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Another Monday is among us and the hardware news is ripe for the picking, some stories were looked over from last week while plenty of good eats are recent and awesomely ready for consumption. Wow, I must be hungry or something… on to the news!

From AMD’s financial downturn to new SLI equipped laptops from Toshiba and some water cooled ddr2 from OCZ, read on to find out where your gaming technology will take you in the near future.
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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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Full Story: http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/25/asus-eah3850-trinity-crams-three-radeon-gpus-onto-one-card/ Some things just seem ridiculous, and some things just get worse. I am seriously seeing a day where our graphics cards are described like our CPUs, where people are quoting the number of cores without actually knowing anything about the cores themselves; And where the newest innovation is just to add more cores without actually improving on the underlying systems. To each his own, I will admit that I am curious as to how well it performs; I will keep you guys posted.

Full Story: http://www.tcmagazine.com/comments.php?shownews=18806&catid=2

Finally the wait is over for the new top-shelf consumer cards from Nvidia. Last week we got the release of the dual processor 9800-GX2, so it was only a matter of time before the more price conscious of the 9 series started popping up in stores.

Tell me, if you were to buy a card this generation, which card might it be? Would you deck out and get dual GX2s or would you maybe be happy with a single GTX with the option of SLI in the future?