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Intel: laptop/desktop crossover coming sooner than expected

18 April 2008, 10:42

Intel will sell more mobile CPUs than desktop processors this year, the chip giant's CEO claimed this week.

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Microsoft patent hints at wearable computer pointing device

18 April 2008, 10:39

Somewhere, sometime, someone, will present the true successor to the age-old input device, the mouse. Is this Microsoft's vision of a mouse-free world?

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Our new series - It's TCAAC!

18 April 2008, 10:03

In the first TCAAC show, Nick and Scott discuss the Byron report and it's impact on game ratings as well as newspapers' attempt to dig up unfounded stories for their ...

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Corsair's launches 667MHz Apple Mac Pro memory kit

17 April 2008, 16:15

Corsair has today added fully buffered 2GiB & 4GiB DIMM kits to its Mac Memory line.

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Sapphire pledges support for Phenom

17 April 2008, 14:42

Sapphire declares full support for AMD's 125W Phenom X4 CPUs across the latest range of its mainboards, including its microATX Hybrid CrossFire 780G.

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Atom-powered Eee PC landing in June

17 April 2008, 09:52

Hold your horses folks, the imminent Eee PC 900 looks tasty, but as we expected, an Atom-powered upgrade will follow shortly after.

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AMD updates ATI Catalyst drivers to version 8.4

17 April 2008, 09:33

AMD's latest Catalyst software raises the Radeon display driver up to version 8.476 and provides a familiar long list of resolved issues.

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i33 Multiplay :: wPrime World Record attempt Part 6

17 April 2008, 09:23

Having busted the wPrime World Record, Paul Watkinson and the Benchtech UK team take the Skulltrail board to it's limits, just to see how high they can go... can they ...

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Windows Vista update 'kills' USB devices

17 April 2008, 09:06

Microsoft has admitted it is investigating reports that a recent Windows Vista security update causes havoc with some USB devices, but the software giant is yet to provide a fix ...

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Alienware's Aurora desktop strikes back with Phenom

16 April 2008, 16:52

How better to revamp the Aurora range other than to drop in a Phenom X4 9850 processor and two Radeon HD 3870 X2 graphics cards?

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AMD to put NVIDIA's DX10 IGPs to the sword: 790GX on the horizon

16 April 2008, 14:12

Brings even more DX10 IGP performance and wider Hybrid CrossFire compatibility, it is claimed.

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Intel posts record-breaking revenue for Q1 2008

16 April 2008, 13:33

Almost 10bn dollars, but net income is down.

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ASUS confirms Eee PC 900 specification and UK release date

16 April 2008, 10:08

ASUS has today confirmed the hardware specification of its forthcoming Eee PC 900, and amid the good news, there's a touch of bad; there's no Atom in sight.

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i33 Multiplay :: wPrime World Record attempt Part 5

16 April 2008, 09:35

Benchtech UK are getting close to the World Record wPrime attempt, running at 5126MHz and trying to shave off the 5/100ths of a second they need for the World Record. ...

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i33 Multiplay :: wPrime World Record attempt Part 4

15 April 2008, 11:39

Paul Watkinson from Benchtech UK ramps those CPU speeds up even more and sees what wPrime scores they get with a 1.9GHz overclock using liquid Nitrogen...

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Sharp reveals world's first Atom-powered UMPC

15 April 2008, 10:10

Intel's Atom processor isn't expected to ship until June, but that hasn't stopped Sharp from unveiling what it claims to be the the world's first Atom-powered UMPC running Windows Vista.

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NVIDIA brings PhysX to GeForce 8- and 9-series cards

15 April 2008, 09:16

The CUDA port of AGEIA's API is almost complete.

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ASUS M70 blurs the line between desktop and laptop

14 April 2008, 12:31

With a 17in full-HD screen, Blu-ray support and enough storage space to keep all your prOn with you on the go, ASUS' M70 seems the multimedia laptop to die for.

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Intel parades new mobile Internet devices (MIDs) advertisement

14 April 2008, 10:54

Intel is hoping that Atom-powered Mobile Internet Devices will be in the hands of millions come the end of the year. The marketing push, it seems, starts right here.

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Live Mesh - Microsoft's next killer app?

14 April 2008, 09:39

Killer app is a term thrown around a little too easily these days, but with Microsoft's Live Mesh promising the future of cloud computing, could this really be one?

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i33 Multiplay :: wPrime World Record attempt Part 3

14 April 2008, 08:54

Paul Watkinson from Benchtech UK talks us through the first stage of the team's wPrime World Record attempt, starting off with a 'modest' overclock of 450MHz at -81?C... but then ...

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AMD etailer tri-core pricing leaks out; seems expensive

14 April 2008, 01:17

The tri-core processors aren't officially released but we've got a heads-up on pricing.

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Intel is preparing to annihilate NVIDIA: the war is on

11 April 2008, 15:05

NVIDIA and Intel: someone has to lose.

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i33 Multiplay :: wPrime World Record attempt Part 2

11 April 2008, 10:51

Intel's Al Kemp joins us to give us his thoughts as the Benchtech UK team ramp up the speeds in their wPrime World Record attempt...

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Shuttle launches Blu-ray/HD DVD home theatre XPC

11 April 2008, 10:16

Shuttle is out to challenge the ASUS upstart.

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No-one else loves NVIDIA. Who cares?

11 April 2008, 09:50

NVIDIA congratulates itself on a job well done, but surely a CPU needs to figure in the world's-best platform somewhere, right?

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Corsair's entire PSU range is now 80 PLUS certified

10 April 2008, 16:48

High-efficiency PSUs across wide loads and pricing budgets.

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ASUS launches world's smallest desktop PC: the Essentio CS5110?

10 April 2008, 15:19

It seems to have all the credentials for a high-quality HTPC, too.

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Ultra Products sues every PSU manufacturer you can think of

10 April 2008, 14:13

Ultra Products, a lesser-known US manufacturer of power supplies and PC components, has filed a suit against literally every PSU manufacturer for using its recently-patented modular design.

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