Tom’s Hardware Guide has a bit of information gleened from a PDF file AMD mistakenly placed on its website. The PDF contained details of a new mobile processor, the Athlon 64 2700+, which has much lower power requirements compared to…
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NVIDIA’s first Athlon 64, the nForce3 150, was poorly received due to its lackluster feature set compared to VIA’s offering at the time. They seem to have remedied the situation with the nForce3 250Gb which the Tech Report just happens…
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ATI is a relatively new player to the desktop chipset world which enables CPUs to communicate with the rest of a PC’s peripherals. X-bit labs brings news of some supposed products ATI has been working on which will embed DirectX…
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CNN Money’s Chris Morris sums up most of the information that’s floating out there and he makes some predictions concerning the next-generation consoles that Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony have planned. There is some sound reasoning behind his thoughts so the…
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Intel has managed to cut down on the amount of lead it uses to create its products and hopes to ship the eco-friendlier chips this year according to The Phoenix Business Journal. The use of lead in chips is mostly…
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Lindows.com has decided to drop its name outside of the U.S. due to legal pressure from the software giant Microsoft. They’ll continue to use the name in the U.S. so they’ll have a bit of a multiple-personality gig going on,…
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Xtreme Resources has a review of the nVENTIV Mach II phase change cooler which they tested with the Intel cooling kit. They were able to achieve some very impressive results with it, but many times these cooling units hit some…
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PC World has the details of Intel’s new batch of mobile processors that they will soon launch. The four mobile CPUs all seem to target the cost conscious and power saving crowd. There aren’t any ground-breaking new features but it…
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EE Times has some news on a research report by a company called In-Stat that compared the features, instruction sets, and the like of Intel’s upcoming 64-bit CPUs with that of AMD’s 64-bit chip line. They found that Intel’s chip…
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eWeek has the story of the U.K. government’s plan to bring wi-fi internet access to people across the country using equipment attached to street lights and the like. The system will use a “mesh network” like technology to pass on…
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This seemed to fly under most people’s radar but Intel cut prices on a few of its processors this past Sunday. Most of their cuts were to their low power mobile chips. The last price cut in ExtremeTech’s news bit…
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