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Welcome to our first ever Hardware Monday.This week I will discuss the hardware news and reviews from the previous week. there is no exact layout of the article in mind yet so be patient as I find my direction. and as always you are more than welcomed to leave comments or suggestions in the comments below.

This has been an interesting week in hardware. From Nvidia to Intel to AMD and ASUS there have been some interesting announcements and reviews. Nvidia is in the midst of launching their new lineup of cards, the 9000 series, and the overall acceptance from the media has been pretty low. Intel announces a processor fit for mobile phones that is amazingly inexpensive yet powerful enough to change the way we think about mobile computing. AMD releases their new three core Phenom chip. and ASUS is in development of a 3 GPU videocard to the taste of the ATI 3850 cards.
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It seems that Vista isn’t as bad as has been toted when it comes to game performance. Service pack one solves a lot of the performance problems with vista and brings the frame-rate to near XP speeds.

As a vista user I admit that sometimes I have some performance lag, it doesn’t affect me much as when my performance isn’t lagging I still get a good 4-60 fps in most newer games. I have been looking forward to upgrading to SP1, mainly because I like to keep my systems up to date. Unfortunately though I am in Korea and henceforth unable to update. I’ll have to wait until I get back home in June. Have you vista users seen any increase with speeds or is