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• Fighting Old Battles: How Wargames Have Evolved Through The Ages*
  Thursday 18 August 2005 – 06:00
  We take a look at the great FPS games and mods that inspired current blockbusters, and predict where the genre is heading in the future.
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• Good Old Newbie: Intel's Celeron 1.7 GHz for Socket 478*
  Wednesday 15 May 2002 – 07:00
  Socket 370 is officially dead. Back at CeBIT, Intel released their new server chipset E7500 to finally replace the Pentium III Tualatin in the server segment. Now that the Pentium 4 has become faster thanks to the Northwood core and 533 MHz FSB clock, the old Willamette core is being recycled in order to push the Socket 478 platform into the low-end market as well - eventually having run all processors except Xeon on the cute socket 478. How does the new 1.7 GHz Celeron compare to its main competitor, the AMD Duron 1.3 GHz?
• New Processors On Old Boards: Adapters From Upgradeware for Socket 370 and Socket 423*
  Tuesday 24 September 2002 – 07:00
  Because architectures and manufacturer support change so quickly, the life expectancy of the average computer is only couple of years. Upgradeware supplies adapters so that even older motherboards can run the fastest processors.
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• Back to the Old Republic: Inside the World of "Star Wars" Comic Books*
  Wednesday 24 January 2007 – 06:59
  Star Wars has been a signature series for Dark Horse Comics ever since the publisher purchased the license in 1991. TwitchGuru goes behind the scenes of the two hottest Star Wars comic books, "Knights of the Old Republic" and "Legacy," with authors John Jackson Miller and John Ostrander.
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• Old Hand Meets Young Firebrand: ATi FireGL X1 and Nvidia Quadro4 980XGL*
  Thursday 23 January 2003 – 06:00
  OpenGL - the story so far: the last Quadro4 chip to predate the GeForce FX, Nvidia entered the ring with the NV28GL. ATi countered with the R300, alias 9700 Pro, for use on the FireGL X1. Seven graphics cards take up the challenge.
• AMD's CTO: Intel is an old-school company*
  Friday 18 May 2007 – 01:20
  AMD is going through challenging times these days, with enormous losses on the one side and a new quad-core CPU that needs to re-establish the firm's competitiveness with Intel on the other. We recently caught up with Phil Hester and got answers to some of our questions about AMD - the competition with Intel, the strategy behind the Fusion processor. Join us for a chat with AMD's chief technology officer. ...
• Ballmer disses old Microsoft employees at D conference*
  Thursday 31 May 2007 – 02:24
  Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sure knows how to motivate his older employees. ...
• Reviving Old Hardware*
  Thursday 27 September 2007 – 09:35 in Hardware
  So the big Vista push has been and gone, and many users have upgraded, some have switched to Mac products and still others are despairing over their choices. Where does leave the old computers, the ones that didn’t make the cut, the ones that showed a ne ...
• Can Your Old Athlon 64 Still Game?*
  Friday 24 October 2008 – 06:40
  We'd all love to upgrade every time a new piece of gaming hardware drops, but that's an expensive proposition. You think your Athlon 64 system is fairly quick--any chance a simple graphics upgrade can bring it up speed? We're aiming to find out.