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 Sunday, 20-January-2008  20:32:34 (GMT +10) - by Agg

TechARP have a Intel Core 2 Performance Comparison Guide. In this article, we will be comparing the performance of several Intel Core 2 processors in five benchmarks - three game-based benchmarks and two application benchmarks.

A few people sent in this story about bionic eyes. Engineers at the University of Washington have for the first time used manufacturing techniques at microscopic scales to combine a flexible, biologically safe contact lens with an imprinted electronic circuit and lights. Discussion here.

Sniper spotted this article about the secret military history of Silicon Valley. When you think about Silicon Valley you think about modern tech giants like Google, Yahoo and others, but did you know that this high-tech center of the Universe owes its existence to secret government cooperation dating back four decades?

XbitLabs looked at high-powered PSUs. Today we are going to introduce to you 10 units with the capacity of 1000W or well beyond that. We will discuss the solutions from Antec, Enermax, Floston Energetix, FSP Group, Silverstone, Tagan, Thermaltake and Ultra.

From the big to the small, XbitLabs also have 2.5" 250GB HDDs under the spotlight. Today we are going to talk about five 2.5-inch hard disk drives based on platters that use second-generation perpendicular recording technology. These will be solutions from Fujitsu, Hitachi, Samsung and Western Digital.

Bit-Tech cover NVIDIA's Hybrid SLI technology, while Tech-Report look at their Enthusiast System Architecture in action. Running the show are new versions of Nvidia's control panel and system monitoring software optimized with ESA in mind, providing users with an unprecedented level of control over system variables and customizable hardware monitoring.

CPU3D want to show you how to overclock your video card. I've tried to make this guide as simple as possible, so even a beginner will be able to muddle through.

Bit-Tech have an interesting article about gaming in the real world, written by a former member of the armed forces. A question that’s often asked is how much of what we might experience in a real life situation is reflected in those games that claim to be as close to real as possible? Having spent most of my working life in the Armed Forces and spending most of my spare time fragging in ‘realistic’ 3D environments, I believe I’m in a position where I am pretty qualified to answer that question.

TrustedReviews consider the new MacBook Air when compared to other offerings. The Sony VAIO X505VP was a design statement and a technology showcase at the time, whereas as the MacBook Air is simply a design statement.



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