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PopularMechanics takes a look at the 5 Most Powerful Telescopes, and 5 That Will Define the Future of Astronomy. Today, huge lenses like those in the Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona and the Hubble Space Telescope in orbit probe the deepest reaches of the universe. Here are the five most powerful telescopes out today, and five more that will define the future of astronomy.
Tom's Hardware analyse how much power does your graphics card need? A stable power source is important if you want to avoid full-load crashes of the operating system, a.k.a. the dreaded “blue screen.” If you don’t have enough juice, then the PC or the power supply overheats, in the worst case, with a loud bang. The most important questions are: how many watts should the power supply have, does it deliver enough amps, and which plugs or adapters are necessary for the supply?
Xbit Labs compare are variety of video cards for a great High-Definition PC Experience. The recently released new graphics cards generations – ATI Radeon HD 4000 and Nvidia GeForce 9 – promise to further improve high-definition video playback quality. But is it really so? Let’s find out if these solutions really improve the HD playback quality and can decode two video streams simultaneously with enabled picture-in-picture mode.
Tom's Hardware Taiwan have posted the first series of benchmarks using AMD’s Phenom II processor with DDR3 memory. The test-bench comprised of a AMD Phenom II X4 910, the company's first flagship quad-core AM3 processor. The X4 910 features a default clock speed of 2.60 GHz. The same chip was tested in two settings: default clock-speeds, and overclocked to 3.12 GHz (240 x 13.0 @ default vCore). You can find the translated version here. Discussion on the forum.
TechGage share their Hands-On Impressions on Nvidia’s ION platform. There's been a fair amount of attention hovering around NVIDIA's ION this month, and for good reason. It's small, offers decent performance, and can deliver huge peripheral connectivity. We were able to spend some time with the ION earlier this month, putting it through various tests, such as gaming, HD playback and even Photoshop.
AnandTech visited PC Power & Cooling’s headquarters. If you're a PC enthusiast and care about power supplies, you'll definitely be familiar with the name PC Power & Cooling. The company has been around a long time now and is responsible for many innovations in the power supply industry, particularly in the USA.
CoreTemp a compact, no fuss, small footprint program to monitor CPU temperatures has been updated to 0.99.4. Grab the version you need off their homepage.
For those of you who haven't yet grabbed a copy of the Windows 7 beta, Microsoft have decided to extend the beta download period to February 10th. Here is a link to the Windows 7 website for those interested. Or Join the big Windows 7 Discussion on the forum.
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