Tired of the first-generation of 7800 GTX cards with stock cooling? Then EVGA's e-GeForce 7800 GTX KO may be just for you! EVGA mixes ducted aluminum cooling with a copper heatsink and RAMsinks to deliver more effective cooling to the 7800 GTX GPU. On top of that EVGA includes higher clocks! Get a quick glimpse of this card in today's sneak peek article!

Speedlink has announced to introduce a new mouse of the "Razor series" on the Games Convention which will take place in Leipzig on August this year. The Razor Copperhead will be equipped with an exteme precise laser which can determinate the position of the mouse 1000 times per second. The mouse has a maximum resolution of 2000DPI.

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Affordable integrated 3D that rivals add-in-card performance? If Falanx Microsystems has their way, this is exactly what we will see in 2006.

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A while back, Logitech came up with a solution that would convert your writing into digital notes, thanks to a special pen, paper and software. Even though the Digital io Pen worked exceptionally well, its hefty price tag was pretty discouraging. Not to mention the continuous supply of special paper you would have to get exclusively from Logitech and the cost quickly added up for whom the pen was designed for ? college students and people that have to take a lot of notes.

In order to test Native Command Queuing's performance potential on the desktop, something completely different is needed?and we have just the thing. Join me as we explore a new collection of hard drive tests that showcase why NCQ really does matter on the desktop.

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Microsoft is a close competitor to Logitech when it comes to appreciable keyboards and mice. Similar to the products from Logitech, Microsoft?s keyboards and mice are usually comfortable in terms of ergonomically friendliness and style. One of Microsoft?s latest optical mice is based on a design by world famous designer Philippe Starck, and we must say the mouse is quite delightful from the outside.

The Home Theater Connect DTS-610, a standalone, self-powered encoder that easily connects a media center or standard PC to a multichannel consumer electronics receiver. With this simple digital connection, all audio from the PC, including multichannel and DRM-protected content, can be played back on a surround-sound home theater system. The Home Theater Connect DTS-610 will be available in September for US$99.99.

With dual core CPUs out from both the camps, we measure the efficiency between single and dual core CPUs and find out who does it better- Intel or AMD.

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Much has been written about solid state disks (SSDs) becoming the next big thing in the IT industry. But as to whether or not we have enough knowledge of how it will revolutionize the industry is a different question. How much do we really know about SSDs? If we are to ask people on the streets, it wouldn't come as a surprise that they dont know much of what an SSD is. Even if they do know, most probably it would be limited to a USB pen drive, a CompactFlash or a Secure Digital card, which are more on the consumer side of the storage industry. Read more at DV Hardware

Last week, we featured two round up articles ? the Radeon X700 Pro and the GeForce 6600GT round up. Some of you may wonder why we didn't directly compare both cards. This article is the answer. You might be surprise by the outcome: while NVIDIA does have the faster hardware, we still recommend Radeon X700 Pro over the GeForce 6600GT. Now, before you start flaming and shouting 'fanboy', permit us to present our case.

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Amazing how the parent site, AMD knows hardware sites are under NDA regarding the new X2 chip that will be announced soon. Well AMD has already listed the new X2 chip. The Athlon X2 3800+ is supposed to compete with the Pentium D 820 offering from Intel.

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Imagination Technologies has unveiled the PowerVR SGX, a graphics architecture for PDAs and mobile phones that sports many of the features you'd expect from a next-gen graphics card.

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We've just completed our investigation of NVIDIA's SLI anti-aliasing technology, which was introduced in their latest Beta ForceWare 77.76 driver set. We've taken a look at performance and image quality, as well as investigating the performance hit suffered by SLI AA modes and why this occurs.

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NVIDIA announce the launch of 2 new Professional Graphic Cards. In the Ultra high-end series the Quadro FX4500 and in the high end series Quadro FX 3450. We have been told that these cards should be available within the week with suppliers; and that the community can uptake this brand new technology very quickly.

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If a 800GB storage solution with Raid 0 configuration from G-Tech isn?t enough for you, maybe LaCie?s F800 2TB HDD would kindle a desire of owning one of these shockingly huge units (in terms of storage). LaCie?s F800 comes in three storage capacities ? 1TB, 1.6TB and 2TB ? with four disks for the 2TB model to total up to its respected capacity. As it?s the case with all such hard drives of this magnitude, the F800 is designed and targeted at audio/video professionals that would need such a massive amount of storage for raw formats.

The ever-expanding storage on hard drives has taken a new meaning for performance seekers and video professionals, thanks to G-Tech?s G-Raid 800GB External HDD. The company?s latest hard drive features two drives in a Raid 0 configuration for performance with a Firewire 800 (and Firewire 400 for backwards compatibility) connectivity option.

Apple today enhanced its iBook G4 line for consumers and education customers with faster Power PC G4 processors running up to 1.42 GHz, 512MB memory across the line, higher performance graphics and built-in AirPort Extreme and Bluetooth wireless connectivity.

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Today 3DXtreme has a chance to look at four of Evercool?s newest products that feature the EL bearing. These are the Neon Crab RAM cooler, the HDD System Cooler Lander, the Spider Filter Fan.

What can you expect when AMD launches the Athlon 64 FX-59 by the end of the year? We overclocked AMD's FX-57 to 3 GHz to see what you will get. AMD's Socket M2 should also soon come into the picture.

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Biostar has released the specs of its upcoming NVIDIA C51-powered iDEQ 330N small form factor system. NVIDIA hasn't released any details on the C51 chipset or its integrated graphics processor.

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