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Computers
PC Makers May Have Too Much Stock, Deals On The Way?
3:30AM Chris Jacob | Sounds like PC makers might have missed Ballmer’s call for tempered Windows 7 expectations. There’s a chance that they’re sitting on a glut of inventory now, is there any hope that excess stock will translate to even better holiday deals? More »
Games
Rumour: ATI Locked In For Next-Gen Xbox Graphics?
11:19PM Danny Allen | Nothing is official, but Fudzilla’s sources suggest Microsoft liked the Xbox 360’s Xenos graphics enough to stay with ATI for its next console, possibly slated for 2012. Given the lead time, it may even be a 28-nanometre chip. [Fudzilla via CrunchGear]
Hardware
ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series Is First To Drive 180in Monitors
6:20AM Mark Wilson | Do you remember that crazy, 6×30-inch monitor rig by AMD? Well their upcoming ATI Radeon HD 5800 series graphics cards are what drive the uber display. More »
Hardware
AMD Confirms Six-Core Consumer Processors Codenamed “Thuban”
12:00PM Dan Nosowitz | Just one day before Intel’s IDF conference, AMD dropped a little bit of a bomb on us, confirming that they will bring hexa-core processors to consumer computers. Even better, they’ll be backwards compatible with existing AM3 and AM2+ motherboards. More »
Hardware
AMD Athlon II X4 620: Four Cores For $US99
3:20PM Danny Allen | AMD’s new Athlon II X4 chips are like a Phenom II minus the L3 cache. And they’re super-cheap: $US99 (2.6GHz-620), and $US122 (2.8GHz-630). Also looks like they hold their own against the $US150 Core 2 Quad 8200: [Maximum PC] More »
Computers
HP’s Cheap, Light DM3 Packs 4GB RAM And Windows 7 For $US550
2:01PM Matt Buchanan | HP’s DM3 swings both ways—AMD and Intel—with each chip titan’s take on low voltage processors. What’s common is that both versions start at $US550, are just over an inch thick and come with 4GB RAM and Windows 7 64-bit. More »
Hardware
AMD’s Eyefinity Graphics Card Drives Six 30-Inch Monitors At Once
8:00AM Sean Fallon | Good Lord—that is badass. What you are seeing here is one of AMD’s next-gen DirectX 11 graphics cards with an Eyefinity feature that allows you to use multiple monitors as a single display. More »
Computers
AMD Vision Takes Processor Stickers Off Laptops…Kinda
2:01PM Joanna Stern | Alright AMD, I’m feeling what you’re putting down. Instead of stickers with XY and Z processor names taking up palm rests, you’d rather just tell people what the computer can do. More »
Hardware
AMD’s 2nd Gen Ultrathin Notebook Platform Ready To Fight
2:01PM Joanna Stern | We have already told you there are gonna be more rail thin Windows 7 notebooks than you can count many which will pack new Intel ULV chips, but AMD will also be pounding its way into the market. More »
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