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Upgrading made easy by ASRock
Subject: Motherboards | January 10, 2006 - 04:11 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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ASRock's 939NF4G-SATA2 motherboard does a lot of the work for you, if you are shopping for a value system. On board
nForce 410MCP audio, a built-in Geforce 6100 and ethernet as well means that just picking up a CPU and some memory is all you need to get an upgrade running. You could also build a complete system from scratch just by adding a case with a PSU, a SATA harddrive, and a monitor to the list.
State of the art cooling
Subject: Cases and Cooling | January 10, 2006 - 01:10 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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FrostyTech takes a look at the advances in cooling over 2005. More than just a shootout of heatsinks, they examine what changes have been made to the way we cool our hotplates ... er ... processors. Read the article to see if you missed any products, and get an idea of what to expect from 2006.
"This article is a follow-up to the 2004 issue which looked at all the latest heatsinks and
cooling systems from that period.
A new species of bug to infest your box
Subject: General Tech | January 10, 2006 - 12:01 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Windows Meta File vulnerabilities are being focused on by many right now, even with the patch Microsoft released on the 5th. The reason is mostly because of the nature of the flaw, and how easy it is to infect an unpatched machine. You do not have to interact at all, no installation, not even a pop-up box; simply viewing a picture on a website
Today is brought to you by the letters FX and the number 60
Subject: Processors | January 10, 2006 - 11:50 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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AMD's FX-60 is making headlines today, as the last socket 939 to be released before AMD switches to Socket-AM2. Start off at AnandTech, and their comprehensive review, and keep on going ...
AMD RELEASES THE WORLD'S ULTIMATE PROCESSOR FOR PC ENTHUSIASTS: THE AMD ATHLON 64 FX-60 DUAL-CORE
Subject: Processors | January 10, 2006 - 11:31 AM | Alex Marsters
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This hard drive bares all
Subject: Storage | January 9, 2006 - 06:00 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Legit Reviews got a hold of Western Digital's Raptor X HDD, 150 gigs of storage on a 10,000 RPM SATA drive, with a very special feature. The casing is see-through, and will fit great into a case with a lot of windows! Not only can you see the inner workings of your hard drive, it provides great ESD protection too!
"While at CES 2006 we got a chance to see the the revolutionary WD Raptor X SATA hard drive, the
first ever drive with a view.
Out of the mouths of Booth Babes
Subject: Graphics Cards | January 9, 2006 - 03:56 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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According to a chat HEXUS had with a certain ...
Professional Heatsink Abusers
Subject: Cases and Cooling | January 9, 2006 - 02:40 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Heatsink manufacturers are proud of the way they accuratly test heatsinks to ensure that they are sufficient for the various types of processors out there. In fact they are proud enough to show the various ways they test heatsinks and Thermal Interface Materials to FrostyTech.
"Have you ever wondered how a heatsink manufacturer tests its new heatsinks to ensure what you buy
will do the job?
The Commies are coming back!
Subject: General Tech | January 9, 2006 - 12:07 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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If you thought you had suffered enough with the Commodore64, think again. Commodore is coming back, and Think Computer had a sit down with them to find out what their plans are in the latest attempt to take over the computing world.
'Some of you may not know the name Commodore, but for me it brings back many memories. I really
got my start in all this computer stuff with the Commodore Vic-20; I can say that it changed the
way I looked at computers and how I felt about them.
Televisa Chooses Intel® Viiv(TM) Technology to Deliver Premium Content to World's Largest Hispanic
Subject: General Tech | January 9, 2006 - 11:58 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW, LAS VEGAS — Jan. 5, 2006 — Intel Corporation and Grupo Televisa, S.A. (NYSE: TV), the largest media company in the Spanish—speaking world, today announced a joint effort to provide consumers, for the first time, with a wide choice of on—demand, Internet—delivered Televisa content through Intel® Viiv™ technology—based PCs.
Intel, Google Announce Plans to Bring Video Search Technology to the Living Room on New Intel® Viiv
Subject: General Tech | January 9, 2006 - 11:57 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW, LAS VEGAS — Jan. 5, 2006 — Intel Corporation and Google today announced plans to bring Google Video to the new Intel® Viiv™ technology platform.
