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- Blog posts 2008-05-08
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- Blog posts 2008-05-02
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- Blog posts 2008-04-16
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- Product reviews 2008-04-08
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- Blog posts 2008-03-28
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- Blog posts 2008-03-18
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- Intel outlined plans to produce six-core chips in the fourth quarter. The move is that latest salvo in a game to out-core AMD on everything. AMD finally gets its quad-core chip out the door and Intel moves to six. The future looks like this: Four cores, six cores, eight cores,...
- Blog posts 2008-03-18
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- Blog posts 2008-03-10
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- Discussion threads 2008-03-10
- Leaked Intel Nehalem performance projections over AMD Shanghai
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- Blog posts 2008-02-24
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- Product reviews 2008-02-21
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- Discussion threads 2008-02-20
- Hardware 2.0 "Best Kit List" for Feb 08/Mar 08
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- Discussion threads 2008-02-12
- Hardware 2.0 "Best Kit List" for Feb 08/Mar 08
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- Blog posts 2008-02-12
- AMD/ATi launch three new budget graphics cards
- AMD's ATi graphics division is hoping that budget-conscious gamers will smash open their piggy banks and spend money upgrading their graphics cards to one of the latest Radeon cards.The three new cards - the Radeon HD 3650, Radeon HD 3450 and the Radeon HD 3470 - undercut the existing Radeon...
- Blog posts 2008-01-23
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- Discussion threads 2008-01-22
- Yes, the MacBook Air is light. But so what-Dell XPS is a better deal on price
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- Discussion threads 2008-01-17
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- Blog posts 2008-01-15
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