November 17, 2007 by Brad.

Lost in the wilderness of motherboard-related terms and acroyms? Ars is here to help. In Part I of the Ars Technica Motherboard Guide, Hannibal introduces you to the basic components, layout, and functioning of the motherboard.

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November 17, 2007 by Brad.

A sophisticated new process crams up to 40% more transistors onto their 16 new chips.

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November 17, 2007 by Brad.

ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series - The ATI Radeon HD 3800 series graphics cards are here. We will explore performance in Crysis, Unreal Tournament 3, NFS: Pro Street, and TimeShift. We can now recommend two ATI graphics cards for your gaming needs.

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November 17, 2007 by Brad.

Very well laid out guide for those of us who are not quite sure what TCP/IP is exactly. It is also a great review for CCNA students. This is definitely bookmark worthy.

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November 17, 2007 by Brad.

This ain’t your papa’s flight helmet. Designed for pilots of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the helm you see above will allow pilots to virtually see through the aircraft around them, giving them a wide field of view ahead and superimposing an Infrared image of the world below onto their visors at night.

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November 12, 2007 by Brad.

Intel has presented what they call the biggest technological leap in 40 years and the result of this leap is their new processors with the codename Penryn, which are supposed to be 40-60% faster in graphics, with four cores and with a cachememory of 12MB.

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November 12, 2007 by Brad.

We’ve been fooling around with Samsung’s 64GB SSD for the past couple of days and guess what, it turns out the thing is both completely silent and really fast. Who knew? Without getting all chartngraph up in this piece, we pitted it against a couple of stock Seagate Momentus 5400RPM SATA 2.5-inch laptop drives and see what happened. It’s here……

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November 12, 2007 by Brad.

1920×1200 24-inch Wide Screen LCD displays like the Soyo 24-inch LCD below the $300 mark and even below $250 on Black Friday.

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November 12, 2007 by Brad.

Lost in the wilderness of motherboard-related terms and acroyms? Ars is here to help. In Part I of the Ars Technica Motherboard Guide, Hannibal introduces you to the basic components, layout, and functioning of the motherboard.

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November 8, 2007 by Brad.

Pioneering work on magnetic materials in the 1980 lead to the discovery of the phenomena known as giant magnetoresistance. This, in turn, rapidly led to ultra high density magnetic storage read heads that are used in today’s hard drives. The discoverers of this phenomena are awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in physics.

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