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ATI Mobility Radeon X1600

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ATI has prepped their new X1600 Radeon Mobility GPU for release today marking the first mid-level next generation notebook part since the X700 and 6600 GPUs. Does this 90nm X1600 have the muscle and light step to make a great notebook solution?
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We ask ATI about Crossfire...

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We asked ATI some questions about the Crossfire technology and the second generation Crossfire capable VGAs. And we got some interesting answers. For instance there will be drivers for the upcoming Intel-based MACs, but there won't be Crossfire support neither for MAC, nor for Linux. Also X1300 and X1600 won't be needing a Crossfire master card, but we'll have to wait another month for the drivers...

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Holiday HTPC Hardware Buyers Guide

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It's that time of year again, the wonderful holidays where people are looking for ideas on gifts. HTPCnews.com put together an article outlining the best bang for the buck HTPC parts and even included three priced out complete HTPC's. Dollar values for these three machines are $1001, $1320 and even a complete machine for under $800. Check it out if you're in the market.
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Nvidia G71 (7900 Ultra) 90nm 750MHz

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NVIDIA CFO Marv Burkett and VP Michael Hara at CSFB Annual Technology Conference 2005 revealed more about the GeForce 7 series where the 90nm G72 (GeForce 7200) and G73 (GeForce 7600) will be announced in Q1 next year. G72 will be 64-bit and support TurboCache technology. Marv Burkett revealed that GeForce 7200 and 7600 series will last between one to one and half year.
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Top Secret Intel Processor Plans Uncovered

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Intel plans to unleash the first quad core CPU (Kentsfield) within one year. The switch to 45 nm in 2007 will enable eight cores and up to 12 MB L2 cache (Yorkfield) per CPU. We x-rayed the complete CPU roadmap.
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Compatibility issues with Maxtor DiamondMax 9/10 and nForce4

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It seems that there is a serious compatibility issue between some of the Maxtor DiamondMax 9/10 SATA series with an early firmware revision and some nForce4 based motherboards. Some of the effected motherboards are the ASUS A8N series, the DFI LAN Party NF4, and some MSI nForce4 based boards.

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Round Up of GeForce 7 Series @ Tech-Hounds

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After our last round up, we're pretty dismayed with both the performance of GeForce 6800GT and Radeon X800XL in newer games. For the most part, these cards are just barely making the grade with minimum fps of 30 fps (with AA and AF) or even less than that. So, like most gamers out there, we want an even faster card, 30 fps minimum is just too low for real fluid gaming. Obviously, this means taking a look at the even faster GeForce 7800GT and GTX.
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7800GTX 512MB vs. X1800XT 512MB

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Today at the GamePC Labs, we're performing a direct comparison of the two fastest graphics cards on the market, nVidia's GeForce 7800 GTX 512 MB against ATI's Radeon X1800 XT 512 MB. Both cards are targeted at the ultra-high-end gamer who demands the best in image quality, performance, and the finest graphics card experience, no matter what the cost.
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Intel Yonah Performance Preview

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While the launch of Yonah still won?t be until January of next year, we?ve had a chip for the past month, unfortunately, we haven?t had a motherboard to stick it in. We finally got one two days ago, which is why you?re seeing this article now, instead of more pictures of our Yonah posing alongside the Xbox 360.
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Pentium M gaming performance vs Athlon 64

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In addition to demonstrating a unique cooling solution, we wanted to make a bold statement that a Pentium M computer can make a great gaming machine. Why is that important? When you're serious about making your computer quiet, heat becomes a very real issue, and the low heat output of a Pentium M comes in very handy! But how does it perform?
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ULi M1697 Reference Mainboard Introduction At OCworkbech

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ULi M1697 is the next generation chipset supporting the Athlon 64, X2, FX processors. This single chipset enhances the functionalities of M1695 by introducing SATA II with NCQ and RAID 5 support. It also support HD-Audio. With a single chipset, manufacturers can cut down costs yet deliver performance on par with competitor's chipsets.

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ATI and NVIDIA's Dual-Card Slugfest

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ATI calls it Crossfire. NVIDIA calls it SLI. In Part I of our comparative look at dual-card graphics, we detail the two graphic giants' chipsets and what you get by investing in an Asus Crossfire or SLI motherboard.

