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Heatsink Pressure vs Performance

As usual, the comments attached to the poll are more interesting than the poll results. There’s some interesting tidbits of information in these comments, along with some good advice. I’ve sorted the comments from happiest to not-so-happy, and I think

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Economy

First, thanks to all those who answered our questionnaire. Next, what did we find? What we found wasn’t something that spitting out a few percentages on a few choices would reveal. When we do these kinds of surveys, we don’t

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External Drive Enlosure

SUMMARY: Nice looking package for HD portability. The good guys at Tagan were nice enough to send a sample of their external hard drive enclosure IB-390 to test out. This houses a 3.5″ SATA drive with USB, SATA and eSATA

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Computers 2039

There is an allegedly Chinese curse which says, “May you live in interesting times.” nVidia had an “interesting time” at the stock market yesterday. After it said it was going to cost them $150-200 million to fix some problems they

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Computers

In all likelihood, you’ve noticed that the world is becoming economically challenged. The whole world is seeing much higher oil, food and other commodity prices. At the same time, the financial system has suffered quite a few shocks due to

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CPU 648

Fudzilla called this a “pleasant surprise” and indeed it is. When the 45nm AMD CPUs come out, they will be able to run on both AM2+ and AM3 motherboards because the integrated memory controller will be able to handle both

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CPU 629

The news release headline reads “Intel Adds Momentum, AMD Makes Long-Term Gains in Q1 Microprocessor Market” The first part is right, the second part is at best spin. Take a look at the chart (based on iSuppli’s own numbers): Please

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CPU

I would bet at some point in time during AMD’s time of troubles, you’ve wondered, “What do the AMD employees think about all this?” Well, there’s a fairly recent website called Glassdoor.com which lets you post salaries and general comments