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CES 2006 in Las Vegas
Subject: Editorial | January 4, 2006 - 09:40 PM | Ryan Shrout
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Well it's that time of the year again -- the annual Consumer Electronics Show is going live tomorrow morning in Las Vegas. If you have watched the news at all, you've probably already seen some plugs and coverage of it on channels like CNN and CNBC. I got here this morning and have been prepping for the event and already met up with a few of the industry reps to chit chat. I'll have some cool news stories as they develop throughout the week.
One other thing I am going to try at this years show is to bring you all some HD video footage from the show floor. Of
Western Digital Announces 150 GB Raptors
Subject: Storage | January 3, 2006 - 08:45 PM | Ryan Shrout
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Yes!!! More information available at their website. These new drives will support NCQ, have a 16 MB buffer, spin at the same 10k RPM and come at a cost of $309 MSRP.
WD DOUBLES WD RAPTOR® CAPACITY TO 150 GB
World's Highest Performance SATA Hard Drive Also has Double the Cache, Additional Features for Enterprise Applications
LAKE FOREST, Calif. Jan. 3, 2006 Western Digital Corp.
PC Perspective 2005 Hardware Reader's Choice Voting
Subject: General Tech | January 3, 2006 - 01:05 PM | Ryan Shrout
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Well it's 2006....and that means it's time for the 2005 awards all across the web! We here at PC Perspective are going to make sure that the awards we hand out are based on the opinion of YOU, the reader. It's your money that is spent on all of these vendors goods and we think it should be YOUR voice that gets to vote. Our categories include:
- GPU
- GPU Designer
- CPU
Dell Soaking up AMD Processors
Subject: Processors | January 3, 2006 - 11:13 AM | Ryan Shrout
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It looks like the AMD processor sales on Dell's website is starting to have an adverse affect on the rest of AMD's distribution channel.
Last year we reported that Dell was flogging AMD chips on its web site and it appears to be doing quite well. We're still totally unsure whether these chips are sourced through traditional AMD distributors like Avnet or whether Dell has a special deal with the firm to flog them. AMD is expected to rebound with additional stocks before the end of this month.
939 Opteron Prices Increasing
Subject: Processors | January 3, 2006 - 11:10 AM | Ryan Shrout
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It looks like the prices on the AMD Opterons with 939-pin counts are steadily going up...?
If it's ever going to get better, that will happen if these backordered processors we mentioned actually show up towards the end of January.
In the meantime, the latest processors that have shown up don't seem to be quite as good as the ones that started the uproar. They aren't bad, but an easy 3GHz is no longer a given.
Personally, if you haven't bought one by now, you may want to consider waiting until CPUs containing these IBM/AMD SOI improvements come out.
Asus Radeon X1800 XT TOP Review
Subject: Graphics Cards | January 3, 2006 - 11:07 AM | Ryan Shrout
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Firingsquad has put together a review of the new Asus X1800 XT TOP graphics card that I also have in house for testing.
At first glance, ASUS' Extreme X1800 XT TOP looks like no other Radeon X1800 XT card on the market. Sitting next to ATI's own Radeon X1800 XT reference board, the ASUS Extreme X1800 XT TOP looks massive. It even looks large sitting next to a GeForce 7800 GTX 512MB. But actually, the board is based entirely on ATI's reference board design for the Radeon X1800 XT.
Best of 2005 Awards
Subject: General Tech | January 3, 2006 - 11:05 AM | Ryan Shrout
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The gang over at The Tech Report have complied a list of the best and worst of 2005, with the worst being the most entertaining options of course.
Biggest sign of the coming apocalypse: Apple goes for Intel inside
On June 6 of 2005, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced that the company would pull a switch of its own and start using Intel processors.
Several nForce4 SLI Motherboard Tested
Subject: Motherboards | January 3, 2006 - 11:03 AM | Ryan Shrout
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Anandtech has put together a review of four nForce4 SLI motherboards that they consider to have "bargain" pricing.
The Albatron K8SLI is a very interesting board as it offers good performance with a minimal feature set. The board layout is very compact while still providing SLI capability. If you want to set up a LAN party system with SLI, then this board will allow you to use the smaller ATX cases without issue.
**CRITICAL** Windows Meta File Vulnerability. READ ME!!
Subject: General Tech | December 30, 2005 - 11:31 PM | Joe White
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A serious exploit has been found that takes advantage of the Windows Meta File Vulnerability. Please drop by this thread that Ned Slider put together in our SVT forum. It contains steps that can help you protect your system from this exploit.
The exploit uses specially crafted Windows Metafiles (WMF) to execute malicious code, usually a trojan downloader, to download and install malicious software onto the users computer. At present, these WMF's are being hosted on a number of malicious websites.
Will NVIDIA's G71 Chip Use 32 pipelines?
Subject: Graphics Cards | December 29, 2005 - 03:29 PM | Ryan Shrout
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Lot's of questions in today's news...this time about NVIDIA's upcoming 90nm opposition to ATI's R580 in the form of the G71.
