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Tease: - Leo Laporte

Leo likes his new netbook: The Asus Eee PC 1201n - Leo Laporte

Item 1: ASUS P6T7 and P7P55 WS Workstation Motherboards http://www.pcper.com/article... - Leo Laporte

Item 2: Newegg sells fake Intel Core i7 processors http://hardocp.com/article... Forum reports, HardOCP looked into it, rumored to be one distributor and "demo boxes", intel denies producing any demo boxes (with misspellings!), Newegg investigates and finds IPEX is the culprit, cancels relationship with them newegg things 300/2000 CPUs from that supplier were fake, contact people that might effected Video of the fake: http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Leo Laporte

Item 3: http://www.pcper.com/comment... OnLive announces availability and pricing June 17th, $14.95/mo with no games, those purchases and rentals will be extra 12-25 games available including Mass Effect 2, Assasin's Creed 2, Borderlands, Dragon Age PC/Mac only, micro console "later this year" 1080p in 2011 perlman suggests - Leo Laporte

Item 4: Valve Steam Service coming to the Mac http://www.pcper.com/comment... "Steam and Valve's library of games including Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, Portal, and the Half-Life series will be available in April." Future games will hit at the same time Both PC and Mac versions will be bundled together, meaning that buyers get both editions of the game for the price of one--a feature that Valve calls Steam Play. Furthermore, games with support for Steam Cloud server-side save storage can be started on one platform (say, PC) and continued on the other (in this example, Mac). - Leo Laporte

Item 5; Warpia Debuts Wireless Laptop Docking Station USB based, only 1400x1050 or 1440x900, 32-bit color, 48 Khz 16-bit audio, Windows and Mac ready 128-bit AES encrypted $150 is a LOThttp://www.pcper.com/comment... - Leo Laporte

Item 6: Last but not least: PC Perspective sees Eyefinity 6-panel in action http://www.pcper.com/comment... - Leo Laporte

Item 7: NVIDIA 196.75 driver might be a GPU killer http://www.pcper.com/comment... - Leo Laporte

Twitter questions! WWNSX @ryanshrout Will Nvidia come out with a new Nforce X or 10 Chipset with audio like the old soundstorm? seems like in 2008 they were going to ITmaster @ryanshrout I have an old ATI GPU lying around, can I add this to my system with a GTX260 and add another monitor (2 already) Thnx DanielBrewer @ryanshrout I am scared of ATI cards due to their driver issues from years ago - nvidia seems more stable. Why should I switch? niteowler @ryanshrout The new i7 930 is a disappointment at 45 nm. Why didn't Intel use their new 32 nm process for their top end socket? - Leo Laporte