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Next month’s Catalyst 9.4 driver update will see ATI dropping support for R300-R500 GPUs in Windows and Linux. Users of video cards that came out prior to the HD 2000-series cards will need to stick with the forthcoming Catalyst 9.3 driver set in Windows. Open source Linux development will still continue for older cards. While […] Add comment
AMD’s introduction of the Radeon Mobility HD 4830 and 4860 products adds another feather into an already impressive cap: these GPUs are the world’s first production parts based on a 40nm process. In fact, AMD has a rather storied history in notable market first: 90nm, 80nm, 65nm, 55nm, DirectX 10.1 support, commercial GDDR5, WHQL Windows […] Add comment
The new Ikonik Ra X10 Liquid case combines water cooling with a fancy aluminum chassis loaded with lux features. Add comment
Kingston is back with improved DDR3-2000, this time in the form of the new HyperX T1-series RAM. Add comment
Remember those rad short-billed caps people wore in the early 90s? The Thermaltake SwordM case sorta looks like that. Add comment
The ASUS ASUS BC-06B1ST Blu-ray burner is a decent combo drive. Add comment
Tech Report tests the Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 hard drive. Two 500GB platters spinning at 7200 rpm is good stuff. Add comment
The Leadtek WinFast GTX 260 EXTREME+ gets tested in SLI. Add comment
The Noctua NH-U12DX is made for cooling dual Xeon systems. Add comment
Thermaltake’s new LUXA2 division aims to bring posh media center cases to the masses. Add comment
Tweak Town compares Windows 7 beta VGA performance against Vista. Add comment
Daleks aren’t meant to swim. Looks like an invasion gone wrong. Add comment
Anyone looking to get their guinea pig on will be pleased to learn that the release candidate for Windows Vista SP2 has been dumped into the public space by Microsoft. The addition of select new features joins a host of bug fixes that are being prepared for the final release: SP2 contains Blue tooth 2.1 […] Add comment
AMD recently spun the production arm of its firm into an entirely new company known as The Foundry Co. Now that AMD shareholders have approved the process, The Foundry Company is officially known as Globalfoundries. Globalfoundries will field contracted jobs in addition to the fabrication obligations to AMD. It has also retitled all of AMD’s […] Add comment
Firefox, like many other browsers, is convenient in that it saves auto-completion data for the address bar and form elements. The problem is that it also saves ones I accidentally submit with typos. I know I’ve always hated wading through a list of old/expired/irrelevant searches when trying to auto-complete one of these boxes, so I […] Add comment
NVIDIA was on hand yesterday to speak at the Morgan Stanley Technology conference in San Francisco. The last 00:01:40 of the hour segment was easily the most interesting. The discussion started with an overview of NVIDIA’s position on Intel’s Larrabee GPU, moved to the Tegra, and ended with an admission that Big Green would like […] Add comment
You’ve never seen a mock trailer for a Thundercats movie quite like this. Add comment
The rumors were true, and Apple was indeed planning to refresh their complete line of desktop models! Here’s a cut straight from the PR: Apple® today announced updates to its iMac® and Mac® mini desktop lines, including a 24-inch iMac that is priced more affordably than ever before and a Mac mini with powerful new […] Add comment
We just received direct word from AMD Public Relations Manager Jay Marsden that price drops are going into effect for select cards in the Radeon 4800 series. Check it: MSI Radeon HD 4850: $124.99 after $30 MIR PowerColor Radeon HD 4870 512MB: $149 after $20 MIR MSI Radeon HD 4870 1GB: $199 after $25 MIR […] Add comment
HKEPC is reporting that some new Phenom IIs with 7/8MB of total cache are on the way. There are two such chips in the pipeline, and they are reported to be: Phenom II X4 955 (Deneb Core): 3.2GHz, 8MB cache Phenom II X2 545 (Callisto core): 3.0GHz, 7MB cache We’re not really sure what this […] Add comment
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