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ATI Radeon X1950 XTX 512MB DDR4 Performance Preview

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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.
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SoundBlaster X-Fi Crackling and Popping Update from Creative

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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.
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Core 2 Performance with GeForce/SLI

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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.
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Intel Core 2's reign will not be long! AMD's Technology pulls the plug

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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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ATi X1950XTX Pic's

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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.
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MSI 7600GT Diamond Plus granted the World's First HDMI Certification

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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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ATI Vendor Supplied Radeon X1950XTX Benchmarks Leaked

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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.
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Cornice 1" Mobile HDD with 12GB Storage Capacity

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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.
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The Quad SLI Do-It-Yourself Experience

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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.
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GeForce 7900GT Round Up

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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.
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NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI Intel Sneak Peak

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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.
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GDDR4 Just Ready, Followed by GDDR5 in 07

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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.
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The Scientists' Opinions on Gaming Physics

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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.
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Sneak Peek: Core 2 Extreme X6900 and Athlon 64 FX-64 Performance Preview

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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.
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LCDs Images Delayed Compared to CRTs? Yes!

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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!
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AMD Will Use Shared L3 Cache

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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.
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Coolaler Breaks 82K 3D Mark 2001 w 5.2GHz Conroe

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Our overclocking Buddy from Taiwan, Coolaler has been up to some Liquid Nitrogen mischief again! This time, he acheives some very impressive scores in 3D Mark 2001 with his Intel Core 2 Duo X6800 running 3D at 5200MHz!

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CoolerMaster & OCIA.net August Contest

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CoolerMaster has been sponsoring reviews and giveaways here at OCIA.net for several years now and we are pleased to be working with them again on what is easily the biggest giveaway news in site history. Each month this year, Coolermaster will be sponsoring a different giveaway here in the OCIA.net forums just for you guys! CoolerMaster is committed to giving back to the community as shown here by their efforts and generosity.
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Benchmarking SLI @ x16 x16 w Intel Core 2 Duo

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Futuremark, the leader in making 3D Benchmarks, has just opened up the floodgates to allow users to publish their Intel Core 2 Duo results. We have ran SLI @ x16 x16 with Intel Core 2 Duo and published some orthodorx SLI results using Futuremark Approved Drivers. Interesting results from a chipset you have not seen much of yet.

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Conroe Heatsink Group Test

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With the outrageous performance of Conroe, we thought we'd round up some of the best heatsinks on the market for the LGA 775 socket. If you're looking to get a Core 2 Duo, check out our opinions on the best cooling options.

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Definitive Multi-GPU World Tour Part 9 - The Conclusion

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At last we are ending today with the definitive Multi-GPU World Tour as part 9 has been posted today on Guru3D.com The Definitive Multi-GPU World Tour is a collaboration between nine respected sites around the world to cover the entire ecosystem of products that make up the multi-GPU marketplace. In this comprehensive series of articles we cover the basics of implementing a multi-GPU setup and the technology behind it, what products we feel represent the best performance and feature-set for each price point, and how each setup performs using 60+ applications and benchmarks.
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Video Cards Will Soon Face their Own Energy Crisis

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Over two years ago, I wrote an article called "The End of the Era of Speed." That article talked about CPUs, though we did note later on that it was a matter of time before the GPUs caught up.
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Intel 965P may have issues with CrossFire?

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In our extended tests with some of the 965p boards, we noticed that CrossFire can't be enabled properly. It pops up an error message when enablling CrossFire option. An error msg "CrossFire cannot be enabled because some 3D applications are running or the interconnect cable is not connected to the motherboard has not communication channels between PCI-E express slots." will pop out. Crossfire can't be enabled.

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Allendale E6300 hits 501MHz FSB w Gigabyte 965P-DQ6

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Well well I'm very impressed! You don't need super cooling and super voltage modding skills to do some super high Front Side Bus Speed on the Core 2 Duo! Just takes the right chip and the right board to do it. Our Forum Member clon22 proves that to us. He just bought an Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 and hits 501MHz FSB easily on his Gigabyte 965P-DQ6!

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A Preview of the Next Generation of Monitors

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The newest generation of monitors with richer colors has been delayed. However, the most awaited technologies are introduced on other types of displays, TVs, and notebooks. Behardware.com has tested them to give you a preview of the next generation of monitors.
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Multi-GPU World Tour Part 7: Uncommon Benchmarks 2

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Today the famed Multi-GPU World Tour comes to St. Louis, Missouri for some uncommon benchmarking at the offices of Legit Reviews. We benchmark eight common games that do not have built-in benchmarking utilities and see how CrossFire and SLI do in games that don't get much attention with the media. The results are interesting and a must read for any gamer considering SLI or CrossFire!
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K8L vs Kentsfield end of this year. Who will prevail?

