While the appearance of video cards powered with the Quad SLI technology has been old news for a while with Dell's XPS 600 Renegade along with other various products from manufacturers that have exclusive access to the technology, consumers can now rejoice as well.

If you have been reading the news online lately you would have heard about Conroe (also known as Core 2 Duo) line of processors. This article will try to teach you a bit more about Conroe and why it is so important to you when you are choosing your upgrades.

The new Gigabit KillerNIC is catered towards the hardcore gamer that requires every drop of performance possible from a gaming system. Utilizing a 400MHz network processor with 64MB of dedicated PC-2100 DDR memory, the Killer NIC has plenty of power to perform Gigabit transfer rates without hogging up too many CPU cycles.

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AMD executives said this week that they will promote its "4x4" enthusiast platform to counter the Core 2 Duo (C2D). AMD also plans to push a sort of "performance number" into the market to redefine how consumers should think about power. The

Do you need huge storage capacities? If you are ready to put your trust in a single drive to store all your vacation movies, all manufacturers except Samsung offer 500 GB hard drives. Seagate even sells a 750 GB. Behardware.com has tested 6 of these monsters to find out which was the best.

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MBReview has taken a look at Intel's Core Microarchitecture. The processors being announced today all operate off of this new uArch, and it looks to be quite impressive. If you're interested in checking out the new performance and power management features of the Core microarchitecture, head on over and give the article a look!

High powered gamers are requiring more and more juice to keep their systems running at optimum performance. Thermaltake recognized that there was a real need for a creative solution in this area and took it upon themselves to design an ingenious solution. Introducing the Thermaltake Purepower Power Express 250W Power Supply.

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More details on Microsoft's worst-kept-secret continue to filter out through the blogosphere. Both Engadget and Gizmodo have updates on the device from their sources, details further cementing the idea that Zune, at least in its initial release, will not have anything to do with games. That doesn't, however, mean there won't be Xbox 360 hooks.

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Many users are complaining about black screen issues while using GeForce 7800GS AGP . Most of the reports are from users that share common symptoms and issues. The most affected hardware is on the EVGA and XFX boards. Both firms have confirmed these issues and EVGA has even offered a beta BIOS as a workaround. However almost nothing has been solved regarding these issues. Both firms got frustrated and stopped trying to investigate and attempt to fix these issues.

In August, Intel is releasing its latest Core based Merom processor. At that time, Merom coupled with the existing products is spirit of ¡§Napa Refresh¡¨. But the full power of Merom is only brought till the release of Santa Rosa platform in 2007 Q2!

Though I'm stuck on the 11x Multiplier and 380+MHz FSB choke on the DFI 975X Infinity, I decided to do some Cross-Fireage overclocking for the hell of it. Setup Consists of Intel Core 2 Duo X6800, DFI 975X Infinity, ATi Powercolor X1900 Cross-Fire running mildly chilled water and 2 x 512MBCorsair 5400UL @ CL4-3-2-1 480MHz! It scores some impressive 3D Mark performance numbers with "only" 4.2GHz Conroe!

Part II of the Multi-GPU World Tour involves the selection of ATI and NVIDIA GPUs for Entry Level ($1000 US / £650 GBP), Enthusiast ($2000 US / £1300 GBP) and Bleeding Edge (unlimited) price brackets. Read on to find out what choices were made, and why.

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Everything you need to know about Intel ViiV and AMD Live! standards for digital entertainment PCs and the difference between them.

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This is the introduction to a nine part series covering the multi-GPU space from both ATI and NVIDIA perspectives. Nine sites around the world have combined to work together to achieve what we feel is the definitive Multi-GPU roundup of products and technology. We look not only at the cards being presented, but of the entire ecosystem of parts supporting this technology. We compare 6 full multi-GPU systems from ATI and NVIDIA, and try to expose the strengths and weaknesses of each setup. Here is a direct quote from my introduction to the series.

With the advancing of Intel and AMD, VIA C7-M define its focus on UMPC market. C7-M has the advantage on its power and size, making it suitable for power-limited UMPC instead of performance based Intel Pentium M ULV and AMD Turion ULV. C7-M 779 (1GHz/128KB L2/400MHz FSB) for example, it consume at a maximum of 3.5W, average on 0.75W, and 0.25W only in C4 mode.

Rumour has swirled for a while now about S3 Graphics not creating any D3D9 Shader Model 3.0 part, instead going straight to building a D3D10 Shader Model 4.0 GPU, given the proximity of their dev schedule to the release of Microsoft Windows Vista.

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Elite Bastards have an explanation of some new technology which should be making its way into NVIDIA's next-generation G80 architecture - The 'multi-function interpolator'.

At Computex 2006, we had the chance to see a new memory module from GeIL. EVO ONE is its name, and it is the enthusiast?s wet dream. These days, memory plays an important role in running today?s games and applications. However, some motherboards can be a bottleneck when it comes to high performance memory. Most of the motherboard manufacturers today are drawing voltage from the 3.3v rail to power memory modules. Only one manufacturer is using the 5v rail, which allows the user higher overclocking.

Sources indicates that AMD Athlon 64 FX-64 is lunching in Q4, clocked at 3GHz, possessed 1MB x2 L2 Cache, and kept in 125 TDP. It is expected to price at US$1031, while AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 will drop to US$999, fighting with Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800. As expected, Intel also plans to release new Intel Core 2 Extreme into this war.

According to the latest white paper for AMD?s CPU, the frequency multiplier for the upcoming 65nm products included AMD Athlon 64 FX, AMD Athlon X2 (Brisbane) and AMD Sempron (Sparta) have been changed to 0.5x. The integral multiplier limited a 200MHz (by Hyper-Transport Bus) separation between each existing model. The change of the multiplier could lower the separation to 100MHz, making the product line be more flexible.