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October 26, 2006 by Brad.
Simply put, for a 1080i/p game the console has 55% less time per pixel to render any special effects, anti-aliasing, illumination, etc. than for a 720p game.
Is it really harder for a developer to make a game for 1080p as opposed to 1080i? No.
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October 26, 2006 by Brad.
“NVIDIA told all of its partners that it simply won’t allow the overclocking of G80 cards. It doesn’t want another Geforce 7900 GT overclocking fiasco that caused a too high return rate for the cards…”
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October 26, 2006 by Brad.
If you haven’t been keeping up on power supply standards, now is the time to catch up. ATX 2.0 is required for many systems today, along with EPS 12V. This article explains the standards, gives a basic overview on what PSU RAILS are all about, and goes on to review 8 of the latest power supplies.
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October 26, 2006 by Brad.
With the release of NVIDIA’s nForce 500 Series, NVIDIA opened the door to a broad range of features tailored to both AMD and Intel based architectures. Today, we have a line up of three motherboards outfitted with the nForce 590 SLI chipset for AMD, offering the best the 500 series has to offer.
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October 26, 2006 by Brad.
The phone will get a touchscreen that is substantially larger and will house controls such as the dial pad. Physical control buttons include main call accept/hang-up, access of media files, a function to access the main menu and a central track point that looks much more like an Ipod control than the rather complicated track point in the first Rokr
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October 26, 2006 by Brad.
Gigabyte’s GA-965P-DQ6 and Abit’s AB9 Pro are both aimed squarely at the enthusiast crowd. Companies with wildly different pasts are now vying for the same piece of the enthusiast pie. Gigabyte coming from the high-end with the DQ6, packed with features galore, Abit coming from the budget segment with the AB9 Pro, a no-nonsense overclocker.
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October 26, 2006 by Brad.
Well, the most used bar code, based on the Universal Product Code (UPC) standard, first appeared in 1974 on a pack of Wrigley’s chewing gum in Ohio. - However, isn’t RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) going to replace bar codes?
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October 26, 2006 by Brad.
Mind-blowing 14 minute video podcast that takes you behind the scenes at Imation’s plant for making blank HD-DVD and Blu-ray discs. Shows the whole process from mastering to production. If you use optical media, you have to see this…
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October 26, 2006 by Brad.
Two journalists get extended play-time with the Wii and come away underwhelemed with a control system that seems less than revolutionary. What’s the point of standing up and being active when you can sit on your butt and substitute button mashes for wrist flicks? Gentlemen, start your flamethrowers.
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October 26, 2006 by Brad.
A spokesperson from MS’ Licensing Dept says Vista enthusiasts get 10 activations (which will kick in if you swap the hard drive and another component) before things start to get tricky. More details on what this could mean to geeks.
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