Microsoft has a “professional” illustration app in the works dubbed Acrylic which they’d like you to beta test for them. The program is up against the stiffest of competition with Adobe leading the charge. Hopefully they’ll have the skills to…
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HotHardware has a look at ATI’s memory packed Radeon X800 XL 512MB. The increase in RAM will give it a bit of an advantage when titles sporting huge amounts of scene data show up but, so far, current titles see…
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DigiTimes has an interesting (supposed) pricing chart for Intel’s next batch of mobile processors. The “Yonah” core will be some of the first 65nm CPUs leading to lower power consumption and it’ll offer a dual-core chip at the top of…
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Techgage tosses a number of software titles at Microsoft’s 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows XP. They focus on gaming and synthetic benchmarks where both operating systems swapped top spots in performance but were close in most cases. A bit…
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ATI has launched version 5.6 of its Catalyst driver suite for Microsoft’s OS’ and the various flavors of Linux as well. Along with the drivers they’ve laid out their vision for their Catalyst software in fancy Power Point slides: AnandTech’s…
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the Inquirer has a bit more info and impressions from last week’s Computex concerning VIA’s new C7 mobile chip. The chip has had some work done to it making it a better performer and highly suited to some tasks (DVD…
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Seagate is prepping to launch ten new hard drives for many different markets. They’ve got 8GB 1-inch microdrives on tap, full disc encryption for those sensitive documents, and a perpendicular recording storage drive which improves storage density and could improve…
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HardwareXL is all over Club 3D’s high-end Radeon X850 XT PCI Express graphics card. The sight of the two slot card should be a familiar one by now but with prices on these boards falling into the sane category recently…
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Viper Lair has a short test of the Mushkin 2GB HP3200 dual channel DDR memory kit. Two GigaBytes of system memory may seem like overkill but many applications and some upcoming gaming titles will gobble up every last bit of…
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Guru3D has a review of Abit’s AA8XE system board. Intel’s Pentium LGA775 chips will feel right at home as will your PCI Express cards, DDR2 memory, SerialATA drives…you get the idea. Impressive package for those that enjoy more performance “tweaking”…
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Bjorn3D has a look at the Gigabyte Silent-Pipe Radeon X800 XL graphics card. One of the more popular mid-range cards gets the silent treatment merging a whole lot of aluminum and heatpipes ensuring quiet operation. A good choice for its…
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