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GeForce Go 7300 Benchies

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Our friends at HKEPC Hardware have thrown up their review of Nvidia's GeForce Go 7300 mobile GPU, clocked at 350MHz core and 700MHz memory.
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Dual-core desktop CPU bout: AMD vs. Intel

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You may recall a few months back when AMD took out full-page newspaper ads to challenge Intel to a dual-core server duel. Intel declined to take up AMD on its offer, but the challenge got us thinking?
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TechSpot's Holiday Gift Guide 2005

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The holidays are creeping up and to ensure your preferred geek is appropriately gifted with only the most fitting of gadgets, widgets and thingamabobs, TechSpot is here to assist.
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Pentium 4 660 Reaches 6GHz

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Our very own overclocking guru Robert "Crotale" Kilhberg has as usual spent a lot of his time at DreamHack in NordicHardware's booth doing some extreme overclocking attempts.
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Athlon 64 3000+ EOL'ed, New 3200+ and 3500+ E4 Stepping

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For those of you who watch the Athlon 64 market very closely, you may have noticed the sudden dry up of lower clocked E3 Venice CPUs. According to industry insiders, AMD appears to have discontinued shipping the Athlon 64 3000+ to major retailers, although AMD roadmaps predicted this far in advanced. However, sources have now indicated that AMD has also stopped shipping the Athlon 64 E3 Venice 3200+ and 3500+ Socket 939 processors too. Higher clocked Athlon 64 chips, like the 3800+, are in allocation.

AnandTech
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How Chips are Manufactured

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Have you ever wondered how chips such as microprocessors, video processors, memories, chipsets etc are created and manufactured? In this tutorial we will explain everything you need to know about chip manufacturing process.

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ATI supports Radeon X1800 XT overclocking

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ATI has sent out an official advisory called "Overclocking Configuration Support" to its board partners which allow a select number of partners to overclock boards based on Radeon X1800 XT chips. This represents a major milestone in ATI's history, which until now has been very strict concerning overclocking. Not only was ATI against users overclocking boards but ATI refused to support similar activities by its board partners.

AnandTech
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NVIDIA 7800GTX 512MB: Scoring 10,000+ in 3DMark05

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What exactly is the purpose of releasing a new card when most games perform the same (after a certain threshold) and whatever increase in speed you get is only noticeable in "smart" applications that are designed to measure frames for the sole purpose of crowning the next champion. Does it stop us from producing faster cards? No. Do we wait for the games to catch up with the actual hardware? No. But yet, both NVIDIA and ATI continue to unleash their overpriced beasts to the enthusiast community.
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Dual-Core support for Pentium D in games

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After the Cyber Athlete Professional League (CPL) finales Intel made an official statement in which Clubic.com learns that Intel have optimized the following games for their Dual-Core Pentium D CPU's.
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ATi Radeon X1800 XT PE Next Week

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Thanks to VR-Zone for the Heads Up!

ATi Radeon X1800 XT PE will be coming next week according to a German site, K-Hardware. This card is clocked higher at 700MHz core and 1600MHz memory to be better positioned against NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512. It is yet to be determine what kind of memories will be used on the X1800 XT PE so it could probably still be the Samsung 1.26ns GDDR3 or even the faster 1.1ns memories. However, we have no problems hitting 750MHz core and 1700MHz for the X1800 XT card in an overclocking test so it wouldn't be surprise if the X1800 XT PE is essentially a X1800 XT card.
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Cooler Master delivers Real Power 550W for power users

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Cooler Master has launched the Real Power 550W, a new, high-performance and compact power supply for real enthusiasts and power users looking to get the ultimate in graphics performance from their PCs.
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ATi To Unveil Mobility Crossfire

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We have heard of SLI for notebooks half a year back with two GeForce 6800Ultra Go on a Dell notebook and we are pretty sure NVIDIA is going do it again for their recently launched 7800 GTX Go. The only problem is that your battery power is going to drain real fast with that setup and is only viable if AC power is connected.

VR-Zone
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First Look: VIA K8T900

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Semiconductor giant VIA have today announced their latest chipset: the K8T900 for AMD Athlon 64. Can it hold a candle to the current champ, NVIDIA's nForce4 SLI?

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Readers Annoyed with Laser Technology in Gaming Mice

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After we published our interviews with Logitech and Razer and our thoughts on the matter, we invited readers to send us questions that they wanted to ask the aforementioned companies in regards to laser technology. Much to our surprise, especially after Logitech said the number of users who were experiencing problems with laser technology had declined substantially over the past few weeks, we received hundreds (if not thousands) of e-mails from readers who had comments on our articles.
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Ideazon Zboard & COD2 or AOE III keyset Giveaway

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Thanks to the generosity of our friends at Ideazon we are thrilled to announce our latest contest! We have four Zboards - two Call of Duty 2 keysets and two Age of Empires III keysets. The keyset will be designated by the site admin upon being chosen as a winner in the contest.
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Top Gaming PCs

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The top Gaming PCs are the Falcon Northwest X2-4800 SLI, the Voodoo Omen a121, and the Dell XPS M170. These PCs include top-of-the-line components. Read the reviews of these systems and find out how much they cost.

