FurMark is updated to 1.6.0 version now. In FurMark’s folder you will find two executables: FurMark.exe and etqw.exe. etqw.exe is just a copy/paste of FurMark renamed in etqw. Why etqw? Just because it’s one of the most popular OpenGL applications.

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Today Intel warns that its Q4 2008 revenue dropped 23%, more than it expected. Intel plans to report the complete results on 15th of this month.
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Today Asus GeForce GTX285 and GeForce GTX295 graphics cards make their debut.

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Just before Microsoft officially launches Windows 7 Beta at CES 2009, now Windows 7 beta 64bit is leaked at the Russian website torrents.ru.

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Logitech G Series gaming devices have been enjoying a great reputation among gamers. Now Logitech unveils a new set of G-series line to give extreme players complete control for PC gaming.
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MSI X58 Eclipse motherboard might have impressed you. Now, the details of MSI X58 Eclipse’s suped-up edition — MSI Eclipse Plus are leaked out at Syndrome-OC.
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Seagate has shown off Barracuda 7200.12 Series hard drive packing 500GB of capacity on each disk. Thanks to our friend site IT168, we got the chance to find out the performance of its 500GB Barracuda 7200.12 hard drive.
Let’s check its specs first. We can see it comes from Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 lineup (model: ST3500410AS) with cache of 16MB and access time of 14.6ms.

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According to TcMagzine, Leadtek has now announced its 55nm GeForce GTX260 graphics card.

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As a main partner of NVIDIA, Galaxy launched GeForce GTX 260+ Overclocking Edition graphics cards as early as October 2008. At that time, compared with HD4870 sold at above RMB2000 (around $292), GTX 260+ OC Edition with 216 stream processors available at RMB1999 ($291.8) was quite popular among enthusiasts. And now Galaxy becomes the first one to unveil non-reference 55nm GeForce GTX 260, which indicates its powerful Research & Development ability.
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Now Seagate announces that it’s ready to ship its Barracuda 7200.12 Series hard drive. Packing 1TB of capacity on just two disks, Seagate’s Barracuda ® 7200.12 HD, a 3.5-inch 7200-RPM drive features an areal density of 329 Gigabits per square inch. Though no words on its actual performance, we can expect improvements on its data rate. Its maximum data rate has reportedly reached 160MB/s.

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When we reported XFX Radeon Series cards were made available at a German website, we visited XFX official website, trying to check out some specifications, but something interesting was found.
When you enter into this page and choose one or two items casually to compare, you’ll find “XFX GeForce 4870″ which should have been “XFX Radeon HD 4870″. This makes us to believe it’s really difficult to change some habits.

XFX GeForce 4870???
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The German retail website Alternate.de has unveiled all pictures and pricing of XFX Radeon Series cards. Anyone who is interested can place order now. The images of XFX Radeon HD 4850 and XFX Radeon HD 4870 were revealed on Sunday, now we can finally enjoy that of HD 4830 and HD 4650.

XFX Radeon HD 4350
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Since ELSA revealed that GT212 would be another flagship card of NVIDIA, GT212 has been a focused topic. Being the top GPU this year, GT212 is coming to take the place of GT200(b) (such as GTX260/280) Series.
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AMD Phenom II X4 is ready to debut this Thursday, though it still looks quite mysterious. The latest information indicates Phenom II X4 940 performs as well as Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450/Q9550 while costs a little bit lower.
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January 5th, 2009 by Sue AMD, CPU

Today the newest version of GPU-Z is made available. Its main updates include:
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