Coming about two weeks after Intel dropped prices on its processor lines, AMD has slashed a bit off the top on its wide range of chips. Several retailers are already showing updated pricing so now is a great time to…
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February 2004
Yahoo News has a bit on both AMD and Intel’s plans for the near future in the CPU realm. With Intel close to announcing their plans to use the x86-64 architecture on upcoming processors there will be a nice battle…
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Known for their thorough reviews of 3D related gear, Beyond3D takes a look at Asus’ mid-range V9570/TD card. Using NVIDIA’s FX 5700 graphics processor in conjunction with 256MB of memory this “budget” card can keep up with most of today’s…
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MetkuMods has the low-down on one of the most feature packed motherboards I’ve seen. The Albatron K8X800 Pro II, for Athlon 64 processors, sports Firewire, onboard LAN, and the highly capable VIA Envy 24PT sound chip as well as a…
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SNK, the makers of fantastic arcade and home console games such as Fatal Fury, had a long and storied history up until its bankruptcy in 2001. Gamespot has a massive article with a ton of great info on the company…
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ABCNews has a bit of a blurb on NASA’s moves at data hopping which has effectively doubled the transmission rate between the Mars rovers and Earth. Joyous news for scientists that had previously waited for data to come down through…
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AnandTech has a short preview covering Dell’s super notebook, the Inspiron XPS. From the looks of it, it has an impressive array of features such as a replaceable video module but its multitude of options push it to a whopping…
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CNET News has an interesting article on the growing market for car performance chips, which modify numerous on-board computer parameters all in the name of eeking-out some more performance from vehicles. Included are cautionary tales for those thinking of attempting…
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The Sacramento Bee brings news of the recent discovery of the largest diamond ever found…in space! A truly wild discovery. Next up: the galaxy’s largest cubic zirconia!…
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InfoWorld has the story on IBM’s upcoming PowerPC 970FX chip, which Apple will presumably be gobbling up. Using state-of-the-art manufacturing techniques IBM was able to drastically reduce the amount of power the chip needs to function as well as the…
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Wired News has an interesting article on what forces compel video game makers to push back release dates and the ramifications of such decisions. They toss in a few glaring examples of recent, highly anticipated titles, that have been delayed….
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