IBM is in the process of designing/building a supercomputer for the U.S. Department of Defense which will connect 368 machines, containing 3,000 PowerPC processors which should make it a very peppy machine. Reuters has more details on the project….
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Microsoft has launched the DirectX 9.0c package, usually reserved for developers to include with their products, but freely available to the meer mortals out there. It supposedly contains support for some of the ATI Radeon x800 and NVIDIA 6800’s advanced…
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The Inquirer heard it through the grape vine that Cisco may be working on software for its routers that can curb the mounds of spam that flow through their products each day. Interesting, if true, although the whole world doesn’t…
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Seagate is extending the warranty for most of their hard drive lines manufactured after June 1st. The coverage length for drives is now 5 years instead of the rather short 1 year period which most drive manufacturers had adopted as…
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ZDNet reports on Microsoft’s support for the HD-DVD standard in its upcoming operating system code-named Longhorn. The two high density optical storage specs, HD-DVD and Blu-ray, have been battling it out for standards wins, but both sides are entrenched enough…
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The Tech Report enjoys critiquing a new Shuttle entry so it’s no surprise they go into great detail on the company’s new SB81P SFF system. The barebones case comes with the new Intel 915P chipset, a 16X PCI Express slot,…
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ExtremeTech has a short guide on what the deal is with today’s 3D cards. If you’re not in the loop on who’s making what and why all of the card features, such as shaders, are so important this article should…
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Bjorn3D found themselves at the North American unveiling of the SLI graphics system NVIDIA has been working on for its GeForce 6800 line of video cards. Their peek at the technology includes video of a side by side performance comparison…
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Think Secret has some info on a new IBM PowerPC chip core, project name Antares, which will stuff a lot of transistors into a single chip. The chip is supposedly being created for usage in Apple machines, if true, the…
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HotHardware has a go at the Corsair TWINX1024-3200XLPRO memory sticks which sport all sorts of fancy features including heatspreaders, built-in memory activity LEDs, and some of the lowest timings in the market, perfect for high-performance computing….
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Overclocker Cafe has a look at the Enermax Noisetaker EG701P-VE, a 600Watt beast of a power supply capable of meeting power needs for years to come, no doubt. While it is over the top it might be a good time…
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