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AGP users who've been patiently waiting for an update to the venerable video card standard can rejoice—the wait is over. PowerColor has announced a 512MB HD 3850 AGP version that's identical to its PCIe counterparts.Read More...

NVIDIA launched the 9800GX2 today in a move that brings its own next-generation dual-GPU product to the front and center. ATI may have stolen a lead with its 3870X2 launch earlier this year, but NVIDIA seems determined to make up the ground.Read More...

Over the last few months, NVIDIA has been enjoying the high-end graphic card market with their current 8800 series. AMD was unable to compete with NVIDIA with their HD 2900 series but the situation is getting better with the introduction of the HD 3800 series. Although AMD is still not able to take the performance crown away from NVIDIA, its latest HD 3850 is performing fairly close and their upcoming card may very well steal the crown away from NVIDIA.

NVIDIA has been steadily revamping its GeForce product lines of late, and it's the GTX's turn for an overhaul. The 9800 GTX that launches today is NVIDIA's new highest-end single-GPU part, and the company claims it's capable of matching ATI's dual-GPU 3870X2. Read More...

CeBIT is the world's largest computer expo (COMPUTEX Taipei is the 2nd largest) and was first established in 1970. It is held each spring on the world's largest fairground in Hanover, Germany, and is a barometer of the state of the art in information technology. Since 1999, the CeBIT sponsor Deutsche Messe AG ("German Trade Show, Ltd.") has organized trade shows outside of Germany bearing the CeBIT name, CeBIT Australia is one of them. As our luck would have it, ChampionLLY was in Sydney just in time for CeBIT Australia! Let's take a look at some of the pictures he sent back.

We played with OCZ's "brain mouse", looked at ASUS' HDMI equipped sound card that will enable high definition audio codecs over HDMI from a HTPC, saw some more 4-series motherboards and much more in our day 2 coverage from CeBIT.

I've been building a theater now for several months, but more recently I've been focusing on building a HTPC to drive the whole thing. Follow me on my journey for the perfect HTPC...

NVIDIA's GTX 200 GPU drops today, with the debut of the company's new highest-end part. With 240 stream processors, 1GB of onboard memory, and a massive 512-bit memory bus, the GTX 280 is loaded for bear—at least on paper. Read More...

You know, I have no troubles of linking to your websites or articles if they are great and make up for a good story. Beecher send in a link to one of his articles that gives some sound advice on how to build and setup the rock solid computer. It’s not the usual walkthrough that tells you to how to assemble an PC, it’s more than that.