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»VIA EPIA-SN1800 @ ASE Labs

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The EPIA series from VIA has really come a long way since its initial inception years ago. When the series was first released, it was a unique formfactor. The problem is that it was slow and the expandability was not there. Fast forward a few years and the later designs are nothing like what it was. You get speed and expandability in a great size. If Windows is your thing, this board is Vista certified.

»Noctua NF-S12 Fan @ ASE Labs

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Noctua is a new company that promises quiet cooling with good performance. Their first entry into the market is very well built.

»Soyo Topaz S 24\" LCD Monitor @ ASE Labs

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SOYO was established in 1999 at the time when computer hardware was easy to list off in your head. Their Dragon series of motherboards were excellent and many enthusiasts employed their boards for computer builds. Today, SOYO is a vastly different company. Gone are the motherboards but SOYO has reinvented itself and now produces displays. They have a partnership with Honeywell for dual branding. Today, we are looking at the Topaz S 24" LCD Widescreen Monitor.

<a href="http://www.pro-clockers.com/review.php?id=321">VOX V1 750GB eSATA/USB 2.0 External Hard Drive @ Pro-Clockers</a>

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When browsing the shelves of your local B&M you will find there are several different sizes and brands to pick from. Some drives are small enough to fit in the front pocket of your shirt and there are other units that can house numerous drives. These types of unit can be a big as shoe box or two. Depending on your needs someone will have you covered. Besides storage size another major factor would be what brand of drive to buy. Seagate and Maxtor seem to be two of the more popular brands. Personal preference usually is the deciding factor in this case.

<a href="http://www.modders-inc.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story&reid=188">Bgears b-Envi Micro Case @ Modders-Inc</a>

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Bgears has burst onto the case modder/enthusiast scene with some pretty innovative products. With the new b-Envi Small Form Factor (SFF) case, Bgears tosses its hat into the ring and wants to spar with the other manufacturers in a crowded case market for the SFF crowd. Does this case have what it takes to make your friends b-Envious? I think you will find this to be a special case in many ways, so... step on through and learn about one of the best kept secrets in town!

<a href="http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=1227">Gigabyte GA-EX38-DS4 @ Bjorn3D</a>

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Currently, the high-end motherboards are fairly similar her in terms of performance and features. Unlike old motherboards where they differ from each other in terms of overclockability, amount of ports, bundles, and features. Current motherboards seem to be performing so close to each other that often motherboards with same chipsets will have performance less than 5% from each other. In order to differentiate themselves among other boards, motherboard manufactures are starting implement different approaches. Asus is probably the most ambitious with their motherboard bundle and avant-garde chipset cooling and designs. MSI, on the other hand, tries to stands out by incorporate Audigy onboard audio. Gigabyte is doing something slightly different than either Asus or MSI. They have decided to produce greener motherboard with their latest DES motherboard family. In fact, Gigabyte is commented to the greener products as many of their current line-up of products (graphic ! cards and motherboards) are designed to reduce power consumption.

<a href="http://www.tweaktown.com/guides/1305/installing_linux_onto_your_sony_ps3/index.html">Installing Linux onto your Sony PS3</a>

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Linux on Sony hardware has been done before, but not to any great success. Some of you may remember that the PS2 could run a strange version of the open source OS with a bought package that gave you a 40GB HDD, a keyboard and a mouse. However, it did not allow for any functionality of the DVD-ROM because Sony thought you might start using your PS2 to rip off all their games. There was a lot of noise in the beginning of the PS3's marketing-hype-launch that the console would have Linux pre-loaded, but Sony came to their senses when they realized how much more work that was going to be for them. So we are left to figure this one out for ourselves.

<a href="http://www.everythingusb.com/ipevo-trio-usb-speakerphone-14263.html">IPEVO Trio USB Handset Speakerphone Hybrid Review</a>

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One of the most interesting things about the growth of Skype is the development of Skype-specific devices, which are (presumably) meant to ease the shock of talking on the phone using a microphone and some computer speakers instead of a headset, but take away the free aspect of Skype and impose a more organized, made-for-business feeling on the VoIP network. Of course, appearances can be deceiving, so today's task: find out whether or not one particular Skype phone - the IPEVO Trio - makes the tradeoff of more features worth paying extra for your Skype hardware.

