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Radeons HD 5770: A Hawk Versus Arctic Ice
Written by Ivan Todorovic   
Tuesday, 16 March 2010
MSI_R5770_Hawk_PCS_intro2.jpgImageThe Radeon HD 5770 is currently praised as a very good choice in the upper middle class of GPUs, since it provides very good performance in resolutions typical for 20” and 22” monitors at a decent price, which is likely to become the optimal choice for gamers today. We rejoiced to see so many manufacturers coming out with their own models so fast, shunning the referent ATI design in order to create a bit pricier, but faster graphics card to start with, a gain which can be increased even further by overclocking, courtesy of high-quality cooling systems implemented by various manufacturers. We’ve received two very interesting models whose overclock range took us by surprise, both cards sporting great looks and an attractive accompanying bundle.

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ProlimaTech Armageddon CPU Cooler

The ProlimaTech Armageddon is one such cooling solution with a legacy to fill, and with six heatpipes and enough finsink area for two 140mm fans it seems a reasonable possability. Benchmark Reviews recently tested the ProlimaTech Armageddon heatsink in our Best CPU Cooler Performance series, on an overclocked Intel Core i7-980X Extreme Edition processor against several other top CPU coolers.

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Arctic Cooling E352 Earphones

The most notable change here is of course the wooden chassis used instead of the aluminum one. However, I cannot see any specific information regarding the choice to use wood other than ‘warm sound definition by exquisite wooden chassis’. So, clearly Arctic Sound thought they were onto a winner, but equally did not want to give too much away

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PowerColor PCS+ HD5870 & HD5850 Video Card

We are going to take an in-depth look at the PowerColor PCS+ HD5870 and HD5850 today. Both video cards offer a custom configuration, with higher clock speeds, but you might just be surprised at what these video cards don’t offer you. This is also the first time we’ll be using ALL DX11/DX10 video games for testing.

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Windows Phone 7 Series at MIX10

A month ago, Microsoft announced Windows Phone 7 Series at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Since its announcement, the newly-rebooted platform has been polished to a state where it's now ready for developers to take charge and start making applications. Almost everything we've suspected has turned out to be true; Phone 7 Series will heavily make use of cloud services such as Xbox Live, and enable huge amounts of code re-use for game and software development with XNA and Silverlight.

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MSI R5770 HAWK

With ATI’s step into the future with its new line of DX11 GPU’s known as the 5xxx series MSI has taken the opportunity to build a new card to add into the innovative gpu lineup. Today we will be looking at one of their mid range cards, the R5770 HAWK, targeted for people on a budget looking to get the most for the money. MSI has decided to improve on the already great 5770 with improved 7+1 phase PWM and overvoltage options. The even included an aftermarket twin frozr cooler.

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Intel Core i7-980X Gulftown Hexa-core Processor

For power users that currently are using quad-core processors with HyperThreading (from either Intel's Bloomfield or Lynnfield lineup) you are already a witness to this.  While not all applications can take advantage of multiple threads for computing, all modern operating systems today can at least apply multi-threading to entire system.   So how does a 50% increase in core count and thread count sound?

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Thermaltake SpinQ

The Thermaltake SpinQ CPU cooler truly is a perfect combination of strength and aesthetics, and its broad processor compatibility makes it yet more convenient. The SpinQ supports Intel Socket 775/1366 processors and is even already prepared for the upcoming 1156 processors. For AMD, socket AM2/AM2+/AM3 processors are supported.

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Xeon 5600 Series Brings Six-core Chips to 2P Systems

Intel's gradual roll-out of 32-nm microprocessors has already paid dividends on the desktop, and today, servers and workstations are getting the same treatment.  The chip code-named Westmere-EP in its development is the backbone of the new Xeon 5600 series, a top-to-bottom refresh of Intel's 2P Xeon server and workstation lineups.

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Warner will release all Blu-rays as BD/DVD combos
Written by Ivan Todorovic   
Sunday, 20 December 2009

ImageWarner Home Video has announced that beginning in the Q1 2010 all of their new Blu-ray releases will include a standard definition DVD copy as well, making all Warner releases the aptly dubbed "Combo Packs."

 

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Zune HD Twitter app update will remove word censorship
Written by Ivan Todorovic   
Sunday, 20 December 2009

ImageA feature of the recently-released Twitter app for Zune HD is that it censors explicit words even though they are not censored out on Twitter. Most people see this as a bug so Microsoft has quickly stepped up to say that it is looking into the matter and will release an update for the application so as to remove the 'bad word firewall'.

 

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AMD Danube mobile platform in details
Written by Ivan Todorovic   
Saturday, 19 December 2009

ImageFor the first half of 2010 AMD is planning a significant offensive on the mobile front with the introduction of the Danube platform, including its first quad-core mobile processors. Danube will be made up of the Champlain dual- and quad-core CPUs and the RS880M chipset with DirectX 10.1 integrated graphics (already in use within the Tigris platform), and will be available with DirectX 11 discrete graphics based on the Broadway, Madison and Park 40nm GPUs.

 

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Sony Readers get exclusive Wall Street Journal content
Written by Ivan Todorovic   
Saturday, 19 December 2009

ImageSony signed a deal with Dow Jones & Company to have exclusive content from The Wall Street Journal and MarketWatch available for the Reader Daily Edition. Moreover, Sony has signed a similar deal with the New York Post.

 

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Mozilla sees Firefox Mobile "killing" app stores
Written by Ivan Todorovic   
Saturday, 19 December 2009

ImageMozilla mobile VP Jay Sullivan in an interview made the aggressive claim that Firefox Mobile will put an end to app stores like the iPhone's App Store or BlackBerry App World. As the smartphone web browser will share much of the desktop Firefox's engine and render both complex HTML and JavaScript, the senior employee anticipates many developers opting to write web apps instead of producing native code.

 

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