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AMD will be showing us their first true quad core processor based on the new architecture(K8L - Deerhound) end of this year and the actual images and testings of Intel's quad core Kentsfield have already emerged across many websites and the results were nevertheless not amazing but absolutely stunning! How far K8L will do? Who will prevail in this quad core battle? You be the judge! As for the moment we have gathered information from rumors up to the facts brought up together for comparisons.
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Develop Conference 2006 - Direct3D 10

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A couple of weeks ago the Develop Conference and Expo took place. Develop is a UK-based multi-day conference designed to get the entire games industry -- from ISV to IHV and everyone in between -- together in the same place to talk tech and development.
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nVidia authorizes Intel for Centrino + SLi

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According to Vincent Lee, Intel?s Regional Sales Manager of South China, he admitted that nVidia has authorized Intel mobile chipset for SLi support. The first support is given to i945GM/PM Express under Centrino or Napa Refresh platform. Centrino SLi Notebook is no longer impossible! Although i945GM/PM haven?t got dual PCI-E x8/x16 interface, it?s possible to make SLi form PCI-E x16 + x4 interface by the build-in PCI-E lanes of its south bridge. The i945GM/PM SLi function indeed is available in the official release of Forceware 91.31, although the product is no ready yet.

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Clueless MPAA attack DigitalPoint

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The MPAA has is in the process of being challenged over it?s aggressive legal threats. Shawn Hogan was contacted by a lawyer for the MPAA last year, claiming that Shawn had illegally downloaded the film ?Meet the Fockers? via BitTorrent. The MPAA then demanded $2500 in damages.

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Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop 1000 + water = ?

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Taking a brief look at the package of the Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop 1000 - a wireless mouse and keyboard kit, my eyes were immediately drawn by the small text saying: "Spill-Resistant Design". Well, seeing this on a product by Microsoft urged me to test if they are saying the truth that this keyboard is really spill-resistant (do not mistaken spill-resistant with waterproof!). Read on to see what happened with the spill-resistant test of the MS keyboard!
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ATi RD600 First look

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ATi RD600 is ATi's upcoming chipset that supports the Intel Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme processors. Just like its AMD equivalent, a single chipset RD600 can be paired with the South bridge SB600 for utmost performance. CrossFire performance will be greatly enhanced with its Xpress route within the chipset itself, supporting Dual Channel PCIe.
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GeForce 7900 GX2/7950 GX2 Quad SLI Performance Update

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With Alienware's top-of-the-line GeForce 7900 GX2 Quad SLI-powered ALX Quad SLI system in hand, and a pair of GeForce 7950 GX2s, we figured it was time to take another look at the performance of NVIDIA's Quad SLI platform.
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Multi-GPU World Tour 2006 - Uncommon Benchmarks

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Welcome to one of the three uncommon benchmark reports from the Multi-GPU World Tour 2006. Our assignment for this project was to evaluate gameplay performance on six different systems that were assembled from scratch. It was a daunting task and we appreciate the support of the manufacturer's who contributed to our cause.
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AMD-ATI Acquisition Speculation

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Yesterday we talked with the key players at ATI and AMD, as well as Intel and NVIDIA about the details of AMD's proposed purchase of ATI; today is the day for assessment and speculation. In this article Jakub and Brandon provide their opinions on the deal and what it could mean for the industry.
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Dual-CPU kits for '4x4' to Sell for Under a Grand

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AMD revealed a few more details about its plans for its upcoming enthusiast-oriented platform, code-named 4x4. As we reported earlier, 4x4 will be a dual-socket solution for enthusiast and gaming PCs. Representatives from Nero, Luxology, VoodooPC, and Microsoft were on hand to speak about the value of multithreading and the emergence of what AMD calls the "mega-tasking" usage model.

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Final Specs for Intel's G965: Q96x/946GZ GMA

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Sources indicate that Intel has finalized the specification for IGP G965, Q96x, and 946GZ. They are all in Graphics Media Accelerator X3000 family, share the same design, but different in function disabled. In the previous specification of Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3000 (GMA X3000) from Computex this year, Direct X 9.0c and OpenGL 1.5 are told to be supported. But our sources have some more details. Besides these.

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