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  • Gaming PC Do It Yourself

    Just covered buying gaming PC. Use “Alienware”:http://alienware.com or “Falcon NW”:http://falconnw.com in a nutshell. but if you want to build it yourself, here’s the scoop: In terms of specs, there is what I would get. IN short answer to your question, right now for pure gaming, the short pipeline AMD has the advantage. Dual core seems…

  • nForce4 Motherboards

    AMDZone :: nForce 4 Ultra. As Brad points out the Jetway is not really available. Newegg is stocked out, so what’s a good alternative. There are a couple of choices, first most folks like the nForce4 motherboards, nVidia has done a nice job if you are buying AMD. But then there are three levels of…

  • A9 Maps

    A9.com Maps. Maps seem like the next IT. Here is Amazon’s Blockview maps. They actually have gone to the major sections of streets in US cities and if you type in an address, you can look around for buildings. As, “Ludwig”:http://www.theludwigs.com said to me today, the future for google just might be in maps. Two…

  • Specialized S-Works Tarmac

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  • MotionBased

    MotionBased – GearReview.com. With the advent of Google Earth and Maps, there are going to be many applications like this. !>http://www.gearreview.com/images/mb_logo.gif! With MotionBased, you upload your GPS coordinates from a bike ride and then it plots the points to form a trace of where you roade.

  • Light & Motion Vega

    LED Lights – GearReview.com. If you don’t have a light yet for your bike, then now is the time to get one. The new LED lights are a great compromise. For myself, I still like the incredible power of a HID 14 watt since it is just blinding, but the Vega is a more practical…

  • Intel New Architecture: Merom, Conroe, Woodcrest, Whitefield

    IDF Fall 2005 wrap – The Tech Report – Page 1 [T]he biggest news out of IDF, Intel’s decision to move to a new CPU microarchitecture common to its mobile, desktop, and server product lines, and we’ve outlined some of the features of that architecture, including a 14-stage pipeline that’s much shorter than the 31-stage…

  • Gaming PC Off the Shelf

    Brad asked me about a gaming machine. As usual, there is an incredible range of prices for a gaming machine. I will tell you the new games require an incredible amount of horsepower. The main places not to skimp are in order: a) video card, b) memory, c) processor and d) hard drive. If you…

  • F.E.A.R.

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  • Colorvision PrintFIX

    PrintFIX profiling review and observations. OK, if you are really into printing, then the last step is not to use the paper profiles that vendors ship, but to actually print something and then have a custom scanner which then corrects things. A combination of the “Spyder2 Pro”:http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/article_pages/spyder2pro.html to adjust the monitor plus PrintFIX to set…