Matrox Graphics Inc., the leading manufacturer of graphics solutions for professionals, announces Extio? F1400, the world's first remote graphics unit. With this solution, the user interface of the computer -- the keyboard, mouse, monitors, audio peripherals, and graphics hardware -- are separated from the rest of the computer by up to 250 meters (820 feet) of fiber-optic cable. Designed for professional applications, this product supports up to 4 digital or analog monitors at a time, and has passive (fanless) cooling.

Internal ATI memos and roadmaps have revealed to us that the next generation 80nm RV570 and RV560 GPUs will not require a master card to operate in Crossfire mode. Both GPUs have on-board Crossfire support, meaning they are both effectively "masters."

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Nvidia?s code-named G80 graphics processing unit (GPU) will incorporate 48 pixel shader processors and an unknown number of vertex shader processors, some unofficial sources said. The chip is still expected to support feature-set of DirectX 10 along with Shader Model 4.0, even though it will not take advantage of the unified processors that can compute both pixel and vertex shaders.

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We've uncovered some details about NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce 7900GT! Surprise, surprise ? here is NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce 7900GT. NVIDIA?s newest GPU, dubbed G71, will debut at CeBit 2006 in Hannover in a few weeks.

Dual core processors have been the subject of so much hype that perceptions about the technology seem to have trumped some of the realities

I've written an article detailing what we know so far on Nvidia's GeForce 7900 GTX, due out March 9th from Nvidia. It's a one page article but it's not one of those one paragraph per page articles, and is a good summary of all that is out there on the card. Check it out.

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What's better than one PC? Two of course! The Madshrimps decided to build a dual CPU system taking a rather unique approach. Rather than strapping 2 CPU's to one motherboard or using one of the latest Dual Core offerings from AMD/Intel they have been working on a case which can house 2 systems nicely, with good cooling and easy functionality through one keyboard/mouse and monitor.

Out of the blue we received a small box containing a new kind of chipset cooler. The company that send it to us goes by the name ?Jing Ting?. I must say I have never heard of them before, but when I took a peek at the content in the box it looked very impressive. If you have a noisy chipset cooler you might want to check out this cooler. HardwareXL

Sennheiser refreshed their high-end and mid-range consumer headphones that would be available for the first quarter of 2006. This showcase article gets right down to what the new refresh has in store for you and perhaps even help you nail down the ideal headphone pair you were looking for.

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Hasta la Vista? A good monitor is supposed to last for years, but Hollywood is going to shake things up with mandatory HDCP support for high-definition video in Windows Vista.

In a conference call on February 16, NVIDIA said that it was planning to acquire other companies in 2006. Which companies? Alan takes on the role of market analyst and makes his best guess.

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OCIA.net has posted their Budget System Building Guide, the first in a monthly series of system building articles.

This XFX 6600GT card made the list for our video needs as it will suit a wide variety of end users. With a core clocked at 500 MHz and GDDR3 memory running at 1,000 MHz, gamers will find the card to be quite capable of running many of today's latest games at medium quality settings or higher. Multitaskers will appreciate the dual DVI-out ports, allowing you to run dual monitors should you choose to do so. This card also comes SLI-ready. In the event that you upgrade your motherboard to an SLI-model down the road, you can add a second 6600GT and have a nice and powerful SLI system that won't break the bank.

ATI, most of its partners, retailers claiming shipping consumer cards are HDCP-ready. These claims are untrue

We have got to know the specs for the upcoming 90nm G71 series already. There will be two models as we have revealed before; the GeForce 7900 GTX and GeForce 7900 GT. However, the performance differences between the two models seem to be pretty huge and we can expect quite a huge price difference too.

AMD has been quite the busy bee lately. The Athlon FX-60 launched a few weeks ago, the Opteron x85 series launches in a few weeks, and the whole platform will get an overhaul in early June. AMD's latest roadmap reveals more about all of these projects and adds several more that have not yet been disclosed.

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We've gotten hold of an upcoming ASUS motherboard that runs off the upcoming ATi RD580, or better known as Xpress 3200 chipset. This new chipset supports dual PCIe x16 meant for multiple graphics solutions. We've got some sneak preview pictures of this upcoming board in our forums.

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Expectations have been building for the release of NVIDIA's next generation G7x parts, specifically G71 which is thought to be the higher performance, 90nm, refresh to 7800's G70 chip.

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We've looked at a couple of nVidia nForce4 SLI X16 chipset motherboards but today we compare it to the original nForce4 SLI chipset in high-end gaming and see what it offers.

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Nec will release this month the first monitor equipped with a 6ms response time AS-IPS panel.
If its characteristics are verified, it will display good colors, stable and its viewing angles will be the widest of all LCDs. Will it be the TN and VA killer?

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Several internal memos and roadmaps from Intel confirmed what many of us already suspected: Intel's Conroe (and Merom) will feature SSE4. The next generation SSE instructions were listed as part of the the platforms "Significant Video Enhancements" built into the upcoming Intel platforms.

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