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Compatibility issue with Tyan boards & Antec PSU's

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For those who are currently in the market for dual Opteron boards and are preferring products manufactured by Tyan, be sure to carefully pick power supplies with some research before purchase. We have been advised that certain Antec power supplies are having issues with the following motherboards from Tyan:

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2006 Tech Gear Wishlist

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Well, it is that time of the year again. With Halloween done and over with its time for Thanksgiving and, before you know it, the holiday season. Every company realizes this and has made sure the stores are packed with cool new gadgets, gifts, and gizmos. This guide is going to go over a few of the items which appear of the wishlists of a few of the staff members. Nothing too formal, but you can get an idea of some of the cool products to keep an eye out for this season.
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The Woes of Laser Technology in Gaming Mice

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In closing, Logitech did provide somewhat of a remedy. The peripherals maker suggested that users who are having problems with surface tracking with either G5 or G7 mice should call Logitech?s technical support team to remedy the problem.
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Maxell goes to 1.6TB with holographic disc

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Maxell and InPhase are bringing a revolutionary technology to market - holographic media. With storage capacities achieving 1.6 TeraBytes per disk and data rates as high as 120 MBPs, holographic technology is a true breakthrough in optical media. These features, along with a long archival life, make holographic media a compelling choice for storage and archival requirements.

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$100 Dollar Notebook

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The MIT Media Lab initiative to develop a $100 laptop?a technology that could revolutionize how we educate the world's children. To achieve this goal, a new, non-profit association, One Laptop per Child (OLPC), has been created. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Nicholas Negroponte Unveil $100 Laptop Prototype at the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunisia.
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Intel 65nm Processor Benchies

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Our friends at HKEPC Hardware have thrown up their review of Intel's Pentium XE 955 and Pentium 4 643 65-nano processors.
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Intel 865PE Supports Presler?

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Intel has just launched the 975X chipset and so far only first tier motherboard makers like Gigabyte and ASUS have finished developing their boards based on the chipset. The new 975X chipset supports the upcoming 65nm Dual core Pentium XE and D processors codenamed Presler as well as the single core Cedarmill.

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ATI RD580: Dual x16 Crossfire Preview

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Even though ATI RD482 chipset Crossfire boards are just appearing in the market, ATI is already far along in the development of their next chipset, called ATI RD580. We recently had an opportunity to spend two days testing the new RD580 Crossfire motherboard, code-named Manta, and to directly compare the RD580 Dual X16 chipset with the recently reviewed Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe featuring the nVidia Dual x16 chipset. The comparison included both single and dual video card head-to-head testing with 7800GTX SLI (running 81.87 drivers) and X1800XT Crossfire (running Catalyst 5.11).
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Razer?s Strategy Behind Laser Technology in Gaming Mice

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In a brief commentary, Razer confirmed that the current variant of laser technology does indeed work best with smooth surfaces, but similar to Logitech, it?s working on supporting as many tracking surfaces as possible. Instead of altering various settings in the software to remedy the tracking issue, Razer has issued a firmware to distribute more power to the laser, which does improve compatibility.
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Intel debuts CPUs with VT

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As expected Intel today launched two new processors with Virtualization Technology (VT). This new technology, which used the be codenamed Vanderpool, allows a computer to run multiple operating system or applications in independent partitions or "containers" that can be tailored for specific needs such as IT management services and protecting networked assets.. Read on over here at DV Hardware.
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NVIDIA GeForce 6800GS: An Overview

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With the 6800s dwindling away in the market, there was a huge gap in NVIDIA?s product portfolio, which catered to the enthusiasts. ATI, however, had the X1600XT catering to the very market that NVIDIA was nowhere close to; therefore, NVIDIA could not leave the hole unplugged for long.
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DFI nF4 SLI-DR Expert w/ FX-57 @ 3.9GHz!

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We took this new motherboard from DFI for some overclocking tests and put a naked FX-57 under some cascade cold treatment. With a better board layout/design and more tweakable options in BIOS, we are able to overclock the FX-57 to 3.9GHz and is stable under 3DMark benching. We will write a review on this fine board soon but now more OC tests continue.

VR-Zone
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ATI Radeon X1800XT 512MB

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With the release of Catalyst 5.11 drivers and retail availability, the Radeon X1800XT is finally a viable purchase. How does it rack up? We put it through our real-world gaming tests and compare it to standard and overclocked GeForce 7800 GTX cards.

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An Overview of Dell's Open Source Computers

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The article takes goes over Dell's open source line of desktop computers and workstations. The N line is something which Dell began to sell recently, but the situation is much more complex that it would seem. There is often little or no discount given if consumers opt to go with FreeDOS as their operating system, instead of Windows and Red Hat computers cost more than those with XP Pro. There is also a great link in the article showing how Dell is selling AMD processors in their Accessories section!
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AMD FX-60 Pic's and Benchies

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Thanks to the Chinese website PCPOP we have the first benchmarks and pic's for AMD Dual-Core FX-60 CPU!
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ATi RV560 Info Emerged

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Although ATI has just announced the Radeon X1000 family consists of X1300 (RV515), X1600 (RV530) and X1800 (R520) but the internal department isn't too pleased with their performance so far.

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