000063 - 07-19-06 (Updates Every Wednesday)
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DIY Quad-SLI
If you wanted to have the equivalent of 4 video cards in your computer, now's your chance. NVIDIA has released a driver supporting Quad-SLI without having to buy a pre-configured system. You can read about it in this thread at Hardocp that also includes a link to an interview about the new release.
AMD Price Cuts
With the new Core Duo 2 processors due any day now from Intel, everyone is wondering when AMD will drop the price of their processors. Check out this thread at Anandtech to see what might be coming.
Kiss The Caps Goodbye
No, this has nothing to do with the "caps lock key". Capacitors are one of the main things that can fail in a computer. While this thread at the Tech Report started out discussing a Voltage Regulator Module without using capacitors, the thread has now listed other things like motherboards from DFI that are doing away with these leaky little parts.
Seagate 7200.10
One of the first hard drives to use the new "perpendicular" recording technology is being talked about at the Storage Review forums.
Guild Wars: Nightfall
Check out some early information on the next campaign from the Guild Wars line in this thread at Penny Arcade.
Deal Of The Day
XFX Geforce 6800XTREME 256MB DDR3 Dual-DVI AGP Video Card - $139.99
Past deals of the day
A Gaming Network Card?
With everyone spending tons of money on high end video cards, CPUs, Hard Drives, Sound Cards, etc. I guess it was just a matter of time before someone made a "high end" gaming network card. Read about it in this thread at nV News.
Poll - Best Memory
Check out this poll at X-bit labs to see who they think makes the best computer memory.