Reviewers note, alongside their fawning assessment of the world's best performance, that the HD 6990 is a massively power-hungry card (375W TDP) and one that makes quite a bit of noise while going through its herculean tasks.
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Not all the openings are hidden, though: on the notebook's right edge, you'll find a 3.5mm headphone jack, while the power button and memory card reader sit on the left.
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We wanted to make sure that the computer memory, CPU power and the graphics card were sufficiently adequate to control the character and play the game as a reasonable level of performance.
It took me many years to accept that my little credit card held no power for me.
Mr Renzi's biggest mistake was to think he could simply stroll into power by playing the age card, says Massimo Franco of Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.
With an election due this year, Mr Rudd always held a constitutional trump card: the power to dissolve both houses of parliament together, and resubmit the bill to the new parliament.
Use your power to bring in the major card processors and retailers into the fold.
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This led to a "very slight" performance lead over the GTX 680, especially at higher resolutions, but the nimbler NVIDIA card still won on power efficiency.
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Two GPUs on one card, giving the power of 4 GPUs on a PC. 2GB dedicated frame buffer, 41 gigapixels per second throughput. 5.2 teraflops of computing power.
While a leveled up creature can be more than a match for a higher ranked card, the base power level of the higher ranks and rarity make them highly sought after.
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Graphics power is provided by an ATI Rage 128 Pro graphics card with 16MB of video RAM -- the same accelerator that's found in the latest Power Mac G4.
We spent the first two nights without power in NYC, playing Monopoly and card games.
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On the other side, there's an SD card reader, ethernet, power, mic and headphone ports.
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More recent ideas include managing distressed power stations and buying delinquent credit-card debts from banks.
Credit card issuers have discovered the power of co-creating products that instill loyalty over time, while offering real cardholder value.
Unisys, which makes high-power computer systems for banks and credit card companies, is already anticipating a hassle with export authorities when Intel's Itanium chip debuts later this year.
There's also an HDMI port for outputting 1080p video to a TV, along with one full-size USB port, a mini-USB connector for syncing and updates, a power port and a micro-SD card slot, for adding up to 32 gigs of extra storage.
When we first read the news about how the SD Card Association was introducing an even more mini version of miniSD called microSD we figured they were getting a little arrogant, that maybe they'd become drunk with the power that comes from being the SD Card Association.
The WarpDrive card is bootable, has no external power requirement and installs as a single drive with no user configuration required.
WiCC cards double as NFC antennae, enabling them to seamlessly replace the existing NFC antenna with a card that delivers both NFC and wireless power.
The biggest takeaway is just how many achievements IBM has actually has been a part of -- everything from typewriters and the modern day credit card magnetic strip, to the computing power behind the Apollo space mission.
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And the SD card is nonvolatile, meaning it requires no power to continue storing information securely.
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WiCC will work seamlessly with all handsets in compliance with IEEE's Power Matters Alliance (PMA) 'Wireless Charging Card' specifications.
The Commission has the power to order changes to the structure of the store card market by introducing price caps and removing barriers to new entrants.
It always amazes me when people who are deeply in debt to their credit card companies fail to do everything in their power to pay it off immediately.
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Australia's competition watchdog has sued credit card company Visa for alleged "misuse of market power".
The 128 Pro is a fine card, but some may find themselves wanting more video power in the future.
After all, the only thing they provide that a traditional credit card does not is a false sense of unlimited spending power.
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Other ports are more conventionally located: along the left edge of the dock are HDMI and USB 2.0, while the right hosts the power connector, another USB 2.0 connection and an SD card slot.
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On September 15th it brought two actions against China at the World Trade Organisation (WTO): one contesting Chinese duties on American exports of a special type of steel used in power generation, and another over discrimination against foreign providers of payment-card transactions.
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