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		<title>Razer Arctosa Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About a year and a half ago I received the Razer Lycosa; Razer&#8217;s first attempt at a slim-style keyboard, similar to the Fatal1ty keyboard, but with some interesting twists. Since then, I have been in love with the peripheral and I don&#8217;t play with anything else. Despite some wear on the keys, the Lycosa has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fpslabs.com/reviews/razer-arctosa-review</link>
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		<title>HD4890: First 1GHz Graphics Card</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Until very recently, little information has been known for sure about the upcoming Radeon HD4890. The card, based on the new RV790 graphics core, was rumored to be 40nm for quite a while. Turns out the GPU will remain a 55nm part, but will sport significantly beefed up clock speeds.
We can now bring you a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fpslabs.com/news/latest/hd4890-first-1ghz-graphics-card</link>
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		<title>OCZ Debuts Gaming Mice; Behemoth and Eclipse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, OCZ announced that it will be tossing its hat in the ring for gaming peripherals with two gaming mice; the Behemoth and the Eclipse. Both mice feature similar internal specs and weighting system, differing only in a slight difference in their DPI range (Behemoth capable of 3,200DPI, and the Eclipse capable of 2,400DPI) and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fpslabs.com/news/latest/ocz-debuts-gaming-mice-behemoth-and-eclipse</link>
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		<title>Engadget&#8217;s First Look At The Mamba</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, tech-gods, Engadget, decided to share their first look at the soon-to-be-released Razer Mamba, with us mere humans. Even from the several pictures they posted the looks of it, the device is extremely attractive, following the outer design of its brother, The DeathAdder.
I cant wait until they post the inevitable review or it, as well [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fpslabs.com/news/latest/engadgets-first-look-at-the-mamba</link>
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		<title>Phenom II X3. Now with 4 cores</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago news hit the tubes that a &#8220;bug&#8221; or &#8220;glitch&#8221; or what have you in the BIOS of certain AMD 790FX and 790GX motherboards allowed the unintentional unlocking of a magical fourth core on AMD Phenom II X3 processors. After the initial story hit, the community was quick to offer up confirmation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fpslabs.com/news/latest/phenom-ii-x3-now-with-4-cores</link>
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		<title>Caustic Graphics Launches a Raytracing Co-Processor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This one is a buy-out waiting to happen. A new company called Caustic Graphics today announced CausticOne, a raytracing graphics accelerator card that speeds up rendering times of your traditional CPU/GPU configuration by up to 20 times. Raytracing is the method of tracing the paths of rays of light in a given scene. The calculations [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fpslabs.com/news/latest/caustic-graphics-launches-a-raytracing-co-processor</link>
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		<title>FPSLabs Interviews Robert Krakoff, aka RazerGuy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently got a chance to chat with the President of Razer, Robert Krakoff (aka RazerGuy) this week about some things the company is doing right now, including the release of some of their new products. He explains some of the challenges engineers had with designing the company&#8217;s first wireless mouse aimed at gamers, some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fpslabs.com/news/latest/fpslabs-interviews-robert-krakoff-aka-razerguy</link>
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		<title>RV790 Incoming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CeBIT is going on in Hannover, Germany this week and gobs of news is starting to float stateside. AMD&#8217;s RV790, which we have not really talked about yet, is apparently due to launch in Q2 09. RV790, as its name would dictate, does not represent an architectural improvement over the RV770, which is the GPU [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fpslabs.com/news/rv790-incoming</link>
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		<title>Engadget Reviews The Carcharias</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As usual, the Engadget crew was the first to get their hands on the coolest and newest piece of tech not yet available to us mere mortals. This time, it&#8217;s the new headset from Razer, the Carcharias. Decked out with some pretty sweet specs, the cans should make a nice addition to any gamers noggin [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fpslabs.com/news/latest/engadget-reviews-the-carcharias</link>
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		<title>Farewell Q6600 - Time to usher in a replacement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have known for some time that Intel&#8217;s Core 2 Quad Q6600 was approaching its End of Life. Today we have read reports confirming that the chip will cease to be sold come the end of Q2 2009. The Q6600 is far and away the most successful quad-core processor of all time. Despite being released [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fpslabs.com/news/latest/farewell-q6600-time-to-usher-in-a-replacement</link>
