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It’s true. The European Union has thrown a new set of anti-trust allegations at Intel.…
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Over the weekend the Free Software Foundation called on visitors to the Defective by Design website to book slots at Apple Genius Bars across the US, Australia, Canada, Italy and the UK to pose questions to Genius Bar staff about ways that the iPhone restricts user freedoms. Does inconveniencing Apple customers help the FSF win […]

According to our tests, this CPU is based on highly anticipated B3 stepping technology. And, it’s meant to be error-free, allow higher clock speeds and still consume less power than AMD’s Phenom 9300 and 9400 models. […]

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As we reported earlier, nVidia has placed the GeForce 8800 GT in the 9-series by renaming the card to 9800 GT. With the second introduction, nVidia gives its partners more freedom to modify the PCB layout and clockspeeds. We saw this earlier with the 8800 GS aka 9600 GSO: that card spawned forth many different […]

Our three systems have been built and tested, so now it’s time to put them to the real test: will overclocking provide the performance advantages we anticipated? Continue to read more…

Since last week, four new nVidia betadrivers have been released online. The leaked beta versions 177.70, 177.72 (Vista 32-bit only) and 177.73 support the GeForce 6 up to the GTX 200 series and nForce 7xx IGP's. The ForceWare beta downloads, each about 70 MB, can be found on the links below. […]

Acknowledging that our initial article on the efficiency of Flash SSDs was based on an inaccurate test procedure for battery runtime, we looked at more SSDs and HDDs. Our conclusion, however, was not far off, as Flash SSDs can do much better. Continue to read more…

Nearly two months after the introduction of the first Release Candidate, the official version of Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 has been completed. Currently, only the English PP1 can be downloaded: the file is 22.6 MB.  It is expected that […]

Cooler Master Stacker 830 video review … Continue to read more…