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- Girl Scout Day Shortbread
Girl Scout Day How soon is now? Pre-order timing for iPad confirmed, 5:30AM PT VR-Zone shares rumor: Dual-GF100 to release later? Dual-Fermi Nvidia card not coming anytime soon Expreview reports Inno3D ready to ship GeForce GTX 480 / 470 ATI has announced its Open Stereo 3D...
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Last by dpaus at 9:50 AM on 03/12/10 - JooJoo tablet has silly name, Ion graphics
Engadget has been scouring filings with the FCC again, and the site has come across evidence that Fusion Garage's upcoming JooJoo tablet features an Nvidia Ion chipset alongside an Atom N270 CPU. The PureVideo HD decode block built into the Ion's GPU can accelerate HD video playback...
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Last by Welch at 10:09 AM on 03/12/10 - Motion control comes to the PS3 with Sony's PlayStation Move
Sony has officially unveiled its motion controller for the PlayStation 3 game console. The wand-style PlayStation Move made its debut at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, and Sony says it'll be available for purchase this fall. Expect to pay less than $100 for a Playstation...
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Last by burntham77 at 9:38 AM on 03/12/10 - A quick look at XFX's Radeon HD 5830
In our Radeon HD 5830 preview, we tested a sample card from AMD that wasn't really representative of the final retail products. One of the cards we talked about in the review was XFX's version of the 5830. XFX's card looked to be one of the most promising offerings...
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Last by RagingDragon at 10:07 AM on 03/12/10 - Epic brings 3D to Unreal Engine... wait, what?
The Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco is underway, so folks should be opening the spigot on gaming-related news this week. Nvidia was among the first companies to get into the act with an announcement this morning. They're working with Epic to bring 3D support to Unreal Engine 3, that...
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Last by stdRaichu at 9:34 AM on 03/12/10 - Etc.
Well, news today may be a little bit slow. Cyril is knee-deep in an important mission that will soon pay big dividends for us all, and Geoff has been working on a special assignment that may keep him occupied. As for me, between the amount of effort I...
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Last by LordEkim at 4:36 AM on 03/12/10 - Thursday Shortbread
Thursday Unlimited Detail graphics engine: Potential next-gen graphics technology? (video) The Register reports Intel's redemos 6-core Gulftown AppleInsider reports Intel 'Gulftown' announcement fuels rumors of new Mac Pro Don't trust critics: Four Apple...
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Last by mcnabney at 11:59 PM on 03/11/10 -
Intel's Core i7-980X Extreme processor
The desktop's first six-core CPU would strike fear into the competition, if it had any
Intel's dominance with the Nehalem Core i7s has been nearly complete, yet a replacement will soon arrive in the form of Gulftown, a six-core monster with 12MB of cache. How good is it? Should it replace your Pentium 4? Your Core 2 Quad Q6600? We investigate.
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Last by grantmeaname at 7:08 AM on 03/12/10 - Etc.
Some of you guys have asked us to comment on the controversy first started at Ars Technica about Why ad blocking is devastating to the sites you love. Frankly, I have avoided this topic because so many of the comments we see about it are dismaying and saddening....
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Last by indeego at 9:17 AM on 03/12/10 - Poll: Your last graphics card upgrade
These days, consoles pretty much set the standard for the level of detail in games. Oh sure, some ports or cross-platform titles might give PC gamers slightly snazzier graphics and effects, but for the most part, one needs surprisingly little graphics horsepower to run even the latest titles. In some...
Poll Question: • When was your last graphics card upgrade?
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Last by PetMiceRnice at 3:18 AM on 03/12/10 - OCZ 'boot drive' SSD starts at under 100 bucks
Already, OCZ's solid-state drive lineup includes several affordable 30GB offerings. That hasn't stopped the company from adding another one to the mix, however: the 2.5" Onyx 32GB SSD, which is launching with a "sub 100 dollar" suggested retail price. The 32GB Onyx has maximum rated transfer speeds of 125MB/s for...
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Last by TheWacoKid at 8:11 PM on 03/11/10 - AMD-powered MSI Wind12 laptops now available
Four months have passed since we first wrote about MSI's Wind12, one of the very first systems based on AMD's new Congo ultraportable platform. Now, MSI has announced that two Wind12 laptops have become available in North America for $429.99 and $479.99. The higher of the two price tags applies...
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Last by UberGerbil at 6:57 PM on 03/11/10 - Mario Day Shortbread
Mario Day Engadget reports Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang is 'looking forward' to court date with Intel, sees no reason to settle (video) Ars Technica reports HTC lawsuit came after warning by Apple to handset makers ...
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Last by DancingWind at 7:38 AM on 03/11/10 - Ubisoft DRM authentication servers go down
That whole "forcing users to be online to play" copy protection scheme Ubisoft premiered recently seems to be having a rough start. After forcing players to retrace progress in the release version of Assassin's Creed II, the new DRM scheme has now prevented folks from, well, actually playing both...
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Last by Hurst at 1:47 PM on 03/11/10 - MSI intros Core i5-powered ultraportable
Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later. MSI has introduced a new member of its X-Slim series that packs a low-voltage Core i5 processor instead of a Core 2-derived CULV chip like all the other consumer ultraportables out there. MSI outfits the X-Slim X360 with a 13" 1366x768...
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Last by UberGerbil at 2:29 PM on 03/10/10 - Newegg ditches distributor over Core i7-920 'demo units'
That fake CPU incident is still having repercussions at Newegg. The online retailer has posted a new statement on its Facebook page, revealing that the so-called Core i7-920 "demo units" some customers received were in fact counterfeit products. Newegg has also kicked the distributor that provided the parts...
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Last by Chrispy_ at 7:38 AM on 03/11/10 - Report: Asus, Gigabyte mobo shipments reach parity
For a good, long while now, Asus has been top dog in the motherboard market. The company may now be in danger of losing that position, though. DigiTimes reports that Gigabyte's motherboard shipments for the first two months of 2010 may have reached parity with Asus' shipments. According to "market...
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Last by deinabog at 9:37 AM on 03/11/10 - Zotac Zbox gets a definite price tag, launch schedule
That Zotac Zbox HD-ID11 nettop will be a little more expensive than anticipated. Last week, shortly after Nvidia launched its next-generation Ion graphics processor, we were tipped off that the Zbox's mix of dual-core Atom processing and Ion graphics goodness would set you back $209.99. Well, Zotac now tells...
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