Find reviews from around the web by visiting our forums! The following is from TweakTown's review of the Palit 9600GT Sonic 1GB Graphics Card.

“Palit are back again with another 9600GT. While this model is a Sonic variant, this one also sports 1GB of memory. Whats cool about this card is that more often than not you have two options when it comes to getting a card other than stock. You can get yourself one with more memory, which generally comes under the Super naming scheme; the other option is that you get yourself an overclocked model. This comes under the Sonic naming scheme for Palit. Today weve got ourselves a 1GB card which also happens to be overclocked.

Unfortunately Palit has called it the 9600GT 1GB Sonic; personally I think they should have called it the 9600GT 1GB Super Sonic which just sounds plain cool, and since the card carries with it an overclock and more memory, its more than appropriate.”

AMD today introduced the industry's first energy-efficient x86 server processors with four processing cores and an integrated memory controller all in a low 55-watt ACP thermal envelope. Blade and rack systems based on five
new low-power Quad-Core AMD Opteron HE (Highly Efficient) processors are now widely available from global OEMs and solution providers.

Quad-Core AMD Opteron HE processors are available in both the
2300 and 8300 Series for two-, four- and eight-way rack servers and
blades. The new processors have set new performance records among
comparable x86 energy-efficient processors, such as top scores for
SPECfp_rate2006 in both two- and four-processor configurations, offering
businesses of all sizes the exceptional scalability and efficiency
benefits of AMD's unrivaled Direct Connect Architecture.

Installing Windows XP Service Pack 3 sends some PCs into an endless series of reboots, according to posts to a Microsoft support forum. Jesper Johansson, a former program manager for security policy at Microsoft and a prominent Windows blogger, has worked with users to tentatively identify the problem as involving only machines using processors from Advanced Micro Devices.

According to Johansson, there appear to be two separate issues. One affects only AMD-equipped PCs sold by Hewlett-Packard. “The problem is that HP, apparently along with other OEMs, deploys the same image to Intel-based computers that they do to AMD-based computers,” said Johansson. “Because the image for both Intel and AMD is the same all have the intelppm.sys driver installed and running. That driver provides power management on Intel-based computers. On an AMD-based computer, amdk8.sys provides the same functionality.” Running the “intelppm.sys” driver on an AMD-powered PC isn't normally an issue, but on the first reboot after a service pack installation, it causes “a big problem,” Johansson said. The machine either fails to boot or crashes and immediately reboots.

Research in Motion officially took the wraps off the highly anticipated and much-rumored smartphone, complete with a new name. The “Bold” is in reference to the smartphone's gorgeous display, but it's also bold in that it represents a number of new moves for the company. Pricing will also depend on the carrier, but RIM is guessing it will be in the $300 to $400 range and expected worldwide availability is “this summer.”

As we just mentioned, the device gets its name from its screen. The BlackBerry Bold features a half-VGA (480×320 pixel resolution), 65,000-color display, and during some initial product testing, research group participants repeatedly called the screen “bold” and “brilliant.” The Brilliant moniker didn't really jive with the company, thus the BlackBerry Bold was born.

Google plans to switch some of its servers over to solid-state drive-based (SSD-based) storage supplied by Intel in order to lower electricity consumption, according to sources at memory makers. The more power efficient SSDs will be installed at severs at Google's US headquarters.

Intel will supply flash chips and Marvell the corresponding controller ICs, the sources detailed. Shipments are slated for late second quarter, they added. With the increasing use of SSDs in server applications, a shortage for 16Gb and 32Gb NAND flash chips could become a possibility, the sources commented.

The iPhone get all the headlines, but Research In Motion’s (RIM) BlackBerry device is still how the vast majority of business smartphone warriors roll. RIM announced yesterday their next generation smartphone; they call it the BlackBerry Bold. The most striking feature of the Bold is its display. It runs at the same 320×480 resolution as the iPhone, but since the display is smaller, the screen seems even sharper. The user interface design takes advantage of this, replacing RIM’s traditional cartoonish icons

Your Digital Video Recorder might not have found Sarah Conner yet, but it seems to be responsible for the disappearance of six million primetime TV viewers since last May. Some of the miserable ratings of this year’s crop of primetime shows could be laid at the feet of the writer’s strike, but that really can’t explain the whole number. It’s starting to dawn on the TV industry that there’s no such thing as primetime anymore. …the more significant shift can’t be blamed on the strike. In the past television

How exactly do major ISPs determine which types of traffic to let through unhampered and which types to throttle or block? With deep-packet inspection devices, such as the $800,000 Procera Networks PacketLogic PL10000. Ars Technica reports on the latest ammunition in ISPs’ arsenal:”The PL10000 can handle up to 5 million subscribers and can track 48 million real-time data flows. That’s certainly a potent piece of hardware, but larger ISPs will need more. That’s why Procera designed the new machines with full

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World: Say hello to the RIM BlackBerry Bold. *Cue dramatic music* You may know it as the RIM BlackBerry 9000, but today, Research in Motion officially took the wraps off the highly anticipated and much-rumored smartphone, complete with a new name. The “Bold” is in reference to the smartphone's gorgeous display, but it's also bold in that it represents a number of new moves for the company.

The bold and the beautiful
As we just mentioned, the device gets its name from its screen. The BlackBerry Bold features a half-VGA (480×320 pixel resolution), 65,000-color display, and during some initial product testing, research group participants repeatedly called the screen “bold” and “brilliant.” The Brilliant moniker didn't really jive with the company, thus the BlackBerry Bold was born.

So just how bold is it? Well, RIM stopped by our office late last week to show us the device, and let me just tell you, I was absolutely blown away. I can pretty much say I've never seen a better-looking display on a smartphone. Colors pop off the screen, and it's really amazing how sharp and crisp everything looks on the display. We watched a couple of videos, and for the first time, we didn't notice any of that pixelation or blurriness that you typically get with phones. In addition, the menu interface has been revamped with a much more modern look and icons.