If you're like me, you use your rig for as many things as possible. My rig is for gaming, multi-media, software development, and basically anything else I feel like doing, such as screwing around with my guitar and surfing the web. nV News

ATI Technologies, a leading supplier of graphics processing units (GPUs), is expected to drop the prices on graphics cards featuring the Radeon X1000-series GPUs shortly following the release of the GeForce 7900-series products of arch-rival Nvidia Corp., X-bit labs has learnt.

So how much does the HyperTransport Link's speed really effect an overclocked system's performance? We aim to find out. Come have a look as we find out how much life the HT Link's current specification still has in it.

Today we visited Gigabyte here in Taiwan and got some photos of their prototype AMD Socket AM2 motherboard.

Power supplies are a critical, often overlooked component when building your rig. As high-end dual-graphics cards pull more power, they're creating headaches for power supply manufacturers.

What if you could connect three monitors to your GeForce or Radeon-equipped system for a wider field-of-view in games -- would you be interested? Hardware enthusiasts may recall this technology was first demonstrated over three years ago in the Matrox Parhelia. Well today Matrox brings TripleHead support to practically anyone with a laptop or PC with their TripleHead2Go module. See how it works and how much it will cost in today's article!

One of the features introduced with the SoundBlaster X-Fi series is the 24-bit Crystalizer. Games, movies or mp3's sound better or at least they are supposed to. Creative even claims that a mp3 will sound better with Crystalizer enabled than it would on the CD it was taken from.

Voice Communications on your headset + Ambient sound on you speakers = Ambient Audio Realism.

As gamers, we always strife to get the utmost realism out of our games, but as hard as we try and as much as we spend on hardware, not all of us get to achieve the audio realism we wish. Take that scene in ?Blackhawk Down? where Eversmann guy is calling a medic on his radio, whilst he?s in that midst big mess of AKs shooting and Choppers whirring above.

Apple unveiled the new Mac mini with the Intel Core Duo processor, delivering performance up to four times faster than its predecessor and providing even greater expansion in the same compact design.

Mac mini Core Duo - iPod Hi-Fi boombox

Later today, ATI will officially announce the Xpress 3200 core logic -- a 110nm low-k core logic for AMD Socket 939 and the still unannounced Socket AM2. Xpress 3200 has all of the features found on Xpress 200 (RD480) with a few extra frills from the Southbridge including dual Gigabit Ethernet PHYs, dual 1394 PHYs and eight SATA 3.0Gbps drive support.

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Over the last couple of months I have been repeatedly asked a question from people wanting to upgrade or buy a new PC. The question has been, should I get a dual core AMD Athlon 64 or single core and what speed should I get? This has also been a hot topic not only in our forums but right across the internet. Two distinct camps have developed: die hard dual core fans and die hard single core fans. Truthfully, during the testing of this article and my research I have felt like I have been playing Black and White 2 where you have one guy sitting on one shoulder and another on the other, both arguing their cases to me. Neither one are the devil, but neither one comes out as the undisputed angel either.

Get your free USB memory stick, courtesy of none other than Microsoft! Allow 6-8 weeks for delivery.

Where else will you see two Rocking Babies, a Sony underwater digital camcorder, and smiling Panasonic executives? PCMag.com's lead camera analyst, Terry Sullivan, is at the Photo Marketing Association's 2006 exhibition, bringing you exclusive photos.

When the new ATI Dual x16 PCIe chipset launches in a couple of days, you will be able to buy motherboards on launch day from at least one manufacturer. The Asus A8R32-MVP Deluxe will be widely available for sale on March 1, and it represents an upgrade of the current A8R-MVP with improved performance and Deluxe features. Asus also continues their use of passive cooling on the A8R32-MVP, with no active cooling fans.

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Well folks, we have a date for both Blu-ray hardware and media. I can?t say I?m overly excited about the initial titles, though they?re an improvement over Charlie?s Angels. Lion?s Gate is listing newer titles at $39.99 a pop and classics (I use that term lightly) at $29.99. Let the format war begin!

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Although details are currently sketchy, we know for a fact that Bose is scheduled to make a major announcement on 2nd March in Taipei, Taiwan. Bose officials are planning an event in Taipei where the presentation is expected to take place.

So in layman?s terms SLI is a method whereby you can throw extra video cards into your system so as to make it run faster whilst using higher quality settings. That is fantastic ? how could any enthusiast not embrace such a feature?

We heard faintly that NVIDIA is going to demonstrate Quad SLI technology using GeForce 7900 GTX cards over at CeBIT. Apparently, NVIDIA will be allowing manufacturers to make cards for Quad SLI too. Last but not least, GeForce 7900 GT scored almost the same 3DMark06 score as the 7800 GTX; ~4K.

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NVIDIA has been quiet about core logic since nForce4 x16 was launched a few months ago, but the company is rapidly approaching on final silicon for the MCP55 family. MCP55, as we reported previously, is the nForce4 successor dedicated to Socket AM2/S1 motherboards.

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Is this the real Video iPod? MacShrine has a picture of what appears to be a full screen iPod. These photos match up pretty well with the drawings from the US Patent and Trademark Office we posted a few weeks ago detailing a touch sensitive GUI for portable devices.

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