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You into frame rates? No, we mean are you frickin’ bonkers over watching your rig hit triple digits in a Crysis timedemo? If you’re still nodding “yes,” have a gander at what’ll absolutely have to be your next buy. The ASUS Mars 295 Limited Edition is quite the unique beast, rocking a pair of GTX 285 chips that are viewed by Windows as a GeForce GTX 295. All told, you’re looking at 240 shader processors, a 512-bit GDDR3 memory interface, 32 total memory chips and 4GB of RAM. Amazingly, the card is totally compatible with existing drivers and is Quad-SLI capable, and if all goes to plan, it’ll actually peek its head out at Computex next week. Rest assured, we’ll do everything we can to touch it. - Iftekhar Ahmed Amit

You into frame rates? No, we mean are you frickin’ bonkers over watching your rig hit triple digits in a Crysis timedemo? If you’re still nodding “yes,” have a gander at what’ll absolutely have to be your next buy. The ASUS Mars 295 Limited Edition is quite the unique beast, rocking a pair of GTX 285 chips that are viewed by Windows as a GeForce GTX 295. All told, you’re looking at 240 shader processors, a 512-bit GDDR3 memory interface, 32 total memory chips and 4GB of RAM. Amazingly, the card is totally compatible with existing drivers and is Quad-SLI capable, and if all goes to plan, it’ll actually peek its head out at Computex next week. Rest assured, we’ll do everything we can to touch it. - Iftekhar Ahmed Amit

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Visual Studio 2010 is a complete suite of tools for building both desktop and team-based enterprise Web applications. In addition to building high-performing desktop applications, you can use Visual Studio's powerful component-based development tools and other technologies to simplify team-based design, development, and deployment of enterprise solutions. For information about key enhancements in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1, see Visual Studio 2010 Product Highlights. - Iftekhar Ahmed Amit

.NET Framework version 4 Beta 1 is an integral Windows component that supports building and running the next generation of applications and Web services. The key components of the .NET Framework are the common language runtime (CLR) and the .NET Framework class library, which includes ADO.NET, ASP.NET, Windows Forms, and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). The .NET Framework provides a managed execution environment, simplified development and deployment, and integration with a wide variety of programming languages. For an introduction to the architecture and key features of the .NET Framework, see Overview of the .NET Framework. - Iftekhar Ahmed Amit

.NET Framework version 4 Beta 1 is an integral Windows component that supports building and running the next generation of applications and Web services. The key components of the .NET Framework are the common language runtime (CLR) and the .NET Framework class library, which includes ADO.NET, ASP.NET, Windows Forms, and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). The .NET Framework provides a managed execution environment, simplified development and deployment, and integration with a wide variety of programming languages. For an introduction to the architecture and key features of the .NET Framework, see Overview of the .NET Framework. - Iftekhar Ahmed Amit

Visual Studio 2010 is a complete suite of tools for building both desktop and team-based enterprise Web applications. In addition to building high-performing desktop applications, you can use Visual Studio's powerful component-based development tools and other technologies to simplify team-based design, development, and deployment of enterprise solutions. For information about key enhancements in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1, see Visual Studio 2010 Product Highlights. - Iftekhar Ahmed Amit

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NVIDIA GTX 275 / ATI Radeon HD 4890 review roundup Unless you've started your weekend early, you have probably realized that both NVIDIA and AMD announced new GPUs this morning. Coincidental timing aside, it sure makes things easy for the consumer to eye the respective benchmarks and plan out their next mid-range GPU purchase accordingly. A whole bevy of reviews, tests, graphs and bar charts have hit the web this morning extolling and panning the pros and cons, but without getting too deep in the nitty-gritty, we can sum things up pretty easily with this. NVIDIA's GTX 275 showed performance that placed it perfectly between the GTX 285 and GTX 260, and in all but a few off-the-wall tests, it outpaced the ATI Radeon HD 4890 (albeit slightly). Granted, the HD 4890 was called the "fastest, single-GPU powered graphics card AMD has ever produced" by HotHardware, though apparently even that wasn't enough to help it snag the gold across the board. If you're hungry for more (and you are, trust... - Iftekhar Ahmed Amit

Squabbles with Intel aside, NVIDIA's engineers have been keeping busy, and the company's got a whole slew of new high-powered workstation graphics chips to talk about this morning, along with new SLI virtualization support. The new gear ranges from the Quadro NVS 295, which'll drive two 30-inch displays for under $100, all the way up to the monster 4GB Quadro FX 5800, which packs 240 CUDA cores onto a PCI Express x16 card for $3150. The 5800 and baby brothers Quadro FX 3800 and 4800 all support SLI Multi-OS, which allows workstation users to tap into the cards using multiple OSes in Parallels -- the HP Z800 is the first machine off the line to offer the capability, but more will follow. Pretty geeky stuff, head to the read links for more info. - Iftekhar Ahmed Amit

