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First AMD 690G Mainboard Appears

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YingTong 690G is the first mainboard that utilises the first AMD named chipset - AMD 690G formerly known as ATi RS690+SB600. It supports the AM2 processors and 4 slots of DDR2-800 memory. Integrated within is the X700 (4 pipeline) of embedded video. The board also comes with a PCIe slot and 4 SATAII ports and GbE for connectivity.

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ATI x1950 Pro Crossfire

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The X1950 Pro is one of our favorite cards at the moment because of its price/performance ratio. Today we find out if two of these cards are better than one in Crossfire mode and if they can compete with higher-end cards.

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NVIDIA and ATI HDCP Compatible Graphics Cards Roundup

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Today we have a hefty roundup of NVIDIA and ATI cards which all have HDCP capability. We'll talk about HDCP and what it's going to mean for you, as well as see how these cards stack up to each other.
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Bloomfield Is Quad Core & Octo Threads Details

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The next generation Intel processor based on the Nehalem architecture is clearly exciting as VR-Zone has learned. Successor to quad core Yorkfield which forms part of the 45nm Penryn architecture.

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NVIDIA nForce 680i Performance Preview

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NVIDIA's nForce 680i chipset boasts features that should please any hardware enthusiast or gamer: three PCI Express graphics slots for expansion, support for 1333MHz FSB CPUs and 1200MHz DDR2 memory, and guess what -- the chipset is built for overclocking. Read why this just may be the best chipset for Core 2 in today's article!

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OCZ PC2-9200 FlexXLC Modules w/ Hybrid Water Cooling

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OCZ today unveiled the OCZ PC2-9200 FlexXLC 2x1GB Kit, a revolutionary new memory solution that offers unprecedented speed, signal integrity, and thermal management. These new modules feature the new OCZ FlexXLC heatsink that delivers superior heat dissipation via a hybrid copper and aluminum design alterable between passive air or water cooling.
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GeForce 8800 GTX/GTS Overclocking

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You asked for more GeForce 8800 overclocking results and today, we've got them at higher clock speeds! See how the overclocked GeForce 8800 GTS compares to the stock GeForce 8800 GTX. Is it really able to overtake the more expensive GeForce 8800 card in our full gamut of tests?
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AMD 4x4 on Nov 30 and nForce 680a SLI update

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The highly anticipated AMD 4x4 platform will be announced on Nov 30 according to sources we heard from. NVIDIA is one of the partners readying their chipsets for the Dual Socket F, chipset is nForce 680a SLI.
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Clovertown Performance Preview: Rise of the Quad Core

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Clovertown will initially be released in four bins: 2.66 and 2.33GHz with a 1.33GT/s front side bus and two lower end models at 1.86 and 1.6GHz with a 1.06GT/s bus. The highest bin has a 120W TDP, while all other models are at 80W. The 2.33GHz device will be priced at parity with the existing 3GHz Woodcrest, while the 2.66GHz part will be marketed as a higher bin and priced accordingly.
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Gaming PC & Laptop Reviews

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Dell XPS 710
Dell updates its XPS system with an Intel quad-core CPU and ATI CrossFire graphics. Underneath the striking red exterior of the massive red chassis beats the heart of a very average system.
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A First Look at Intel's Quad-Core Xeon Processors

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Intel Chose to Debut its first quad-core processor on the desktop with the Core 2 Extreme QX6700, but quad-core's most immediate potential lies with Xeon processors built for servers and workstations. There is no shortage of multithreaded code in the enterprise world, and plenty of applications?running either natively or on virtual machines?are ready to take advantage of additional processor cores. More is at stake in the enterprise world, too. There, higher performance does more than smooth out in-game frame rates and lower media encoding times; it can increase productivity, yield a competitive advantage, or reduce the time it takes to answer important scientific questions.
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Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 is Releasing on 21st Jan 07

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Intel Core2 Duo E4300, the next Core 2 Duo processor to be released is now scheduled on 21 Jan 2007. Its market is set to value, such that it has 800 MHz FSB only, though, according to the report from manufacturers, most of their mother board could able to overclock the processor to 1066 MHz FSB without any change to voltage.
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ASUS Striker Extreme Sneak Peek

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Based around the nForce 680i chipset, ASUS' Striker Extreme motherboard is loaded with features. Its got heat pipe cooling, 3 PCI Express graphics slots, a built-in diagnostic LED panel on the back of the motherboard, and offers bus speed options up to 3.0GHz. Read our first impressions of this motherboard inside this article!
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EVGA 8800GTX ACS3 17,597 3DMark06 On Single Card

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Shamino is toying around with some EVGA 8800GTX ACS3 cards and the latest test run on a single card left with with an amazing score of 17,597 3DMark06! Core clock is running at 842MHz and memory at 1240MHz with a QX6700 @ 4.5GHz.

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ATi R600 Card Re-Design In Progress

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A re-design for R600 card and cooling is currently underway to make it shorter and better cooled. The original R600 card design is 12 inches long and ATi is probably trying to shorten it to at least 8800GTX length.

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GeForce 8800 GTS?a Bargain?

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The launch of Nvidia's GeForce 8 series graphics cards is one of the more exciting events in PC graphics in years, but those high-end 8800 GTX cards sure are pricey. Fortunately, the GTS is affordable.
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More GeForce G80 Series Revealed

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Nvidia has already taken steps to reduce the amount of data leaks from their software. But, apparently they forgot about a leaked version of ForceWare 96.94. Nvidia provided this driver to the G80 reviewers and it seems that someone leaked it out.
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Dream Machine: Kentsfield + 8800GTX SLI + 680i SLI

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Too much hardware has been recently launched for Legit Reviews to benchmark in such a short period of time, so we took all the products and built one killer test machine with a price tag pushing north of $4,000. The hardware is the best money can by and this is one of the only articles on the web showing a pair of XFX GeForce 8800 GTX graphics cards running in SLI.
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Intel's newest Quad Xeon MP vs HP's DL585 Quad Opteron

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We confront Intel newest server based on the Xeon MP 7130M with the HP DL585, the popular and well-regarded ProLiant Quad Opteron server that gave HP a major edge over the competition. The old, power hungry Xeon MP 7000 "Paxville" drove the enterprise people right into the arms of HP and AMD...Can the newest Xeon MP reverse that trend?

