Friday, February 20, 2009

IT News HeadLines (HARDSPELL) 20/02/2009


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AMD puts on the ritz with six-core Opteron demo
With Intels Nehalem-based Xeons gathering like a storm on the horizon, AMD today gave the first working demonstration of its potential counterpunch: a six-core Opteron processor code-named "Istan
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Asus readies GeForce GTX 285 Ultimate
While not yet playing the watercooling card like several of its rivals, Asus is still preparing new GeForce models, and one of them is the GeForce GTX 285 Ultimate. Making use of Nvidias reference des
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AMDs High-Performance Graphics Update Not Expected to Radically Boost Performance – Sources.
Despite of rumours floating around the Internet, ATIs (graphics products group of Advanced Micro Devices) approaching update for the high-performance graphics segment will not bring in considerable pe
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Asus intros Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2
MIGHTY ASUS has come forward with a mighty laptop design indeed. The W90VP is an 18.4-inch Full HD laptop, the first to feature a Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 graphics card, and will target seriously de
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Foxconn Flaming Blade affordable X58 board pictured
Even after making the BloodRAGE and BloodRAGE GTI it seems Foxconn just cant get enough of the X58 chipset so it made yet another Quantum Force series X58 board. Pictured below, the Flaming Blade aims
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Lenovo leering at Ion
Those of you who are sitting around waiting for a portable based on NVIDIAs Ion platform can cheer up a bit. About a week we told you about how Microsoft had given Ion its "seal of approval"
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MSI to release GTX 260 with 1792MB of memory
The guys over at Matbe have received information from MSI about a new Geforce GTX 260 they are developing. The new GTX 260 flavor will feature double the amount of GDDR3 memory chips found in current
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$170 Phenom X3 720 goes to 4.2GHz on air
The guys at Xtremesystems forum have managed to overclock the $140 three-core AMD Phenom X3 720 all the way to 4.2GHz. They even got the CPU-Z 3.0 validator to second the score.The guys used Gigabytes
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Nvidia doesnt plan a price war
ATI might ignite the price war as Nvidia has a better offer in high end, but as far as Nvidia is concerned, it doesnt plan to start any price wars.Nvidia is more in the renaming business these days, a
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Nvidia graphics sales dropped 47 percent
Compared to Q3 2009, Nvidia really took a big hit in sales. You can almost say that sales in the fiscal fourth quarter, the period from November until January 31st for Nvidia, have halved. Graphics sa
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WD launches 2TB MyBook external drive
Western Digital has launched a new series of external storage units, based on its latest Caviar Green HDDs and dubbed My Book World Edition.Design-wise, the new MyBooks closely resemble previous serie
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AMD Mobility Radeon 4870 X2 Coming Soon
As AMDs flagship product, Radeon HD 4870 X2 is going to be used on mobile devices soon. Asus will adopt Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 on its gaming notebook W90, according to TechPowerUp.A North American
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