November 20, 2006 by Brad.

Simple step by step instructions on how to make your ever own computer controlled light show (think Christmas and Halloween) for under 40$. Includes source for software to do it yourself as well as GUI software for those faint of heart with compilers. Linux source included!

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November 20, 2006 by Brad.

Today marks the announcement of NVIDIA
’s next generation GeForce 8800 series GPU technology code named “G80.” We have two new hard-launched video cards from BFG Tech representing the 8800 products. Gameplay experience TWIMTBP?

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November 20, 2006 by Brad.

Nvidia has a new nForce 680i SLI chipset for Intel CPUs, and in an interesting twist, has designed and is manufacturing complete motherboards for its partners. The chipset offers speedy performance, loads of integrated peripherals, and considerable overclocking potential. Stable front-side bus speeds have been observed close to 2000MHz!

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November 20, 2006 by Brad.

When IBM sold it’s notebook operations to Lenovo there was a lot of concern over what would happen to the Thinkpad. In addition to producing the Thinkpads Lenovo has the 3000 series of notebooks, a lower cost alternative to the IBM legend. This article looks at the 3000 V100 ultra-portable notebook computer, Lenovo’s take on the X60.

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November 20, 2006 by Brad.

So, does the Nine Hundred live up to all the hype? Is it, as Antec touts, the “Ultimate Gamer Case?” If cooling and configuration options are the benchmarks we’re looking at, it just may be. With four case fans included (three 120’s and a massive 200mm top fan) and a distinctive look incorporating a chevron side window and mesh front……

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November 20, 2006 by Brad.

The TOP500 table shows the 500 most powerful commercially available computer systems known to us.

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November 20, 2006 by Brad.

Dubbed “The Ultimate Gaming Motherboard” by Asus, the Asus Striker Extreme, built around NVIDIA’s new 680i chipset is nothing short of impressive when you look at the build quality and feature integration Asus brought to the table. With a chipset heat-pipe cooling system that looks like something out of a distillery.

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November 20, 2006 by Brad.

A complete slide presentation on AMD Fusion: “AMD has given us some more specifics about Fusion, albeit still a little vague on specific as to exactly how a stream processing on the GPU would be leveraged. But if you thought CPU and GPU integration onto one die was just about low end computers, AMD is painting a different picture”

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November 20, 2006 by Brad.

Within advantages, I could mention the transfer rate of 20MB/s, the high capacity and the multitude of operations that could be fulfilled with the help of it, like large amounts of backups, uncompressed media (movies and audio) that could be easily edited later, and many many more.

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November 20, 2006 by Brad.

So I know a bit about computers, and for some reason that makes everyone including their grandma ask me how to fix their computer, or how to do “such and such” on their computer. Well FINALLY I’ve got a solution.. tell them to go to this site. It’s called New User Help and it’s perfect. If only everyone I know would follow the basics they have..

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