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Microsoft Corp., the world’s most powerful maker of software, said Thursday that sales of the Xbox 360 game consoles are inline with expectations and ten million of the game machines are likely to be shipped this year.

“Xbox 360 has sold 6 million consoles worldwide life to date and achieved record cumulative attach rates for software and peripherals in the United States, while Xbox Live passed the four million member mark during the quarter,” Microsoft said in a statement dedicated to results of the company’s financial results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2007.

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Introduction and Slideshows

Gigabyte’s W251U (left) and W551N (right) along with a size comparison shot and the power supplies for the two notebooks.

Gigabyte’s W251U From All Sides
Gigabyte’s W551N From All Sides
Comparing The Performance Of Gigabyte’s W251U And W551N Notebooks

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Shuttle today said it had managed to squeeze all the components necessary for a top-of-the-line gaming machine into one of its XPC small form-factor PC cases, claiming the result to be the “performance winner”. It should be, for the price…

The XPC P2 3700G is based on Shuttle’s XPC Barebone SD37P2 chassis. It comes pre-installed with an Intel 975X-based motherboard, Core 2 Extreme X6800 CPU, 4GB of 667MHz DDR 2 SDRAM in dual-channel configuration, a 400GB Samsung SATA hard drive and a 14x DVD write with dual-layer media support.

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Nokia’s would-be star certainly has the looks to get it in the studio, but can it take it on the chin from the judges or will it be let down by a fickle public who got bored of waiting for it to respond to input..?

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First INQpression Water-cooling makes X1900XTX performs like X1950XTX

THE SAPPHIRE Toxic X1900 XTX card is the first water-cooling serial produced card that had all you need in the package. Sapphire is getting ready for a new one based on the X1950 XTX card, the one that runs with faster memory, but interestingly enough we proved that even Sapphire Toxic X1900 XTX has still a lot of steam.

The card is clocked at 675MHz core and 1600 Hz memory. The original X1900 XTX works at 650 MHz and 1550 MHz memory. The card has sixteen pipelines, forty eight pixel shaders just like every R580 based card.

Let’s focus on the cooling. The R580 core is cowered with a water block. Two tubes get the water in and out of that water block and the both tubes are connected to a huge radiator / pump / reservoir part. The Radiator / pump / reservoir part looks like a second graphic card. You can plug it to a free slot in your PC. A radiator has a fan that cools the radiator and the water in it. It has two modes that you can change via simple switcher. One is silent mode that runs cooler slower but still does the job and second is performance one that give you more cooling juice if you overclock. Memory don’t mind that is just passively cooled it works well at 1600 MHz.

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THE CEO of Dell reckons Microsoft Vista needs 2GB of memory but that isn’t going to stop it selling like hot cakes.Kevin Rollins, quoted on the Seattle Post Intelligencer, said that while Microsoft reckons 1GB of memory is OK, 2GB is better.

The memory companies and the graphics card vendors must be sitting in their offices using their imagination to visualise the racks of coins they believe Microsoft’s Vista will bring them.
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