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GeForce 8 Flash Demos

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NVIDIA GeForce® 8 series graphics processing units (GPUs) redefine the PC gaming experience. With a revolutionary unified architecture and full support for Microsoft® DirectX® 10 games, GeForce 8 series GPUs deliver unprecedented performance, extraordinarily detailed environments, and film quality game effects.
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Geforce go7900GS to go7900GTX BIOS Mod

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Now that the overclocking of the i9400 and go7900GS has been sorted, it was time to try other things. Some guys over at NotebookForums then BIOS flashed the go7900GTX BIOS into their go7900GS video cards. This actually made for a fully working machine.
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nVidia 8800GTS and 8800GTX Performance Preview

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The GeForce 8800 GTX GPU implements a massively parallel, unified shader design. Each stream processor is capable of being dynamically allocated to vertex, pixel, geometry, or physics operations. NVIDIA?s GigaThreadTM technology implemented in GeForce 8 Series GPUs supports thousands of independent, simultaneously executing threads, maximizing GPU utilization.
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NVIDIA Announces nForce 600i Family

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NVIDIA is set to announce its latest core-logic family for Intel processors. The new nForce 600i family spawns three new products?the nForce 680i SLI, 650i SLI and 650i Ultra.

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Blu-ray and HD DVD: Is Your PC Ready for it?

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You may have or think you have a High Definition capable PC today, but are you ready to embrace Blu-ray and HD DVD yet? In this article, we take a look at what is needed to get a PC truly ready for the next generation HD media and some of our early musings on quality.
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Engineering the ?Impossible? PC

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It's another ultimate PC building guide from Alan Dang... only this time his project gets a little too ambitious
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Researchers Demonstrated 512-cores Co-Processor

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Some Japanese researchers at University of Tokyo have developed a multi-core chip named GRAPE-DR processor that runs at 500MHz and performs at 512G FLOPS. This uni-processor contains 512 cores and acts as a math co-processor.

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NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT HDCP Compliant Preview @ MVKTech

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The GeForce 7950 GT bring graphics horsepower with a faster core clock and a whopping 512MB of memory while delivering exceptionally smooth frame rates at maximum settings. The NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT is capable of supporting HDCP. Make no mistake this isn't a dual-GPU accelerator like the GeForce 7950 GX2, and except for the kind of similar naming the suffix just mentions GT and that means a single core video card.
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Exploring EAX with Onboard Audio

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Analog Devices recently published a document challenging reviewers not only to benchmark the CPU utilization of integrated audio solutions, but also to explore how well those implementations handle EAX positional 3D audio. According to the document, most motherboards don't handle EAX properly, despite the fact that they claim to support the standard. Analog Devices diplomatically avoids naming names, but with the vast majority of integrated audio solutions powered by Realtek codecs, the writing's on the wall.
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All 8800GTX Cards Being Recalled

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We have received news that all the 8800GTX cards out in the channel are being recalled due to manufacturing defect. We heard it is probably due to a resistor controlling 2D/3D switching and that leads to 3D corruption.
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NVIDIA ''G80'' GeForce 8800GTX Performance Explored

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NVIDIA is set to launch its upcoming G80 GeForce 8800GTX and 8800GTS graphics cards next week, however, DailyTech has managed to obtain a GeForce 8800GTX board to run a couple quick benchmarks on.
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Intel 975 Chipset Mobo Roundup

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Back in January Intel introduced the world to the D975XBX motherboard which was the first retail board based on the 975X chipset. Since then motherboard manufacturers have been releasing their own boards based on the same chipset. Two of the most recent efforts come from DFI and Abit.
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ATI And NVIDIA Graphics Cards In Video Decoding Tasks

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Our theoretical article about ATI AVIVO technologies had been published long ago. But we had no time to test hardware accelerated video playback. It had to do with the fact that both ATI and NVIDIA were developing support for video decoding in drivers so actively, that nearly each release introduced lots of new features.
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Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 Quad-Core Performance Preview

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Boot Daily not only has one of the first reviews up of Intel's new Quad-Core CPU but also includes new benchmarks from Valve Software's Source Benchmark tool for Multi-Core and the Supreme Commander MP Beta which supports four cores.
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Nvidia GeForce 8800 Specs a Week Before Launch

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Sources in Taiwan again confirmed that Nvidia's upcoming GPU (graphics processing unit) GeForce 8800 (formerly codenamed G80) is designed to fully support Microsoft's DirectX 10 Shader Model 4.0 technology.
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ASUS G2P First Impressions

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With their G2P notebook, ASUS has their sights set on the gaming notebook market. The system supports the latest Core 2 Duo CPUs, an 8ms LCD display, and ATI Mobility Radeon X1700 graphics. Read our first impressions of this system in today's article!

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ATI Radeon X1650 XT Performance Preview

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With a 575MHz clock speed, 24 pixel shaders, 8 vertex shaders, and a $149 price tag, the Radeon X1650 XT has all the right specs on paper to do extremely well in the mainstream graphics market. But does this new GPU deliver the goods in real performance? Find out, as we test the Radeon X1650 XT against seven other cards ranging from the GeForce 6800 GT to the recently announced Radeon X1950 Pro and GeForce 7950 GS!

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