<a href="http://www.bcchardware.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5286&Itemid=40>">Sandio 3D O2 Gaming Mouse - Keyboard-less Gaming? - BCCHardware</a>

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* *After finalizing my key bindings for CoD4, it went great. I was actually able to complete the last three quarters of the game using only the mouse on normal difficulty. There were parts of the campaign I knew I could not complete on higher difficulties because of lack of a controller I was used to *cough* keyboard *cough*. For casual play, however, I could relax quite comfortably while playing my favorite game. *

<a href="http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=87&Itemid=1">ZOTAC GeForce 8800 GT 512MB AMP! HDMI Video Card @ BmR</a>

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When you think of discrete graphics, your probably don't think low-end. It's very common, as with most things we can buy, for people to immediately shoot for the stars. In the video card world, this usually means discussing only the best money can buy, and this is the start of a bigger mistake. Very recently NVIDIA released their newest addition to the GeForce family: the 9600 GT. While it offers solid performance for the lower mid-range of discrete graphics, NVIDIA's 9th generation of video cards has only one offering thus far. Essentially, the latest is by far not the greatest.

<a href="http://www.overclockersonline.net/?page=articles&num=1591">News - HIS Radeon HD3870X2 at Overclockers Online</a>

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With a big video card comes a lot of information I suppose and the HD3870X2 is amongst the biggest available at this time. We have learned a lot about this card today and thanks to some immature drivers, there is plenty to learn down the road. Overall though, the experience we had with the HIS HD3870X2 is a rather positive one. ATI has done well with the reference design and HIS stuck to that design to the letter. The performance of the HD3870X2 is quite impressive and as we saw in the benchmarks, pretty much the same as a pair of HD3870s in CrossFire. Performance issues aside, the HD3870X2 looks to be ready to play with the big boys in the GPU market and with future driver updates and game patches, things will only get better.

<a href="http://www.thinkcomputers.org/index.php?x=reviews&id=719>">ASUS P5K64 WS Intel P35 DDR3 Motherboard Review @ ThinkComputers.org</a>

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It's not something that we in the enthusiast world really think about, but there is a market out there for high-end computers that will probably never do any gaming, be overclocked, water cooled, or any other of the cool stuff that geeks do with their rigs. For example, a design engineer might desire a CAD workstation using multiple large screens...as many as six or eight...at high resolution. Anyone designing animation would like such a rig. So, what does someone desiring to build a modern upper-end graphics workstation do? Asus has an answer with the P5K64 WS, a workstation motherboard based on the very successful Intel P35 chipset. Today we will be looking at the P5K64 WS, to see if it has anything that would hold the interest of the enthusiast. Can it satisfy the geek? Read ahead to see.

<a href="http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/1304/are_amd_digging_their_own_grave/index.html">Are AMD Digging Their Own Grave?</a>

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We're all still waiting on an official supporting Crossfire X driver from AMD (said to come in next month's Catalyst 8.3 drivers) which will allow a couple of HD 3870 X2s to be paired up. AMD are going to run into a problem when they release the HD 3870 X2 driver. That problem is that the hype is going to be gone on the card and everyone will be waiting for the 9800 series of cards from NVIDIA.

<a href="http://www.dragonsteelmods.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6366&Itemid=38">Adesso_Cybertablet_6400_6?_x_4?_Graphics_Tablet_Review_@_DragonSteelMods.com</a>

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Graphics Tablet, which is more than just a graphics tablet, the pen has built in mouse buttons so it can act as a mouse, and Adesso included a small travel mouse to be used with the tablet as well so there's no need to carry an additional mouse with you. One of the great things about this product is the price, I honestly expected it to cost much more than it does, coming in at around seventy dollars it is well worth that price and could easily sell for more.I've been using it for a couple weeks now and have come to enjoy what it can do for me to make my life a bit more easier and even enjoyable. It's been a long time since I've used a graphics tablet at all, and I had forgotten just how useful they can be...

