Nvidia Launches DirectX 10 Graphics Card for $299
Partners of Nvidia Corp., the world’s largest supplier of standalone graphics processors, have unveiled a 320MB flavour of the GeForce 8800 GTS (the other flavour has 640MB memory onboard).
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13.2.2007 Windows 7 system requirements
When Microsoft released the official beta for Windows 7 a while back, it also published a set of system requirements. These were a general overview, and it seems that they have been updated to match the Windows 7 RC recently made available.
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3.5.2009 Windows Vista System Requirements Released
Microsoft has updated its Get Ready Web site to include the minimum system requirements to run Windows Vista.
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21.12.2006 Microsoft Details Hardware Requirements for Windows Vista
During the several-year development time of Windows Vista, I've been asked one question more than any other about this next generation operating system: What hardware will it require? Microsoft has always been pretty vague about the requirements.
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30.3.2006 Credit Card Crusher 113.172a
Great freeware tool for perspective on your credit card debt - crush your debt!
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12.7.2008 Xbox Gets Bigger Live Games, Memory Card
Microsoft plans to allow Xbox Live Arcade games to use more space, announcing it had increased the official size limit from 50 to 150 megabytes. In addition, the company also announced a larger memory card with a capacity of 512MB.
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5.3.2007 Windows 7 DirectX11 High-Fidelity Graphics Enhancements
DirectX debuted back in 1995, and, with the upcoming Windows client, the underlying graphics technology of the operating system will evolve to the next level.
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1.12.2008 Vista Minimum Requirements Unrealistic
A white paper published this morning by hardware analysis firm iSuppli.
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8.12.2006 Xbox Arcade and $100 gift card for $199 on Nov. 7
Rumors have been going around recently regarding a supposedly upcoming Walmart deal, in which an Xbox 360 Arcade will be up for offer, along with a $100 gift voucher, for $199.
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4.11.2009 Critical IE Graphics Flaw Resurfaces
Plus: More Office holes, and a major Adobe problem that affects all browsers.
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22.2.2007 Microsoft to Move Graphics Outside OS Kernel.
Microsoft will move the graphics for its next version of Windows outside of the operating system's kernel to improve reliability, the software giant has told Techworld.
Vista's graphics subsystem, codenamed Avalon and formally known as the Windows Presentation Foundation, will be pulled out the kernel because many lock-ups are the result of the GUI freezing, Microsoft infrastructure architect Giovanni Marchetti told us exclusively yesterday.
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16.12.2005 Microsoft giving away free graphics and TV cards
Microsoft is giving away free graphics and TV cards to it's Windows Vista Media Center testers during it's beta program. Testers are allowed to keep the cards after testing has been completed!
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Samsung develops new graphics memory speed limit
Samsung is getting ready to produce extremely fast memory chips to be used on future graphics cards.
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25.2.2007 Minimum System Requirements? Just Feed 8 GB (!) of RAM into Vista SP1 and then Watch it Fly
Want to talk performance in a comparison between Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3?
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1.12.2007 Windows 7 Migration Tool to Move From Windows XP to Windows 7
In past we had covered guide on upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7. Unfortunately there is no direct upgrade path from Windows Xp to Windows 7 and you have to use Windows Easy Transfer utility if you want to move your user and program files from XP to Windows 7.
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22.11.2009 Vista SP1, and then Windows 7, Windows 8 and Non-Windows Midori
2008 saw the release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Server 2008, but Microsoft's journey on the Windows path is far from over.
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5.8.2008 Windows 7 RC Brings Windows XP Mode Beta and Windows Virtual PC Beta
The Release Candidate of Windows 7 will bring with it the first Beta development milestones for Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC.
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29.4.2009 Windows Reactivator 2.0 - Backup & Restore Activation Status of Windows XP with Windows Reactivator
Every time you reinstall your windows XP you need to reactivate it online using your product key & worst if you lost your Windows XP product key.
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3.6.2009 Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2
Feb 26th, 2008. Principled Technologies has released two Microsoft commissioned reports on Windows Vista SP1 performance. In these tests, Principled Technologies measured responsiveness of Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2 when performing a set of common business and home tasks.
