Seagate was still top dog last quarter
Western Digital hard drives have been particularly attractive for a good, long while now, offering better performance and lower noise levels in many instances, not to mention longer warranties in the Caviar Black product line. However, according to the latest figures by iSuppli, Seagate maintained its position as the...
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JPR: Enthusiast gaming PC hardware is a $9.5 billion market
Top-of-the-line gaming PC components are a big business, according to a new report by Jon Peddie Research. The market analysis firm says that, out of all the money spent on "gaming motivated PC hardware" in 2009, a whopping 46% of it went toward so-called enthusiast parts. In this case,...
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China retaliates, blocks some Google searches
On Monday, Google shut down its censored Chinese website and began redirecting users in the People's Republic to uncensored results from its Hong Kong portal. And as one might expect, the Chinese government didn't just take it on the chin. According to the Associated Press, China hasn't simply blacklisted Google...
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First Left 4 Dead 2 add-on to bring new game modes
Valve is far from done refining its zombie-killing experience. The company has outed a few additional details about the upcoming Left 4 Dead 2 downloadable add-on The Passing, and it says players can look forward to more than one new game mode. (Yes, the studio made a point to...
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Future Phenom II X4 could have unlockable cores
Silicon Madness has gotten some dirt on future Phenom II X4 940T and 960T offerings from AMD. Those CPUs will reportedly be based on the same Thuban design as six-core Phenom II X6 models, but with two cores disabled—unless users go poking around, that is. On the specifications side of...
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Intel may have two unlocked CPUs in the works
Remember that Core i7-875K we wrote about yesterday? Well, it might not be the only processor with an unlocked upper multiplier up Intel's sleeve. A member of the XFastest forums has posted a product list that includes both the Core i7-875K and another "K" model, the Core i3-655K. If...
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