<a href="http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=11887">ATI/AMD's Open-Source Plans</a>

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Starting off the X.Org talks at FOSDEM 2008 was AMD's John Bridgman, who has been leading the AMD GPG open-source efforts. John had talked briefly about the history of their open-source efforts for the R500+ series and the evolution of AMD GPU hardware. Among the interesting comments made were that TexturedVideo/X-Video support for the R500/600 may be coming quite soon, DRM and Mesa work forthcoming, open-source multi-GPU CrossFire support is on the road-map, and they will be re-releasing R200 programming documents. The RV620 and RV635 documentation is expected in the near future.

<a href="http://www.dragonsteelmods.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6360&Itemid=38">Super Mini Bluetooth v2.0 + EDR USB Adapter Reviewed @ DragonSteelMods</a>

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Today for review I've got what is probably the world's smallest Bluetooth USB adapter, it's not much bigger than a dime, and that's only because of the USB part of it, the actual Bluetooth chip is a fraction of the overall size. It's called the Super Mini Bluetooth v2.0 + EDR USB Adapter, but don't let it's diminutive size fool you, it's fully loaded, being Bluetooth v2.0with Enhanced Data Rate it allows for longer range and faster file transfers.

<a href="http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=11880">AMD Releases 3D Programming Documentation</a>

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For the past several weeks we have been referencing AMD's tcore in several of our articles, which is a user-space software suite that has been developed and used internally at ATI by engineers to work on various aspects of their binary drivers. Tcore is primarily used for testing prior to the availability of the actual silicon for their forthcoming graphics processors. John Bridgman and Alex Deucher have been working tediously to get this tcore source-code sanitized and cleared for public release, and finally they have reached this milestone. AMD has just published the first bits of open-source 3D programming documentation for ATI GPUs. This 3D programming documentation covers the R500 series and even goes back with information on the R300/400 series as well. The R600 3D programming guide will also be out soon. This information available today is what will foster the growth of open-source R500/600 3D support for the Radeon and RadeonHD drivers as well as R600 2D acceleration.

<a href="http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/1303/sapphire_radeon_hd_3450_and_hd_3650/index.html">Sapphire Radeon HD 3450 and HD 3650</a>

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We sometimes forget that not everyone has the money or the need to use these higher end cards. So that's what we're doing today, we're going to look after the people on the other side of the fence, who don't need big 3DMark numbers or 200FPS in Half Life 2 at 2560 x 1600. Today we'll simply have the two cards together. We won't be comparing them against each other as such, but rather just simply looking at exactly how they perform and how much extra performance a HD 3650 gives you over the HD 3450.

<a href="http://www.3dgameman.com/content/view/11927/103/>">Tuniq Miniplant 950W Power Supply</a>

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Many may not recognize the Tuniq brand name in the North American market but they are planning on changing that. If their recent power supply releases are any indication, they will have no problem making a name for themselves. This product comes with a large 140mm fan so it remains quiet and cool even under load. It's also small so not only would this be great for a server environment, but it would be well suited in a HTPC or a SFF PC.

<a href="http://news.digitaltrends.com/talkback235.html">Will Microsoft + Danger Apple Butt Kicking? @ Digital Trends</a>

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Microsoft's acquisition of Danger could be a game changer. Danger, before the iPhone, was arguably the hottest Smartphone for the young celebrity and under-20 set of teen phone users. This is the company that created the extremely popular SideKick series of phones for T-Mobile (and often used by stars like Paris Hilton, Lindsey Lohan etc). Vastly easier to use than any other previous Smartphone, and actually still better than the iPhone for anything that is text related, the Danger phone only lacked two things: The elegance of the iPhone's hardware, and Steve Jobs to make it as big as the iPhone.

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Lol No I haven't seen it, I'll have to catch it though. lol.

I don't build wimpy stuff.

shower then get my son ready for school.

Idoom
Gameboy

I know. *sighs*

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»PR: Sapphire Releases New Radeon HD Cards

SAPPHIRE HD 3870 goes ATOMIC

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Following the launch of its exciting new gaming portal, http://www.sapphireatomic.com – SAPPHIRE Technology introduces a new limited edition product under the SAPPHIRE ATOMIC brand.

