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Overclocked Radeon HD 4870 X2 Shoot-Out

At launch, just about every Radeon HD 4870 X2 available at retail had the exact same features and specifications. But more recently, a few board partners have introduced factory overclocked variants that take the performance of what is already the fastest graphics card available up a notch. And yes, it’s good for Crysis!

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SGI Helps Keep U.S. Nuclear Weapons Stockpile Safe

We all know SGI for making high-end workstations for rendering 3D animations for games and movies. But there is a very lucrative part of SGI feeds high-performance computing (HPC) solutions to the government and military. And now it looks like some of SGI’s recent implementations are helping to keep the U.S.’s nuclear weapon stockpile in check.

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10 things we would like to see in Firefox and Chrome

Google’s Chrome and Mozilla
’s Firefox captured the browser headlines this week, igniting a new discussion about performance increases and possible new features that are likely to drive a new round of innovations. Here is our list of the ten features - five for Chrome, five for Firefox - which we would like to see in the next versions

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10 reasons why you should use the Opera browser

Despite its low profile, Opera offers a host of features that set it apart from the browser pack. According to Jack Wallen, Opera is fast and stable — and it contains many features other browsers can’t touch.

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Apple: MacBooks Can’t Handle GarageBand

Two Apple customer service representatives told reader Mark that his MacBook’s four hard drive crashes could be blamed on GarageBand, professional-grade software that his puny consumer-grade laptop ‘couldn’t handle.’ Every MacBook comes with GarageBand pre-loaded as part of Apple’s iLife suite.

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Apple Now Sixth Among Worldwide PC Manufacturers

Riding the wave of good news about Apple’s explosive growth over the past years, market research firm Gartner now says that Apple is the sixth largest PC manufacturer in the world.

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Set up your firewall with Firewall Builder

Firewall Builder (fwbuilder) is a graphical application that can help you to configure IP traffic filtering. It can compile the filtering policy you define into many specifications, including iptables and various languages used by Cisco and Linksys routers. Separating the actual policy you define and the implementation in this way should let you

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Dell introduces ten new laptops [with onboard Linux]

On is a flash-based barebones Linux install that gets you up and running, on the Net, and with much of what you need to run the computer in instantly. Dell went to great pains to avoid saying the L-word though, it might anger the very touchy gods atop mount Redmond.

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USB 3.0 ready!

In the has put the final piece for USB 3.0 hardware development in place.

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25 Awe Inspiring Custom Computer Case Mods

If you
’ve thought of it, chances are there is a computer case mod inspired by it. This year, the modders have really outdone themselves with even more drool-worthy designs! Check out these crazy pics and more.

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