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Video Card Memory Analysis: 256MB vs. 512MB

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How many forums have you visited in the last month with threads discussing whether 512MB video cards are really necessary? Well hopefully this article will shed some light on this topic.
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CeBIT 2006 in Germany

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Guru3D.com just posted an article on the CeBIT 2006 exhibit that is taking place in germany as we speak. CeBIT is easily one of the biggest IT exhibits that takes place in Europe every year. Roughly two million visitors and well over 8000 exhibitors are attending the CeBIT. CeBIT focuses on the professional visitor, rather than the end-user. The majority of exhibitors were IT/Enterprise oriented and only handfuls in attendance were for the consumer level.
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AMD announces three new dual-core AMD Opteron's

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announced three new models in the Dual-Core AMD Opteron? processor family that lead the industry in x86 performance and performance-per-watt capabilities. The new Dual-Core AMD Opteron processors help minimize overall server power consumption and cooling requirements. AMD Press Release
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LaCie Two Big 1TB eSATA drive

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It wasn't very long ago that having a terabyte (1TB) of storage in a home PC was considered far-fetched. But now just about every hard drive manufacturer has a 500GB drive in its product range, and having a terabyte or more in a desktop PC isn't really a big deal. However, LaCie has figured out a different approach to give you 1TB with the Two Big external Serial ATA (eSATA) enclosure... Reg Hardware
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Up Close with Quad SLI

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During NVIDIA's 6th Annual Editors' Day, the media was given the chance to try out the Quad SLI systems that will soon be offered first by the System Builders such as Dell and Alienware. We took the chance to examine Quad SLI closely and ran some benchmarks on the Extreme HD Gaming Monsters.
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The Core of Intel's New Chips

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The Core microarchitecture is at the heart of Intel's plans to regain the desktop performance crown. We delve into white papers to find out just exactly what Core is, and how it will affect performance.

Bit-Tech
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Conroe Performance Preview Follow-Up

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We took a second look at Conroe. We ran the AMD system with an updated BIOS, ran our own Quake 4 demo on Conroe and re-ran some of our original tests. Find out what's changed.
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NVIDIA Chipset Chat

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Yesterday we were holding a chat regarding NVIDIA's next core-logic technology, nForce 500 family. Here is a complete question-answer log.

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Intel Invents 5GHz Stock Cooler

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Intel has created a self-contained watercooling unit that will enable the latest Pentium Extreme Edition chips to hit 5GHz with ease.
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Microsoft, Samsung Launch

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Samsung will enter the US computer market in April as the launch partner for Microsoft's new UltraMobile PC. Asus will release its own model in the US in June, while Chinese PC vendor Founder will deliver one to the Asian market this summer. Samsung's unit is expected to cost under $1,000. The system will include Microsoft's new "Touch Pack" software add-on, which features a software keyboard optimized for thumb-based typing and a Sudoku game.

PCMag.com
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LCD Response Time is Dead

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Today at CeBIT, AU Optronics and Samsung celebrated the end of the "response time". They released new P-MVA and S-PVA panels that would be, according to the manufacturers, faster than the most recent TN 1 or 2ms and despite a slower official (understand "measure") response time. Here is a description of both technologies by Behardware.com.

CeBIT : THE LCD News
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First Conroe Block Diagrams

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As soon as we got to the Spring Intel Developer Forum 2006, Intel gave us exclusive access to the Conroe block diagram before the keynote.

DailyTech
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ATI x16 vs x8 Performance

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A couple of weeks back we looked at the performance of the nForce x16 chipset by plugging a couple of 7800GTX cards in SLI mode and finding out how much extra performance we could gain by having two dedicated PCI-E x16 lanes instead of one that?s split into two X8 lanes. The results were disappointing with only one game, Quake4, showing any performance gains.
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Asus A8R32-MVP Issues

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Those of you who have visited the site in the last week will have noticed that our coverage of ATI?s Crossfire 3200 has been non-existant. We have been quiet on the reasons behind this because we were working through them with ATI/Asus and our A8R32-MVP.

DriverHeaven
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The 60 Inch Subwoofer

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Actually, before designing it, we looked at a comparison between a large number of conventional subwoofers, or a single giant one. After we did the math, the obvious choice was the one giant woofer. It's output displacement is comparable to 160+ ten inch woofers. It can move a lot of air! DigitalGrabber
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NVIDIA 7900GT and 7900GTX 3DMarks

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Earlier today some preliminary benchmarks of GeForce 7900GT and GeForce 7900GTX were leaked onto the internet pending the March 9, 2006 launch.
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HighSpeed PC Tech Station

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How hardcore do you think you are? Most people upgrade their PC every now and then - that's just part & parcel of being a PC enthusiast. For some who change their internal components frequently, case screws are an optional extra - far easier to just slide the side panel into place. Bit-Tech
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Corsair 3500LL Pro 2GB TwinX Memory Review

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If you're anything like us, you've got a thing for flashing lights, alphanumeric displays and stats available by the second when you need them. While the display interface of these modules might not be as informative as that of the Expert series that we reviewed quite a few moons ago, Motherboards.org
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HDA X-Plosion 7.1 Sound Card Review

