Archos today presented the compact 20GB Gmini XS 202 pocket music player. This model is an upgrade from the Gmini XS 200 which was released last year and will be able to store up to 10,000 tracks. It has a 2-inch LCD screen and measures only 7.35cm x 5.85cm x 1.9cm while weighting 120g.

HKEPC, has successfully to decipher how the whole ATI Crossfire concept actually works. As a result, they are able to run two slaves cards in Crossfire without the need for the Crossfire edition master card.

Sapphire technology is about to release Radeon X550 based video card with standard (active) and passive cooling.

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OCWorkbench tested the ULi M1695 ref board with a newer BIOS that opens up the HTT window up to 400MHz and we managed to reach 400HTT. On top of that, M1695 can be paired with a riser card to achieve DUAL PCI-EX8. How does it compare in performance with existing solutions. Check it out.

I was discussing something with Unwinder today (Rivatuner programmer) as he has had a lot of reports of unusual core clocks for the GeForce 7800 GTX. After investigating it myself it seems that the minute you startup a 3D application, the GPU core frequency jumps towards 468 MHz (should be 430), a ~40 MHz difference is reported with any GeForce 7800 GTX. You can only measure this once you actually follow the clock real-time.

Cowon is yet another manufacturer that has been working on MP3 players for quite sometime. Similar to Samsung and others, Cowon?s goal is to introduce a product that comes in direct competition against Apple?s iPod. As if the market isn?t saturated enough with iPod competitors, here?s another company with a prospective player to sooth your senses. Welcome the iAudio X5?

In the third part of our NetBurst Architecture investigation trilogy we are going to reveal the details of the Replay mechanism Implemented in Intel Pentium 4 processors, which Intel keeps quiet about. This particular mechanism and its working principles explain why Pentium 4 processors perform pretty slowly, despite their high working frequencies.

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There were reports about MSI's K8N Diamond and K8N SLI Platinum motherboards being incompatible with the new GeForce 7800 GTX graphics card. We do not think there was an issue in the first place and we have the details here.

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People build HTPC?s out of spare parts all the time. The problem is that you shouldn?t be using spare parts ? a high-end HTPC needs much more power than that. We?re putting a 7800GTX in our HTPC, and showing off the design issues behind building a high-end HTPC with an off-the-air HD tuner. Even if you?re not planning to build an HTPC, this is an important article to read to learn about PC video technology.

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Eight physical processors in a 3U server! Sun takes the 'entry server' to new extremes but proves a design win for AMD.

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HEXUS.net has teamed up with ULTRA Products to bring you the MegaMod competition. You'll have work for your prizes with this one, but we've got some neat stuff on offer.

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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