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I give to you the Antec Neopower 650 Blue. The high efficiency modular power supply that will get you through hordes of zombies, and then some. The ultimate combination of high power, high efficiency and cool style for today's high performance PC systems. 650 watts of pure power, with 85% efficiency, cable management, and dedicated circuitry with a super-silent 120mm blue LED fan. Figured out why they call it the 650 Blue yet? I thought you would get it quickly. You're so smart..

Thecus has worked closely with AMD and now introduces the all-new M3800 Stream Box. Coming this spring, the M3800 features AMD technology and delivers a complete media and storage solution perfect for the home. The M3800 is the complete package of digital storage and playback solution. Equipped with three 3.5″ SATA bays, the M3800 brings the security of RAID 5 home and comes with all the standard Thecus NAS features such as download manager, iTunes server, web camera function, photo web server, etc. The most fascinating design concept is centered on the home theater. Featuring HDMI, component, and AV out, the M3800 can play digital content directly through your existing home theater system. No word on what the pricing will be for the M3800 Stream Box.

Based on the AMD Geode processor, the M3800s design concept is centered on the home theater. Users can use the M3800 to centrally store, manage, easily access, and enjoy their movie and music files. The whole family can view their favorite blockbuster hits and listen to their favorite tunes without the hassle of having to locate files saved in different locations or multiple machines throughout the house.

I just got my hands on some very interesting confidential reports from some computer manufacturers that state Diamond ATI video cards have a rate of failure that is higher than the companies acceptable values of failures at manufacturing site and/or field incidents. Anything above 1% failure calls for a shut down of production at companies like Alienware and it seems their Diamond Radeon HD 3850, 3870, 3870 X2 and 3870 R2 are failing at rates between 3-14% based on the Initial Field Incident Rate (I-FIR) in the report that we were handed. It seems that Alienware has dumped Diamond as a vendor as a result of this and sent back thousands of cards they didn't use. It seems the problems between Diamond and companies like Alienware go back a long time as the report has a page with the title of 'Intermittent Problems' and talks about 100% failure rates on Diamond Radeon HD 2900 XT video cards.

The failure rate in the field (customers) is 13.42% for the months of March and April. The line reject rate or failure in manufacturing is about 6.18 % for the past 13 weeks. Both rate are extremely high and unacceptable. Lower quality resistor in Diamond card causing failure, not on original reference design which we signed up for. Diamond cards again changed without notifying us [the system builder].

With all the talk of cellular handsets and multi-function devices these days, it’s hard to believe that there is still even a market for land lines or VOIP services but of course you know better than that.  What’s perhaps more interesting than just plain old VOIP telephony and video services like Skype, would be the ability to provide access and functionality for a host of all the various media types; voice, video, text, photos, and interenet services.  This is obviously what

S3 Graphics Delivers Ultra Power Efficient Mobile GPUs for Mini-Notes and NotebooksS3 Graphics Chrome 400 ULP series brings HD video playback and power of discrete graphics to ultra mobile devices for the first time Fremont, California, Sept 24 2008 – S3 Graphics today announced its Chrome 400 Ultra Low Power (ULP) graphics processor series, based on the most power-efficient GPU architecture on the market. Today’s users will now be able to enjoy the latest HD media playback and DirectX 10.1 gaming experience

The launch of the Google’s first Android phone, the T-Mobile G1, was both widely anticipated and highly covered.  Of course, one big negative, one frequently pointed out as a real problem for the iPhone as well, is the associated carrier with the device.  T-Mobile has the smallest 3G footprint of any major carrier, and additionally — well, the devil is in the details.T-Mobile’s advertised data plan for the $179 phone are $25 for unlimited data and voice and 400 text messages, or $35 for unlimited

It’s a rumor that’s flown around the block before: HP shutting down the VoodooPC label, which it purchased in 2006.  In fact, we wrote earlier when the VoodooPC line was sort of sucked into the regular HP catalog.  Even then things seemed to be getting a little iffy around the VoodooPC portion of HP’s landscape.  At the time, however, it was sold as an easier, faster way to buy VoodooPC hardware through HP channels.At any rate, Techgage wrote a piece in which they cited the typical ‘insider close

Either these hospital workers have a strange fetish or … well, we actually can’t think of an alternative. Two University of New Mexico Hospital employees were fired after it was discovered that they have been posting photos of patients’ injuries to MySpace. The workers were using their cell phone cameras. A hospital supervisor received an anonymous tip about them on Tuesday and launched an inquiry. The MySpace page could only be accessed by the employee’s MySpace friends, as the profile was set to private,

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Today Adobe announced Creative Suites 4 with a lot of great new features, including native support graphics processing units (GPUs). Adobe is the latest in a trend of visual computing companies grabbing on to the massively parallel processing power of GPUs for more than just rendering pixels to the screen. Adobe Creative Suite 4 is the most important addition to this trend because of its market position as the leading artistic tool suite. NVIDIA has published a few marketing slides today about Adobe CS4 performance and how it can be approved with their video cards. One of the more interesting bits of news was the fact that there is a CUDA plug-in for Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 that is said to deliver 7x the performance of a CPU. Very interesting and this is something that AMD can't match.

Adobe Photoshop CS4 uses NVIDIA Quadro or GeForce GPUs to create a digital canvas that is interactive in ways that are simply not possible without a GPU. NVIDIA GPUs enable real-time image rotation, zooming, and panning, and make changes to the view instantaneous and smooth. Adobe Photoshop CS4 also taps the GPU for 2D and 3D compositing and high-quality antialiasing, making jagged edges of text and objects a thing of the past. Brush resizing and brushstroke preview, 3D movement, high-dynamic-range tone mapping, and color conversion are also accelerated by the GPU.