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Vision Or Mirage

Clawhammer Delayed Another Six Months This is a bull: This is shit: Put them together and you get AMD’s announcement that Clawhammers won’t be out until September, with the whispered excuse being that it’s all Microsoft’s fault. This is an

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The 2700+ Rumor

I see from forums and emails that the following is happening out there: People are taking TBreds and overclocking them. Some are seeing the initial bootup screen reporting an XP2700+. They look at something like Sandra, and it says the

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Beat Me!

From a nVidia response to a Tweaktown question: TT – The cooling devices we’ve seen on GeForce FX cards are quite big and complex, why? Are you experiencing heat problems produced by the 0.13 micron process based NV30 core and

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Radeon 9500 Mods

I got about thirty responses from those who tried the Radeon 9500 modification. About two-thirds reported “success,” a third reported failures. Can’t say getting a particular card from a particular place did any good; for instance, we got reported failures

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Rats on a Treadmill?

I got this intelligent email from John Tumminaro. I think you might be being a bit hard on the GeForce FX card. Sure, it doesn’t show a huge amount of benefit in conventional testing, but what are the benchmarks really

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How Much Is Enough?

Someone asked mw what would be a good time to buy for a major upgrade and when to buy it. This question is much harder nowadays than it was in the past. There’s a lot of good options out there,

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Just How Successful Is This?

With the apparent FXlop, those looking for a powerful but cheap video solution have been looking even more closely at these Radeon 9500 fixes, or will be. Someone wrote me on the subject: Hey Ed… quick note I thought may