Hothardware has a look at ATI’s Mobility Radeon 9700, a little watered down version of the company’s previous generation’s video chips. The GPU manages some nice numbers, able enough to keep up with its lesser “generational” desktop sibling the 9600XT….
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Microsoft must not like being left out of the huge collection of computing hardware, known as supercomputers, so they’ve put together a group of their own people, called them the High Performance Computing team, and set them to work on…
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Legit Reviews has part 1 of a continuing series covering an Asus barebone laptop which you configure with parts yourself. Whether or not it’s worth putting one together is a toss up, on one hand you get a notebook with…
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It would appear that some Comcast users are spewing out tons of spam from their unprotected PCs and instead of waiting for users to fix their trojan riddled PCs Comcast is (finally?) taking the initiative and blocking users that exhibit…
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CNET News makes note of the less than cordial inkjet printer market where HP sees Dell’s surging printer sales as an aberration which will correct itself since HP’s superior R&D will sway consumers from Dell’s blatant rebadging. I think the…
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JP Aerospace has a nutty idea involving balloons filled with helium which will orbit the earth at somewhat low altitudes at cheaper prices than current unmanned drones. Initial interest in their project is from the U.S. Military but the “inexpensive”…
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Cisco says a portion of its IOS router OS was indeed leaked but it’s stating that they aren’t too concerned about possible flaws in its routers as the source snippet that was leaked had to do with a mostly unused,…
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X-bit labs has a story on FIC’s planned launch of barebone PCs that would fit into the HTPC and Small Form Factor arenas. They have some good looking designs with their products seemingly trying to cram in as many peripherals…
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XGI has made some waves with its launch of its Volari video cards containing their own custom chips, unfortunately they’ve cut some corners, image quality wise, with their Volari Duo V8 Ultra dual-GPU graphics card which might make you want…
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DriverHeaven has a look at the Visiontek XTSAY X800 PRO, powered by ATI’s latest high speed graphics processor. As usual the card has blistering performance and fantastic image quality that’ll make your games look their absolute best, but early adopters…
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X-bit labs has a bit of info on PowerVR’s Series 5 graphics core which should be integrated into a few SEGA arcade cabinets for use in future games. PowerVR maintains that it’s an Intellectual Property company and will never build…
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