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Latest Columns, January 2008

Customised - Fighting talk

Posted at: 23rd January 2008

Granted, it didn't look a lot like a workplace; the month before Christmas, the CPC lab was dominated by a gorgeous 32in Philips LCD TV and all three 'next-generation' consoles - Microsoft's...
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Reviews - A gaming PC?

Clive Webster

Posted at: 23rd January 2008

The first fruit of HP's acquisition of Voodoo PC has finally emerged - the HP Blackbird 002 marks the first step in HP 'doing' gaming. PC manufacturers 'doing' gaming seems to be...
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Input/Output - 2007 versus 2008

James Gorbold

Posted at: 23rd January 2008

2007 was a great year for cut-price hardware, but 2008 should see the launch of more innovative...
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Customised - Unleashing the cores

James Gorbold

Posted at: 3rd January 2008

Although dual and quad-core CPUs have been available for a couple of years, until fairly recently, these extra cores haven't been put to very good use, outside of specialist video encoding and...
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Reviews - AMD: laughing or crying?

Clive Webster

Posted at: 3rd January 2008

You may remember that Issue 48 turned out to be a bit of an Intel issue, with each of the four CPUs we tested worthy of an award. Nvidia has also had...
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