As the G71 will be able to process 32 pixels per clock, it will physically have 32 pipelines but will have just 16 ROPs. This is no surprise to us as Nvidia's G70, Geforce 7800 GTX actually has 24 pipelines and 16 ROPs.
More Details on R580 and ATI's X1900XT?
Subject: Graphics Cards | December 29, 2005 - 03:27 PM | Ryan Shrout
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The Inquirer claims to have some good knowledge of the upcoming R580 specifications include a 695 MHz core clock and 1550 MHz memory clock!
OUR CHINESE colleagues have reported that R580 comes in a couple of flavours and our Theo wrote about this before. But this time these guys have a picture of the actual hardware and have some of the clock details. The card looks very much like the previous R520 based chip.
ATI's R580 Spotted
Subject: Graphics Cards | December 29, 2005 - 02:29 PM | Ryan Shrout
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It looks like the first images of ATI's upcoming R580 chip have hit the web over at HKEPC. Nothing incredibly exciting really, though. Check out this quote:
時ATi的尚未å‘å» å•†æ交R580æ ¸å¿ƒçš„æ£å¼è¦æ ¼ï¼ŒåªçŸ¥é“將會分為3個版本，最高階的為Radeon X1900XTX，å–代舊有以PE命åçš„æ–¹æ³•ï¼Œæ ¸å¿ƒæ™‚è„ˆç‚º650MHz，記憶體時脈則為1550MHz。Radeon X1900XTæ ¸å¿ƒæ™‚è„ˆç‚º625MHz，記憶體時脈則為1450MHz。而CrossFire版本亦會在åŒæ—¥ç™¼ä½ˆï¼Œæ
New 150 GB Raptor Drive Coming?
Subject: Storage | December 28, 2005 - 05:53 PM | Ryan Shrout
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According this write up at The Inquirer, it looks like Western Digital might be making my dreams come true by releasing a new Raptor driver with a 150 GB capacity, SATA-II support and NCQ as well!
The new model, the WD1500 addresses the biggest problem everyone had with drives: capacity. In today's world, where author of this article can download eight gigs in a single night, a 36GB capacity seems laughable. Especially when you can get 250GB for the very same price as a 36GB model.
Asus P5N32-SLI vs Gigabyte's 975X Board
Subject: Motherboards | December 28, 2005 - 05:51 PM | Ryan Shrout
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t-break has combined two Intel motherboards into a single article and some good old fashioned chipset-bashing.
Performance-wise, both boards are good as we saw in the previous pages, however, gaming AMD's baby at the moment and we're a bit skeptical about using that term to promote Pentium4 boards at the moment. With overclocking, ASUS managed to take the lead providing a higher overclock.
Wired Picks Worst Comments
Subject: General Tech | December 28, 2005 - 05:48 PM | Ryan Shrout
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These kinds of articles always crack me up -- Wired has gathered the worst/best comments from tech execs in the year 2005.
"I'm going to f***ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again.
HD-DVD Gets Nod from Microsoft...again
Subject: General Tech | December 28, 2005 - 05:46 PM | Ryan Shrout
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With all the hoop-lah involved in the new DVD format wars, Microsoft is stepping up to the plate once again in favor of the royalty-free HD-DVD.
MADISON, Wis. — After months of intense wrangling between the competing Blu-ray and HD-DVD groups, the battle lines in the war over a next-generation high-definition DVD format have moved to the doorstep of Microsoft Corp.
Call of Duty 2 and Quake 4 Go SMP
Subject: Processors | December 28, 2005 - 05:44 PM | Ryan Shrout
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Two big name games have recently come out with new patches that supposedly support SMP setups with dual-core or Hyper-Threaded processors. Quake 4 was the first and Call of Duty 2 followed closely behind.
This Call of Duty® 2 update is recommended for Windows 2000/XP users with Intel Hyper-Threading Technology (HT Technology) enabled processors, multiple processors, or systems with a dual core processor.
Intel No Longer Inside
Subject: Processors | December 28, 2005 - 05:40 PM | Ryan Shrout
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It looks like the classic "Intel Inside" logo is finally going the way of the dodo this January.
Motherboards don't look, I'm changing! 'Intel Inside', the iconic logo of the world's most dominant semiconductor manufacturing company, which has imprinted itself on the consciousness of consumers across the globe, is likely to undergo a transformation early in the new year, according to industry sources.
Intel Pentium XE 955 Reviews
Subject: Processors | December 28, 2005 - 05:38 PM | Ryan Shrout
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After you take a look out my review of the new Intel 955 processor and 975X chipset, head on over and see what these other sites have to say about the new pair.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
Subject: Editorial | December 25, 2005 - 08:00 PM | Ryan Shrout
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Just thought I would make a quick post here to wish all of our readers a very merry holiday season, be it Christmas or whatever. Thank you for making PC Perspective a part of your life and keeping it a part of ours.
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