Dr Pepper/EA Games Every Bottle/Cup Wins Promotion
EA and Dr. Pepper have teamed up to provide downloadable content for consumers who are Peppers, too. Buy one of the specially marked 20 oz., 16 oz. and 14 oz. bottles or 32 oz. fountain cups of Dr Pepper®, Dr Pepper Cherry, Diet Dr Pepper and Diet Dr Pepper Cherry for the game code and redeem for...
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Single-core Athlon II Neo Gets Some Love from Gateway
Gateway's latest netbook features both an AMD processor and integrated graphics. The rest of the specs appear to be standard fare for this class of computer. You know that $550, AMD-powered Acer ultraportable we talked about (http://www.techreport.com/discussions.x/19175) last month? Acer...
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G.SKILL Launches 24GB DDR3-2000 Kit
Now we will see exactly which motherboards advertising a 24GB maximum memory limit can actually perform as promised. *Super size your system with a super sized memory kit!* Taipei, Taiwanー7th July 2010ーG.Skill International Co. Ltd., manufacturer of extreme performance memory and...
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Xf86-video-ati 6.13.1 Open-source Driver Released
As the first stable open-source ATI X.Org driver update since the release of xf86-video-ati 6.13.0 (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODEyNQ) back in April, David Airlie has today announced the immediate release of xf86-video-ati 6.13.1. This new driver update while a stable point...
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Blizzard Forums to Require Real Names
Blizzard has unleashed a hurricane of Internet rage by announcing that it will require users to post under their real names on its forums, in a move intended to create a more "positive," "constructive" community. The change, announced on the Battle.net forum...
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Mozilla Overhauls UI for Firefox 4 Beta
First preview debuts browser's new Windows look; expect updates every 2 to 3 weeks. Mozilla on Tuesday released the first beta of Firefox 4, a major upgrade expected later this year that features a revamped interface, support for a wide range of Web technologies and performance...
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Kin's Death May Signal Mobile Morbidity at Microsoft
I wonder if the writer of this article got a chuckle out of the phrase "mobile morbidity at Microsoft." :p Computerworld - As post-mortems of the untimely death of Microsoft's Kin (http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9178767/Update_Microsoft_kills_the_Kin) mobile phones continue to be written,...
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PhysX - Intentionally Slow on CPUs? RealWorldTech Investigates.
RealWorldTech has taken a look at PhysX technology and analyzed the CPU performance using Intel's VTune profiler. As we all know, NVIDIA's acquisition of PhysX technologies enabled them to port it to be GPU-accelerated, providing the massively parallel processing power of their GPU's to be put to...
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BFG Tech Down for the Count?
Good riddance? We reported to you first on May 18th that BFG Tech was leaving the graphics market (http://www.hardocp.com/news/2010/05/18/bfgtech_exits_graphics). At that time we were told: "We will continue to provide our award-winning power supplies and gaming systems, and are working on...
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AMD Athlon-II X4 640 Processor Review @ Benchmark Reviews
The Athlon-II series is built to be a less expensive alternative, while still offering a lot of great features. The chips are designed without any L3 cache at all, allowing for those lower prices. Many computer enthusiasts, myself included, often wait a long time after the purchase of a computer...
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NVIDIA 3D Vision and Blu-Ray 3D with PowerDVD 10 @ HardwareHeaven
Back in late 2006 Cyberlink released updates to PowerDVD which added support for HD-DVD and Blu-Ray playback, the last major functionality change to the software. Since then there have been various new releases with refinements and enhancements that have improved the user experience. From enhanced...
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Asus ENGTX465 (GTX-465) Voltage Tweak Edition @ Bjorn3D
With the introduction of the GF100 core (Fermi) we've been seeing cut down variants appearing slowly. First we saw the mighty GTX-480 and were a little set back when instead of 512 Shaders (Cuda Cores) we were told it had 512 Shaders but only 480 were exposed. Then we saw the GTX-470 Variant and it...
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Alan Wake Has a US Sales Nightmare
Number crunching firm NPD has revealed that Alan Wake sold just 145,000 units during the month of May in the US. The heavily marketed Xbox 360 exclusive finished eighth overall on the software chart. The game had been on sale for exactly two weeks when the numbers were collected. Split/Second:...
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Rumor: Athlon II X4 645 Coming in Q3 2010
3.1GHz with a 95W TDP. AMD's Propus is about to get another, faster iteration. In reality, Propus is a CPU derived from Deneb with no L3 cache, 2MB total L2 cache, or 512 for each core. The CPU is a quad core, supports DDR3 1333 and comes in AM3 package. The currently fastest Propus is Athlon II...
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