMD scheduled for early Tuesday.
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Start Saving: Core i7 PCs Will Be ExpensiveOct 7, 2008 - in News
Pre-order prices for upcoming X58 motherboards and Intel Core i7 processors have appeared online
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Do New Drivers Really Boost Performance?Oct 7, 2008 - in Reviews
How much extra performance can you get from a simple graphics driver update? And what sort of gaming gains can you expect from a high-end graphics card when you overclock your CPU?
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Core i7 Incompatible With Performance DDR3 MemoryOct 6, 2008 - in News
Performance DDR3 memory that requires a voltage higher than 1.65V may permanently damage Core i7 CPUs
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Best Video Cards For The Money: Oct '08Oct 6, 2008 - in Reviews
Detailed graphics card specifications and reviews are great—that is, if you have the time to do the research. At the end of the day, what a gamer needs is the best graphics card within a certain budget, and that’s what we’re going to show you.
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Atom, Athlon, or Nano? Energy-Savers ComparedOct 3, 2008 - in Reviews
We compared Intel’s Atom 230 and VIA’s Nano L2100 processors hoping to find the best product for low-power applications. VIA is in the vanguard of performance. Is this enough to beat Atom?
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EVGA's New 790i Motherboard Should Delight OverclockersOct 2, 2008 - in News
EVGA has announced a new motherboard based on Nvidia’s popular nForce 790i SLI chipset. The EVGA 790i SLI FTW Digital PWM delivers a bevy of electronic, mechanical, and BIOS features to facilitate aggressive overclocking.
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The First sub-$1,000 Water-cooled PCOct 2, 2008 - in News
Considered a water-cooled gaming rig, but haven’t had the nerve to mix electronics and liquids? Visionman Computers has just announced a new gaming PC that features a water-cooled dual-core CPU that sells for $999.99.
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Toshiba SpursEngine Add-In Video Cards Coming SoonOct 1, 2008 - in News
Toshiba SpursEngine, released earlier this year is based on the same Cell processor technology as used in the Sony PlayStation 3 console.
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AMD's 'Shanghai' CPU Enters ProductionOct 1, 2008 - in News
The last year has not been kind to AMD. Its 65nm Barcelona processors arrived several months late, and were already obsolete in many ways when compared to the Intel offerings at the time. To make matters worse, the Barcelona chips were also buggy, making
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Updated CPU Charts 2008: AMD Versus IntelOct 1, 2008 - in Reviews
The processor is the heart of your PC, and our updated charts for Q3 2008 show 54 of them competing in terms of performance. Using our updated suite of benchmarks, compare your favorite AMD and Intel CPUs after reading this introduction.
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Report: Cell/B.E. to be Used in PlayStation 4Sep 30, 2008 - in News
Could Sony be planning on using an upgraded Cell/B.E. in the PlayStation 4?
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AMD Releases HTPC-Friendly Budget Graphics CardsSep 30, 2008 - in News
Two new budget graphics cards by AMD have been announced Tuesday; the ATI Radeon HD 4550 and the ATI Radeon HD 4350
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Samsung makes industries smallest DDR chipsSep 30, 2008 - in News
Anyone for 16GB DDR3 modules? Samsung has developed what it claims to be the industries smallest 2GB (256MB) DDR memory chips utilizing a 50nm process technology.
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Stalker: Clear Sky - Is Your System Ready?Sep 30, 2008 - in Reviews
Thinking about picking up the latest update to Stalker, but not sure if your graphics subsystem can handle it? Hang on as we take you through a performance tour and demonstrate how the game has been prettied up.
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MSI's X58 Motherboard To Have Quad-SLISep 29, 2008 - in News
Details emerge regarding MSI's upcoming X58 motherboards
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Nvidia Settles Price Fixing LawsuitSep 29, 2008 - in News
A recent major class action lawsuit that was brought against both Nvidia and ATI for conspiring to fix, raise, maintain and stabilize prices of graphics processing chips and cards may soon be coming to a resolution
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Part 4: Avivo HD vs. PureVideo HDSep 28, 2008 - in Reviews
The 780G chipset/Radeon HD 3200 and the MCP78S chipset/GeForce 8200 provide the first integrated graphics solutions that can accelerate Blu-ray playback. We dig deep into how well they work with high-quality Blu-ray 1080p video playback.