Faulty BIOS in some Sapphire HD 5770 cards disables 80 shaders
A BIOS glitch in Sapphire HD 5770 Vapor-X cards seems to be responsible disabling 80 shaders, dropping their number to a total 720, which is what you get on an HD 5750.
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Intel rubbishes NVIDIA ION graphics for netbooks
Intel and NVIDIA look set to continue their spat concerning the hardware that powers netbooks. It can be argued that Intel provided the fundamental stimulus for netbook growth when it released the Atom chip in 2008. Custom-designed for low power and small mobile form factors, the chip has been taken up by almost everyone. The chip giant then recently launched the second-generation Atom, complete with integrated graphics and, consequently, lower platform-wide power-draw.
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Asus' Eee Pad will feature Tegra
There have been many few rumors regarding Asus Eee Pad for some time, but the last one is pretty interesting as Asus apparently decided to go for Nvidia's Tegra on this one, and most likely a second generation of it considering its March 2010 release schedule.
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Intel SSDs Cooler Than Facebook or Twitter
According to the December print edition of PC World magazine, the Intel X25-M SSD ranked No. 3 in the PC World Top 100 Best Products of 2009, ahead of both Facebook and Twitter. According to the publication, "This model's speedy test results put it at the top of our chart; its price and performance make it a compelling flash upgrade for notebook or desktop users."
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Hulu adds music from Warner Music
Warner Music Group announced a deal with online video service Hulu to offer music videos, artist interviews and concerts from Atlantic Records, Rhino Records and Warner Bros. Records. This follows a deal with EMI, which brought that label's content to the service last month.
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New Lenovo Pine Trail netbooks with multi-touch
An upcoming netbook from Lenovo, featuring multi-touch capability and Intel's new Pine Trail platform, has been spotted undergoing FCC testing. The IdeaPad S10-3t is expected to be shown off officially at CES early next month, and other preliminary specs point to a 10.1-inch multi-touch screen that can rotate for tablet use along with integrated Wi-Fi, 3G and GPS.
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New Intel SSDs are codenamed Lyndonville
Intel's desktop division plans many new SSD drives for Q4 2010 and one of them will bring new X-25 E drives codenamed Lyndonville. These drives are supposed to replace X25-E 32GB and 64GB that are currently among the fastest drives around, but in Q4 2010 these drives will get a significant capacity boost.
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Intel Clarkdale GPU surpases NVIDIA and ATI in 3DMark
According to some early chinese reviews, Intel G6950 GPU integrated into the new Clarkdale processors beats both NVidia's GeForce 210 (similar to 9400GT) and AMD's Radeon HD 4350 in 3DMark Vantage!
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Intel announces Pentium E5500
Intel announces yet another Pentium dual-core CPU and this time it plans to name it E5500. The previous Pentium dual-core E5400 was clocked at 2.7GHz, and the new E5500 works only 100MHz faster.
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