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28.2.2008 Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9 – 1 Billion and Counting
Is Windows dead? Or, at least, is this the beginning of the end for Microsoft's proprietary operating system?
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15.9.2008 Week in Microsoft: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9
This week in Microsoft, we covered 128-bit support possibly coming to Windows 8 and Windows 9, Windows 7, Windows Mobile 6.5, Bill Gates, Office 2010 Starter, Microsoft MVP status, Windows Live Hotmail, the EU, and Microsoft Security Essentials.
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10.10.2009 Windows Vista Build 5231 and Windows Media Player 11 Leaks!
Windows Vista Build 5231 has leaked to the web. The new build is said to include Windows Media Player 11 included. View the screenshots below! This is a Main branch build that was released on September 12th, 2005 at 8:20PM.
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Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3: Official Release Dates
A French website, PC Inpact, has posted the official Microsoft product change request forms for Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3.
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6.2.2008 Download Free Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2 Straight from Microsoft
Via the Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image. That's right! Microsoft is offering access to free downloads of Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2.
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6.3.2008 Windows Vista SP1 outperforms Windows XP SP2 in file copy
"Its interesting that people seem to think that Vista under performs in every area of the system which is quite an incorrect perception.
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27.5.2008 Windows Fiji Has RTMd as Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008
Microsoft officially confirmed that Windows Fiji has been released to manufacturing.
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18.7.2008 Windows 7 Beta Doesn't Play Nice with Windows Azure Cloud OS Tools
The promise for Windows 7 is that it will deliver an evolution when it will come down to stretching into the Cloud compared to its precursor, Windows Vista.
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16.1.2009 Internet Explorer 8 MUI packs for Windows XP, Windows Server 03
As detailed in our previous blog post, the following Internet Explorer MUI packs shipped today.
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17.5.2009 Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta adds Windows 7 support
Microsoft announced the release of Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta, along with news that it will feature Windows 7 support.
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20.7.2009 Check for RAM Error or Defect in Windows 7 and Vista with Windows Memory Diagnostic
Memory or RAM is one of the most important electronic hardware component on a computer systems, not only in term of speed or clock frequency and size, but also the reliability of hardware ecosystem of the RAM sticks or memory modules and its subsystem.
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1.10.2009Nvidia unveils 4GB Quadro FX 5800 graphics card
Nvidia has unveiled what it claims to be the most powerful professional graphics card in graphics history, the Nvidia Quadro FX 5800. The Quadro FX
5800 graphics card offers up to 240 Cuda programmable parallel cores and the industries first 4GB of graphics memory.
The card also
features interactive 4D modeling with time lapse capabilities, massive memory bandwidth of up to 102GB per second, and fill rates that exceed 52
billion texels per second and geometry performance of 300 million triangles per second.
The card also supports next-generation OpenGL and
Microsoft DirectX 10 applications, as well as advanced multi-system and multi-device visualization environments using Quadro G-Sync II.
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11.11.2008Water-cooled Graphics Card Represents Vista's High-end
In hopes there's a trend to
capitalize on, graphics card
manufacturer BFG is attaching
a water cooler onto its
top-of-the-line nVidia 8800
GTX-based graphics card, then
leveraging its presence as an
excuse to crank up the volume
even further. If a BFG 8800
GTX OC-equipped system ranks a
"5" on the new Vista
WSPR scale, then maybe it's
the company's hope that your
computer currently ranks about
a "2."..
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31.01.2007Ultra High-End PSU Roundup
As PC systems are demanding more and more power, the power supply manufacturers are reacting by releasing units rated for higher power output. We can
all thank NVIDIA and ATI, among others, for this trend, as we have seen an escalation in ridiculously high demands for power supplies with the latest
graphics chips. That this power is in most cases unnecessary should be clear to everyone who owns such a card or wants to buy one.