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		<title>Additional NV manufacturers defect to AMD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First came news that XFX, longtime stalwart of NVIDIA products, would be making extending their business to include AMD graphics boards. Now two more well-established board partners will be churning out AMD cards as well. Albatron and Galaxy, two major manufacturers in Europe and Asia, both recently announced that consumers could be expecting AMD-based graphics [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fpslabs.com/news/latest/additional-nv-manufacturers-defect-to-amd</link>
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		<title>Watercooled Graphics Cards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FPSLabs has always been, if anything, an advocate of overclocking. Way back when we were GotFrag Hardware, we actually encouraged overclocking to the extent of publishing a few comprehensive how-to articles on the subject. However, most of us have maintained a pretty hands-off policy when it comes to overclocking video cards. Sometimes when the risks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fpslabs.com/features/editorials/watercooled-graphics-cards</link>
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		<title>Despite Dominant performance, Core i7 sales low</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past few years we have seen several new products fizzle despite their industry-leading performance numbers. While pricing tends to be the primary reason for these disappointments, other factors like reputation and public exposure can also cause lackluster sales figures. However, and especially in today&#8217;s economy, products are more likely to suffer in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fpslabs.com/news/latest/despite-dominant-performance-core-i7-sales-low</link>
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		<title>Phenom II AM3 launches</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We previously reported and re-reported on a few details of AMD&#8217;s new Phenom II AM3 processors. These parts are more or less identical to their existing Phenom II AM2+ counterparts with added support for DDR3. Well, it turns out we were actually kinda wrong about some of those details. Today AMD made everything official. First [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fpslabs.com/news/latest/phenom-ii-am3-launches</link>
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		<title>Fact Check: Phenom II AM3 parts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We recently published a news story about a review of a new Phenom II AM3 (DDR3-enabled) processor posted by Tom&#8217;s Hardware Taiwan. In the news story, we failed to point out that the processor used by Tom&#8217;s was actually the Phenom II X4 810, rather than the Phenom II X4 910, as the article reported. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fpslabs.com/news/latest/fact-check-phenom-ii-am3-parts</link>
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		<title>First ATI-powered XFX video cards pop up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We brought news in the middle of December that XFX, one of the premiere manufacturers of enthusiast video cards for NVIDIA, would be extending their product lineup to include AMD Radeon parts. Both companies have shared the spotlight complimenting each other on their &#8220;outstanding reputations&#8221; and &#8220;attention to detail&#8221;.
Well now, the first few red XFX [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fpslabs.com/news/latest/first-ati-powered-xfx-video-cards-pop-up</link>
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		<title>Razer&#8217;s New Lineup Packs Lots of Venom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After this year&#8217;s CES, it&#8217;s hard not to be impressed with Razer&#8217;s new offerings to its casual/hardcore gamer audience. With almost a complete line of new products, supplying the desktop warrior with everything they could ever possible need, Razer is really taking it to competitors.

First and foremost, Razer is set to finally release their first [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fpslabs.com/reviews/cases/razers-new-lineup-packs-lots-of-venom</link>
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		<title>Really bad review of AM3 shows promise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tom&#8217;s Hardware Taiwan released a typically terrible first look at Phenom II performance on the AM3 platform. The difference between AM3 and the current AM2+ platform is, understandably, DDR3 support. Of course, the advantage of DDR3 over DDR2 is higher clock speed and subsequently bandwidth. Despite this, Tom&#8217;s Hardware thought it would be awesome to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fpslabs.com/news/latest/really-bad-review-of-am3-shows-promise</link>
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		<title>Mortal Kombat Killing Sentenced</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lamar Roberts, the 2007 teen who inadvertently killed a girl while mimicking moves from the long running title Mortal Kombat, was sentenced to 36 years in prison and 5 years probation.
Shortly after sentencing, Lamar Roberts exclaimed &#8220;Your souls are mine!&#8221; and sucked the life out of each and every living person in the court room.

