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Tired of not being able to play Crysis Warhead on your computer? Looking to build a new rig? Well instead of going nuts trying to build it yourself, you could always just check out the machine that GameCyte has put together.
The system is pretty well build, with a Core 2 Duo E7300 processor, GeForce 9800GT video card, 2GB DDR2 800mhz RAM, and a 250GB hard drive. There’s plenty more as well, so just check out the flyer above.
No, you’re not going to have to fork over some massive dough to get your hands on this bad larry. It will only cost you $700 and it’s already fined tuned to specifically work with Crysis, giving you 30 frames per second on the highest DX 9 settings possible.
While the game doesn’t come with it, Windows XP does.
Looking to build a brand new AMD system? Well if you are you’re in luck! With all of the hubbub surrounding AMD’s line of new dual-core Phenom processors, it seems like the company is jumping the gun and slashing prices on their existing processors. You can start picking up some of their triple core Phenom X3 processors for chump change.
Phenom X3 8450 is now available for $104
Phenom X3 8650 is now available for $119
Phenom X3 8750 is now available for $129
Phenom X3 8750 Black Edition (with overclocking support) is now available for $134.
We’re now looking at some of these powerful processors competing with the lower end Intel Core 2 Duo’s price wise, which makes them pretty tempting.
It looks like Google has decided that they’re big enough to break into the web browser world themselves. Today marks the launch of the Google Chrome web browser beta. If you’re interested in shedding your IE, FireFox, or Opera shell for something new, read through the press release below and give it a whirl. What’s the worst that could happen, you delete it?
Comcast, we’ve got a problem.
First you decide to invade the privacy of your customer base and establish which ones are torrenting and have slowly been killing their connection. Now you’re going to set a physical bandwidth cap per month?
The press release below issued by Comcast is announcing that their new monthly bandwidth cap is now set at 250GB per account. They’re even nice enough to break this down into the number of emails this would equate!
But the issue is, this doesn’t just hinder pirates, people who legally purchase movies and tv shows may easily find themselves at that cap on a particularly heavy month. What to do!
Read the press release after the jump.
We’ve already had a chance to discuss the new Shuttle desktop that’s coming soon, but we’ve just recently received a price clarification. The Atom based X27 mini PC will be going for a paltry sum of $189. That means that those of you looking for a tiny little computer to hide somewhere inside of your car or to place in those awkward to reach places in your house might just have found exactly what you’re looking for.
Luckily those of you interested in this system won’t have to wait that long. Shuttle is expected to be on schedule to release the X27 mini PC just next month and it looks like it won’t have a problem being found either as it’s being picked up by some larger distributors.
NVIDIA has apparently offered up quite a bit more to Intel as of late in regard to their SLI technology. After board manufacturers didn’t pick up on the offer to let them use the nForce 200 chip for SLI on their product, NVIDIA has decided to let the Intel X58.
This is pretty big news as it means that every board manufacturer who intends to use th X58 chipset will be implementing SLI. And not just two PCIe x16 slots either. We’re looking at up to 4 allowing for 3-way SLI capabilities and the fourth card running a PhysX engine!
Shuttle has decided to hop on the bandwagon on ultra small nettop pcs. Their latest creation, the X27 is much smaller than what they’ve previously released. This little device runs with very little power, requiring only 23 watts when idle and 36 watts while active. Most of the energy saving aspect come from the fact that it’s sporting the new Intel Atom chipset. This also means that the fan noise is next to nothing.
The case isn’t that big either at 10- x 7- x 2.75 inches. There hasn’t been an announced date or price yet, but we’re sure that we’ll be hearing more about it by the end of the month.
The netbooks have been taking the world by storm as of late. But what’s been catching many consumers eyes even more so is that these companies are then taking those ideas for the netbooks and making nettops. We’ve already seen the Eee Box, so it’s no surprise that competitor MSI has decided to release their MSI Wind desktop PC. This little device will only cost you $139.99 and is actually pretty jampacked.
You’re looking at getting a 1.6GHz Atom processor, GMA 950 integrated graphics, 8-channel audio, 6 USB ports, 4-in-1 media card reader, CF card slot, and a VGA output. It is however, missing a hard drive, RAM, and optical drive. This is just the bare bones model, not the full fledged desktop model that will be coming in the near future. But if this wet your whistle, head on over to NewEgg.com and pick one up.
It’s been awhile since we heard any word regarding what we should expect from USB 3.0. But apparently, Intel has just recently provided us with some additional information on the topic that is sure to get people excited for it’s inevitable release. Dubbed the USB SuperSpeed, USB 3.0 will be offering quite a bit for everyone to enjoy taking advantage of.
First off, it will be completely backwards compatible with USB 2.0 (got a device older than that? Throw it away!) and will be able to offer a transfer rate ten times as fast as USB 2.0. That means that instead of transfering at 480Mbps, you’ll be transferring at 4.8Gbps. Unreal.
The upload and download transfers will actually be kept on separate lanes, making the cables thicker but allowing for these increased speeds and faster charge times over USB for certain devices.
We’ve still got a while to wait, but we’ll keep you posted!
Intel has been passing around the Atom name on a few of their different processors over the past several months. There have been two Atom processors as of late: the Centrino Atom (known in-house as the Menlow chipset) and the Atom (known as either the Silverthorn or Diamondville chipset).
What does this mean for you? Well besides sounding like a fool to the 4 people who know what’s up in the entire world, nothing. The Centrino Atom, used in MIDs and UMPCs is now nameless while the Atom itself gets to keep the name. As Intel figures out exactly what they’re looking to do name wise for the formerly mentioned Centrino Atom, we’ll keep you posted.