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Logitech LX7 Cordless Optical Mouse Review

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Considering the mainstream mindset, Logitech released its LX7 Cordless Optical mouse late last year. As the name suggests, it?s based on optical technology that defined and revolutionized mice, especially for gamers. Now that we can compare the two technologies side-by-side, is Logitech?s LX7 still a worthy contender? Read on and find out?
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Intel ViiV vs. AMD Live!

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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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Monitor Survey: eight 20 LCD 20'' 5, 6, 8, 16 ms

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Behardware.com has tested 8 of the most interesting 20" monitors on the market. All technology is represented with IPS, TN, MVA in 5, 6, 8 and 16 ms. There is also a wide range of prices from 470 to 900 ?. 8 candidates and in the end there will be only one star.
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The Creative X-Fi Scandal

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Back in the summer of 05?, Creative announced about a new revolutionary X-Fi audio processor that was supposed to change how our games sound. They said it would be a very powerful audio processor with a 51 million transistor chip. They also introduced many new features and claimed that it would be a breakthrough in multimedia audio. After Creative released their new X-Fi lineup many users complained about the following issues:
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NVIDIA Quad-SLI vs. ATI Crossfire

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At this year's CeBIT the most controversial and most debated new hardware was NVIDIA's Quad-SLI, which was awarded "best product of CES" earlier this year. We had the chance to put two identical retail 7900 GX2 QuadSLI and X1900 XTX CrossFire systems right next to each other and evaluate them. There were quite a bunch of surprises.

techPowerUp
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SLI running with ATi & Intel Yonah Motherboards

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Apparently, mod patches have been circulating around, under-table, to enable users to run SLI unofficially on Intel chipset motherboards, and even ATi chipset motherboards, such as the DFI CFX3200 DR based on the ATi RD580 chipset.
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Intel Core versus AMD's K8 architecture

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How does the Athlon 64 architecture, known as "Hammer" or "K8", compare with the newly announced Intel Core architecture? Does AMD have a chance to compete with the latest state of the art Intel technology? What tricks make the Core architecture more capable than the current CPUs?
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NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GX2 Quad SLI Performance Preview

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Ever since it was first demonstrated at CES in Jan, we've been wondering how fast NVIDIA's Quad SLI performs in today's latest games. Well, today the wait is finally over and we can finally show you benchmarks!
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Intel goes 32nm in 2009

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Intel is planning to release the first 45nm processors in 2007 and the first 32nm ones in 2009. More info over Here
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AM2 Spy Pics

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Here are some Super Spy Pcis of AMD's upcoming AM2 CPU. We're trying to gather some benchmarks as well.
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PCMag.com's Worst Products of Q1 2006

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When a product is just plain terrible, there's nothing you can say to make it sound more appealing. It is what it is. Take the Klegg Mini, for example. Besides the kooky name, the screen is poor, the interface is awful, and photos need conversion. And if that's not enough, there are ten other products just as bad. PCMag.com saves you from buying these worst products of Q1 2006.
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A Waterproof Core Duo Notebook?

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Matsushita Electronics, through its better-known Panasonic brand, has rolled out a new iteration of its ToughBook laptops in Japan, sporting Core Duo processors and, at the high end, impressive shock resistance and a special drainage system to protect it from the wetter kinds of spills.DigitalTrends
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Pioneer unveils $995 Blu-ray PC burner

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Pioneer, at a press conference in Taipei on April 25, Pioneer, unveiled its BDR-101A. This Blu-ray disc burner is aimed at the professional user though and not even your average enthusiast, considering the $995 dollar US price tag.

CD Freaks
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Reverse Hyperthreading

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There's been some recent mumbles about AMD doing something like this in a few years. We tell you about a company that's doing it now, and why it matters, a lot.

Overclockers.com
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Zalman Quiet Trio

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Zalman open up a can of Shhh with three new products: CNPS9500-AT CPU cooler; VF900-Cu graphics cooler; and ZM460-APS Power Supply. Will they stun us into silence too?

