In 2012, total credit financing grew 20%, with trust loans up 80%, FX loans up 27% and bond financing increasing 45%.

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What he ended up with was Kor-FX, a system that hooks up to any electronics system that has audio outputs.

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If "barebones" isn't quite your style, Apple has a spankin' 4, 976, 640 configurations to choose from, ramping up to a ATi Radeon 1900 or Quadro FX 4500 GPU, 16GB of RAM and 2TB of disk space.

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Compared to its last-gen Bulldozer chips, "in every way, today's FX-8350 is better, " according to Tom's Hardware: cheaper, up to 15 percent faster and more energy efficient.

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So we know AMD was launching the Quad FX platform this week (that officially happened in America today), but we were a little hard up for info on what that actually entailed.

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Which is why a recent conversation on Twitter between Zen Studios, makers of Pinball FX 2, and Archer Production Designer and Director Neil Holloman is the kind of thing that makes my ears perk up.

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