Microsoft is cooking up some new features and bundles for its Xbox in the Japanese market in order to get a larger chunk of their console market. The most interesting new feature is the video chat function which could add…
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AMD’s Athlon 64 processors have gone without a PCI Express capable system chipset for a few months while Intel has grabbed all of the attention, that is until now. VIA has announced its K8T890 chipset which supports the new interface…
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The Tech Report spotted a link to a survey page on Valve Software’s Steam website which carries various statistics for its Steam software users. The Steam software is capable of downloading and keeping up to date Valve’s various titles and…
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CNET News has the story on Microsoft’s plans to limit security updates for its Internet Explorer browser to Windows XP SP2 leaving the huge number of older, not yet outdated, installs of Windows 2000 and 98 series in a huge…
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GamePC tests out AMD’s latest processor for large desktop replacement “pseudo notebooks”. The Athlon64 3700+ DTR shares the same core with its desktop counterpart so it features similar performance characteristics which make it blazingly fast even in a small form…
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Guru Review takes a peek at one of the smallest, small form factor barebones. The Shuttle Zen ST62K moves the power supply outside of its chassis and forgoes with an AGP slot for a sleek and small PC, without some…
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SystemCooling has a review of the Global WIN Leleel 450 SAF Power Supply which is a feature rich unit, as far as PSUs go. The product features Active PFC which increases energy usage efficiency, Serial ATA power connectors, and an…
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IGN has a few more details on Nintendo’s DS portable gaming system which will be out in late November in the U.S. It’s the most innovative handheld to come out since the original GameBoy so, I’m sure, many millions can’t…
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ATI’s latest Catalyst A.I. technology gets a going over by the hardware press to see how well it performs and if the company has taken any shortcuts with this new feature. The tool is designed to analyze a given scene…
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GamePC has a review of the Intel Pentium 4 560 processor which runs at 3.6GHz. It seems like a speedy enough chip able to handle the applications that they threw at it but heat concerns have dogged the CPU line,…
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Ars Technica has put together part 1 of another heady article detailing processor pipelines and the various ways the major chip makers go about designing their chips and, inevitably, choose the clock speeds for their processors….
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