Bit-Tech
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First ATi X1900GT Benchmarks

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The X1900GT beats the 7900GT in 3D Mark 05 and 06 but loses out in 3D Mark 03. In Game Tests, the X1900GT leads in Half Life 2 and BattleField 2 but lags behind in FEAR, Doom 3, Splinter Cell and Serious Sam 2. It seems that the 7900GT is still the overall winner in terms of gaming.

VR-Zone
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Mobile ATA Hard Drives Compared

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To gain a better understanding of how the performance of today's latest and greatest 2.5" mobile ATA drives looks, we've gathered seven drives from the likes of Fujitsu, Hitachi, Seagate, and Western Digital. This mix of drives includes a little of everything, including a 160 GB perpendicular monster and a couple of 7,200-RPM speed demons.
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Athlon 64 X2 4000+ Socket AM2 Screens

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At ChileHardWare they've managed to come across a Socket AM2 processor, Athlon 64 X2 4000+, and they've posted some pictures of the new deliciousness. Just as expected the physical differences between the Socket AM2 processors and its Socket 939 siblings are very few, physically speaking.

NordicHardware
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VGA Cooler Roundup April 2006

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6 different VGA coolers are tested in our latest roundup, products from Arctic Cooling, Sytrin and Zalman stressed using an XFX 7800GT running at default and overclocked speeds, while each heatsink is tested at different fan speeds and GPU temperature and noise readings are recorded. What cooler will suite you best? Read on to find out.

Madshrimps
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ATI Avivo vs NVIDIA Purevideo

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For FiringSquad's first video review, we'll be comparing the video processing capabilities of ATI AVIVO and NVIDIA PureVideo. Don't worry, we agree with you that most video reviews are boring. This one's different. This one isn't boring. We promise.
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The Bensley Platform Tested

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A pre-launch sample of Intel's Dempsey CPU and Bensley platform served as a sneak preview of what to expect. Our benchmarks also indicate how the platform will fare against AMD's Opteron 280.
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Intel Celeron M 3.0GHz Beats AMD Athlon 64 FX-60

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A famous overclocker aka Coolaler posted some results of his overclocking experiment performed on a 0.065micron Celeron M version when this baby reached 2.6-3.0GHz core frequency in an AOpen i975Xa-YDG mainboard based on i975X chipset and equipped with a powerful air cooler.

X-Bit Labs
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Horizontal Cooler Showdown

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We round up eight sideways-gusting CPU coolers under fifty bucks to see if they can keep an overclocked FX-60 from welding itself to the motherboard. Will these horizontal blowers turn the world of CPU cooling on its side?
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Gainward to refresh their 7800 GS AGP to 7900 GT specs

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If you recall, Gainward launched a 512MB AGP based 7800 GS recently which actually had 20 pipelines instead of 16. Essentially the card was a 7800 GT in disguise and was above and beyond the performance of any other AGP card available. Gainward have a new card on the way with the exact same naming scheme as before except with the addition of a ?+?. The full name is the BLISS 7800 GS SILENT 512MB GS+. . The new ?+? refresh part looks set to move the specs away from 7800 GT territory and instead move them toward the 7900 GT. AGP users rejoice!
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Toshiba Qosmio F20 Multimedia Notebook Review

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There are times when an ultra slim notebook just doesn?t cut it. Times when you wish it had more power and could do more, much more than what a regular Sony VAIO would let you do. The Qosmio F20 is an answer to just such a need, provided you are willing to turn a blind eye to its "slightly" bulky size and weight.
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Maxtor Launches Tiny Backup Drive

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Maxtor unveiled its new OneTouch III Mini Edition external hard drive today. The small device weighs a mere 7 ounces and sports a rugged design with rubber side panels, so you should be able to toss the OneTouch into bags without fearing damage. The little drive comes in 60GB and 100GB capacities.

PCMag.com
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AMD Developing Reverse Hyper-Threading?

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The info is about a potential new AMD processor. Allegedly, the green camp is developing a sort of "Anti-Hyperthreading," which would allow two (or multiple) physical cores to emulate one physical core.

Bit-Tech
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NVIDIA 2006 Core Logic Roadmap

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The latest NVIDIA roadmaps show what we had all expected -- a single package unified MCP and GPU: the MCP61. MCP61 is the codename for NVIDIA's upcoming AM2 IGP chipset.