The SAPPHIRE HD 3870 ATOMIC version features an exciting new single slot cooler – the first in the world to feature Vapour Chamber Technology (VCT). This advanced cooler provides more efficient and quieter cooling allowing the ATOMIC edition to ship overclocked out of the box, and to allow enthusiasts even more scope for performance tuning. The single slot design allows the use of multiple cards in the latest CrossFire-X configurations even where PCI-Express slots are sited closely together.

SAPPHIRE HD3870 ATOMIC ships in an exclusive aluminium case, with an unrivalled bundle including CCL UV lamp, HDMI adapter and 3m HDMI cable, Black Box games bundle and a discount voucher ($30 in US, 20 Euros in Europe and £15 in UK) in addition to all the standard cables and software.

The SAPPHIRE HD 3870 ATOMIC has 512MB of high performance GDDR4 memory, clocked at 1200MHz (2.4GHz effective) and the GPU core is pre-overclocked at 825MHz. Supporting the new CrossFireX technology, two high speed connectors on each card allow 2, 3 or even 4 graphics cards to be daisy-chained together for enhanced performance when installed in a CrossFireX mainboard.

Models in the HD 3000 series incorporate the latest ATI Avivo HD Technology for enhanced Video display and feature a built in UVD (Unified Video decoder) for the hardware accelerated decoding of Blu-ray and HD DVD content for both VC-1 and H.264 codecs, considerably reducing CPU loading. The dedicated HDMI adaptor delivers true audio and video output on a single cable for direct connection to an HDMI ready display.

SAPPHIRE HD 3000 series graphics cards are Microsoft Windows Vista Premium certified and supported by the ATI Catalyst® suite of software, ensuring customers have ongoing access to software updates for performance, stability and added features. Support for DirectX10.1 provides developers with access to enhanced programming techniques and new lighting effects.

SAPPHIRE HD 3870 goes TOXIC

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SAPPHIRE Technology has just announced global availability of its exciting new HD 3870 TOXIC edition high performance graphics accelerator.

The SAPPHIRE HD 3870 TOXIC version features the award winning - and SAPPHIRE exclusive -Vapor-X single slot cooler, SAPPHIRE’s implementation of Vapour Chamber Technology (VCT). This advanced cooling solution provides more efficient and quieter cooling allowing the TOXIC edition to ship overclocked out of the box, and to allow enthusiasts even more scope for performance tuning. The single slot design allows the use of multiple cards in the latest CrossFireX configurations even where PCI-Express slots are sited closely together.

The SAPPHIRE HD 3870 TOXIC has 512MB of high performance GDDR4 memory, clocked at 1152MHz (2.3GHz effective) and the GPU core is pre-overclocked at 800MHz. Supporting the new CrossFireX technology, two high speed connectors on each card allow 2 (now) and 3 or even 4 graphics cards (with a future driver release) to be daisy-chained together for enhanced performance when installed in a CrossFireX mainboard.

All SAPPHIRE graphics cards in the HD 3000 series incorporate the latest ATI Avivo HD Technology for enhanced Video display and feature a built in UVD (Unified Video decoder) for the hardware accelerated decoding of Blu-ray and HD DVD content for both VC-1 and H.264 codecs, considerably reducing CPU loading. The dedicated HDMI adaptor delivers true audio and video output on a single cable for direct connection to an HDMI ready display.

SAPPHIRE HD 3000 series graphics cards are Microsoft Windows Vista™ Premium certified and supported by the ATI Catalyst® suite of software, ensuring customers have ongoing access to software updates for performance, stability and added features. Support for DirectX10.1 provides developers with access to enhanced programming techniques and new lighting effects.

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There is a new news item posted at »ASE Labs

»Microsoft Announces Significant Open Source Changes

I heard that Microsoft will be pushing their products toward interoperability in the marketplace. This is probably because they feel the pressure of open source projects that are gaining steam on Microsoft's core products. Most open source projects are also free software. Not only that, but they will pledge not to sue any open source project that hooks into Microsoft's products.

I would like to caution everyone. A pledge doesn't mean squat. Hopefully this will mean that projects such as NTFS-3G and Samba will be a large boost.

