AnandTech has a review of another in a long line of multi format DVD burners. This time they take a look at the Asus DRW-0804P, an 8x DVD+-RW drive which faces some stiff competition but manages to stay competitive with…
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AnandTech tries to find a reason as to why NVIDIA’s last graphics chip, the NV3x, was such a dog while their newest chip, the NV40, is able to pump out stellar performance and imagery. NVIDIA did have a rather tough…
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AMD is shifting its Dresden, Germany chip plant over to production of chips using 90-nm and silicon-on-insulator processes according to EE Times. The first obvious candidate are their Athlon 64 and Opteron line of 64-bit processors which should be able…
Read more SOI and 90-nm Together at Last
CNET News has some info on Apple’s upgrades to its iBook and PowerBook line of laptop computers. The product changes are for the most part CPU speed bumps and some drive upgrades but the most eye catching upgrade is the…
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The Tech Report did a little testing with NVIDIA’s latest Athlon 64/Opteron chipset, the nForce3 250Gb once they heard that the chipset was optimized to work better with the company’s line of video chips. Interesting results but it sets something…
Read more NVIDIA Chipset Optimized for GeForce FX
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission will be looking at its options in combating the not-so-lovable software that is broadly termed as spyware according to USA Today. While spam is mostly a threat to bandwidth and productivity, spyware has become an…
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X-bit labs stumbled on a news bit over at Tweak PC, which they so graciously translated, that mentions a few of Matrox’s plans such as a revised Parhelia card and PCI Express rumors. Their last card was marketed as a…
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NVIDIA is offering some discounts to graphics board makers on its older graphics chips to make way for its latest and greatest according to DigiTimes. This could lead to lower prices at retail although with the current high memory costs…
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Extreme Tech has an article that covers the current general confusion with optical recordable standards such as DVD+- and they take a brief look at the problems multiple high density storage formats, such as Blu-Ray, may cause once they reach…
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Xbit labs spent quite some time compiling a comparative review of 80GB hard drives. Their article contains a total of 20 drives which were run through a variety of speeds tests. While I can appreciate the roundup it seems somewhat…
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Microsoft is taking its Xbox Live gaming service offline next week for some upgrades according to CNET News. They seem to be tossing in MSN Messenger support for some reason, perhaps to tie in with Xbox Live’s voice capabilities but…
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