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Computex Items

So far, there’s three items of note: 1) Duallies Show Up. I think we’ve said enough about that the last two days. 🙂 2) ATI Introduces Its Version of SLI It’s called Crossfire. That’s an interesting choice of word. It

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How Many Desktop Duallies In 2005?

Digitimes has an article stating that Intel won’t ship more than 500,000 Pentium Ds in 2005. This is quite, quite different from what Intel is saying, to quote: “We’re shipping 100,000 this quarter, and we’re going to ship millions by

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A Tale of Dual Dual Overclocks

No, I wasn’t seeing double writing the title, nor are you reading it. There has been two separate attempts to overclock dual core processors, with air, no less. XBit Labs tried overclocking a PentiumD; PC Perspective overclocked an Athlon 64

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Is Prescott Not So Hot Anymore?

Normally, when you say that a product isn’t so hot anymore, that’s bad news for the product. However, when it comes to Intel’s Prescott CPU, that’s the best news one can hear. I got a complaint the other day that

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Samsung And Solid State Drives

Earlier this month, we pointed out that a hybrid hard drive using flash memory was on its way. Well, turns out that even before that, Samsung will go whole-hog and put out a flash-memory only hard drive, starting in August.

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Expensive Physics

The AGEIA PhysX unit is going to be priced at between $250-$300. Mind you, $300 is more than is spent for the average video card. It’s pretty rough telling somebody, “Well, that $500 or $1,000 you spent on a video

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A Desktop Turion

Someone recently asked me the following: As a faithful reader I would like to see something on the latest low wattage mobile and DTR A64’s for use on the desktop. Lots of us have s754 boards because we went early