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What the fxck? any way i have a gps system but i hardly ever use it but i would liek to try that one day!

BLAH whatever i dont really care! but getting faster and better hard drive space is pretty cool ! ummm aron, CHANGE UR AVATAR! i dont liek you at the moment but when you change it i will start lieking you again mmmkay!i know it an advertisement but we already know!

There is a new article posted at »ASE Labs

»VIA EPIA-SN1800

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The SN model of the EPIA series from VIA is the fastest and most expandable board to date. It takes the ITX lines to a whole new level and even includes PCI Express.

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heh i think i may get that for my computer for i would like it a bit cooler thatn my stock fan can do

Yes I Know What oil is i never herd that Us The united states of America tried to take it from him

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There is a new news item posted at »ASE Labs

»Wed Reviews

»Noctua NF-S12 Fan @ ASE Labs

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Noctua is a new company that promises quiet cooling with good performance. Their first entry into the market is very well built.

»Soyo Topaz S 24\" LCD Monitor @ ASE Labs

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SOYO was established in 1999 at the time when computer hardware was easy to list off in your head. Their Dragon series of motherboards were excellent and many enthusiasts employed their boards for computer builds. Today, SOYO is a vastly different company. Gone are the motherboards but SOYO has reinvented itself and now produces displays. They have a partnership with Honeywell for dual branding. Today, we are looking at the Topaz S 24" LCD Widescreen Monitor.

»ThermalTake SopranoRS 101 Case @ ASE Labs

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Thermaltake is a company that is very well know to the enthusiast computer builder community. They provide many great products including a line of heavy (as in weight) power supplies, modding, cooling, and cases. ThermalTake was founded in 1999 and has really grown every since. They have always put out good looking products and the SopranoRS 101 is no different. Let's take a closer look.

<a href="http://www.xsreviews.co.uk/reviews/gpu-coolers/gigabyte-cyclops/">Gigabyte Cyclops Review - XSReviews</a>

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* Most cooler reviews are of products designed for the latest, greatest and usually hottest GPUs. But what if you have an older system, with a once powerful 6600GT or x800? The fan dies or you want to squeeze a few more MHZ in your OC, where do you turn? Well, Gigabyte of all companies have made the Cyclops, which comes with changeable front covers, RAM sinks and a solid aluminium core. Let's see how our 6600GT feels with it attached.

<a href="http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AData/Sport_Series_S701_2GB">A-DATA Sport S702 2 GB USB Flash Drive @ techPowerUp</a>

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A-Data continues to innovate the USB Flash Drive segment with new and unique designs. The Sport series features a sturdy metal frame with rubber padding, to make it durable for use during outdoor activities. A-Data's Sport S702 will sure go well on any key chain.

<a href="http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=1232">Paragon Hard Disk Manager 2008 Suite @ Bjorn3D</a>

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Paragon Hard Disk Manager 2008 is a program suite from Paragon that promises to make everything around the hard drive easy. It can defrag your hard drives, make it easy to take an image and restore it and even make sure that any data you want removed stays removed. After using it for over a month my personal feeling is that this is a great toolkit for both novice and experienced users. Read on to find out why.

<a href="http://www.thetechlounge.com/article/493/ASUS+P5KE+WiFiAP+Motherboard/">ASUS P5K-E WiFi-AP Motherboard Review @ TheTechLounge</a>

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You wouldn't know by looking, but Intel's a little new at the chipset business. It's not that they haven't been doing it for decades, but just that they've never made a business out of it. Until recently. Intel's 975X did well; i965 blew doors off hinges. And, though it's a little long in the technospheric tooth, i965's footprint is almost too big to fill. Without presuming that its successor, P35, is shiny and better, I've tested what looks like a crowd-pleaser: Asus' P5K-E WiFi- AP. For less than $150, it's priced right where everyone can reach it, and comes with the right amount of flash to nab attention from the rest.

