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Three Quarters There : Seagate’s Barracuda 7200.10 750 GB "The first "mainstream" launch of perpendicular recording technology is in the form of the Seagate Barracuda 7200.10. With peak storage capacities of 750 GB (or 0.75 TB, if you will), the launch of this product is garnering some high profile attention toward this new recording technology. In a sea of 500 GB drives on the market, Seagate has suddenly (and somewhat unexpectedly) rocketed in front of the competition in terms of storage capacity. We managed to get our hands on one of these drives for testing, which we've put through our usual battery of storage tests." Seagate's Big Kahuna: The 750GB 7200.10 Ha…

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May 12, 200620 yr

Core 2 Extreme X6800 VS FX-62 Lots of interesting pics and graphs.They test with a single nvidia 7900gtx and crossfire setup, interesting. Although I'll wait til launch for a final verdict.

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June 19, 200620 yr

ATI's X1950 XTX set to pump up the pixels ATI new X1650 PRO to launch in August Is Ageia's PhysX Failing? "Recently we have been getting more glimpses at GPU-accelerated physics, and it raises doubts about Ageia in both the long and short run. Both Nvidia and ATI have been working with Havok, a company which you might have heard of. Havok has been developing and implementing game development tools and engines; its product list includes gameplay physics engines with multi-core and multi-thread support. Now it also has an effects physics engine called Havok FX, which is being used by ATI and Nvidia for their effects physics hardware acceleration."

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July 19, 200620 yr

Apple completes switch to Intel chips ZING.... "Jobs also previewed the upcoming Mac OS X release, dubbed "Leopard," taking a few swipes at rival Microsoft Corp. and its much-delayed Windows Vista operating system. Since Windows XP was launched in 2001, Apple has released five major updates to Mac OS X. Leopard is expected in spring 2007."

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August 9, 200620 yr

R600 has 512-bit external memory bus, Orton promises it takes no prisoners R600 will therefore feature a 512-bit external memory bus, likely using 1.2GHz GDDR4 for ~153GB/sec from memory pool to chip, to back up the smack AMD's Executive Vice President laid down.

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December 15, 200619 yr

ATI 1950Pro Dual ala GX2 type card Sapphire Debuts Dual-Radeon X1950 Pro "If waiting for R600 has you down, Sapphire has an upcoming alternative. Early this morning the company internally demonstrated its dual-GPU Radeon X1950 Pro board, dubbed The Godfather. The dual-slot GPU uses two 6-pin power connectors but still fits within the standard 9" riser-board dimensions."

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December 22, 200619 yr

New Nvidia product speculated Hmmm, lowend 8300 GS ($79) getting 24 shaders, and the 8600 Ultra ($179) getting 64 shaders. Makes for an interesting lineup. For what is worth, ATI is supposedly announcing a full lineup when the R600 is released.

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January 15, 200719 yr

ATI plans X1950 GT in February "The card is based on the RV570LE chip and it will end up clocked at 500MHz core and 1200MHz memory. The card will end up equipped with 256MB GDDR 3 memory. It is set to cost $169 but it could end up even cheaper."

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January 26, 200719 yr

Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000: Terabyte Storage arrives on the Desktop "For over fifty years, the storage industry has been on a path where the longitudinal technology currently utilized would eventually become a limiting factor in drive capacities. Over the last decade the drive manufacturers have been doubling and at times quadrupling storage capacity at a dizzying rate in order to meet continuing demands from users. In fact, it took the industry almost 35 years to reach the 1GB level, another 14 years to reach 500GB, and now with perpendicular recording technology, less than two years to reach 1TB."

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March 23, 200719 yr

http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/07/04/12/1416246.shtml

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April 12, 200719 yr

DX10 for the Masses: NVIDIA 8600 and 8500 Series Launch While the performance of the 8800 GTX is still a ways off from making it to the mainstream, we finally have the feature set (and then some) of the GeForce 8 series in a very affordable package. While we only have the fastest of the new parts from NVIDIA today, the announcement today includes these new additions to the lineup: GeForce 8600 GTS GeForce 8600 GT GeForce 8500 GT GeForce 8400 (OEM only) GeForce 8300 (OEM only) GeForce 8600: DirectX 10 For The Masses "The answer to my first question is yes. This new offering delivers upgrades to the previous card. Other than the die shrink to an 80 n…

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April 17, 200719 yr

PC Power & Cooling Joins the OCZ Technology Group "PC Power & Cooling has today announced it will join the OCZ Technology Group, effective immediately. As a part of the OCZ Technology Group, PC Power & Cooling’s complete line of power management solutions such as the maximum performance Turbo-Cool and ultra-quiet Silencer, will continue to be offered and developed by PC Power & Cooling. Through the combined efforts of the newly merged organization, PC Power & Cooling products will now be available to consumers though a variety of new distribution channels and on a world-wide scale. All products will continue to be offered with the renowned sup…

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May 26, 200719 yr

Tyan readies new mobos, quad-core ready PSC "One of Tyan's major showpieces at Computex was the S4980, a motherboard that manages to squeeze four 1207-pin Opteron sockets and 16 DIMM slots into an Extended ATX form factor. As one might imagine, Tyan did cut some corners (literally) to be able to fit four Opterons in an EATX mobo. The board is only outfitted with one expansion slot—PCI Express x16—and it has "only" six Serial ATA ports. The S4980 is largely aimed at cluster systems, Tyan says."

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June 12, 200719 yr

Sony releases SSD laptop with 11.5hr life "SOLID STATE DRIVES (SSDs) will probably be the main selling point for top end notebooks this autumn, and Sony will join the battle with the release of the TZ18GN, the first Vaio computer with one inside."

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August 6, 200719 yr

Intel Sets "Penryn" Launch Date "Intel has set the launch date for its Penryn based quad-core Xeon processor family. The company intends to launch seven new Harpertown based models ranging from 2.0-to-3.16 GHz on November 11, according to a posting on Intel’s reseller webpage. Standard “E” bin and performance “X” bin processors launch on November 11."

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August 15, 200719 yr