One reason such requirements are overkill is that the resolution you are running is largely responsible for higher GPU requirements, which in turn
leads to more power hungry systems. If you are running a top-end video card (or two) at just 1280x1024, much of the performance potential is going to
waste. Still, multiple GPUs under load will still require a beefy PSU, generally starting at 400W and going up from there, depending on the rest of
the system. If you're running a 30" LCD on the other hand - particularly with overclocking - we have seen power requirements break 600W in
worst-case scenarios.
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22.10.2007Intel planning to enter discrete graphics card market in 2008
Sources from multiple graphics
card vendors have confirmed
that Intel has approached them
to lay down plans to enter the
discrete graphics card market
for desktop PCs. The new
products from Intel would be
positioned as direct
competitors to AMD's ATI
Radeon and Nvidia's GeForce
series of cards.
At
this stage all plans are still
rather vague, according to the
sources, with Intel scheduled
to deliver a more complete
roadmap and specifications in
the fourth quarter of this
year.
However,
according to most of the
sources, Intel will aim for
the mid-range market in the
initial stages with pricing
targeted around US$300. In the
current market, graphics cards
at the high-end are priced at
around US$800...
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07.06.2007Final Windows Vista System
Specs Revealed
Microsoft just relealed the
final Windows Vista Hardware
Requirements. There you go,
you'll need the following
machine to run Vista:
Minimal Specs
(Called Vista-Ready PCs):
-800Mhz Processor
-512 MB of RAM
-DirectX 9-Capable Graphics
Processor
Recommended Specs (Called
Premium-Ready PCs):
-1
Ghz Processor
-128 MB
Graphics Memory, numerous
other graphics-related
requirements
-1 GB
System Memory
Microsoft also plans to make
an advertisement campaign
around those required
machines, in order to make
people be sure their machine
will meet those requirements,
and this campaign should be
revealed on May 18th, in this
case tomorrow.
This announcement was made
to prepare the also planned
WinHEC release of Windows
Vista Beta 2 (Supposedly Build
5384, last known compiled
build as of today), which will
likely be made public in the
days following its release at
WinHEC.
These
requirements are about what
was expected, maybe a little
bit below. As previously
announced, most PCs sold
within last year might be
Vista-Ready, though very few
fully meet the Premium-Ready
requirements.
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18.05.2006Windows 7 Beta 1 has problems with XP Display Drivers (XDDM)
I've been enjoying Windows 7 so much over the past week, that I've been evangelizing it to all of my friends. One friend with a Dell Inspiron
710m decided to take the plunge. Windows 7 installation went well, but we can't find any compatible display drivers for the Intel 855gm graphics
card. The graphics card in question doesn't support Windows Vista or Window 7's new WDDM driver model, but Windows Vista shipped with XDDM
drivers for this card out of the box. I feel that Windows 7 should have all of the same in-box drivers as Vista, and it's a bummer that this one
is not included.
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12.01.2009Windows Vista System Requirements Released
Microsoft has updated its
Get
Ready Web site to include
the minimum system
requirements to run Windows
Vista. A Windows Vista Capable
PC must include at least a CPU
running at 800MHz, 512 MB of
RAM, a DirectX 9 graphics card
capable of at least 800x600, a
CD-ROM drive and a 20 GB HDD
with at least 15 GB free for
the install. Of course,
systems with bare minimum
specifications will be unable
to run Vista in the Aero
interface.
In order
a PC to be certified as
"Windows Vista Premium
Ready," it must have at least
a 1 GHz CPU, 1 GB of RAM, a
DirectX 9 graphics with a WDDM
driver, 128 MB of graphics
memory, Pixel Shader 2.0,
DVD-ROM drive, a sound card,
internet access and 40 GB of
hard drive capacity with 15 GB
free space. For Windows XP,
users who did not meet the
minimal requirements for XP
Home (300 MHz, 128 MB) were
still able to install and run
the operating system, albeit
rather slowly. It remains to
be seen if Windows Vista will
allow installs on machines
lesser than minimal
specification.
