While Intel’s enthusiast chipsets have garnered a fair amount of respect over the past few months, the price of motherboards based on these top-tier chipsets prevents a very large user base from making a purchase. For these potential customers, slightly nerfed versions of the enthusiast level chipsets are made less expensive while retaining a fair [...]

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Despite being faced with problems ramping up their 45nm production levels, Intel Corp. today announced the finalization of a business partnership with STMicroelectronics under which a new independent company will be based. The company, Numonyx B.V., will design, develop, and manufacture NOR and NAND flash memory products. Intel’s dealings with STMicroelectronics had the public attention [...]

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Though advances by competitors have been made over the past couple of years, consumers looking for an alternative to enthusiast-grade sound cards from Creative Labs have had a pretty tough time. This search reached a fevered pitch when Microsoft released Windows Vista and Creative’s driver suite for the operating system was deemed universally as utter [...]

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We reported in February about a couple of new products that would soon be joining the Eee PC in ASUS’ small, user-friendly computing line. Now, the first of these products, the E-DT desktop variant of the Eee hardware, has been pictured. The initial quoted price of the E-DT product was $200, which does not seem [...]

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Adobe is not exactly the first company that comes to mind when you think of free software. Their photo manipulation and content creation programs have long been revered as second to none, and are frequently updated with additional features to increase their lead over the competition. Of course all of this software comes at a [...]

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While NVIDIA has long been tolerant of their board partners tweaking reference designs and shipping overclocked graphics cards straight from the factory, AMD’s manufacturers have only had this luxury the better part of a year. Both companies have seen their board partners take existing products to a whole new level through some clever or ridiculous [...]

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When Phenom launched to limited acclaim in November 2007, many questions were raised by analysts concerned with how the processor war would pan out over the next year. When the infamous (and stupid) TLB bug was uncovered, a lot of people became really skeptical of Phenom’s legitimacy as AMD’s return to competition in the processor [...]

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MSI, Qimonda, NZXT and AMD round out this weeks new hardware debuts while Creative Vice President Phil O’Shaughnessy goes after ASUS Xonar Sound Card supposed EAX support claims.
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You may have heard by now that NVIDIA will be launching a technology called Hybrid SLI in the near future. This technology has been in the works for the better part of a year, and now it will be developed for a little bit longer, says a report on DailyTech. Hybrid SLI technology is very [...]

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Today is the official launch of NVIDIA’s Quad SLI. While one could previously run dual 9800GX2’s before this, the dual card solution wasn’t working appropriately until today’s release of the official QuadSLI driver.
Head over to the NVIDIA website to scoop out these new .ini files which are marked 174.53 and are WHQL certified to [...]

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Today we’re going to go over Tritton Technologies’ two “5.1” headsets, the AXPC and the AX360. Do they really stand up to other “5.1” headphones or are they just another dead corpse along the consumer electronics highway.
This past summer it seemed that everyone and their mom had their own take on “5.1” headphones. We saw [...]

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Last week we brought you a story regarding a piece of software that NVIDIA will be launching in the near future. This software is designed to basically show how a GPU upgrade will produce a more substantial performance increase than a CPU upgrade. To quote our earlier article, “This software is supposed to show that [...]

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The NVIDIA GeForce 9800GX2 makes a splash while ASUS, SteelSeries, and OCZ announce new products. eVGA counters BFG’s 100 Day Trade Up Program with a special 120 Day Step Up extension.
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Engineers from Thorrn Micro Technologies have developed a solid-state fan that exploits corona wind to move more air than a traditional fan 35 times its size. Corona wind is a physical phenomenon that is produced by strong electric fields. Such electric fields are commonly found on sharp conductive points with a very concentrated electrical [...]

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While nobody was surprised that NVIDIA’s GeForce 9800GX2 launch was delayed several weeks due to the complexity of the design and getting full software support out the door, a few people were surprised when news came that their 9800GTX would be launching in March. The card, which retains the suffix of its outstandingly successful predecessor, [...]

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