<a href="http://www.burnoutpc.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=279<http://www.burnoutpc.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=276">Razer Diamondback 3G Reviewed at BurnOutPC.com</a>

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If I say Razer, immediately everyone says, Boomslang! The mouse that was superior compared to other gaming mice. Razer's motto is, for gamers, by gamers. They design their products in cooperation with pro gamers and everyone at Razer are actually gamers as well. It's nice to see that their philosophy is a way of life carried into their products as well. What we are looking at today is their latest mouse, apart from the recently launched special edition boomslang. It's the Razer Diamondback 3g Gaming mouse.

<a href="http://www.ocia.net/reviews/adata800ee/page1.shtml">A-Data Vitesta DDR2-800+ Extreme Edition Memory</a>

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While the relatively new line of Extreme Edition memory products by = A-Data still carry the Vitesta model name, the EE modules offer very = aggressive timings, more comparable to other manufacturers of high-end = performance memory. It is one of these sets of memory sticks I will be = taking a look at today, the ADQVD1A16K 2x1GB PC2 6400 Extreme Edition = DDR2-800+ Dual Channel Memory Kit.

<a href="http://www.madshrimps.be/gotoartik.php?articID=676">DFI Lanparty LT X38-T2R S775 Motherboard Review @ Madshrimps</a>

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We take a look at the newest DFI Intel motherboard, based on the X38 chipset, the successor of the high end version of the P35. Can DFI work their magic and produce a tweakers dream X38 board? We find out.

<a href="http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/HIS/HD_3850_IceQ3">HIS Radeon HD 3850 IceQ3 TurboX 512 MB @ techPowerUp</a>

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The HIS Radeon HD 3850 IceQ3 comes with a high end dual slot cooler, 512 MB of fast GDDR3 memory and increased clocks at a price tag of $199. This winning combination gets very close in performance to the much more expensive HD 3870 and can even surpass it when overclocked.

<a href="http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/1294/msi_radeon_hd_3870_512mb_oc/index.html">MSI Radeon HD 3870 512MB OC</a>

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After looking at the new 9600GT just the other day, it became clear to us that the HD 3870 really does still have some life in it. It's not dying off anytime soon thanks to the aggressive pricing that has been implemented recently. It did get us thinking though; with an MSI HD 3870 OC sitting around doing nothing, it was time to see what would happen when we put overclocked part up against overclocked part. It's really going to come down to how well the HD 3870 is able to make use of the increased clock speeds that MSI have offered.

<a href="http://legitreviews.com/article/665/1/">Altec Lansing UHP336 In-Ear Earphones @ Legit Reviews</a>

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Quote: Altec Lansing's SnugFit design does indeed provide great noise isolation to the user. As we used our various MP3 players from Apple and Cowon, we found the UHP336 to be one of the better headsets we have had in our ear. For me personally, I wanted better base response for the headphones and was annoyed by the amount of adjustment I had to keep making to hold the headphones in the sweet spot of my ear canal. This is most likely due to the weight of the headphone and cord...

<a href="http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=1225">HighPoint RocketRAID 3120 @ Bjorn3D</a>

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Another reason to use expansion cards rather than onboard SATA controller would be free up the resource for other uses. In addition, SATA expansion cards often offer extra features and have wider support for multiple operating systems that are not found with onboard SATA controller. All of current motherboards will only work with Windows and/or Linux but not Mac due to the fact that Mac operating system usually comes with pre-designed components unlike PC counterparts. Despite the fact that the underlying hardware and chipset maybe same, the drivers are simply not there for a Mac system to use PC components (of course you can always use boot camp or the hacked operating system but that is not truly running under Mac OS). This is where the expansion cards can be useful.

<a href="http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/EVGA/GeForce_8800_GS">EVGA e-GeForce 8800 GS 384 MB @ techPowerUp</a>

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Even though the EVGA e-GeForce 8800 GS comes with just 96 shaders and 12 ROPs it can easily compete with AMD HD3850 and HD3870. The card offers great price/performance and is very very quiet. With up to 30% overclocking this card is every overclocker's dream being able to surpass the much more expensive 8800 GT when overclocked.

