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Nokia C6 and C7 Touchscreen Phones Have 8MP Camera and New ClearBlack Displays
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CCleaner 2.21.940
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Sign Up Now to Test Google Wave in September
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ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series Is First to Support DirectX 11, Drive 180 Inches of Monitors
Posted by AceNik on Sep 24, 2009•
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Do you remember that crazy, 6×30-inch monitor rig by AMD? Well their upcoming ATI Radeon HD 5800 series graphics cards are what drive the uber display.
The two new cards, the ATI Radeon HD 5870 and the ATI Radeon HD 5850, are the first video cards in the industry to fully support DirectX 11. Beyond that tidbit, they’re capable of producing 2.72 TeraFLOPS of computing power and are equipped with 1GB GDDR5 memory.(…)
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Dell Brings Intel Core i7 Power to Studio and Alienware Laptops and Desktops
Posted by AceNik on Sep 24, 2009• Email This Post | |
Intel’s Core i7 processor kicks ass, as we already know. Dell (and its adopted sub-brand, Alienware) is busting out a new line of laptops and desktops to take advantage of the power and capabilities of the i7.
These aren’t major revisions to the Studio 15, Studio(…)
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Factory-Overclocked ATI Radeon HD 4890 Is First 1GHz Graphics Card
Posted by AceNik on May 27, 2009• Email This Post | |
At 1GHz, the ATI Radeon HD 4890 is the fastest-clocked graphics card in the planet—a world’s first. It’s not a new chip, however, just a “factory-overclocked” air-cooled 4890 that looks like a Ferrari.
So that’s a bit of a cheat: In theory, you can buy the(…)
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