Published April 26, 2004 · 0 comments

CNN Money makes note of a not so uncommon situation in the game producing industry where the former head of a game studio leaves to form another game studio once their old studio is purchased. Some move on to bigger…

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Published April 26, 2004 · 0 comments

AMDReview is all over Lian Li’s latest PC chassis, the V1000. It has a vague resemblance to Apple’s G5 case but the comparisons stop there (ok they won’t) as it sports great cooling potential with its pair of 120mm fans…

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Published April 26, 2004 · 0 comments

HardOCP took the time to question some of NVIDIA’s recent PR and get down to what Shader Model 3 really offers when Shader Model 2 has been capable of creating comparable imagery for quite a while now. Slightly sneaky marketing…

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Published April 26, 2004 · 0 comments

The Tech Report had a bit of a chat with NVIDIA’s Tony Tamasi, their VP of Technical Marketing. They start off the interview with some of the easier questions such as when cards featuring their new NV40 chip will start…

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Published April 26, 2004 · 0 comments

Hexus.net played around with the Rio Karma 20GB which is, of course, a portable digital audio player with MP3, WMA, OGG Vorbis (open source compression standard), and FLAC (lossless audio compression) support. The player also encorporates an ethernet port into…

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Published April 26, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech has its hands on an MSI K8N Neo Platinum motherboard which just so happens to feature the NVIDIA nForce3 250Gb chipset. The board is solely for Athlon 64 CPUs which leaves the high end Opteron and FX-5* chips out…

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Published April 26, 2004 · 0 comments

Spyware has been getting quite a bit of attention recently with States and U.S. Senators finally taking notice of the serious nature of such tiny programs. Information Week covers some of the larger developments on the front including a new…

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Published April 26, 2004 · 0 comments

U.S. President George W. Bush is hoping Congress won’t pass any bills that would see taxes tacked onto broadband internet services like those found on cable and telephone bills according to Yahoo News. Taxes could put a damper on his…

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Published April 25, 2004 · 0 comments

X-bit labs has news of work by a VIA Technologies partner in creating a totally lead free mainboard based on the EDEN platform. This is some fine work by the engineers and although the EDEN idea isn’t all that popular…

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Published April 25, 2004 · 0 comments

EPIA Center took a look at an interesting home theater PC setup from the fine folks at pc-designshop called the half cube. The system isn’t a screamer performance wise but it is incredibly small and comes with some acrylic addons…

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Published April 24, 2004 · 0 comments

Large chip manufacturers have been adopting new tools and processes to create smaller, faster running chips but bugs in the creation process are hindering output according to CNET News. New equipment, bugs to work out, not all that surprising but…

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