Following on from ATI?s "Technology Demonstration" of a 512MB Radeon X850 XT, only for them to say "we won't actually release this", NVIDIA made their GeForce 6800 Ultra available to their board vendors in 512MB configurations.

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MSX Resource Center have published a review on ObsoNET, an ethernet cartridge for the 8bit home computer system MSX. The cartridge features a Realtek RTL8019AS and Flash BIOS.

ATI's HyperMemory and nVidia's TurboCache cards resurrect the old AGP trick of borrowing system memory. We reveal the better performer and ponder which one has the sillier name. It's a tough call.

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Cooler Master today announced a new liquid cooling technology primarily aimed at the OEM market. Liquid cooling is a method of heat removal that uses water to cool hot computer parts like processors. The big advantage of liquid cooling is that water has a higher specific heat capacity and thermal conductivity compared to air-cooling. The new liquid cooling system developed by Cooler Master will make liquid cooling easier.

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VR-Zone brings you a preview of the Aopen i915GMm-HFS, a motherboard engineered for the HTPC (Home Theatre Personal Computer) enthusiast.

The PowerPC G5 out-shoots the Pentium 4 in a battery of tests. But it?s in the rough-and-tumble of real-world performance that the G5 really shines ? shredding the PC?s reputation in the process.

With at least four platforms to choose from, the Athlon 64's PCI Express chipset lineup finally has some depth. But between the latest core logic options from ATI and ULi, NVIDIA, SiS, and VIA, which chipset has the most desirable blend of features and best performance? Join us as we sift through spec sheets and pour over a slew of benchmark results to find out.

The i925XE chipset looked too elite when it was released. Even now it is used in top systems. The only difference between the i925XE and the previously reviewed Intel 925 Express chipset is the support for 1066MHz FSB, but there are almost no processors with such a bus yet (unless you are OK with a thousand-dollar price).

THG held court in Irvine, near its Southern Calif. headquarters this month where 17 vendors took the wraps off their latest electronics gear. See what made us salivate as we got a sneak peak of what to expect from the networking, memory, storage and display channels during the coming weeks.

Dell and Apple arguably have the best 20" LCD monitors available, but who will win when we pit them head to head?

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Gaming-on-Demand (GoD) technology vendor G-cluster, service provider Club iT, and Texas Instruments (TI) recently announced that IP-based set-top box manufacturers can now easily turn their products into genuine gaming consoles, using the G-cluster Gaming-on-Demand client to provide end users with access to hundreds of games over IPTV. No actual details are released.

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Various reports online have pointed to AMD making a change in socket sometime next year as well as possibly moving to DDR2 memory technology. With some more information on the subject, I decided to show it to you for your thoughts and opinions.

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Our bro's over at HardWareOC send word of a new OTES cooling system from Abit! Check it Out Here

Ryan and I attended the VIP x64 event: Raise the speed limit with about 80 other x64 VIP's I hope Ryan will add his report here, because I'm very tired now been awake over 24 hours. I did add pics in our new picture gallery section, like a picture of the brand new x64 Intel chip:

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We heard that NV50/G70 is a dual-core monster with 32 pipelines and is based on TSMC 90nm process technology. ATi R520 is also 90nm based and contains 32 pipelines.

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Thanks to the Chinese website PCPOP and HardwareOC! we have the first benchmarks for ATi's R520 GPU using Futuremarks 3DMark05!

This article will serve two purposes. First and foremost, we're interested in the new dual core Opterons as a server solution - and we run them through our usual web and database serving tests. Next, we're going to take a look at the Athlon 64 X2 and how it compares in performance to Intel's recently announced Pentium D. We've developed even more desktop multitasking tests for this article, so we'll be able to provide you with an idea of how well AMD will be able to compete in the multi-core world.

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Earlier this month Intel debuted their dual-core Pentium Extreme Edition 840 to the public, launching the first systems based on the technology at the beginning of this week. Today it's AMD's turn, and unlike Intel, AMD is not constrained by the front-side bus. Read all about AMD's dual-core plans, including X2 and Athlon 64 FX-57, as well as the future for AMD, and of course, you'll also see how AMD's dual-core offerings compare to Intel's as well as seven other processors in our Opteron performance preview article!

With the RADEON X850 XT-PE, ATI has expanded its product lineup offering up their fastest video card for the AGP platform. In this evaluation we put it up against the fastest GeForce 6800 Ultra-based video card in DOOM 3, FarCry, Half Life 2, Need for Speed 2, Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, Chronicles of Riddick, and EverQuest II to see which one games best.

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The Gainward CoolFX PowerPack! Ultra/2800PCX Golden Sample has a core clock of over 450MHz and 512MB, 1.2GHz DDR3 memory.

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