She said she had to be picked up by her mother, after an NCT driver refused to let her on because the chip in her bus pass was faulty so he could not tell if it was valid.

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It'd pack 2, 688 shader units, a 384-bit memory bus and 6GB of RAM, all with one chip -- for reference, the GTX 690 needs two GPUs to offer 3, 072 shader units and has 4GB of RAM.

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The Pentium III is essentially a Pentium II processor, with the same 512KB off-chip secondary cache and 100-MHz system bus.

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The upgrade on the machine includes a boost to the system bus--the primary pathway between the central processing chip and the computer's memory, from 100 MHz to 133 MHz.

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Conexant's Fusion 878A chip will convert incoming video to streaming format and send it along the system's PCI bus.

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When the K7's on-chip 128KB L1 cache becomes too small, the K7 will call on the 200-MHz EV6 bus developed for Digital's Alpha processors.

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