Intel and MTV Networks Bring Array of Content to New Intel® Viiv(TM) Technology Platform
Subject: General Tech | January 9, 2006 - 11:51 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW, LAS VEGAS — Jan. 5, 2006 — Intel Corporation and MTV Networks today announced that MTV Networks is optimizing its COMEDY CENTRAL, MTV, VH1 and mtvU broadband networks for the new Intel® Viiv™ technology platform. Viewers will be able to display content from COMEDY CENTRAL's 'MotherLoad,' MTV's 'Overdrive,' VH1's 'VSPOT' and mtvU's broadband networks directly on Intel Viiv technology—based PCs. Intel Viiv technology is designed to enhance and manage digital entertainment in the home.
Intel, Yahoo! Announce Strategic Agreement to Deliver Content to Intel® Viiv(TM) technology-based PC
Subject: General Tech | January 9, 2006 - 11:50 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW, LAS VEGAS — January 6, 2006 — Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO), a leading global Internet company, and Intel Corporation today announced a joint effort to deliver compelling digital entertainment services to consumers on media devices with Intel® Viiv™ technology. Yahoo!
CES 2005/06 - Wish I'd been there
Subject: Shows and Expos | January 9, 2006 - 11:48 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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This year's CES had something for every enthusiast, and a lot of great sneak peeks at the newest things coming out this year. Start at Techware Labs for their look at the final day, and then scroll through all the news that was published over the weekend.
"Another year has passed, and another CES is complete. Don't be too sad, though; the final day did
include visits to some exciting booths and events.
G71 Well Behind X1900 XT
Subject: Graphics Cards | January 7, 2006 - 04:43 PM | Ryan Shrout
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According to the The Inq, ATI has a big lead of next-gen GPUs as the R580 is supposedly nearly ready and the G71 is still some time off.
IT SEEMS that Nvidia might not be out with its G71 as soon as expected. We heard that it might sample as soon as next week, but major OEMs and partners confirmed that they still haven't seen the hardware and that they've all had R580, Radeon X1900 XTX for some times now.
GeForce 7800 GTX 512 Stock Coming Back
Subject: Graphics Cards | January 7, 2006 - 04:40 PM | Ryan Shrout
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According to sources at CES, NVIDIA will have much more quanitity of hte 512 parts in the coming weeks.
I CAN sell as many 7800 GTX 512 as I can get and that's a very good product for us," an Nvidia partner told us at the show. He, she or it wants to remain incognito but the very big partner said that it actually sold all of the cards and still has back orders to fulfil.
Some CES Coverage
Subject: Shows and Expos | January 7, 2006 - 04:39 PM | Ryan Shrout
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Here are some links to some other CES coverage from the last couple of days below. I am still working on mine, but since I was trying some new thing with video this year, uploading is taking quite a bit longer than expected. :)
Toshiba HD-DVD Player Spotted
Subject: General Tech | January 5, 2006 - 09:08 PM | Ryan Shrout
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The Inquirer got a glance at the first HD-DVD player of the year!
It looks thick to us but so did the first DVD players. This device should probably see the light of the consumer shelves sometimes in summer time but we will try to learn more. Its called HD XA1 and it has support for HD content up to 1080I trough HDMI and can also scale down to 720P and 1080P. It plays conventional old DVD's.
As you can see it has lot of connectors at the back including multi channel decoder with 5.1 out.
Intel's Core Duo Notebook Performance
Subject: Mobile | January 5, 2006 - 09:05 PM | Ryan Shrout
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Anandtech has a review up today of the recently announced Intel Core Duo technology behind the Yonah processor.
Today's article is very much a look at Yonah and Centrino Duo as they were intended to be viewed - as members of a mobile society. The primary point of comparison here today will be Dothan and the previous generation Centrino. While we would like to compare to AMD's Turion 64, we only had a very limited time with the notebooks in this review and we could not get a Turion 6
No Playstation 3 at CES 2006
Subject: General Tech | January 5, 2006 - 09:02 PM | Ryan Shrout
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ShackNews discusses the lack of anything PS3 at CES this year...
More time was spent talking about the success of PS2 and PSP. While there was understandably no actual news about PS2, with most of the talk about the machine being on its continually strong sales and continued market dominance, Sony did seem very interested in bolstering the media capabilities of the PSP.
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