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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-6085568.html IBM and Georgia Tech have coaxed a chip to run at 500GHz, a record for a silicon-based device, by dropping the temperature to minus 451 degrees Fahrenheit. The experiment is part of a project to explore the ultimate speed limits of silicon-germanium (SiGe) chips. SiGe chips are similar to standard silicon chips, but they also contain germanium for better performance and lower power consumption. Adding germanium, however, increases the price of producing wafers and chips that come out of the wafers, so SiGe chips are typically only found in a few select markets. IBM has sold hundreds of millions of SiGe chips si…

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B.Ob.

June 20, 200620 yr

News: Dateline: 4/19/2005 "BGF Technologies Now Shipping 512MB GeForce 6800 Ultra 3D Graphics Cards"

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B.Ob.

April 20, 200521 yr

Intel Xeon E7450 Dunnington 2.4GHz 3 x 3MB shared L2 Cache 12MB L3 Cache Socket 604 90W 6-Core Server Processor - Retail http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16819117176

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November 25, 200817 yr

Beta 6.3 Catalyst for Oblivion This special driver is provided to enable additional functionality for Oblivion. Specifically this driver will: 1. Permit High Dynamic Range Lighting (HDR) concurrently with Anti-Aliasing (AA) on RADEON X1000 series graphic boards 2. AFR mode for CrossFire (2 GPU’s) Known issues: 1. SuperAA with CrossFire in HDR mode is not enabled. If you have SupperAA enabled you will get the quality and performance of one card as opposed to two. 2. Rendering issues with grass shadows 3. On an ATI Radeon X1600XT CrossFire configuration, the game may intermittently crash if the resolution is set higher th…

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B.Ob.

April 10, 200620 yr

VALVE UNVEILS 64-BIT SOURCE™ GAMING TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPED IN CONJUNCTION WITH AMD "Bringing the Source technology to the AMD64 processor platform is an important step in the evolution of our game content and tools," said Gabe Newell, Valve’s co-founder and president. "This investment in future processing will allow us, and third party developers working with Source, to push the boundaries of the gaming experience."

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B.Ob.

December 23, 200520 yr

Microsoft to end 64-bit Windows endurance test in one month "After years of delays, Microsoft will deliver a pair of 64-bit operating systems within the next month. Honest. Jim Allchin, Microsoft's SVP of platforms, promised to ship the Windows Server 2003 Standard x64 Edition and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition operating systems "in about a month." These operating systems - one for servers and one for workstations - will work with x86-64-bit chips from both AMD and Intel. They should help Microsoft catch up with Unix and Linux OS makers that already have 64-bit OSes available."

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B.Ob.

March 2, 200521 yr

Unfortunately, circumstances beyond my control have forced me to sell my most prized possession...my gaming pc. If anyone is interested in purchasing it whole or in parts yuo can let me know asap. my system specs ar listed below. ...oh yeah...not listed below is my 17" LG lcd monitor...also a cdrw and an MSI dvd-burner

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PurSuiT

January 27, 200521 yr

Intel to put 64 bits in desktops in 2005 "Intel once said desktop buyers wouldn't really need 64-bit capabilities until toward the end of the decade, but the company will make such capabilities a feature across its desktop lines next year. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker disclosed at its analyst meeting in New York that it will include 64-bit functionality on its desktop chips starting in 2005, a schedule that roughly coincides with the release of a 64-bit version of Windows for desktops coming next year. The functionality will appear even in the budget Celeron line."

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B.Ob.

December 10, 200421 yr

Point-of-View GeForce 6800GT They used this for their test system: (nice to see a not-so-highend system) CPU AMD Athlon XP3200+ (11.5 x 200) Motherboard Abit NF7-S (NVIDIA nForce2 Ultra 400) Chipset Drivers NVIDIA nForce UDP v4.24 RAM 1024MB (2x512MB) PC3200 DDR400 RAM Video Point Of View GeForce 6800 GT Video Drivers NVIDIA ForceWare 66.51 (Non WHQL) OS Windows XP Professional SP2 DirectX Runtime 9.0c

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B.Ob.

December 21, 200421 yr

GeForce 680i Motherboards Snub Quad Core Yorkfield "So it seems that the 680i chipset has support for the quad core Yorkfiled (and dual core Wolfdale), but it seems that the 680i motherboards have been built in such a way that quad core Yorkfiled (and dual core Wolfdale) will not work on almost all 680i motherboards produced. So all in all, 45nm Intel CPUs are not a mix with the current 680i. NVIDIA stresses that we look forward to the next-gen chipset for support, which of course requires buying a new motherboard. All of this begs the question, at least in my mind, “Did NVIDIA know this was coming?” Obviously if it did know this was coming back during reference …

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B.Ob.

November 30, 200718 yr

http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp GeForce 7 Series Version: 93.71 Release Date: November 2, 2006 GeForce 8800 Series Version: 158.19 Release Date: April 17, 2007 Looks like no more updated drivers for GeForce 6 and 7 series cards in XP.....

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B.Ob.

April 18, 200719 yr

7 Year Old Steals Grandmothers Truck "I wanted to do hood ride stuff with my friends" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbud2dTEvso

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B.Ob.

May 1, 200818 yr

This is a pretty good deal. http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetai...odlist=dealnews

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ParoxysM

March 31, 200818 yr

NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX Lockup Issue Resolved "The only thing that seemed to work though was lowering the clocks back down the reference speeds NVIDIA announced of 650 MHz core, 800 MHz memory and 700 MHz vertex clock. Yes, in this case, the vertex shaders are running slightly faster than the majority of the GPU, the pixel shaders. Turns out that overclocking was one of the main instigators of this problem."

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B.Ob.

April 11, 200620 yr

Nvidia to launch 90nm GeForce 7900 GPUs on March 9 "Nvidia is expected to launch its 90nm GeForce 7900 graphics processor unit (GPU), in GT and GTX versions, on March 9, according to sources at Taiwan graphics-card makers. In addition to the GeForce 7900 series, Nvidia plans to add the GeForce 7600 (codenamed G73) by the end of next month, the sources indicated."

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B.Ob.

February 16, 200620 yr