Saturday, November 7, 2009

IT News HeadLines (PC Perspective) 07/11/2009


PC Perspective
Deformed triangles are easy on the eyes
Tessellation is the killer app of DX11, making the jump from DX10 much more impressive than the jump from DX9 to DX10. There is a bit of bad news for HD5xxx owners out there which is the performance hit that comes from the breaking up of large triangles into dozens of tiny ones. In [H]ard|OCP's testing of the Unigine Heaven benchmark they saw a d...
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RAID on the move
The AXUS FiT 500 RAID box can hold up to 5 drives and allow you to set up a variety of different RAID configurations depending on your needs. It can be attached via either USB 2.0 or eSATA, choosing eSATA will help your transfer rates significantly, to the point where it almost equals an internal connection. Whether you are considering an externa...
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Low power and high OC potential from the P55
Sitting in the middle of ASUS' P55 line of boards is the $220 P7P55D Deluxe, still sporting most of the new features such as Express Gate, instant-on OS, BIOS OC profiles, and heat-pipe cooling for the hotter components on the board. You will also find 9 SATA 3Gbps ports, although ASUS decided to place 3 completely different controllers on the boa...
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PhysX for less
Switching to 40nm doesn't seem like the best of ideas right now, the supply problems are well known but it is a very important step for nVIDIA as they need to continue to evolve. Their new release takes a page from AMD's recent launch behaviour, they are leading with the low end first. The GeForce GT220 has a 720MHz GPU, 1GB of 1600MHz DDR3 and a...
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Exit the Dragon?
AMD is all about the platform right now; the synergy created between utilizing an AMD CPU, GPU and chipset to allow graphical megatasking. The new VISION platform will come in four different flavours ranging from Basic up to Black offering more features as you move up from the Basic version. Most of the features have to do with HD video encoding ...
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Motherboard P5e won't POST
Hi http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?t=450879 I have got ASUS Motherborad P5e,,,,yesterday it did POST today it did not work. I can see SB...
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Bare-metal restore in home True Image
Acronis have just released add-on for Home True Image named Plus Pack which includes enterprise features - well, yes, it costs money, but as for me -...
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DVI to VGA Adapter Issue(s)
Wasn't sure where to post this but here goes..... I have an Asus M3A78-CM mobo who's DVI plug is different from my DVI to VGA (D15)...
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Firefox 3.5.5 Released
Firefox 3.5.5 (http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/personal.html) released.
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Installed codec pack media center still won't play any files
I installed klite codec pack and tried playing an avi file in my media player but the media player still gives the codec error. Any idea what could...
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Win7: Can't disconnect projector, screen is garbled
Running Windows 7 Ultimate. I wanted to connect my laptop to an external monitor so I pressed "Windows key + X", then clicked "connect display", then...
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New 5800 System
I really want to try out the new ATI 5800 series of cards but wonder if I am jumping the gun a little bit, but I have seem several posts indicating a...
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Firefox addon to play related youtube videos
I've been trying to find one the last 2 days. The only one I could find was incompatible with Firefox 3.5. I just want something to automatically...
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AMD Next STep?? "Revised" X4 965 Black Edition @ 3.4GHz
With the HDZ965FBK4DGM (“M” indicates new revision) it seems AMD has lowered the TDP to 125W and with a new mem controller is now...
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WHS: WHS Connector on Win 7
Ok so I have several computers on the network that are using win 7. My WHS server has the addin lights out installed, so it can sleep when no one is...
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wtt/fs samsung 19in LCD
I have a samsung LCD 19 inch LCD monitor that I would like to sell or trade. $80 shipped What I'd like to trade for: 1tb or larger hard drive...
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Raid-1
Just bought two Seagate drives and trying to set them up in RAID-1, I've never set up a RAID before and I can't figure out how to set it up with...
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Google Dashboard
Find out how much data you have on everything Google https://www.google.com/dashboard/
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My REVAMPED budget system.. Help me choose a motherboard.
This what I have so far for my budget system. I already placed an order for something else , and I had to cancel it. What should I change or revise I...
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