X-bit labs is always on the look-out. This time they’ve dug up some information on Buffalo Technology’s DDR-II memory that will be hitting store shelves in Japan at the rock-bottom price of $915USD for a 512MB stick. Thankfully there aren’t…
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LostCircuits is trying to demystify, or further confound some of us on, the topic of Redundant Array of Inexpensive Drives or RAID for short. In this first portion of this ongoing series they cover RAID 1 which is strictly for…
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It seems the US Army doesn’t require the services of a stealth reconnaissance so they may be cancelling the program according to Bloomberg. It was quite the nimble and sleek looking aircraft, it’ll be missed….
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New Scientist is covering Intel and AMD’s plan to include technology in upcoming chips that will prevent today’s prevalent security problem, programs causing buffer overflows. It’s sure to make certain operating system makers giddy with delight….
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Gamers Depot just put up a review of Creative Lab’s Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Gamer Edition. The card has so many features that this entry could go on for a few pages so I’ll let their review do the…
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Extreme Overclocking has a review on the Syntax EZ-Clocker mini-PC. The barebones system sort of resembles all of the other SFF bundles out there except it’s almost twice as tall as the others and is geared towards the tweaker/overclocker crowd….
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DesignTechnica recently put together a review of Sony’s DRU-530A DVD±RW burner. The drive is quite fast at burning to most of the formats in fact the major down side is its looks, which will probably be too sleek looking for…
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Pimp Rig has a review up on Shuttle’s newest and smallest mini PC available, the XPC Zen ST62K. They managed to “shrink” the Zen’s footprint by having the PC use an external powersupply, a smart move since most people cram…
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Viper Lair had a NVIDIA based MSI FX5950 Ultra-VTD256 video card at their disposal and they just so happen to have some opinions on it. The board uses the current top chip from NVIDIA and it’s crammed with a large…
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EE Times has a story on what caused the Mars rover “Spirit” to fail and how the fine folks at NASA were able to save the machine from such a huge distance away. Most of the details have been known…
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CNET News has the story on a pair of reports that gauge customer satisfaction of the largest computer makers’ customer service. Dell has seen a fall in ranking but still leads PC makers while Apple has the highest rank overall….
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