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X1800 XL Single Slot Cooling Solution

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This is how the X1800 XL single slot cooling solution looks like. The core is cooled by copper heatspreader, heatpipes and fins while the memories are cooled by a large nickel plate.

VR-Zone
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Blu-ray Vs. HD DVD

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It has been 2.5 years since next generation DVD was announced by Sony. The DVD Forum adopted a different blue ray technology approach call HD DVD and the battle for standards and royalities was on. Find out who's going to win.

TheTechZone
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Dell Axim X51v Handheld

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Handhelds are swiftly becoming efficient and productive products for mobile users. As they become more successful, companies like Dell and others are constantly updating their products to stay in the league. Dell recently introduced its X51v handheld, which is an upgrade to the X50v. Unfortunately for the X50v, it had some resolution issues and wasn?t as much of a multimedia powerhouse as Dell had claimed.
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United Keys's 205PRO keyboard with LCD keys

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United Keys has presented world's first PC keyboard with user programmable display keys. The 205PRO PC keyboard has small LCD displays embedded in the keytops of all twelve function keys which can be programmed by the user.
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Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI-Quad Royal Board

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Thanks to Vr-Zone for the Heads Up!

OC.com.tw has a preview on the Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI-Quad Royal board that supports 4 PCIe x 16 slots with x8 bandwidth each or 2 PCIe x16 slots with x16 bandwidth each.
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Dry ICE AMD64 Venice

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Meaculpa OC Team (powered by BOOX COMPUTERS, Jagodina-Kragujevac, Serbia, SCG) make significant result in cooling AMD64 Venice CPU by Dry Ice.
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ASUS 7800GT-DUAL Needs External Power

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The ASUS 7800GT-DUAL card is pretty interesting as it seems. It has a single 6-pin molex connector to power two GPUs but it requires an external power source using an AC adapter. This card has two DVI-out and two VGA connectors. Not forgetting, it is a huge card so not all casings can fit this in.

VR-Zone
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ATI Radeon X1800 XT, XL and Avivo in action

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You might have read my article earlier today and thought "dual dual-link DVI? LIES!". You might even have the stance that ATI's R5-series of products is the most talked about piece of vapourware since 3DRealms announced Duke Nukem Forever. Allow HEXUS to pictorially debunk both of those. World's first pictures of X1800 XL should be a fine start, don't you think?
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ASUS PhysX Card Ready

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Here's a pic on how the PhysX card using AGEIA PhysX processor from ASUS will look like. In comparison with the reference card, there are some differences in the PCB and components layout. Now the PhysX card looks more like a graphics card with 128MB onboard GDDR3 memories, a heatsink fan to cool the PPU and also a 12V Molex connector for additional power source.

VR-Zone
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ATI Avivo Technology Preview

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AVIVO has previously been heard of under a couple of different guises, "Clarity" being one and "Kaleidoscope" being a more frequently heard reference, however the Clarity codename probably gives a better indication as to its use. AVIVO is the umbrella name for ATI?s video and display pipeline technologies.
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NVIDIA announces GeForce 6100 integrated graphics

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Today Nvidia is announcing a new K8 chipset family that brings GeForce 6 graphics to the nForce4 platform. The chipset family is made up of a pair of interchangeable north and south bridge chips, with the former sporting DirectX 9-glass integrated graphics derived from NVIDIA's GeForce 6 series. Integrated graphics is so important to NVIDIA's new north bridge chips that rather than being branded with the nForce name, the new chips have been dubbed GeForce 6150 and GeForce 6100.

TechReport
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ATI R520 and Others Preview @ Digit-Life

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It's no secret that there appeared a lot of preliminary data (for example, on www.anandtech.com and www.vr-zone.com) on future ATI products based on the new R520 chip and its crippled low-end modifications (RV5XX). Let's try to sum up the available information, pick out the most likely (logically) scenarios and parameters, and analyze the prospects. On we go.
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ATi R520 AVIVO 2D Engine

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ATi upcoming R520 will incorporate Advanced VIVO capabilities that includes H.264/VC-1 Hardware Decode, High Definiton Hardware MPEG2 Acceleration, WMV9 HD Acceleration, High Quality & CE-Proven TV Encoder, Multi-Vector Adaptive etc. AVIVO also includes a 10-Bit Display Engine supporting not just the 10-Bit Gamma correction but also 10-Bit Scaling and 10-Bit Dithering. AVIVO also support 16-Bit Dual-Link DVI output.

VR-Zone
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Creative Unveils 1.5 Surround Sound Speaker System

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The new Creative 1.5 BangBoomBlaster soundcard will connect to five individual subwoofers, with an optional connection for a normal speaker. These subwoofers can then be fitted around the home to produce synchronized bass line output, drowning out any inconvenient background noise. Early reports state that trials have caused heavy vibrations that reached 6.7 on the Richter scale, which Souder described as "promising."

BBSpot
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NVIDIA tells us the truth about CrossFire

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ATI's competitor NVIDIA has sat down and put together a presentation dealing with the shortcomings of CrossFire. Problems like limited resolution and game issues are listed. Not only do they cover the CrossFire video cards, but also problems with ATI's dual VGA motherboard chipsets.

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