Archive for March 6, 2007

NVIDIA Ships 128-Core Graphics Cards for Film Editors, Apple ‘Excited’

NVIDIA just cranked up its highest-end Quadro graphics cards, rolling out three graphics cards, the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600, Quadro FX 5600, and NVIDIA Quadro Plex VCS Model IV that the company says represents a huge leap in performance. Jeff Brown, a General Manager at NVIDIA, says Apple is “excited” about the technology.

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Building a Quiet PC

Now every PC I build is optimized for performance and low noise from the very beginning. Anyone can build a high-powered rig that sounds like a jet taking off. Building a high-powered rig that’s so quiet your wife can’t tell when it’s turned on or off– now that’s an accomplishment! It’s a bona-fide engineering challenge

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How To Fix an iPod that Won’t Boot

There
’s a conspiracy theory that Steve Jobs wants you to buy a new iPod every 12 months. That may or may not be the case, but if your iPod is hosed, it doesn
’t necessarily mean it’s time to put it out to pasture.

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