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Last week Valve announced the launch of Steam Cloud. Cloud computing is a means for storing masses of information on servers and delivering it through feature-rich services over the internet. Probably the most prominent example of this concept is Google Apps, which simulates an office productivity suite but is browser-based and not run locally from [...]

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With the current success of AMD in the discrete graphics market, it would only make sense to think that NVIDIA might not be doing so hot. In reality, most of their products continue to sell quite well and there are strong (though losing) arguments for some of their offerings over their Radeon counterparts. One card [...]

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Way back in the R700 speculation days we reported that in addition to the flagship HD4870X2, AMD was also hard at work on an HD4850X2. Our meetings with AMD and rampant speculation on the web confirmed that this was the case. Many months gone the launch of the HD4870X2, we have heard pretty much squat [...]

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Though pretty much the entire hardware industry has its eyes on Intel’s upcoming Core i7 processors - reviews of which hit the tubes this morning - AMD is getting ready to launch its own products. Reviews of Intel’s i7 have turned out quite well indeed, but for Intel, ‘good’ is the norm. The launch and [...]

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Reviews of Intel’s brand-spanking-new processors hit the web today. Nehalem, officially known as Core i7, will be available starting November 17th. There will be three models available at launch: The Core i7-920 at 2.67GHz, Core i7-930 at 2.93GHz, and the range-topping Core i7-965 Extreme Edition at 3.2GHz. It would not be outlandish to say that [...]

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Asus has accidentally told everyone about your rash their plans to put a discrete graphics chip in the Eee PC. This may or may not be great for gamers. This comes from a company spokesman who is likely fired.
Interested, will it go in the small or the big version. Any decent GPU [...]

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When I think of Samsung, I don’t think of a large, successful corporation full of technological deliciosity (oooo NEW WORD), but rather of a gorgeous, brainy asian woman with nice OLEDs. I am not sure if this is due to a partial insanity on my part, or the way they staff their booths at [...]

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Sorry about the huge headline, but seriously, how else do you say that?
Apparently Far Cry 2 and STALKER: Clear Sky were having specific issues and performance problems with certain AMD drivers.  AMD promptly updated the driver via hotfix #737-38664.
Here are some of the benefits:
Performance improvement for the DirectX 9 version of Far Cry 2 [...]

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Despite the fact that everyone and their mother is worried about the economy (I’m just worried I’ll have to sell one of my yachts), Thermaltake would like to brag to everyone that demand for their products has not decreased at all. In fact, they are so confident that we will continue to [...]

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It’s been a while since we’ve posted an update on AMD. During this break the company has not let up. In addition to the continued success of the original members of the Radeon HD4000 series, several new cards have been making the rounds and churning out terrific results to boot. The success of their [...]

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By systematically eliminating your goodies, makers of the Rage Wireless Guitar were planning on taking down the human race. Thankfully someone over at the Consumer Product Safety Commission caught the hardware fault in time. A circuit board defect was causing incorrectly installed AA batteries to leak acid. Wait… this was only going [...]

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We haven’t attended an E3 event since the last  BIG one in 2006.  In its glory days, E3 was an epic landscape of lights, gorgeous woman, and gaming that was ludicrous to navigate and had crowds that made you feel claustrophobic.  It was these trademarks of the event that made it so exciting and alluring. [...]

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Yesterday, AMD reported their third quarter results, including a revenue of $1.776 billion. This year’s posting showcased an increase in revenue of 14% over Q3 2007, while revenue over this year’s second quarter increased 32%.
In regards to losses, AMD saw a significant turnaround compared to last year. Net losses for the third quarter only totaled [...]

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SteelSeries is a name that needs no introduction in our community. Some of you may not be aware that SteelSeries merged with Ideazon, makers of many products we have reviewed in the past including the Merc, Zboard and more. With that merger came many new and interesting opportunities for both companies.
 
Now, I am [...]

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