July 23, 2007 by Brad.

The ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT is here for us to put it through its DX10 paces. Who will take home the crown in the first full DirectX 10 game under Windows Vista? New games including Oblivion: Shivering Isles, WoW: Burning Crusade, Lord of the Rings Online, and Lost Planet. “The ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT is simply not a good value for gaming”

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July 23, 2007 by Brad.

Co-creator of Wolfenstein, Doom and Doom 3, John Carmack, has put a firm boot into the face of Ageia
’s PhysX chip, saying that ‘I am not a believer in dedicated PPUs.’

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July 23, 2007 by Brad.

title says it all.

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July 23, 2007 by Brad.

Five years after the concept was first proposed, the $100 laptop is poised to go into mass production.Hardware suppliers have been given the green light to ramp-up production of all of the components needed to build millions of the low-cost machines.

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July 23, 2007 by Brad.

Five years after the concept was first proposed, the $100 laptop is poised to go into mass production.Hardware suppliers have been given the green light to ramp-up production of all of the components needed to build millions of the low-cost machines.

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July 18, 2007 by Brad.

Sun Microsystems on Monday revealed the Constellation System, a high-performance computing platform that company executives claim will vault the company back into the top ranks of supercomputer manufacturers.

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July 18, 2007 by Brad.

Processors are typically compared by their performance alone, but the folks at The Tech Report have put together an extensive comparative article that ranks 16 AMD and Intel chips based on how much bang they offer for your buck. The results may surprise you.

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July 18, 2007 by Brad.

Advanced Micro Devices in August will begin selling its quad-core “Barcelona” Opteron processors, models that answer Intel’s current products but soon will face stiffer competition.

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July 18, 2007 by Brad.

For goodness sake, clean your damn computer. I was given this earlier today to fix. I should charge the guy for my lunch as well.

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July 18, 2007 by Brad.

Researchers have found a way to record to nanostructures in DVD-sized discs to store 500GB of data, and the team says that it will eventually be able to store 1 terabyte of data on those same discs with high data throughput rates.

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