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Cutting Edge or Cheap?

The Springdale boards are officially released today. They look like fine boards which are suitable for many moderate purposes. However, in the long run, we think that hardcore overclockers would be better off with Canterwoods, for the following reasons: The

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Legally Blonde or Legally Blind

In July, Reese Witherspoon is supposed to start in Legally Blonde 2. This time, she’s supposed to go to Washington to lobby. I don’t think even she’d do anything as ditsy as this in the movie, though. The article says

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Opteron News

There’s a rather interesting, mole-fueled analysis of Hammer in the the Inquirer today. Some key points: AMD can’t get yield on high-speed parts, and doesn’t expect to be able to any time soon. On the other hand, they run rather

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The African Queen

I suppose it all begins with the fact that I don’t like noise. I may rattle around in the wood shop all day long, pounding nails and sending hunks of wood through a screaming table saw, but when it comes

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The Real Bottleneck

News Item: Doom III to not include multiplayer. This is a game more than three years in the making, coming from a company that pioneered multiplayer, and being released in a gaming environment that is now mostly multiplayer. Multiplayer will

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Up The Tubes

Would you like a terabyte of much faster, static (doesn’t need electricity to keep remembering) memory in your computer? Your music player? Your TiVo? Here’s a company that wants to give it to you in a few years. They figure

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Iceberq4 and Iceberq4 Pro

SUMMARY: A nice package for VGA cooling. The good guys at Vantec were nice enough to send their VGA GPU coolers, the Iceberq4 and Iceberq4 Pro, to us for a test. These are all copper heatsinks that ship with: Four

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Trust is EARNED

Extremetech did some behind-the-scenes testing and found that “our test results seem to indicate that nVidia is boosting its 3DMark game test scores by cutting corners in the 44.03 DetonatorFX driver we used for testing.” nVidia is calling this a