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Hybrid NVIDIA Chipset Motherboards Launched
MojoKid writes "Filling the price gap between the high-end nForce 680i SLI and more affordable 650i SLI chipsets, without sacrificing any advanced features, motherboard manufacturer Asus has created a
hybrid motherboard chipset in cooperation with NVIDIA, dubbed the "Dual X16 SLI". Designed for
the Intel platform, the chipset combination employed on the P5N32-E SLI Plus
motherboard offers true, dual PCI Express x16 electrical connections for graphics, dual
Gig-E LAN support and a slew of other features found on high-end 680i boards. HotHardware pits the P5N32-E SLI Plus against an nForce 680i SLI to see if Asus' hybrid chipset approach truly offers all of the performance of the more expensive 680i SLI for a fraction of the cost."
I am pretty sure you forgot the bit where this is only a geek blog ;)
I thought it was a nerd blog?
Meh, little from column A, little from column B :)
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iPhone batteries "die in 40 minutes"
Apple fanboys kill the messenger
By Nick Farrell: Friday 06 April 2007, 07:14
APPLE FANBOYS have really been going for hack John C Dvorak after one of his sources in Cingular told him the iPhone's batteries lasted just 40 minutes.
During Episode 93 of the spodcast this Week in Tech (TWiT)Dvorak said he received information from "a guy at Cingular who's testing the product." The unnamed, male Cingular employee told Dvorak "there's lots of issues" with the iPhone.
Dvorak said that the iPhone was blighted with not having a removable battery, so "you run 20 minutes and you're using up half the battery power. You get 40 minutes total talk time. And the interface fouls up constantly."
The Cingular geezer or geezerette asked Dvorak not to tell anyone. OK it is a "man in the pub told me" style story, but it does not mean that there is no truth behind it. Certainly it is an odd thing to make up.
But the fan boys are up in arms about the comment and every where the story appears on the interweb there is a diatribe from at least three fanboys about how unreliable Dvorak is as a reporter.
One post said that Dvorak had a background in news and was therefore not qualified to write about technical stuff. Others sited a 1991 prediction he made that didn't come true.
One poster said that if Steve Jobs said that 40 minutes on the phone was long enough to speak to someone that must be OK and he would curtail his usage immediately. Another added that if people used their phones longer than 40 minutes there must be something wrong with them.
More here: http://www.twit.tv/93
Now, does this card finnally come with a Free Software 3D graphics drivers? I won't use any proprietary closed source drivers to work on graphics for the replacement to proprietary games. That would be allowing the graphics card makers to get away with too much and setting a bad example for the community!
nah... I always thought having a bard in my party was a little to hokey. I mean, c'mon, he sings his magic? And only one song per level before you have to take him back to the tavern... really. Skara Brae don't need that sh**.
The day is just beginning for the Americans, surely something worthy of ranting about will be posted. Or, maybe the companies are taking weekend off for Easter and it will be boring news all weekend!
Bearded Dragon
It's because this is Asus. Asus.
Still don't get it? Oh my god, you ARE dense.
I think I resemble that remark...
Mama, I got 'dem ole cosmic blues again.