It?s the main event: Performance Analysis. We put our flagship FX-57 machine against our Dual Opteron 252?s through our gaming, digital photography, and digital video benchmark suite... and a new challenger arrives: the AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ with a single NVIDIA 7800 GTX.

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GIGABYTE Australia was kind enough to let TweakTown inside their Melbourne service center to take a close look at their operation and just exactly what goes on inside. Armed with digital camera, we visited their office last week and will show you in pictorial form just what is involved in repairing a motherboard from start to finish.

Exclusive -- The image seen below is believed to be an official mock or prototype image of a Motorola-based Apple compatible phone, and quite possibly the much anticipated iTunes phone expected for release some time in next several days.

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Apple Computer today released what may or may not be its fifth-generation of iPod digital music players, while also reducing the cost of its high-end flash-memory iPod shuffle player and Special Edition U2 iPod.

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Mercury Computer Systems announced today that it will partner with IBM to use the Cell microprocessor to build computer systems for data-intensive applications. The company is the first outside of the gaming industry to use Cell microprocessor.

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SCSI vs SATA? ECC Chip Kill vs Regular DDR? NVIDIA 16x FSAA? In day 2 of Eternal Battle 2005, we build our Ultimate Workstation. Total cost? $9180.

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Last month we took a look at the ULi M1695 chipset. If you have seen the review, you would say overclocking it up to 300FSB is not really that difficult on the NF4 chipset. In this article, we tested the ULi M1695 ref board with a newer BIOS that opens up the HTT window up to 400MHz. 400x7 is attained on FX-57

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With the introduction today of the Intel Celeron D processor 351, Intel now has EM64T, or 64-bit memory addressability, available throughout its entire desktop and server processor lines. More at DV Hardware

The new processor will be on the market later this year and will integrate 1.7 billion transistors, obviously addressed for the high-end server market. German website Heise Online reports that the benchmark demonstration held at ISC included a system which had four Montecito chips with eight physical cores clocked at 1.6 GHz. Sustained performance reached 45.8 GFlops and set a new record level for a 4-way system. A corrresponding Opteron system (four processor/eight cores) performs at 30 GFlop/s.

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This week we bring you the latests findings, especially on the graphics scene. Included in this edition, the latest Geforce 7800 GTX cards that have touched down in Singapore as well as some extremely sweet bargins...

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We would like to get out a reminder to the commumity that our "Pimp your Case" contest/Giveaway has only 1 week to go. We invite all in the community to stop by and check it out and enter their most ugly looking offering. Here are the previous details:

The Chinese website Veryol.com have snagged some pitures of Creative's new PC Works TX530 speaker system.

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The difference with G70 is that it is even larger than previous die sizes, which means that it is quite possible that full product yields may be quite small. Could it be that, in order to alleviate this, the defect rate is already built in to the current GeForce 7800 GTX and 24 fragment shaders is not the full number that G70 supports?

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With the release of the GeForce 7800 GTX earlier this week, the focus was understandably concentrated around the launch of this new high-end part. This excitement has, largely speaking, allowed the release of a set of drivers to accompany this new part to go unnoticed.

Versions of Apple's $999 Intel-based Developer Transition Kit began arriving on the doorsteps of several Mac OS X developers earlier this week, offering the first material evidence that the company will adopt the two-way serial interface known as PCI-Express in future Macs.

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NGOHQ.com is giving away to its members a brand new Logitech MX518 mouse. Learn more about the competition Here

Elpida today announced the development of a 2 Gigabit (Gb) DDR2 memory chip, made on a 80nm production process. This advanced process technology will enable volume support of high-speed DDR2 SDRAM, such as DDR2-800 for next-generation, high-performance computing applications.

If the thought of bleeding edge graphics and CPU technology gets you drooling then you'd better get a mop ready because Athlon X2 and GeForce 7800 GTX SLI is here. Oh yes, come to papa...

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Samsung claims that it has developed the industry's fastest memory for graphic chips with a bandwidth of up to 2 Gbit per second. A slightly slower memory generation has entered mass production and will enable the production of 1 GByte graphic cards.

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Its no big secret. I have had my cards since Monday the 20th of June. I could not resist the temptation of pairing up these bad boys before the NDA breaks, with that being said, I am not disappointed. In fact, in some aspects, I am a little suprised. I purchased eVGA cards, and the stock clocks on these are 450MHz/1.2GHz. Here is some pictures of the box and the card:

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