The technology called Perpendicular Recording is considered to be an evolution to the world of hard drives. According to technical specifications, this new method of magnetizing particles on two opposite ends of hard drives is similar to what you find in today?s hard drives. The only difference, however, is that the magnetically charged particles will be perpendicular instead of longitudinal. This methodology results in applying more particles into a smaller disk area, thereby, increasing the overall hard drive capacity.

Intel and AMD have taken very different approaches towards achieving the next level of CPU performance. In Part 2 of this article, we examine what the two companies are planning through 2015 and beyond. We also discuss the limits of miniaturization and explore a possible new frontier in CPU technology: probabilistic computing.

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A sneak peek at the EVGA SLI Twin Turbo Bracket!

A stylish new accessory to go with your EVGA SLI rig!

We recently sat down with Daniel Foster, the PR & Marketing Manager for the EMEA region for Sapphire and had an interesting chat about their current lineup and whats in store.

T-Break

Which card is faster in Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, the RADEON X850 XT Platinum Edition or GeForce 6800 Ultra? What does HDR look like and do the 3.0 shaders Ubisoft has implemented look any better or bring any performance improvements over older shader instructions? All these topics and more are discussed in Part 1 of our 3D Performance with Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory article. Read the answers inside!

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HEXUS.net reports on a surprise move from AMD: But suddenly, out of nowhere, AMD have delivered a hammer blow to ATI, NVIDIA and Intel with a stunning new GPU that is set to light up the accelerator scene in a fashion not seen since 3Dfx brought out the Voodoo.

Excited over NVIDIA's dual GPU card? Worried about ATI's survival already? Well, don't worry! ATI has not just one, but TWO aces up their sleeves! Codenamed Sugar Ray and Rocky, ATI's double punch strategy is targeted squarely at NVIDIA. Will they knock NVIDIA off? Let's find out!

We spotted an interesting SLI implementation on MSI's NForce 4 Intel Edition motherboard at CeBit 2005. Today, MSI have revealed the mystery that was underneath the sticker. We have a brief look how the solution works, and how it will improve the whole installation of an SLI configuration.

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ABS Computer Technologies, a popular custom PC builder, has recently announced its Ultimate E2 Media Center PC that is solely targeted at those with a desire to have a powerful multimedia PC. This particular multimedia system supports an Intel Pentium 4 microprocessor based on the latest Socket 775 at 3.0GHz clock speed. This is a default processor of choice, but for a higher price it could be upgraded to a faster one.

Today TweakTown step aside from the usual motherboard or processor review and take a look at two of the latest DVD burners to emerge from two large Taiwanese companies, ASUS and Gigabyte. Both drives support DVD burning at 16x and both support Dual Layer burning. If you're on the market for a new DVD burner, one of these might be what you're looking for.

Remember the GeForce FX 5800 Ultra? Remember its dual slot cooler? Oh, how we all laughed at the time. Of course, since then dual slot coolers have grown in popularity. After all, these framerate factories need cooling somehow! However, a bit of clever thinking can still bring great performance without the loss of an expansion slot, as proved by GeCube with their Radeon X850 XT Uniwise

VolariGamers has posted a preview of XGI's upcoming graphics card, the Volari 8300, also known under its codename XG47. The Volari 8300 is XGI's PCI-Express solution for the value market and boasts a number of attractive features going beyond competing solutions, such as HDTV 1080i output, 420Mhz RAMDAC, low power consumption, etc.

There is a new notebook buyer's guide at aworldofhelp.com. Learn what you need to have and what you can do without inside your next laptop.

The release of the nForce 4 has overshadowed the release of another chipset for the Athlon 64, the VIA K8T890, which also supports PCI Express. Final versions of motherboards based on this chipset are now available. A full test of this chipsets functions and a comparison with the nForce 4 is called for!

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HEXUS.net has pictures of a new mobile workstation from SavRow. This 'laptop' supports a Pentium 4 3.8Ghz and over 2GB of RAM, along with nVidia's Quadro Go1400 - some immense hardware for a mobile system.

Creative has unleashed the latest 3Dlabs creation on the world: the two GPU Wildcat Realizm 800.

AnandTech

Listen to the hype about 64-bit computing, and you could get the idea that the move to 64 bits will make all of your games run twice as fast, replace blocky 3D models with smooth, photorealistic replicas of the human form, and transform the average PC into a wonder-box that can resequence your dog's genome in its spare cycles so he won't pee on the rug anymore. On the other hand, listen to the anti-hype about 64-bit computing, and you could be forgiven for wondering why anyone even bothered?probably just a conspiracy to get us to buy new stuff we don't need.

This Viewsonic TPCV1250S may not seem all that impressive at first, but when you read its description on Amazon, you?ll discover that this demure Tablet PC holds inside a 10GHz Athlon and a 30,000GB hard disk. Amazing!

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A new driver from NVIDIA has improved SLI support and brought new features to the table. Inside we not only test this latest driver, focusing on SLI support and performance, but we also comment on what we would like to see in future iterations of NVIDIA?s SLI.

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Intel's recent release of their 64-bit supporting Pentium 4 6xx series processors has been a long time coming. With these processors, we've seen the desktop launch of Intel's EM64T Technology. MBReview has posted up an article detailing some of the core architecture modifications that have been made by Intel, ranging from registers to instructions. If you're interested in what's going on at the architecture level with these new 64-bit capable processors, be sure take a look!