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FROM GADGETELL - Just in time for the school openings in the US, Gateway has released a new gaming notebook called the Gateway P-7811 FX. Since this machine is geared for the gaming community, it has to come with a powerful graphics card. Fortunately for the P-7811 notebook, it is loaded with NVIDIA’s… MORE »

FROM GADGETELL - Visionman really knows the name of the game when it comes to gaming notebooks. It just released a powerful and wickedly fast gaming machine with an ultra-cool name, the Widow Double Nine. This portable gaming machine boasts of a NVIDIA GeForce 9800M video chipset supported by a whooping 4GB-8GB of… MORE »

Alienware has again pushed the envelope, producing one of the most powerful notebooks known to us Homo sapiens. The Area 51 m17x notebook is Alienware’s newest addition to its lineup and it surely will make its owner the subject of very pleasant geeky envy. Let us quickly breeze through its vital specs before you start thinking of bolstering your esteem by owning one.

At its heart is an Intel Core 2 Extreme processor with a…

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Alienware gaming machines are a geek’s fashion statement. Their exorbitant price makes them a luxury confined to a few deep-pocketed, eclectic gamers. The high-end gaming PC manufacturer has unveiled the newest avatar of its flagship Area-51 7500 desktops.

The Alienware desktop comes armed with a NVIDIA nForce 790i Ultra SLI-based motherboard and…

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The Chicago-based company Überclock hopes to offer consumers a cheap alternative with two new models of customized CPU’s, both of which utilize overclocking to boost system performance

Garage PC enthusiasts of the 1980’s and big CPU manufacturers like Intel needed to find a common ground which would let tech savvy consumers maximize performance without running the risk of destroying their equipment. Intel also wanted to make sure that it wouldn’t be “too easy to take a $170 chip and make it run as fast as the $975 model,” as the product site states.

The compromise is a line of overclock-friendly chips that had a price-graded component called a “multiplier,” which is unchangeable on all of the chip models except, of course, the most expensive one. The higher the multiplier, the easier it is to overclock your PC to ri-god-damn-diculous speeds. According to Überclock, this means “Intel gets to sell its processors at different price points, allows overclockers to do our thing, and manages to give us…

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For the gadget-filled getaway known as CES (January 7-10, 2008) in Las Vegas, NV,  Gateway unveiled its FX lineup of gaming laptops and desktop PCs and its firs gaming laptop.

For the desktop rigs, there is the FX540XT gaming desktop which includes an Intel quad-core Core 2 Extreme QX6850 processor, 1T byte of storage (dual 500 GB hard drives) by two 500G byte hard drives and dual Nvidia 8800 GTX graphics cards (768 MBThe system ain’t cheap at $3,800 it runs Microsoft’s Windows Vista Home Premium OS.

If you want a less expensive option, the FX540 starts at $999 and has only one 500 GB hard drive and one Core 2 Quad Q6600 processor. Slightly more expensive is the FX7020 at $1,099,. Available later this month (January 2008), the FX7020 has an AMD’s quad-core Phenom 9600 processor (2.3GHz), 3G bytes of RAM, a Nvidia GeForce 8800GT graphics card (512 MB), TV tuner with HD-TV support and 500 GB hard drive.

Gateway’s first gaming laptops are dubbed the P-Series starting with the $2,999 P-171XL FX gaming notebook which includes an Intel Mobile Extreme X7900 dual-core processor, an Nvidia GeForce 8800M GTS (512 MB), 3 GB RAM, a 17-inch LCD display, two 200 GB hard drives and 802.11n. The P-Series FX laptops will be available late January 2008 in several retail configurations priced from $1,349 to $1,999.

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Editor’s Note: Laptop image from Wired.

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Game rig maker, Vigor Gaming, will soon begin incorporating AMD/ATI’s new R600 Radeon 2900 XT graphics cards in its desktop gaming systems.

The new graphics card, which retails for approximately $400 on its own, includes 320 stream processors, supports 128-bit HDR rendering, 512-bit memory interface with eight channels and native CrossFire support.

Vigor’s systems are all custom orders, so look for it in the “Video Card SLI Slot 1” (or Slot 2) as you select your computer’s specs. if you look at the Vigor Force Recon QX4 system, for example, It’s listed as “ATI Radeon HD2900XT 512MB DDR w/PCI Express, DVI and TV Out,“ pretty much the only option that doesn’t begin with “nVidia.“

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