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October 2, 2006 by Brad.
Even if the weekend is still young our OC gurus Robert ‘crotale’ Kihlberg and Marcus ‘Kinc’ Hultin have already managed to score a new world record. With 3DMark 2001 they’ve managed to reach 89,120 points.
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October 2, 2006 by Brad.
Personal file-servers is growing within the geek culture, but now we are starting to see it cross into the mainstream. This crossover is helped by products such as the new Buffalo DriveStation Duo which sports USB 2.0 and FireWire interfaces and ranges from 500GB to 1.5TB in capacity. The drives may also be configured for RAID-1 allowing mirroring.
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October 2, 2006 by Brad.
Just a decade ago, the only people who put computers together were those individuals who possessed an extensive technical background. Advancements in technology have eliminated some of the complexities in how computers work. This change has resulted in average people who have a basic understanding of computers being able to build a system themselve
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October 2, 2006 by Brad.
Toshiba announced the world’s first HD-DVD writer today, offering a slim form-factor for the new hi-definition media which can be integrated into notebook computers.
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October 2, 2006 by Brad.
As if the world of high-performance gaming graphics wasn’t already out of control, NVIDIA is rumored to be working a their next-gen “G80″ GeForce 8800 card, which will be liquid cooled, and purportedly chows down on 300 watts of electricity to push its pixels. The news comes our way via [H]ard|OCP, which has spy pics of the monstrosity.
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October 2, 2006 by Brad.
DIGIT LIFE explores the next generation native quad core architecture from AMD, the K8L, based on one presentation made by Guiseppe Amato in Moscow. There are a few benchmark slides but most of the presentations seems to hover around the power to performance ratio which can turn quite dirty for Intel.
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October 2, 2006 by Brad.
The Tech Report has quad-core Kentsfield benchmarks straight from the Intel Developer Forum, and the chip looks like a beast in multithreaded apps like 3D rendering and video encoding. What’s more, the chip will plug into standard LGA775 motherboards, and could become available before AMD’s ‘4×4′ platform, which use dual dual-core chips.
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October 2, 2006 by Brad.
Five up-close and personal pictures of NVIDIA’s new G80 reference video cards. You can see the new water cooler implemented on one that will be required due to 300 watt power loads. And yes, it is longer than the current generation’s high end card.
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October 2, 2006 by Brad.
What started out as a simple fixed-function rendering process, where texture and vertex data were fed into a GPU and pixels were pushed out, has evolved into a system where a great deal of processing takes place inside the GPU.
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October 2, 2006 by Brad.
What is Web 2.0? This is a discussion that now may seem tired - and was vigorously kicked around months and months ago - but I continue to have formal and informal conversations about it. I don’t claim to have any definitive definition but one of Web 2.0’s fundamental tenets is “openness.”
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