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EVGA February Gaming Event

February 8th 2012

Sign up to register for EVGA's gaming event for a chance to win a Digital Storm Hailstorm PC, Intel Processors and a lot more. Sign up any time after February 7th, then play on any EVGA game server at any time between February 20th and March 4th to qualify. Official gaming will begin on February 20th at 4PM Pacific and continue until March 4th, 11:59 PM PST. Sign up and get the Gaming Event details HERE.

This week in TechWatch

  • CES 2012: bigger, and crowded as hell
  • Graphically Speaking: display revolutions, lots of ‘em including Lucid’s Virtu technology and Gamma Dynamics’ new ePaper
  • News Watch: Apple’s textbook strategy, AMD teams with U of IL, Instant Effects in the classroom, and new rendering technology from CoreCG
  • Financial: AMD, Intel, Microsoft have decent quarters. Apple’s is much better
  • Columns: Our man in Brazil notices that rich people have iPads. Mr. Marken goes to CES, what he saw
  • Jon says the action at the tech industry’s bazaar promises better times ahead.

EDITORIAL : AS CES goeth, so goeth the industry

Techwatch February 3rd 2012

For those of you who went to CES this year, you should have recovered by now. And if you suffered through 2011, you should be seeing some little rays of sunshine and hope for the on-coming year. And if you accept my premise about CES being a leading indicator, then you should feel pretty good about 2012. I first proposed CES as a leading indicator about eight or nine years ago. If you look at the following chart which covers the past ten years you can see definite correlations. What I think the data really represents is the manufacturers …

Compaq goes for ATI’s Mobility Radeon 7500 in new Pentium 4 notebooks

Compaq’s new EvoNotebook N800 and Presario 2800 notebooks will put Intel’s brand new Mobile Pentium 4 processors to work as well as ATI’s Mobility Radeon 7500 graphics processor. the new notebooks will use the 1.7 GHz Pentium 4-M processor, 30 Gbytes hard drive, 15-inch SXGA+. It will have a …Click here to read this news article

PNY says they’re first to market with GeForce 4 TI 4600

The Verto GeForce4 Ti 4600 graphics card from PNY Technologies is shipping to retail stores. In addition, PNY is including Star Wars Starfighter by LucasArts with the Verto GeForce Ti 4600; a pair of 3D glass from i-O Display with the GeForce4 Ti 4400; Ballistics by Grin with Verto …Click here to read this news article

Tom’s Hardware announces Readers Choice Awards and partnership with The Register

Tom’s hardware has completed their Readers’ Choice survey and just as you might expect, Tom’s readers don’t always root for the front runner. The Athlon XP won for best processor while the ATI Radeon 8500 won for best high end graphics board. Nvidia won the best graphics chip category …Click here to read this news article

Compaq goes for ATI’s Mobility Radeon 7500 in new Pentium 4 notebooks

Compaq’s new EvoNotebook N800 and Presario 2800 notebooks will put Intel’s brand new Mobile Pentium 4 processors to work as well as ATI’s Mobility Radeon 7500 graphics processor. the new notebooks will use the 1.7 GHz Pentium 4-M processor, 30 Gbytes hard drive, 15-inch SXGA+. It will have a …Click here to read this news article

PNY says they’re first to market with GeForce 4 TI 4600

The Verto GeForce4 Ti 4600 graphics card from PNY Technologies is shipping to retail stores. In addition, PNY is including Star Wars Starfighter by LucasArts with the Verto GeForce Ti 4600; a pair of 3D glass from i-O Display with the GeForce4 Ti 4400; Ballistics by Grin with Verto …Click here to read this news article