ATI takes another stab at restoring parity in the high-end graphics segment with an improved version of the Radeon X1900 XTX. Reinforced with an enhanced R580+ core and DDR4 memory, the Radeon X1950 XTX 512MB promises a lot but can it deliver the win for ATI? Here's a sneak peak at its performance.

TWICE claims to have learned the price of the upcoming portable media player from Microsoft.

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A new update from Creative on the crackling and popping issues some people are experiencing with their SoundBlaster X-Fi cards. According to Creative the sound glitches only arise on nForce 4 motherboards and only nVidia is able to fix them.

Over the past several weeks, we've conducted extensive Core 2 testing with Intel's 975X chipset and Radeon X1900 CrossFire, but what about NVIDIA's GeForce cards? That's what we're here today to find out.

According to AMD engineers, Dual Stress Liner and SOI together should ensure about 16% increase in the frequency potential of Athlon 64 processors. This means Athlon64 90nm chips that are implemented with both SOI and DSL should achieve at least 2.8Ghz nominal clock frequencies. Those opterons which can reach up to 3Ghz on air are more likely golden chips with DSL and Strained SOI on 90nm.

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Here are some pictures of ATi's upcoming X1950XTX. Our pictures compare the physical difference between the X1900XTX and the X1950XTX. The overall simpler PCB layout of the X1950XTX points towards a less power consuming card.

MSI 7600GT Diamond Plus is the World's first VGA card granted the World's First HDMI Certification. Along with simple connectivity, the audio/video signals on PC can be transmitted to LCD or Plasma TV under HDMI. MSI NX7600GT Diamond Plus has also an exclusive function called D.O.T. II over clocking technology, which enable user to adjust the accordance of power-consumption and performance dynamically.

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DailyTech has received early benchmarks of ATI?s upcoming Radeon X1950XTX and X1950 CrossFire graphics cards. ATI?s upcoming Radeon X1950XTX and X1950 CrossFire is expected to make its debut on August 23rd.

Cornice, Inc., known for its ultra slim mobile hard disk drives, has released a 5th generation of its Dragon series mobile hard drive that can now store 12GB of data. Other than being robust, durable and less power consuming, it is equipped with technologies that we now expect as a standard in desktop and mobile drives alike.

NVIDIA has readied Quad SLI for the enthusiast, opening it up for official support in their latest driver release. Does quadrupling your gaming power make sense though?

Only a month or two ago Guru3d took a peek at the NVIDIA's GeForce 7950 GX2 where we tried to enable Quad SLI with the help of two GeForce 7950 GX2 graphics cards. At that time the results were quite a catastrophe and Guru3D halted that "mini" review within one page as there was only one game really supported. Not exactly NVIDIA's fault, Guru3D was just curious. Back then Guru3D stated that they very much doubted if NVIDIA would get Quad SLI running... ever.

NVIDIA's strongest SKUs in the market today is undoubtedly the GeForce 7900GT and 7600GT. We already saw what the GeForce 7600GT, both reference and higher clocked SKUs can do in our last round up. The performance difference, while present, is minimal. The use of a 128 bit memory bus restrains the card from getting enough bandwidth to really stretch its 12 pixel shader units to its maximum potential.

There was reason enough for NVIDIA to release an nForce 500 series for Intel's processors (Core 2 Duo compatible) for a lot of reasons, pretty much .. Conroe rocks and you need to have a platfrom ready for that !. Today guru of 3d will be taking a brief look at the reference NVIDIA NFORCE 590 SLI mainboard. It by all means is test done with a beta reference board that is not 100% finished as the final product will eb available at the end of August. Nonetheless .. even with this very Beta reference mainboard I was shocked by the combination of Conroe and NFORCE 590 SLI for Intel, in very positive way I must add.

DRAMeXchange indicates the raise in working frequency in GPU is the main force to push the development on GDDR memory, providing a higher memory frequency to fulfill the need of bandwidth. Samsung and Hynix have already give GDDR4 samples to ATi and nVidia.

Ageia recently released its PhysX card to the public, and it didn't take long for Nvidia and ATI to in turn present their own take on how to best calculate physics.

Thinking upgrading that Dell XPS M1710 to the latest Intel Core 2 Duo mobile CPU down the road? We experiment with our Core 2 Duo in the M1710 to see what's possible.

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You've seen the Core 2 Extreme X6800 and the Athlon 64 FX-62 duke it out in our Core 2 Performance Review, but now we're offering you a glimpse into the future as we try to determine what the upcoming Core 2 Extreme X6900 and Athlon 64 FX-64 will bring to the table, performance-wise.

Intel's Merom processor brings Core 2 Duo to the mobile world. Will it make as big of an impression as Conroe has on the desktop?

Some of the readers of Behardware.com have sent e-mails about a possible risk of delay of image displayed on LCD monitors compared to CRTs. The website checked this information and found that they were right!

It looks like AMDs strategy against Intels Core 2 Duo is getting clearer. Just like Intel the Athlon 64 will get a shared Cache for 2 (or 4) cores, but AMD won't use the L2 cache for this, they will add a L3 cache with 2 MB or more.