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A week in HEXUS - March 25th, 2011

by Navin Maini on 25 March 2011, 17:00

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After teasing in its version of a peep-show earlier this week, the GTX 590 turned up for the main event as we stacked it up against AMD's HD 6990 royalty. Whilst demonstrating that it could be a smaller and quieter graphics lover, it didn't manage to quite overthrow AMD's efforts, yet showed untapped overclocking prowess that may tip the scales once NVIDIA's partners dip into their creative melting pots. As we took stock of GTX 590 pricing, gaming went to Eyefinity as Sapphire's HD 6990 showed us what it's capable of and in the SSD arena, we auditioned Intel's 510 Series to belt out some numbers.

Sapphire's HD 6950 also dabbled in the Eyefinity arts and with NZXT tiptoeing around, as AMD's Llano APUs are preparing for the Computex talent show, it was up to Cubitek to cast some shape-changing magic. In the interim, MSI turned its hand to delivering a weather forecast and PoV/TGT dished up freshly-picked GTX 550 Ti boards to make way for Futuremark sowing the seeds for PCMark 7.

As a report about the cost of scrubbing away data breaches went to press, Play.com and TripAdvisor got caught up in their own episodes, with Apple deciding to dwell on the good old days. In contrast, the OED chose to keep up with the times, whilst Google and China entered into some dialogue and later in the week, we heard that the company is reportedly testing an iTunes rival of its own.

Facebook is allowing users to be the questioner, as a verdict was delivered on a £7m theft, leaving Firefox 4 traipsing off to break some download limits of its own.

Ending the week, we teamed up with ASUS and PC World for a giveaway and enjoyed celebrating some past competition winners.

 



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