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XtremeSystems forum member Dumo got his hands on a sample of the upcoming AMD Phenom II X4 955 processor, this 125W TDP part has a clockspeed of 3.2GHz. By increasing the voltage from 1.25V to 1.45, the overclocked got the chip to 4GHz on air cooling. The test system consisted of an ASUS M4A79T Deluxe motherboard, 2GB DDR3 memory clocked at 1666MHz and the Windows 7 Beta operating...

In the Netherlands Salland, a Dutch e-tailer, inserted the all new RV790 based Radeon HD 4890 1024 MB in their database on preorder. The e-tailer has a bit of a reputation for doing this consistently with upcoming product launches, to grasp some extra media attention apparantly. Specification : Chipset Radeon HD4890 Memory 1024 MB Type memory GDDR5 GPU 850 MHz Mem clock 3900 MHz Interface PCI-e 16x RAMDAC 400 MHz Anyway, the Radeon HD 4890 1024 MB is spotted over there for...

Dell officially introduced it’s new notebook called Adamo. With its 0.65 inch profile, which Dell claims to make it the world’s thinnest laptop, and weighing only 1,81 kg, it is certainly a very slim product, targeting the same customers as Apple’s MacBook Air. Its dimensions are: 16,39 x 331 x 242mm (H x W x D). Available in two colors: black and white, Dell calls “pearl” and “onyx”, it has a 13.4-inch widescreen 16:9 HD display with edge-to-edge glass. Some of its other...

This isn’t just a DS version of GTA; this is a fantastic game that advances the series by introducing a number of great new features. At first glance, Chinatown Wars could be mistaken for a return to the Grand Theft Auto series’ humble 2D beginnings. The action is viewed from a more or less top-down perspective, and of course you still spend much of your time driving stolen cars and causing trouble with firearms. But the similarities between this superb Nintendo DS game and its ’90s...