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Latest News - May 2006
- AMD-ATI Merger Looks Likely
- Samsung Breathes Life Into the CRT
- Dell Launches New XPS Systems
- AMD Launches Live! Campaign
- Is Sony "Forcing" Blu-Ray?
- CDV Trades Starforce For TAGES
- XFX & MSI GeForce 7600GT Shoot-out
- The First Cloaking Device?
- Lenovo ThinkPad T60 Preview
- Seagate's Barracuda 7200.10 HD
- VIA Announces VIA P4M900 DirectX9 Integrated Graphics Chipset
- Havok Responds to EPIC Interview
- R600 To Have "True" Cable-Less Crossfire
- Memorial Day Thanks
- ECS C19-A Given The Once-Over - OC Online
- How the PS3 got to be $600
- 2CPU.com Evaluates Intel's Woodcrest
- Tech Titans Take Sides
- The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time
- AMD's Answer to Conroe?
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All News for May 2006
It seems Wall Street is buzzing today with rumors that AMD may be looking to merge with ATI. We won't speculate much because rumors like this tend to circulate every few months and nothing happens. But is an AMD & ATI merger possible? Possible - Yes. Likely - No. Advanced...
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Just when you thought CRTs were dead, Samsung comes along with their "SlimFit" TVs and breathes new life into the technology. XYZ Computing has got the skinny (pun intended) on Samsung's SlimFit technology posted right here... "Samsung's SlimFit TV is their answer to those...
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Dell has just officially launched a nearly complete refresh of its flagship XPS line of systems. On the notebook side, we see the very portable XPS M1210 complete with GeForce Go 7400 graphics all the way through to the multimedia powerhouse XPS M2010. On the desktop end, we see the radical new XPS 700 complete with two...
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AMD Cranks Up The Volume On Digital Entertainment With The AMD Live!TM Pc SUNNYVALE, CALIF. -- May 31, 2006 --AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced today the next milestone in digital entertainment with the AMD LIVE!TM PC - a full-featured, easy-to-use media center PC, designed to enable consumers to organize, distribute, share, and enjoy their content...
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We're getting closer and closer to finding out if Sony's decision to incorporate Blu-Ray into the Playstation 3 was either a really good idea, or a really bad one. Either way, the folks on team XBox don't like Sony's idea of "forcing" the format onto consumers. "The...
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CDV Software Entertainment has decided to dump Starforce as their anti-piracy method for TAGES. The act was done "In response to consumer demand". "We believe that TAGES will provide a sensible balance between protecting CDV's intellectual property rights against piracy, while at the same time minimizing the restrictions experienced...
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GDHardware.com has a whole lot of 7600 goodness with their XFX & MSI 7600GT shoot-out. Performance is similar of course, with the XFX holding a slight lead. MSI on the other hand has packed one heck of a cooler on their card, which could lead to some good overclocking results. "If we had to pick which of the two is are favorite...
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Sulu, where did that ship go damn it?! Get Spock on the bridge now. This can't be possible! PORTLAND, Ore. - John Pendry, a physicist at Imperial College in London, predicted in 2000 that metals could be engineered to reverse electrical fields. Since his prediction, metamaterials with a negative index of refraction have been...
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If you're in the market for a powerful new notebook, [H]Consumer -- sister site to [H]ard|OCP -- has just posted a preview of Lenovo's Core Duo powered ThinkPad T60 that you'll want to check out. Seems like a really nice notebook. I'm going to be adding it to my list of upgrade options; this X1000 has to go soon....
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The Tech Report has just posted a review of Seagate's new 750GB, perpendicular recording Barracuda 7200.10 hard drive. This is one monster of a hard drive in terms of features and capacity. We'll be posting our review of this unit in the coming days... "Perpendicular recording...
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VIA Announces VIA P4M900 DirectX 9 Integrated Graphics Chipset for the Intel Processor Platform VIA P4M900 featuring the VIA Chrome9 IGP core provides powerful new tool for building systems ready for Microsoft Windows Vista Taipei, Taiwan, 30 May 2006 - VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator and developer of...
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nV News has just received a response from Havok concerning their interview with EPIC's Tim Sweeney at E3 and comments made regarding physics. With a strong physics API which can utilize a GPU for processing, Havok's method allows users to dedicate a portion of their graphics power to physics and eliminates the need for...
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Fudo over at The Inquirer reports that ATI's upcoming flagship R600 GPU will be the company's first graphics card to support cable-less Crossfire with zero limitations. As you might remember from our review of the Radeon X1800 GTO, that GPU also touted cable-less Crossfire support. However, some limitations are present...
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Today, in between your back-yard barbecue fun, take time to remember the real reason why US citizens have this day off from work. Our heart-felt thanks to the Men and Women of the US Military who have paid the ultimate price in their effort to keep us safe and free. We also invite you to our "Old School" section of HotHardware.com...
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ECS has been stepping up to the plate lately with solid offerings for the Computing Enthusiast. We took a look at their C19-A board as well recently and found it pretty spiffy. Overclockers Online thinks so too... The ECS C19-A motherboard is great motherboard for those looking to build...
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Joystiq.com has an interesting article posted that tries to explain how the upcoming Playstation 3 became such an expensive (relatively speaking) piece of hardware. Could it be the NVIDIA built GPU, Cell Processors, memory, and Blu-Ray drive? Probably... "While the entire internet (at...
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Our buds over at 2CPU have the skinny on Woodcrest performance, sort of like a ghost of things to come with Conroe... sort of. Woodcrest, or the Xeon 5100 series processors, will have 4mb of dynamically shared L2 cache. Having this type of shared cache allows each core to use as much cache as it needs to handle the operations associated with...
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It looks like we've got a full-on battle royale coming up in the tech industry. Business Week says, "Yahoo partners with eBay to battle with Google, which is teaming with Dell to put the heat on Microsoft". Sounds like things could get ugly. "Under the Yahoo-eBay...
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This type of article is always a fun read. PCWorld has outlined what they think are the 25 worst tech products of all time. This is a very interesting list to say the least, and it's sure to stir up some debate. They sure as heck didn't pull any punches... "Picking...
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Athlon Rumor Mill has posted some exceptional information regarding AMD's upcoming Rev G processors. Somehow, the editor managed to obtain die shots of both a current Revision F processor as well as an upcoming Revision G CPU. An animated clip overlays the two images and reveals the fact that there are some significant architectural...
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Fudo over at The Inquirer reports that sources have indicated ATI is aiming for an unparalleled 1GHz core frequency for their next generation R600 GPU. Nearly impossible to achieve using the conventional 90u process, this target speed seems to indicate the use of 65u process for this GPU. With an estimated arrival late in Q4 or possibly...
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Gamers in the UK can rejoice as Dell's next generation XPS desktop is available for sale on Dell's UK website. First seen at E3 this year, the system features a new "Full Metal Jacket" case which has a unique aesthetic and some stellar performance features. Here, Dell claims you get the same performance...
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