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Wedding Presents Done Right

Published 2006-02-06 17:29 by Newsfactory 0

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

Published 2006-02-06 17:25 by Newsfactory 0

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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Radeon X1900 XTX vs. GeForce 7800 GTX 512MB

Published 2006-02-01 15:16 by Newsfactory 0

Here is a consolidated list of benchmark results from various web sites that compared the Radeon X1900 XTX versus the NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512MB at a resolution of 1600x1200.

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NVIDIA G80 & ATi R600 Info

Published 2006-02-01 15:10 by Newsfactory 0

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.

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Nvidia ships their worst-kept secret: The GeForce 7800 GS

Published 2006-02-01 14:57 by Newsfactory 0

It seems that NVIDIA and their OEMs are shipping GeForce 7800 GS cards to distribution centers around the globe. Some of the distributors are waiting for the official launch, but others can?t contain themselves and have started distributing cards already.

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Video Shootout: ATI vs. Nvidia

Published 2006-02-01 00:10 by Newsfactory 0

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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G71 will be very powerful, G80 will be unbelievable!

Published 2006-02-01 00:07 by Newsfactory 1

xpentor just gave me an eye catching attention over their latest rumor section. Here is one of them:

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Microsoft Driver Bug Saps Core Duo Power

Published 2006-01-31 00:17 by Newsfactory 0

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.

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Can Burned Hard Drives Be Saved?

Published 2006-01-30 23:43 by Newsfactory 1

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

Published 2006-01-30 16:50 by Newsfactory 1

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.

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Building a $400 per component Super PC

Published 2006-01-30 16:35 by Newsfactory 0

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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Team Group Memory Roundup: Great Expectations

Published 2006-01-30 16:22 by Newsfactory 0

Madshrimps writes:"Team Group has recently begun an added push into the high performance PC sector and the overclocking community. Remember last fall when we first reviewed G.Skill memory when that company was a relative unknown, and we're getting similar good feelings from this company; that they are continuing a trend of Taiwanese manufacturers to bring forth excellent products at excellent prices"

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ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Performance Preview

Published 2006-01-28 18:05 by Newsfactory 1

Earlier this week we took a look at the performance of ATI's new flagship Radeon X1900 XTX and X1900 XT graphics cards, today we're here to evaluate the performance of the third piece of the puzzle, ATI's Radeon X1900 CrossFire solution. With 96 pixel shaders and 1GB of combined RAM in an X1900 CrossFire system, you can imagine that it's quite a performer.

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NVIDIA G71 Comes In 2 Variants

Published 2006-01-28 17:31 by Newsfactory 0

There is no doubt NVIDIA will be launching the 90nm G71 in March and the official name will be GeForce 7900. We came to know that there will be 2 versions; the GeForce 7900 GTX 512MB and the GeForce 7900 256MB. The GeForce 7900 GTX will be launched at CeBIT on 9th of March while the GeForce 7900 GT will be launched later on 20th March most likely together with the GeForce 7600 series.

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Radeon X1900 Hits Image Quality Snag in 3DMark06

Published 2006-01-28 17:23 by Newsfactory 1

During the preparation of my Radeon X1900 review, I discovered a problem with Radeon X1900 cards in 3DMark06. I meant to mention it in the review itself, but things came down to the wire and I just ran out of time.

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First impressions from ATI's X1900 XT/XTX

Published 2006-01-28 17:07 by Newsfactory 0

We got a Sapphire X1900 XT and XTX models just after the official launch of the new X1900 series and here are some interesting things as well as our first impressions of these videocards. Oh yes and did I mention you can also see and hear the XTX roar (its cooling is quite loud under load).

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Intel Conroe

Published 2006-01-27 00:11 by Newsfactory 0

Our friends over at HKEPC posted some interesting information on Intel's Conroe which will be available in 2 versions; 2MB and 4MB shared L2 cache and will be LGA775 based.

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Ferrari's latest F1 launch

Published 2006-01-27 00:03 by Newsfactory 0

Ferrari launched its new Formula 1 car this week. Designed and tested with AMD processors, we were there to get the lowdown on the technology collaboration straight from the IT guys themselves. We grabbed some nice pictures, too.

Bit-Tech

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Logitech G5 vs. Razer Copperhead

Published 2006-01-26 23:57 by Newsfactory 0

In our last gaming mice showdown, the Logitech MX518 came on top of both the Razer Diamondback and Razer Viper. Since then however, new products have been released by both companies, and we are glad to inform you we have had several weeks to test them and report back to you.

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Futuremark's 3DMark 2006 Tested: AMD vs Intel, ATI vs Nvidia

Published 2006-01-26 23:55 by Newsfactory 0

Last week Futuremark released the latest in a long line of 3DMarks with 2006. Similar to 2005 in the tests performed for the final score 2006 adds ShaderModel 3 and HDR lighting support. The benchmark now also has sub scores for SM2, SM3/HDR, and the CPU. Today we take a brief look at the new features, and than a look at performance comparing AMD to Intel, and ATI to Nvidia. First from Futuremark a bit about 3DMark 2006.

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