DailyTech
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DFI BIOS Makes it Easy to Fake Memory Results

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just in case some readers here don't have their ear as tightly pressed to the ground as others, i will summarize and let you know what has happened that can make it very easy to fake memory overclocks...and i don't want any of our friends here buying bad memory because of this.
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Centrino Duo Mobile Platform Review

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Intel Centrino Duo platform has come out and the stores started offering notebooks with dual-core architecture. However, will the dual-core mobile architecture be as successful as in the desktop and server segments?
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Camera-Phone Danger

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Chances are, you don't think about the consequences of having a corporate cell phone, even if the phone contains a camera. Nowadays snapping shots on a cell phone has become quite popular and convenient; but what if employees use a company camera phone to snap indecent photos of themselves or others? Who would then be liable for illegal behavior?the phone carrier or the employer?

PCMag.com
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Apple's MacBook Pro: Using it as a Mac and a PC

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We take Apple's MacBook Pro for a spin and compare against the PowerBook G4 in OS X as well as its PC competitors in Windows XP. We also look at the two options for running Windows XP on the MacBook Pro and tell you how they perform.

AnandTech
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Playing around with a new video card from S3

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One of the things we have to do in the VIA Arena labs is to familiarize ourselves with VIA's new products as they come to market (and often beforehand). We plug them in, test their drivers, check out their features. As they get released we then keep an eye on issues that may be reported in the forums and then provide reports back to VIA engineers. We recently received the latest S27 cards from S3 and this guide provides an overview of the control panel options.
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LCDs with Persistent Images

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?Long live the Overdrive!?, game fanatics say. The only problem is that manufacturers have some trouble evacuating the charges induced. This is the phenomenon of ?marking? on monitors, a type of noticeable burn in of images that appears. Behardware.com called several manufacturers to find out whether if their warranty covers this type of problems. There were various responses and not all were positive.

LCDs with Persistent Images?
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ATI Radeon X1900 GT

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According to internal documents, ATI is set to release a single-slot Radeon X1900 GT with 36 pixel shaders. The card is in effect, a cut-down version of the Radeon X1900 XTX and is positioned to go toe-to-toe with NVIDIA's popular GeForce 7900 GT in performance and in price. CrossFire support can be enabled with an external cable connection to a Radeon X1900 512MB CrossFire Edition graphics card.

DailyTech
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AMD Socket-AM2 Performance Preview

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We've been testing AMD's Socket-AM2 platform since January and after several revisions we have what may end up being near-final performance numbers. Read on to find out how much you should expect from AM2.
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ATI R600 Details Revealed

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After convincingly taking away the performance crown from NVIDIA, ATI seems to be on a roll. The R580 was a smashing hit, but the R600 seems to be even more stunning. If our sources are to be believed, then the specifications sheet for the R600 will look something like this.
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NVIDIA G80 Delayed

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While we don?t know the exact schedule and launch dates for NVIDIA?s newest core, we have been able to find out a couple of interesting things. Obviously, we couldn?t get an official confirmation from NVIDIA, but the following points are interesting enough to share.
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Deeper with the GeForce 7900GTX

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we wanted to let you know we've uploaded a new review - this time we put the GeForce 7900GTX to the test. After spending some time with this card, even though it is just a 'faster GeForce 7800GTX', gamers everywhere should take a close look at the card. Personally, i'm just grateful we finally have a card that can provide playable frame rates with 4x transparency antialiasing at 1024 x 768.
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X1800 GTO Unlocked to 16 Pipelines

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The Chinese website HKEPC Hardware has discovered an interesting fact about ATI's Radeon X1800 GTO graphics card: while advertised as a 12 pipeline part, it's possible to unlock some cards to 16 pixel pipelines by flashing them with a Radeon X1800 XL BIOS. This is no surprise, since the X1800 GTO and X1800 XL both use the same R520 core, but such unlocking is not always successful.

The TechReport
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Apple: iMAC Windows Benchmarks Revealed

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We finally benchmarked the Apple PC in Windows successfully, thanks to the latest video driver release. It seems to struggle a bit in games with the level of detail increased, but it?s certainly not terrible, it?s about as good as a mid range notebook system.

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