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Friday Afternoon #2
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Friday, 30-March-2007 17:37:10 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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ExtremeMHz took a look at ReadyBoost, a feature of Windows Vista. Before I get to the details of this new feature, I would like to say that it is personally the one feature this expensive OS has to offer that happens to be designed with the budget user in mind.
If you're after (ahem) "a seriously dope mix of deep groovy tracks" which is apparently "seriously jazzy" then Trilby recommends you grab some of these from sleepinggiant, although right now the links don't seem to work. Okely dokely then.
TechWareLabs compared a couple of Xeons. So what's the difference, which one is better, and why is Xeon still around if multiple cores do it faster? The answer is not so easy.
Here's a nice little mini folding farm, just added to the PCDB.
Feartec sent in a couple of links about some upcoming CPU price cuts, here and here. Intel might be the current CPU champ, but AMD's not throwing in the towel. Both companies are expected to announce significant price cuts next month on their existing processors, ahead of quad-core introductions.
XbitLabs checked out the dual-core price war between Intel and AMD. In April we will witness a tremendous price drop on dual-core Intel and AMD processors. We decided to take a look at the future and check out our comparative testing of the most popular dual-core CPU models that become even more attractive after the upcoming price-list corrections.
Tech-Hounds looked at three Radeon X1950 Pro video cards, from Gigabyte, MSI and Sapphire.
Matthudson spotted these handy directions from Google Maps. Take note of direction 20 and pack a towel.
Several people sent word that new ATI drivers are out, in 64 and 32-bit. Phoronix have some thoughts about them.
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