A two-and-a-half year study of DRAM on 10s of thousands Google servers found DIMM error rates are hundreds to thousands of times higher than thought — a mean of 3,751 correctable errors per DIMM per year.

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Previously one of the best chipset makers for enthusiasts looking for high performance on a budget, VIA has told Custom PC that it now sees no future in making chipsets for third parties such as Intel and AMD.

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The ASUS sneak attack. The most interesting story the media is downplaying is the ASUS announcement that it will have a ROM boot chip on all its motherboards, which will boot Linux instantly on start-up. When you flick the switch the machine is instantly on.

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The manufacturer are said to have designed a new interior based on 45nm technology, with a combined CPU/GPU motherboard, which could be delivered in a slimline case. A release in autumn 2009 was rumoured amongst online communities.... See more irresistible headlines  

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For $60, developers and Linux hackers can now buy the guts of the recently unveiled $200 Everex TC2502 Linux PC. The compact, ultra-efficient, x86-compatible "gOS Dev Board" comes with "gOS," a lightweight Linux-based OS meant for use with Google Apps.

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This seems too be coming a lot later than most would hope. We have to wait an entire year for a working product?! Jasper is the code name for the next motherboard for the Xbox 360. It will becoming next August, in time for next year's holiday season.

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New P5E3 Deluxe to ship early next month ASUS is finalizing its X38 Express based motherboard for shipping early next month. The upcoming P5E3 Deluxe supports all LGA775 socket processors, including the upcoming Penryns. The board only accepts DDR3 memory.

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Hardware failures can have mysterious faces - computer crashes, display anomalies or read/write errors when accessing your hard drive.

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The GIGABYTE M57SLI-S4 [1] is the first-ever desktop motherboard supported by a Free & Open Source BIOS, thanks to AMD engineer Yinghai Lu who released GPL-licensed code last month.

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Earlier this week, Gigabyte launched a full range of its 945 series all-solid capacitor motherboards, extending its product line of solid capacitor motherboards from the 945 through to the 965 chipset.

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Asustek today announced that the Asus TeleSky telecom adaptor is included in the package of the M2N/TeleSky and P5B/TeleSky desktop PC motherboards. The TeleSky telecom adaptor converts ordinary house phones into multi-functional Skype phones.

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Macbook Random Shutdowns: Potential Solution

Some users of Apple's new Macbook computers have experienced what has come to be known as Random Shutdown Syndrome (RSS). A quick search of various Apple and third-party support forums will yield numerous explanations and causes, along with a similar number of fixes.

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Jarred Walton of Anadtech writes: "If you follow the computer hardware scene, you're probably already questioning the timing of this Buyers' Guide.

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Microsoft recently made a change to the licence agreement saying that a new motherboard is equal to a new computer, hence you need to purchase a new Windows licence.

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