Sunday, October 11, 2009

IT News HeadLines (PC Perspective) 10/11/2009


PC Perspective
AMD Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity Performance Testing
After my review of the AMD Radeon HD 5870 graphics card last month that featured a heavy dose of information and videos about AMD's new Eyefinity technology, the one single request I have received the most is for performance results using these games and a multi-monitor configuration. Well I decided to spend some time this week doing just that, so check out our results!...
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It's Leif Erikson Day! Please note that normal Viking activities are still frowned upon
This week has been about nVIDIA, but not in the way they might want. From the predictions of nVIDIA's complete withdrawal from the high end market by an infamous member of the tech community to the article which sparked an unprecedentedly huge amount of links or similar stories appearing on tech sites. That isn't even including their interestin...
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They sound better than they look
If you are in the market for a set of full headphones, the Sennheiser HD 438 are worth a look at $89. Even if you tend to move around a bit the 10' cable should keep you happy and the quality of sound impressed Digital Trends. Unfortunately, the build quality of the headsets leaves a bit to be desired, they are fairly fragile and they are not exa...
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AMD and CyberLink Acclerate Applications with DirectX11 and ATI Stream
Sunnyvale, Calif. - Oct. 8, 2009 - AMD (NYSE: AMD) and CyberLink Corp announced the companies are expanding their existing engineering engagement with a strategic focus on Microsoft DirectX 11 DirectCompute, taking advantage of the capabilities of AMD's new DirectX 11-capable graphics architecture. The companies will work together to acce...
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Verbatim's second shot at the DVR
The Verbatim MediaStation HD DVR is an all in one digital video recorder, with many input and output ports, including antennae. It is not quite able to produce 1080p, but 1080i is certainly a step up from SD. The model that InsideHW tested had a 1TB drive, though it is possible to downgrade to a 500GB disk if you need. In the end they were a li...
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Some things old and some new; OCZ may have a power supply for you
The new OCZ Z Series Z850Mis an 850W PSU that holds on to some of PC Power & Cooling's original specs and adds some new features as well. The single 12V rail remains, this one delivering 850W or 71A maximum; what is new is the modular cabling and the 80+ Gold rating. [H]ard|OCP tested this middle weight PSU and in the end declared it to be th...
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AMD tells about its horoscope
Abandoning the river theme, AMD seems to be looking to the stars to see its future platforms, Dragon being replaced with Leo next year and Scorpius to follow in 2011. Scorpius will feature a 32nm Zambezi CPU sporting four cores at the very least, along with an integrated DDR3 controller and fit into a Revision 2 AM3 socket, just to make CPU sock...
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Extreme Overclocking site down?
Hello - I have tried for the last two days to get to the extreme overclocking site to look at our production. However, it appears to be...
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What's going on with my 790i???
Not sure why, but I get random freezes with games. Sometimes it works for a while (6-8hours) and sometimes it doesnt work long at all 10-20seconds. I...
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Win7 Gpu Folders please read.
Been using the 64bit RC of Win7 on one rig for a little while, and after swapping Gpu cards around I noticed the primary card was always slower than...
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GeForce 8400GS
Hi.. I buy new GaindWard 8400GS... To replace Old Radeon 9550 Radeon 9550: 128mb Mem. DDR Mem. 8400GS 512mb Mem. DDR2 mem. ----------
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Show off your setups
http://www.wolvenmoon.com/sharedfiles/pano.jpg (56K beware, 6.1 MB) Programs used: the GIMP and autostitch demo...
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Thermaltake 650 watt Psu
IT IS 750 WATTS messed up on title I am selling a Thermaltake 750 watt Modular 80 PLUS Certified power supply with an Efficiency rating of...
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8gb ddr2 ram for sell
Selling 8gb of Corsair 800mhz ram 4 2gb sticks $150.00
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Simultaneously burning two DVDs on external drives...
For work I need to burn two copies at the end of the day. Because they're comprised of 500+ 4mb photos, it takes quite awhile even on my external...
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Cloned desktop SCALING resets after everytime i restart
I have cloned my desktop onto my LCD tv and my monitor. Both 1080p. But everytime i restart, the scaling values reset. Any idea how to resolve and...
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Vista task manager gone.
Wife got some virus's from limewire. Ran windows defender or whatever the free microsoft antivirus is called and it got rid of everything. But now...
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AMD Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity Performance Testing
http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=793 Thought I would make sure you guys knew I had posted this. :)
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Thinkpad T30 stopped detecting the HDD...
Hi, I couldn't solve this on my own, and asked some others for help. Since this is such an old laptop, the pc guy whom I asked said that at the...
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Hard drive issue
Somewhat recently I picked up a new hard drive for use as a backup in my system. Now when I boot up my PC it seems to roll a dice and the BIOS will...
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FT/FS ASUS K8V SE Deluxe MB w/CPU
Socket 754 w/Athlon 64 3200 W/stock fan & heatsink & SPIDF & Firewire standoffs & I/O shield.I have 2 of these and would be willing to trade for a...
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