AMD today introduced the ATI FirePro V7750 graphics accelerator for the high-end market. This high-end graphics card features multiple DisplayPort outputs and a Dual Link enabled DVI output, that generate a multi-monitor desktop of more than 5000 pixels wide in a single-slot form factor. It comes with a 1GB of frame buffer memory and a 30-bit display pipeline that enables rendering of more accurate color reproduction and visual quality of complex and large data sets. You can purchase the ATI FirePro V7750 graphics accelerator for $899. - Iftekhar Ahmed Amit

As reported last year in July and Toyota is to deliver very soon: The world's biggest automaker today announced the newest version of their Prius hybrid vehicle, due out in Japan in May, will be equipped with solar panels. Toyota claims the new model will also come with a brawnier and more fuel-efficient engine (the picture shows a model from last year). The engine will be a 1.8-liter type, which is 300cc bigger than the version available in Prius cars sold at the moment. According to Toyota, it saves around 10% of fuel when compared to existing Prius engines, running around 35km on a liter of gas. What's surely more interesting though is the solar power aspect. The rooftop solar panels are supposed to charge the battery whenever the car is parked. Toyota says drivers can use solar energy to power the air conditioner and other parts of the car. Prices in Japan range between $21,000 and $26,000, depending on extras. The company's Japanese website doesn't offer any official information... - Iftekhar Ahmed Amit

Presumably this car is fine. Mafia types and limousine drivers take note: according to the latest California Air Resources Board report, dark and black cars could soon be verboten. Why? Because darker colors require heavier air conditioner usage, naturally. A Mythbusters-type test is in order here but I suspect that the actual difference, internally and while in motion, between a white car and a black car is negligible and as anyone who has gotten into a hot car - any color hot car - that AC is going on ASAP anyway. The recommendation appears in CARB Cool Cars Standards and Test Procedures which will require 20% solar reflectivity in all colors by 2016, thereby forcing pigment-makers to rethink those glossy colors. This change should also change the actual quality of the color, rendering black a dull brown. Maybe they need Tru-coat? Or maybe some nano-paint with the same coloration but lower reflectivity? - Iftekhar Ahmed Amit

The California legislature is considering regulating the color of cars and reflectivity of paint to reduce the energy requirements to cool them. A presentation on the proposed legislation by the California Air Resources Board is below. The problem isn't the color per se, but the reflectivity of the paint overall. And dark colors just don't reflect well, so they are likely out. "Jet black remains an issue," says the report. The new regulations would be phased in beginning in 2012, so if you want that black car, you better buy it soon. More on Autoblog and CrunchGear. And you thought that black Toyota Pious you bought made you such a good person. Think again, you tree hating energy slob. Luckily, black websites are still ok, even though they, too, use more energy. - Iftekhar Ahmed Amit

Intel's new Nehalem chipset allows for hugenormous amounts of high-speed RAM, a selling point companies like Dell and Cisco are now touting in their latest high-end server systems. Microsoft Vista flavors can support up to 128GB of RAM. The machine in question, the Dell Precision T7500, has 12 memory slots supporting 1333MHz DDR3 RAM. How much would it cost to totally kit out your machine? 16GB 1333 MHz RAM costs $3,400, so to fill each of those slots would cost you $40,800. Not quite a bargain price but experts expect this price to go down over time as more and more people realize that you just can't play the new Britney video on a machine with anything less than 128GB of RAM. - Iftekhar Ahmed Amit

Sorry Mr. Schumacher, but your ten year record just got obliterated (okay, "beat soundly") by a Briton. On the dry, dusty plains of Ivanpah Lake in Nevada, Sir Richard Jenkins managed to perfectly harness winds of 30MPH in his futuristic Ecotricity Greenbird in order to hit a ridiculously quick 126.1MPH. In all honestly, we can't even fathom how you hit that speed with just 30MPH of wind, but clearly we're not up to speed when it comes to physics and engineering. At any rate, the milestone is pretty important for Ecotricity, which is trying to make wind power the go-to alternative energy source within the next score. Now, if only we could figure out a cheap and easy way to generate wind on demand, we'd really be onto something. - Iftekhar Ahmed Amit

You'd probably never know it from all the pictures, but the Chevy Volt hasn't actually been fully built before -- so far all we've seen are "development mules" constructed from the shell of the company's Cruze compact cars. That's all gonna change on June 1st, when General Motors says it's gonna start production on the first 100 percent genuine Volt. According to the unofficial blog GM-Volt, an average of ten cars will be made each week until a fleet of 80 have been complete. Of course, you're still not gonna get to drive one until at least 2010, so don't go looking for your favorite Gatsby cap just yet. - Iftekhar Ahmed Amit

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