The Tech Report did a little testing with NVIDIA’s latest Athlon 64/Opteron chipset, the nForce3 250Gb once they heard that the chipset was optimized to work better with the company’s line of video chips. Interesting results but it sets something…
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission will be looking at its options in combating the not-so-lovable software that is broadly termed as spyware according to USA Today. While spam is mostly a threat to bandwidth and productivity, spyware has become an…
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X-bit labs stumbled on a news bit over at Tweak PC, which they so graciously translated, that mentions a few of Matrox’s plans such as a revised Parhelia card and PCI Express rumors. Their last card was marketed as a…
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NVIDIA is offering some discounts to graphics board makers on its older graphics chips to make way for its latest and greatest according to DigiTimes. This could lead to lower prices at retail although with the current high memory costs…
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Extreme Tech has an article that covers the current general confusion with optical recordable standards such as DVD+- and they take a brief look at the problems multiple high density storage formats, such as Blu-Ray, may cause once they reach…
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Xbit labs spent quite some time compiling a comparative review of 80GB hard drives. Their article contains a total of 20 drives which were run through a variety of speeds tests. While I can appreciate the roundup it seems somewhat…
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Microsoft is taking its Xbox Live gaming service offline next week for some upgrades according to CNET News. They seem to be tossing in MSN Messenger support for some reason, perhaps to tie in with Xbox Live’s voice capabilities but…
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PC World has the story of the U.S. FCC (Federal Communications Commission’s) moves that may open up parts of the radio frequency spectrum to wireless service which could be rolled out in rural areas. Definitely the most cost effective way…
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Terry Nagy had retracted his lawsuit against Infinium Labs soon after he filed it according to GameSpot. Both parties are now mediating so hopefully we won’t hear about this episode ever again. The legal dramas just keep on rolling!…
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SystemCooling has a review of Coolermaster’s Aquagate, an all-in-one cooling package with a few neat twists. The system itself is able to fit into a pair of 5.25″ drive bays prevalent in most midtower and larger cases and includes some…
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Intel’s High-Definition Audio specification codenamed Azalia has been finalized according to Extreme Tech. It was designed with future audio requirements in mind and to replace the rather old AC’97 spec which is heavily outdated. Now it’s up to companies like…
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