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…
Read more PowerPC Chip to Host Dual Cores
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….
Read more High Speed, Low Latency DDR Reviewed
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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The Tech Report has put together a nice chart that lists all sorts of features for most of today’s modern CPUs. The whole naming scheme Intel introduced as well as all of the subtle changes in caches sizes which lead…
Read more TR CPU Chart
The average price for all sorts of high tech products has been steadily dropping according to CNET News. They have the details of an NPD Group report which tracks prices of products such as laptops and plasma TVs and noted…
Read more Gadgets Getting Cheaper
InfoWorld has the specifics on a new line of servers that Sun Microsystems will be launching next week which feature AMD Opteron processors. Sun is going to be making full use of the chip’s features with products ranging from dual-processor…
Read more Sun Prepping Opteron Servers
DigiTimes writes of Intel’s plans to bundle some of ATI’s video cards with their 915/925 based motherboards. The deal makes a lot of sense as it is somewhat difficult to find PCI Express based video cards even though the choice…