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21.12.2006Budget & Mid-Range Graphics Card round-up
Gamers will often find that there is a wide range of graphics cards to choose from, especially when buying a mid-range product that sits below the
$200 price mark. However the trouble comes in determining just how much they need to spend in order to play the games they love and then reserve a
bit of legroom for the titles to come. The sub-$200 graphics card market is particularly strong at the moment, with products such as the Radeon
HD 4850 and GeForce 9800 GTX+ existing well within this price bracket. There is also the Radeon HD 4830 and GeForce 9800 GT graphics cards priced at
around $120.
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19.12.2008Direct3D WARP10 to enable you to play DX10 Crysis using software renderer only, albeit slowly
Direct3D backwards compatibility has always been "you get what your graphics cards run". For example,
Crysis may be a Direct3D 10 game, but if you only have a
Direct3D 9-level graphics card, it might only make your jaws open instead of hitting the floor. But that's all going to change comes Windows 7.
Simply put, in Windows 7, you will experience the same graphics fidelity and detail whether you have a Direct3D 9-level graphics
card or even no graphics card. The magic fairy dust which makes this possible is called Direct3D 10Level9 and Direct3D WARP10 respectively...
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26.11.2008AMD software let defective graphics cards slip into the channel
AMD's official graphics card
diagnostic and validation
software was recently
discovered to have a bug that
failed to detect defective ATI
Radeon HD 2400 and 2600
graphics cards, according to
sources at graphics card
makers.
Channel vendors pointed
out the problem with the cards
was due to an error in the
BIOS application process.
The issue was not
only encountered by small
makers, Asustek Computer,
Micro-Star International (MSI)
and Gigabyte Technology all
experienced the problem too,
noted the sources...
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01.08.2007Sapphire Demonstrates HD 2600 Dual
Sapphire Technology is
demonstrating the follow-up to
the X1950 Pro Dual at Computex
2007. The new graphics card is
based on AMDs recently
announced -- but not shipping
-- ATI Radeon HD 2600 graphics
processor. The product is
still in development and
unnamed. However, the
prototype card features two
ATI Radeon HD 2600 GPUs in
CrossFire mode.
The
two GPUs are joined together
by the same PLX PCIe bridge
chip as the Sapphire X1950 Pro
Dual. Each ATI Radeon HD 2600
GPU feeds off its own pool of
memory, as with two separate
cards operating in CrossFire.
This time around, Sapphire has
opted to equip the dual ATI
Radeon HD 2600 graphics card
with quad DVI outputs instead
of dual DVI and dual VGA.
The card also features
internal CrossFire connectors
for multi-card quad CrossFire
configurations. Sapphire
expects to have quad CrossFire
drivers ready for the card in
the future for quad HD 2600
action. ..
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05.06.2007New Quadro graphics card has low profile, two GPUs
Now you can get multi-GPU workstation graphics goodness in one of those slim desktops, too. Nvidia has announced the
Quadro NVS 420, a graphics card it claims to be "the industry's only low
profile professional graphics solution designed for maximum display real estate with a small form factor computer."
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21.01.2009Dedicated Graphics-Card Power Supply Announced
Do graphics cards need their
own power supplies? Sirtec
believes that they do. At the
Computex show here, the
company is pitching a
dedicated power supply for the
latest generation of graphics
cards. So far, the company has
not signed any distribution
agreements, but company
representatives say they're
hopeful.
The "High
Power" PSU will ship in three
different ranges: 350, 400,
and 620 watts, enough to power
an individual graphics card or
a pair running in SLI mode.
Today's graphics
cards are powered by the PCI
Express bus, and often an
additional power connector
that runs from the same system
power supply. Sirtek's
argument is that
next-generation PCI Express
2.0 systems could require
about 300 watts per card, and
that even the increased power
limits offered by the PCI
Express 2.0 standard won't be
enough to adequately power
those cards. In addition, the
system PSU could become
overstressed; it makes more
sense to divide the power
supplied to the system and
cards over multiple units, a
Sirtec spokeswoman said. ..
