AOL has somehow (cough) managed to get its instant messaging client, AIM, integrated into Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment’s upcoming Matrix Online MMORPG. The client built into the game will keep your real AIM ID anonymous by allowing you to link…
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Intel is set to announce a pair of new chips that work in tandem to bring new, higher levels of performance to gadgets according to CNET News. The PXA270 paired with the 2700G multimedia chip support some “advanced” features such…
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Intel seems to be having some initial problems with its upcoming i925X chipset and DDR2 ECC memory and they expect a delayed launch for their “Nocona” processor according to AnandTech. Early i925x chipsets won’t have the ECC feature at all…
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Warcry brings news of Vivendi Universal Games/Sierra offering up free versions of Starsiege Tribes and Tribes 2 early next month. They’re doing it to get a bit of press before the next version in the Starsiege saga, Tribes: Vengeance is…
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Hexus.net has a review of the ASUS SK8V, a motherboard designed to handle AMD’s current high end 64-bit chips, the Opteron and Athlon FX. It appears to be a high quality board with some very impressive performance numbers and enough…
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NVIDIA’s next video chip, rumored to be named GeForce 6800 Ultra, may require quite a bit more power according to The Inquirer. So much more power that NVIDIA allegedly is recommending 480watt power supplies in order to power your system…
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PC Perspective has the goods on AMD’s Athlon 4 2800+ which was designed wth the price conscious consumer in mind. It’s not the fastest processor available, obviously, but its price to performance ratio and its support for future 64-bit apps…
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Microsoft has had to put some of its advanced features on hold in order to ship its next major operating system, Longhorn, out in time according to Business Week. With a 2006 launch date looming they’ve “done the right thing”…
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The simply named Computer Trade Show took place this past week in the UK and The Tech Zone has a good amount of info and pictures from the show for your perusal. Lots of interesting products and a man in…
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X-bit labs brings news of MaxSelect’s, a Russian computer firm, AMD Opteron powered server. The beast of a machine is the first Opteron server that can take up to 8 CPUs. It can also handle a maximum of 64GB of…
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Designtechnica has an interesting opinion piece on the state of high fidelity audio formats such as SACD and DVD-Audio which hasn’t been marketed very well by the music industry and, as a result, very few releases make use of the…
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