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If you're like me, you use your rig for as many things as possible. My rig is for gaming, multi-media, software development, and basically anything else I feel like doing, such as screwing around with my guitar and surfing the web. nV News
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ATI?s Radeon X1900 XTX to Cost $549

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ATI Technologies, a leading supplier of graphics processing units (GPUs), is expected to drop the prices on graphics cards featuring the Radeon X1000-series GPUs shortly following the release of the GeForce 7900-series products of arch-rival Nvidia Corp., X-bit labs has learnt.
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HyperTransport Link Investigation

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So how much does the HyperTransport Link's speed really effect an overclocked system's performance? We aim to find out. Come have a look as we find out how much life the HT Link's current specification still has in it.
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SLI and CrossFire Push Power Supplies to the Limit

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Power supplies are a critical, often overlooked component when building your rig. As high-end dual-graphics cards pull more power, they're creating headaches for power supply manufacturers.
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Matrox TripleHead2Go Preview @ FiringSquad

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What if you could connect three monitors to your GeForce or Radeon-equipped system for a wider field-of-view in games -- would you be interested? Hardware enthusiasts may recall this technology was first demonstrated over three years ago in the Matrox Parhelia. Well today Matrox brings TripleHead support to practically anyone with a laptop or PC with their TripleHead2Go module. See how it works and how much it will cost in today's article!
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X-Fi's Crystalizer and Framerates?

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One of the features introduced with the SoundBlaster X-Fi series is the 24-bit Crystalizer. Games, movies or mp3's sound better or at least they are supposed to. Creative even claims that a mp3 will sound better with Crystalizer enabled than it would on the CD it was taken from.
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Audio Realism

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Voice Communications on your headset + Ambient sound on you speakers = Ambient Audio Realism.

As gamers, we always strife to get the utmost realism out of our games, but as hard as we try and as much as we spend on hardware, not all of us get to achieve the audio realism we wish. Take that scene in ?Blackhawk Down? where Eversmann guy is calling a medic on his radio, whilst he?s in that midst big mess of AKs shooting and Choppers whirring above.
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ATI Xpress 3200

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Later today, ATI will officially announce the Xpress 3200 core logic -- a 110nm low-k core logic for AMD Socket 939 and the still unannounced Socket AM2. Xpress 3200 has all of the features found on Xpress 200 (RD480) with a few extra frills from the Southbridge including dual Gigabit Ethernet PHYs, dual 1394 PHYs and eight SATA 3.0Gbps drive support.

DailyTech
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The choice of Dual Core vs Single Core

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Over the last couple of months I have been repeatedly asked a question from people wanting to upgrade or buy a new PC. The question has been, should I get a dual core AMD Athlon 64 or single core and what speed should I get? This has also been a hot topic not only in our forums but right across the internet. Two distinct camps have developed: die hard dual core fans and die hard single core fans. Truthfully, during the testing of this article and my research I have felt like I have been playing Black and White 2 where you have one guy sitting on one shoulder and another on the other, both arguing their cases to me. Neither one are the devil, but neither one comes out as the undisputed angel either.
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FREE USB Memory Sticks

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Get your free USB memory stick, courtesy of none other than Microsoft! Allow 6-8 weeks for delivery.
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PMA 2006 Show Photo Blog

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Where else will you see two Rocking Babies, a Sony underwater digital camcorder, and smiling Panasonic executives? PCMag.com's lead camera analyst, Terry Sullivan, is at the Photo Marketing Association's 2006 exhibition, bringing you exclusive photos.
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ATI RD580 Motherboards

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When the new ATI Dual x16 PCIe chipset launches in a couple of days, you will be able to buy motherboards on launch day from at least one manufacturer. The Asus A8R32-MVP Deluxe will be widely available for sale on March 1, and it represents an upgrade of the current A8R-MVP with improved performance and Deluxe features. Asus also continues their use of passive cooling on the A8R32-MVP, with no active cooling fans.

AnandTech
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Blu-ray Player and Discs To Launch 5/23

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Well folks, we have a date for both Blu-ray hardware and media. I can?t say I?m overly excited about the initial titles, though they?re an improvement over Charlie?s Angels. Lion?s Gate is listing newer titles at $39.99 a pop and classics (I use that term lightly) at $29.99. Let the format war begin!

Zatz Not Funny
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GeForce 7900 GTX Quad SLI @ CeBIT

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We heard faintly that NVIDIA is going to demonstrate Quad SLI technology using GeForce 7900 GTX cards over at CeBIT. Apparently, NVIDIA will be allowing manufacturers to make cards for Quad SLI too. Last but not least, GeForce 7900 GT scored almost the same 3DMark06 score as the 7800 GTX; ~4K.

VR-Zone
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NVIDIA MCP55 Nearing Completion

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NVIDIA has been quiet about core logic since nForce4 x16 was launched a few months ago, but the company is rapidly approaching on final silicon for the MCP55 family. MCP55, as we reported previously, is the nForce4 successor dedicated to Socket AM2/S1 motherboards.

DailyTech
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Could This be the Video iPod?

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Is this the real Video iPod? MacShrine has a picture of what appears to be a full screen iPod. These photos match up pretty well with the drawings from the US Patent and Trademark Office we posted a few weeks ago detailing a touch sensitive GUI for portable devices.

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