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A few days after Asus announced the world’s first USB 3.0 /SATA 6.0 PCI-E card, ECS is also said to be ready to launch similar add-on cards. According to reports, it will release two separate...A few days after Asus announced the world’s first USB 3.0 /SATA 6.0 PCI-E card,... more
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For motherboard manufacturers like Intel and AMD, it’s ‘out with the old and in with the new,’ whether they’re ready for the change or not. Citing un-named sources sitting in mobo trenches, DigiTimes says Intel plans to slash the proportion of its G31 IGP chipeset shipments in half, reducing the number from 50 percent to 25 percent in the fourth quarter....For motherboard manufacturers like Intel and AMD, it’s ‘out with the old... more
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PC Gaming Alliance, a group of game developers and hardware makers, is working on building a standardized set of system requirements for PC gaming.
There aren't a lot of details here (any, really), but from older articles, the PCGA has been wanting these ratings for a while. It'll help people who are trying to buy a PC and need to know exactly which games it'll be capable of playing, which is much different from the process of matching up video cards with benchmark scores that consumers have to do now.
Although their intentions seem to be good, firms like Activision Blizzard (maker of World of Warcraft and many other games) have left the alliance for some reason or another.PC Gaming Alliance, a group of game developers and hardware makers, is working on... more
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A new storage technology will pave the way for MP3 players and other gadgets to store a hundred times more information.
Scientists at IBM say they have developed a new type of digital storage which would enable a device such as an MP3 player to store about half a million songs - or 3,500 films - and cost far less to produce.
Devices which use the new technology would require much less power, would run on a single battery charge for "weeks at a time", and would last for decades.
So-called 'racetrack' memory uses the 'spin' of an electron to store data, and can operate far more quickly than regular hard drives.
I love technology! A new storage technology will pave the way for MP3 players and other gadgets to store... more
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