<a href="http://news.digitaltrends.com/talkback234.html">Why Blu-ray Won the War @ Digital Trends</a>

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As we went into the 4th quarter of 07, Toshiba and the HD DVD camp was certain they had this wrapped up. Their player prices were well below the Blu-Ray offerings, they had picked up several new studios and Sony's PS3 was looking more like an anchor on Sony's future than a help to Blu-Ray. In addition, they seemed to believe that Time Warner was going to go exclusively HD DVD shortly after the end of the year and had planned a massive announcement with Microsoft for CES.

<a href="http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=80&Itemid=1">Gigabyte GA-X48T-DQ6 DES X48 DDR3 Motherboard @ BmR</a>

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Motherboards are at the heart of every computer, and their importance is central to stable system operation. No matter if you are a low-demand office worker who plugs away on letters or spreadsheets or if you are a high-performance hardware enthusiast who demands extreme framerates from your video games, one component alone will determine your ability: the motherboard. Because everything rides on the system mainboard, it must be based on a solid and dependable foundation. Gigabyte isn't a new name to the industry, and for years now they have offered some of the most reliable and stable motherboard sold. In fact, over the past year there really only seemed to be two realistic options for motherboard manufacturer's when you shopped for new hardware; and Gigabyte was one of them. In this article Benchmark Reviews challenges our reigning champion against the Gigabyte GA-X48T-DQ6 Ultra Durable 2 DES motherboard.

<a href="http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=1233&pageID=4467">GIGABYTE 8800GT TURBOFORCE @ Bjorn3D</a>

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Speaking of temperatures, the Zalman GPU after-market cooler on the 8800GT TurboForce is a godsend and certainly keeps the temperatures in the lowest range we've again seen on any stock 8800 series card. It averages 10 degrees Celsius cooler than any other card we've tested in this performance range. Even when this card was overclocked to a gargantuan level we only experienced a load temperature of 52 degrees Celsius, which is amazing!

<a href="http://www.viperlair.com/reviews/cpu_mobo/msi/amd/am2/k9a2p/">MSI K9A2 Platinum AMD 790FX Motherboard @ Viper Lair</a>

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Going back to performance, at stock speeds, the K9A2 Platinum performed very well with the Phenom 9600 Black, despite the TLB issue which never affected us. The 790FX platform as a whole is quite solid and shows a lot of promise. Provided you're planning to stay closely within specifications, we think the MSI K9A2 Platinum AMD 790FX motherboard is a solid and reliable platform but the overclocking results surely vary depending on the processor you have.

<a href="http://www.thinkcomputers.org/index.php?x=reviews&id=714">Aeneon Xtune DDR3-1333 2GB Memory Kit Review @ ThinkComputers.org</a>

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Though the memory manufacturers are still designing and building new DDR2 memory modules, DDR3 memory is here and being used. There are plenty of motherboards out there that utilize DDR3 memory, and new modules are being introduced monthly. No, you have probably not yet heard of Aeneon. Aeneon is a division of a German company Qimonda, the world's third largest manufacturer of DRAM, part of Infineon Technologies AG. So, there is really nothing new about Aeneon but the name.

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omg who took that picture, SCARY, well I guess that's all u can expect from the MUFFINS?!

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Noctua is a new company that promises quiet cooling with good performance. Their first entry into the market is very well built.

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»Rocky Planets Are Common

I'd file this in the no-duh department if we had one. <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7249884.stm">Scientists say that there are more rocky planets than we previously thought</a>. The universe is vast. I bet there are more of everything than we thought possible.

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"Our observations suggest that between 20% and 60% of Sun-like stars have evidence for the formation of rocky planets not unlike the processes we think led to planet Earth," he said. "That is very exciting." Mr Meyer's team used the US space agency's Spitzer space telescope to look at groups of stars with masses similar to the Sun. They detected discs of cosmic dust around stars in some of the youngest groups surveyed. The dust is believed to be a by-product of rocky debris colliding and merging to form planets. Nasa's Kepler mission to search for Earth-sized and smaller planets, due to be launched next year, is expected to reveal more clues about these distant undiscovered worlds.

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Lol. Haha.

But anyways, great poem.

I hate valentines day too, but hey I got flowers this year. lol.

That's tough, Raje. It's sweet you'd do that for your sis.

it looked like crap in the commercials

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