Radeon X1900-Series Roundup

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Looking for a new ATI card? We've got three X1900 XTX cards, one X1900 XT and one X1900 All-in-Wonder. We run them through our range of real-world performance tests, overclock them, and work out which one is best value for money.

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Intel Xeon MP Tulsa Info

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Intel is on track to deliver the 65nm Tulsa, a dual-core Xeon MP processor with 16MB L3 shared cache and 2 x 1MB L2 cache in H2 2006, replacing Paxville MP.

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Gadgets

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This week, a pint-sized edition: lots of teeny tiny gizmos for you to lust after. Including, but not limited to, a Swiss Army knife MP3 player, a USB digital TV receiver and a funky USB drive with built-in Firefox.

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WidowPC Gaming Computers - Announcing the First SLI Laptop

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WidowPC Dreams Big and in SLI SLI laptops are a big step forward for gaming laptops. Gaming laptops have traditionally lagged behind gaming desktops in power. Obviously, in order for gaming laptops to have the same gaming power at a LAN party as a gaming desktop, the laptop must have a fast AMD CPU, 7800 graphics in SLI and a responsive LCD display. WidowPC

Intel Yonah Hidden Features Exposed

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Word reaches the Deeplung ear that Intel's Yonah processor, which ships under the Intel Core Duo moniker, has features that aren't being exposed to the consumer. Intel's Sossaman is the key, and Sossaman is the codename for an ultra low voltage Yonah to be shipped under the Xeon brand, into the server and workstation space.

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Upcoming nVidia chipsets

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We've recieved the following information on upcoming nVidia chipsets from a reliable source:

Wedding Presents Done Right

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German video cards specialist mad-moxx has come up with a really unique present for the marriage of one of their employees. They took an ATI Radeon video card and completely covered it with pure gold leaf.

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X1900 XT Crossfire vs. 7800 GTX 512 SLI

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While there have been many comparisons pitting ATI and nVidia's latest graphics technologies against each other, we wanted to take a simple, focused look at each company's multi-GPU rendering technologies. Assuming money is no object, which set of graphics cards should you buy for the best overall user experience, in regards to performance, features, noise, and stability - Crossfire or SLI? Let's find out.

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NVIDIA G80 & ATi R600 Info

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We heard that G80 will be in time for launch in June during Computex and the process technology is likely to be 80nm at TSMC. In the recent statement, NVIDIA has said that they will be backing the 80nm "half-node" process by TSMC where it allows reduction of die size by 19%. We have previously mentioned that G80 is likely to take on the Unified Shader approach and supports Shader Model 4.0. G80 is likely to be paired up with the Samsung GDDR4 memories reaching a speed of 2.5Gbps.

Video Shootout: ATI vs. Nvidia

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Graphics card reviews tend to focus on 3D performance and features. With ATI and Nvidia flexing their muscles on video performance lately, we figured it was time to see who really puts the slap-down on the other with video quality and performance.

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Microsoft Driver Bug Saps Core Duo Power

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Connect any USB 2.0 device to your notebook and lose more than one hour of battery time: Tom's Hardware Guide's tests of a Windows-based Intel Core Duo mobile processor platform revealed a serious power consumption issue that, according to Intel, is caused by a Microsoft driver bug - a bug that has been known by Microsoft for some time, but kept from the public eye until today.

Can Burned Hard Drives Be Saved?

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Ever thrown a Western Digital hard drive into a campfire? Well, PC Magazine's executive editor Jeremy Kaplan did while on his camping trip in Maine. Why? He wanted to see if Ontrack could save his barbecued data. Find out if the company was able to save it successfully.

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MSI Upcoming Products Plan

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According to a recent leaked MSI roadmap, there are some upcoming motherboards in Q2 supporting the new dual-core offerings from Intel and AMD. There are also some notebooks using AMD Turion "Taylor" dual-core processors based on Socket M1 (638-pin) and supports DDR2-667.

Building a $400 per component Super PC

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It's that time of the year again ? another system building article. We can't really build a killer system for $400, but our gimmick this time is setting a $400 limit per component. That way, even if you've only got $400 to upgrade your existing PC, you can get a sense of what options are out there.

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