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Alienware Area-51 m15x

Posted 05/01/2008 at 1:49pm | by Katherine Stevenson

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It’s easy to be seduced by Alienware’s m15x notebook. From its handsome silver-gray case to its cool-yet-tasteful LED accents to its comfortable lap weight of less than eight pounds, this 15.4-inch machine had us at hello. Of course, only excellent performance would keep us interested.

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Hypersonic Sonic Boom OCX

Posted 01/14/2008 at 2:44pm | by Nathan Edwards

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January 2004. DirectX 9 had just shipped. SCO had begun its ultimately
futile crusade against IBM. And Hypersonic’s brightly colored Sonic
Boom, featuring Intel’s newest processor, was smacking our benchmarks
around.

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EVGA e-GeForce 8800 GT SSC

Posted 12/11/2007 at 11:12am | by Michael Brown

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Previous generations of Nvidia GPUs (AMD’s, too) presented buyers with a difficult choice: You could get great 3D performance for gaming or you could offload high-definition video decoding from the host CPU, but you couldn’t have both. Nvidia’s 8800 GT not only changes that situation, it does so at a competitive price.

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Nvidia Announces the GeForce 8800 GT

Posted 10/29/2007 at 4:42pm | by Michael Brown

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Not content with owning the high end of the market, Nvidia turns it skills to dominating the budget segment, too.

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Nvidia Ships the GeForce 8600 GTS

Posted 04/17/2007 at 5:15am | by Michael Brown

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Nvidia continues to lower the barrier of entry to the world of DirectX 10; but they've further sweetened the pot by adding a powerful new video-decoding engine.

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Asus EN8800 GTX

Posted 02/06/2007 at 1:45pm | by Michael Brown

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The first wave of DirectX 10 cards are here, but just how well do they preform with DX10?

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