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		<link>http://www.fpslabs.com/news/latest/mortal-kombat-killing-finally-sentenced</link>
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		<title>Gaming Goes 3D&#8230; again&#8230; this already&#8230; better?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a very uninteresting turn of events, NVIDIA is resuscitating the long thought dead, ineffective, and expensive technology of at home 3D in gaming.  What we have previously seen in products like the headache inducing IZ3D and the upgraded Virtual Boy known as the Emagin 3D visor, we can now look forward to purchasing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fpslabs.com/news/latest/gaming-goes-3d-again-this-already-better</link>
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		<title>To 6GHz and Beyond: Records smashed by Phenom II</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While they are still a far cry from the top rung on the performance ladder, AMD&#8217;s Phenom II processors are not without their strong points. Most significantly over the previous generation of AMD parts, Phenom II is built on the 45nm manufacturing process and can consequently be shipped at higher clock speeds and also overclocked [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fpslabs.com/news/latest/to-6ghz-and-beyond-records-smashed-by-phenom-ii</link>
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		<title>Smart Money - Why your next rig should use AMD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As someone who literally spends most of their life observing trends in the hardware world, it is surprisingly difficult to make decisions when it comes to purchasing a new computer. Just as you might expect a mediator to have a tough time concluding when they&#8217;ve heard both sides of the story and sympathize equally. We&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fpslabs.com/features/editorials/smart-money-why-your-next-rig-should-use-amd</link>
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		<title>NVIDIA&#8217;s 4th Quarter Fiscal 2009 guidance looks bleak</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An NVIDIA press release debuted today explaining that the total expected revenue for the fourth quarter, which ends January 25th, will be 40 to 50 percent lower than originally projected in the 3rd quarter fiscal 2009 conference call. This is obviously a pretty significant drop, and apparently it is the result of low demand from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fpslabs.com/news/latest/nvidias-4th-quarter-fiscal-2009-guidance-looks-bleak</link>
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		<title>Happy Holidays!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are definitely back right after the holidays.  Keep your eye on us and when we get finished opening all our presents and celebrating another year of awesome, you can count on us being back in full force.  Thanks for you support all these years and we wish the best for you and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fpslabs.com/news/latest/happy-holidays</link>
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		<title>PureTrak Talent Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Each year companies such as SteelSeries, fUnc, Everglide, Logitech, Microsoft, and Razer all try to release something new to enhance our gaming abilities. With each and every new product that comes out, it becomes somewhat of a nuisance to try and figure out which peripheral fits your preference. Oftentimes the choices we have to make [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fpslabs.com/reviews/puretrak-talent-review</link>
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		<title>NVIDIA Spikes Previews of GTX 295 With Limitations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Previews of the GeForce GTX 295 hit the web today, and numbers are fairly favorable toward the new card. For example, one preview revealed that in Far Cry 2 at 2560&#215;1600, High Quality, DirectX 10, 4x AA, and 16x AF, the GTX 295 scored 54 FPS, while the Radeon HD 4870 X2 came in at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fpslabs.com/news/latest/nvidia-spikes-previews-of-gtx-295-with-limitations</link>
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		<title>UnitedKeys Taking Pre-orders of its OLED Gaming Keyboard and Keypad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[UnitedKeys OLED is a newcomer on the scene and already wants to jump right in the OLED keyboard market with Art Lebedev.  Unfortunately, while they have managed to reduce the price significantly, it does seem to have the same WHOA factor in my opinion.

The 103-key full keyboard version features a 3&#215;3 array of OLED [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fpslabs.com/news/latest/unitedkeys-taking-pre-orders-of-its-oled-gaming-keyboard-and-keypad</link>
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		<title>BFG Will Show Off It&#8217;s First Full Gaming PC at CES 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BFG Tech, a long time graphics card manufacturer has developed its very own full PC gaming rig.  It will be shown off for the first time in January during the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show.
It will feature a maintenance-free liquid cooling system, a touchscreen on the front of the case, and an unheard in-home setup [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fpslabs.com/news/latest/bfg-will-show-off-its-first-full-gaming-pc-at-ces-2009</link>
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		<title>Logitech Announces&#8230; You Got To Be Kidding&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am at the most amazing loss for words.  I haven&#8217;t been this dumbfounded for awhile.  Imagine a device that was sculpted for one handed use.  A keyboard with just the keys you needs, extra buttons, shift keys, joysticks and ergonomically fucked&#8230; I give you the last 800 devices just like this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fpslabs.com/news/press-release/logitech-announces-you-got-to-be-kidding</link>
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		<title>ASUS Now Supports AMD AM3 Processors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ASUS announced yesterday that its M2 and latest M3 series motherboards now support AMD&#8217;s new AM3 line of processors built on 45nm die technology.
Through some wizardry and taiwanese magic, existing owners can easily add this support via a bios update.  These, of course, can be found on ASUS&#8217;s support site.
Here is the list of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fpslabs.com/news/latest/asus-now-supports-amd-am3-processors</link>
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