Are you planning to buy a new computer or cpu, if the answer is yes the new tomshardware guide about cpus called “The Mother of All CPU Charts 2005/2006″ is the right article for you. All in all their compared about 50 cpus ranging from the very old Athlon 1400 Thunderbird to the brand new AMD flagship Athlon 64 FX-57 San Diego. Benchmarks are taken in various fields including of course Open GL and Direct X performance, which is the most important aspect of the test for gamers, to video, audio and application performance.
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Why QWERTY was invented !
Ever thought about why your keyboard layout is the way it is today ? Why the first line starts with QWERTY and not some other letter sequence ? Wonder no more, the site “why qwerty was invented explains it all to us.
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Alternative Keyboards
Are you tired of your keyboard that looks like every other keyboard out, do you want to try something new ? Have you ever thought that a different design would be better suited for you and would make you the ultimate typing machine ?
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Credit card sized USB drive
Now this one is a neat little gadget. This credit card sized USB drive has a capacity of up to 8 GB, uses USB 2.0 and runs driver free on Windows XP+2000 and Mac OS X. The card measures 6mm in height and weights only 60g.
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The $500 Gaming Machine
Tomshardware has an interesting article up where they try to build a ” reasonable gaming system that will get you through today’s game titles without breaking the bank for around $500″.
The machine won´t of course allow you to play the newest games in high resolution but thats not what one would expect from a computer that is cheaper than some top graphic cards models.
Lets take a look at the components they selected for the machine.
