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  1. Rob Williams

    VoodooPC Confirms Integration into HP

    From our front-page news: Towards the middle of last month, we posted about a rumor that VoodooPC as we knew it was shutting down, but found out later that not all of our facts were spot on. Though, it was quickly evident that changes were being made that would drastically effect how the company...
  2. Rob Williams

    Going Higher than 1.65v DIMM on X58 Can Damage CPU?

    From our front-page news: We've talked a bit about memory on Nehalem, but it appears there's a few big caveats regarding overclocking we didn't know about. At the Intel Developer Forum in August, we learned that the skies the limit when it comes to memory overclocking, and I was told directly...
  3. Rob Williams

    AMD's 45nm Opteron's to Launch this Month?

    From our front-page news: We found out just a month ago that AMD would be launching their 45nm desktop Quad-Cores in January (it could be even earlier), and today we learn that on the Opteron side of things, we'll be seeing product a lot sooner - as early as this month. The first processors...
  4. Rob Williams

    Nintendo Announces Upgraded DS, Features Online Store and Camera

    From our front-page news: It's been rumored for quite a while that a brand-new Nintendo DS revision was en route, and sure enough, that rumor has now been confirmed. The 'DSi' becomes the third revision of the popular handheld console, with the first being released in late 2004 and the second...
  5. Rob Williams

    Audioengine AW1 Wireless Audio System

    Does your living arrangement make it impossible to locate your PC near your preferred space for audio listening? Audioengine's AW1 wireless audio system could be your solution, but does it improve upon the traditionally lacking audio quality of previous wireless systems? You can read Rory's...
  6. Rob Williams

    Apple to Close iTunes if Royalty Increase Passes?

    From our front-page news: Some rather shocking headlines have been making the rounds this morning, from who else but Apple. By this point, I'm sure many are aware that the record industry is chalk-full of the greediest people on earth, and as a result, the consumer and retailers have been...
  7. Rob Williams

    Google Brings Back Their 2001 Index

    From our front-page news: As hard as it might be to believe today, the Internet hasn't been around all that long (~13 years in full force) and Google has been around even less - only since 1998. To help celebrate their tenth anniversary, the company has been offering many cool features on the...
  8. Rob Williams

    GIMP 2.6 Released - One Step Closer to a True Photoshop Replacement

    From our front-page news: It's been less than six months since we've seen the launch of GIMP 2.5, but 2.6 is here and becomes one of the biggest upgrades the software has seen in quite some time. The most-common complaint about GIMP (besides the name) is that it's not a competent...
  9. Rob Williams

    NewEgg's Canadian Counterpart Launched

    From our front-page news: If you happen to be a computer enthusiast who lives in Canada, you are probably well aware that purchasing equipment isn't the easiest of processes. The absolute first e-tailer I ever learned of was NCIX, and since then, I've used them for most of my PC equipment, but...
  10. Rob Williams

    Corsair Releases 64GB Voyager Flash Drive

    From our front-page news: Just earlier, I posted about storage in hard drives, and how today, you get so much for so little. Well, the same goes for portable storage, and in the case of Corsair's latest Voyager flash drive, that fact couldn't be any more true. The new model features a staggering...
  11. Rob Williams

    NVIDIA at a Disadvantage Due to their Choice of Solder?

    From our front-page news: NVIDIA hasn't been having the best of news to pass around lately, and it sure doesn't look like that run is going to end anytime soon. New reports out of the Electronic Thin Film lab of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California...
  12. Rob Williams

    Seagate's 1.5TB Hard Drive Now In Stock

    From our front-page news: Although Seagate announced their 1.5TB hard drive well over two months ago, it took quite a while before the model began to show up in retailers. That has apparently changed recently though, as NewEgg and a few others now have the monster hard drives in stock. At...
  13. Rob Williams

    Two Monitors Are Better Than One

    From our front-page news: I've heard from what must be a hundred different people that adding a second monitor to your setup can increase your productivity two-fold, although I'm still not sold. Now, if you had two sets of hands, then I could see how that would be the life. But as Kim Komando of...
  14. Rob Williams

    Fourteen Best Linux Distros

    From our front-page news: Alright, I've been posting a lot of Linux-related news lately, but it's hard not to. There have been so many good articles lately, that I'd feel like I'm doing a disservice by not posting them. Last week, I linked to Lifehacker, who posted a good article on choosing...
  15. Rob Williams

    Diamond Says 188 Cards Faulty, Not Thousands

    From our front-page news: Last Wednesday, I posted a story regarding thousands of Diamond Multimedia ATI cards that might be defective, and since then, there has been many updates. The day after that news was posted, TG Daily followed-up their coverage by relaying the message from Diamond that...
  16. Rob Williams

    Intel Desktop Board DG45ID

    We're taking a look at Intel's first attempt at a full-featured media center motherboard, the DG45ID. It's also our first look at their new G45 Express chipset, which promises to finally bring DX 10 support and hardware-accelerated HD video playback to their integrated graphics offerings. Can...
  17. Rob Williams

    NVIDIA Set to Rename Current GPUs

    From our front-page news: Back in May, it became known that NVIDIA had plans to do something with their lineup's naming scheme... something to take out the complication for end-users. After all, enthusiasts like you who visit this site know the difference between a 9800 GTX and 9800 PRO, but the...
  18. Rob Williams

    Fedora, openSUSE, Ubuntu - Which is Right For You?

    From our front-page news: If you are a frequent reader of our news (I'll assume you are), you are no doubt aware that I'm a Linux user, and a happy one at that. I'm not the type to discredit all other OS' out there though, because even I have a dedicated Windows' machine that I use for Adobe...
  19. Rob Williams

    Intel's Nehalem to Launch Week of November 9th?

    From our front-page news: According to a few sources close to Fudzilla, Intel's first Nehalem processors will be launching in week 46, which equates to the week of November 9th. Whether or not product will actually be available that week is another thing, although it seems likely. We've already...
  20. Rob Williams

    Logitech Illuminated Keyboard

    We have a brand-new recruit, and what better way to kick off his staff-ness with a look at one of Logitech's best-looking keyboards? Logitech's diNovo Edge is undeniably a great-looking keyboard, but it's also undeniably expensive. The new Illuminated Keyboard promises to deliver a lot of the...
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