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AMD's Next Generation Microarchitecture Preview: from K8 to K8L

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New Intel Core 2 Duo processors took the lead in the processor market these days and AMD has nothing to respond with at this time. However, next year AMD promises to release a Conroe-killer, the CPU based on new K8L microarchitecture. Our newest article is devoted to the details of AMD K8L microarchitecture and how it compares with Core and K8 from the theoretical prospective.

X-Bit Labs
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3D Wireless Mouse for $550

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This is something I would totally get for gaming?I think. As the title states, a group of University of California students have designed a 3D wireless mouse that somewhat works. The idea is to use the mouse without placing it on the surface. In this particular scenario, the students could move the device left, right, up, down, front and back for corresponding movements.
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ATi to Discontinue Intel Chipset Development

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Although ATi has promised the acquisition from AMD would not affect the shipment of Intel platform based chipset, manufacturers are making careful decision on the product development, to lesser or to terminate.
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Quad-core Kentsfield be supported in P965?

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Good news to consumers. Intel has changed its mind to give P965 to support the upcoming quad-core Kentsfield processors. Kentsfield is Intel?s first quad-core desktop processor for extreme users in which Intel pushed to appear no after than this year. In the original plan, 975X chipset is the only one supporting the new processors. But two weeks ago, manufacturers have received surprising news that Intel had changed its mind to give P965 a new pose.
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AMD AM2 4200+ vs. AMD 939 4200+

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It's that time again folks. That's right, AMD has finally, after many setbacks, released their new socket type. Titled AM2, which uses 940 pins, AMD has used this as the opportunity to move up to newer, and cheaper, DDR2 memory.
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VIA vs. Intel - Core 2 Duo chipset shoot

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Remember VIA Technologies, the Taiwanese chipset manufacturer. Although I once found myself reviewing VIA based motherboards on a weekly basis, it has been over a year now since I last touched a retail motherboard that used a VIA chipset. This being the case I was literally stunned when I came across the ASUS P5VD2-MX which is designed for the new Core 2 Duo processors.
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Benchmarking On Trial

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Performance evaluations are never easy and the argument of using synthetic and real world benchmarks is one that's neverending among reviewers, the general public and even manufacturers. While they are not the perfect tool to capture performance a hardware will offer, they do give us an idea of hardware performance.
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Win a Powercolor X1900GT

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With the help of Powercolor Madshrimps is organizing this give-away for their readers. The X1900GT is a strong middle-high end video card and it will boost your gameplay performance to new heights. This give-away is open to readers from all over the world, it will end on 15th September
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GeForce 7950 GT Performance Previewed

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Upon news of an unannounced GeForce 7950 GT graphics card from Nvidia, the guys at PC INpact have scurried to run some benchmarks (in French) on an overclocked GeForce 7900 GT with 512MB of memory in order to get an idea of the supposedly upcoming card's performance.
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7900GS Benchmark Results Leaked

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HardSpell has leaked some benchmarks of the upcoming NVIDIA 7900GS. If you look at the CPU Test Score, tests seemed to be ran on a slower single-core processor system.

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Undervolting the AMD A64 X2 4200+ AM2 Processor

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Today Legit Reviews takes the same processor we overvolted to reach an amazing 3.1GHz thanks to water cooling and go the other direction. We undervolt the AMD A64 X2 4200+ AM2 processor and try to find the lowest possible voltage the processor can run still stable at with the hopes of lowering power consumption and system temperatures.
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VGA Cooler Mini-Roundup

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Like the CPU industry, prices are rapidly falling in graphics industry -- high-end cards like the X1900 XT can be found for under $350, while the X1800 XT 512MB is below $200 and the 7900 GT is quickly approaching $250. Prices have never been this good. A lot of these high-end cards however generate a lot of noise, and so many enthusiasts are swapping out the stock coolers for aftermarket units and finding that the new coolers generate less noise with lower GPU temps.
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ATI Theater 650 Pro & Catalyst Media Center Preview

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While NVIDIA impressed us with their DualTV card, ATI has been hard at work fine tuning their Theater 650 Pro processor. Building on the successes of the Theater 550 Pro, ATI brings new enhancements to the overall technology for even greater image quality and performance.
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ATI's R600 has 64 Real Pipes

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We previously wrote that the chip will have sixty four Shader units but we never realised at the time that the design is actually built around a full sixty four physical pipes. That is what various high-ranking sources are telling us. In this scenario, unless Nvidia also managed to triple its pipeline count in the upcoming G80, this chip could lose out big time when put against a 64-pipeline ATI offering.

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Exclusive Microsoft Zune Details

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Thanks to our awesome tipsters, we scored this exclusive picture of the Microsoft Zune. Yes, it looks almost exactly like the images we've shown you before on Gizmodo. The player also comes with a pair of magnetic headphones, which as you can see from the picture, stick to each other so they're easier to manage.
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Successor of Intel 975X: Bearlake X/G+

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Technology is advancing that new products are too soon to be outdated. To further boost up the CPU capacity, 1333MHz FSB Intel Core based Desktop processors are going to be launched in Mid-2007. For supporting the new CPU, a new chipset corresponding to 1333 MHz FSB would be launched together. Code named Bearlake, it included Bearlake-P for mainstream and Bearlake-G for IGP market.

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