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06.06.2007AMD expected to grab 40% discrete graphics card market share
With AMD's ATI Radeon HD 4800-series graphics cards successfully cutting into the US$200-300 mainstream market forcing Nvidia to cut the price
of its previous generation GeForce 9800 GTX down to US$199, sources at graphics card makers see AMD's discrete graphics card market share as
having a chance to increase to 40% in the third quarter this year from around 30% at the beginning of 2008.
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27.06.2008Unreal Tournament 3 System Requirements
Epic has announced the minimum and recommended system requirements for the PC version of Unreal Tournament 3. From the early days when Epic first
showed the Unreal Engine 3 Tim Sweeney had always maintained that the game would run on SM 2.0 cards. We've come a long way but this has remained
true.
Minimum System Requirements
Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista
2.0+ GHZ Single Core Processor
512 Mbytes of System RAM
NVIDIA 6200+ or ATI Radeon 9600+ Video Card
8 GB of Free Hard Drive Space
Recommended System
Requirements
2.4+ GHZ Dual Core Processor
1 GBytes of System RAM
NVIDIA 7800GTX+ or ATI x1300+ Video Card
Unreal Tournament 3 is on track to be released this November. The PS3 version is less certain, while Epic hopes to have that version out by the
year's end they've cautioned that it may slip into early 2008. There is a Xbox 360 version announced but it will arrive later than the PS3
version.
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04.10.2007Can a sub-$100 graphics card get the job done?
So just how much money should you spend on a graphics card? The latest models for under 100 bucks might surprise you with their potency, both in games
and HD video playback. We've lined up eight cards to see where the values are.
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25.09.2008Microsoft confirms final Windows 7 system requirements
When Microsoft released the official beta for Windows 7 a while back, it also published a set of system requirements. These were a general overview,
and it seems that they have been updated to match the Windows 7 RC recently made available.
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03.05.2009Hacking Your Graphics Card
With GeForce 8800 GT availability issues, other manufacturers are selling this popular video card with different clock speeds and prices. To save a
buck or two, and possibly squeeze out some extra performance, ExtremeTech has a helpful primer on overclocking your 8800 GT with some very easy
hacks.
If you go into this with the right mindset, you can end up with a card that's just as good as those pricey overclocked ones. But
remember that you won't be able to return the card for repair if something goes wrong. If that thought gives you the willies, we recommend paying
a few bucks more for a factory overclocked card.
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13.12.2007Quake Wars demo now available
As expected, id Software and Splash Damage have released the PC demo for their upcoming team-based multiplayer game, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. The
demo
can be nabbed over at FileShack and
weighs in at a relatively reasonableby today's standard, at least727MB. Folks who download the demo will be able to enjoy the upcoming title's
Valley map, which is playable either online with other players or with bots.
According to a Shacknews report from last week,
minimum system requirements for the demo include a Pentium 4 2.8GHz or Athlon XP 2800+ processor, 512MB of RAM, a 128MB GeForce FX 5700 or Radeon 9700
graphics card, a DirectX 9.0c-compliant sound card, and a copy of Windows XP.
A note to users of AMD's latest Radeon HD
2000-series graphics cards, though: AMD
has released a
hotfix that it says improves performance in the Quake Wars demo. This hotfix is available for both Windows XP and Windows Vista.
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11.09.2007Nvidia asks card makers to reduce manufacturing costs of 8800 GT cards
Nvidia recently contacted its graphics card partners asking them to reduce the number PCB board layers used in GeForce 8800 GT-based graphics cards
from ten to six in order to reduce manufacturing costs and so lower the card's ASP (average selling price) in the market. The redesign would allow
the Nvidia cards to compete in terms of pricing with AMD's Radeon HD 3800 series products, according to sources at graphics card makers.
Although the Radeon HD 3800 series was launched three weeks later than the GeForce 8800 GT, Radeon 3800 demand has started to pick up,
bringing the market shares of Nvidia and AMD from 90% and 10%, originally, to 70% and 30%.
If the PCB layers are reduced from ten
to six, graphics card makers are expected to save more than US$10 for each card, which would allow the Nvidia products to go into price competition
with those of AMD.
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