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ASUS knows, like you do, that you can never have too many graphics cards. In a day and age where double- and quadruple-SLI graphics solutions are commonplace, ASUS saw a weakness in traditional motherboards that only house a couple of your $800 GPUs. That’s why the NVIDIA-based P5N32-E comes equipped with not one or two but three 16x PCI Express slots: because more is always better. Read about more additions to the ASUS line after the jump.

How many graphics cards do you really need? With the P5N32-E, you can run two cards in SLI and use the third slot to fill up to two separate monitors on another card. Necessary? I doubt it. Cool as hell? Maybe. Justification for picking up two more sweet LCDs? Now you’re speaking my language. Alternatively, you could use the third slot for a physics processor card and rock out on the two games that support the hardware.

The new ASUS board also sports a redesigned heatpipe chipset cooling system for noise reduction and an upgrade to Intel’s integrated audio with the 7.1-ready SupremeFX sound card. They’ve also released a new on-the-fly overclocking system called AI NOS which reads system temperatures and performance load and overclocks your system automatically to achieve peak performance. No word on whether or not the NOS system requires you to be a jerk about your computer or challenge other gamers to benchmark competitions for pinks.

For $300, you can bring one home in time for the holidays. – Karson Thompson

The ASUS P5N32-E Gaming Motherboard [via Electronista]

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•Linksys Phone for Yahoo Messenger and Landlines: Unboxed and Groped
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Comment of the Day: Microsoft Zune: Paying Off One Label at a Time

“This is priceless… so now Universal will once again make money that will in no way go to the artist like in the YouTube deal. but of course they will complain all day and night about how music is being stolen.”–Crazyglues

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Kat aka The Bag Lady went along to the opening of the new Bose store, to look at what delights they have in store for us for the end of November. Headphones mainly, and perhaps unsurprisingly! Watch out for the…

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The Casio Exilim Card EX-S770D digital camera is a DivX-certified product that will be available in Europe sometime later this month through online channels. The spiritual successor to the EX-S600D, the S770D received a boost in the megapixel count with a 7.2 megapixel image sensor and the ability to record video in DivX format. Transferring recorded video is also extremely easy with the S770D being compatible with the entire DivX ecosystem. If you do not want to fork out the dough for an expensive video camera and yet want a digital camera that snaps great still shots as well as the occasional video, the S770D fits the bill.

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Mac OS X only: Freeware app Google Reader Notifier plugs into your Google Reader account and alerts you of new, unread items.

This Google Reader Notifier is not an official Google build, but when it comes to looks and functionality, it may as well be. It matches the style of the Google Notifier for Macs, placing the Google Reader icon in your menu bar with an optional unread count. I’ve been waiting for something like this ever since I followed Gina in the switch from Bloglines to Google Reader, so today is a very good day.

Additionally, major kudos to this app for great Preference options, my favorite being the option to only display items that match a label/tag of your choice. Of course, having this option just makes me greedy, and now I wish I could use regular Google terms like AND, OR, and negation (-) to get really specific with my labels. That’s what you get when an app adds a great option you wouldn’t otherwise expect (I wish the Gmail Notifier would let me monitor new mail by label).

The point is, the Google Reader Notifier is nice, it’s freeware, and it’s Mac OS X only. Thanks Giovanni!— Adam Pash

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Belkin’s 7-Port Plus Hub that goes by the model F5U307 looks more complex to solve than a Isis Ball. This unique-looking USB hub boasts a mechanism that enables different parts to cascade in the same manner as Windows does on your desktop. From the picture, one can deduce that there are three ports located on top of the hub, with another trio hiding just below. It might look like a voodoo doll in the end with six different USB devices stuck to the F5U307, but as long as that doesn’t get in the way of functionality, we’re game.

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Blogger and musician Jake Mandell posts a simple flash test for tone deafness.

The test, which was made while he was working at a music and neuroimaging laboratory, plays two musical phrases back to back, and you have to decide whether they’re the same or different. At 77.8%, I have “Excellent musical abilities.” I knew I could do it! Let us know if you’re a Beethoven or a Barr in the comments. — Adam Pash

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Want to see what the photo collection of the future might look like? Check out Microsoft Live Labs Photosynth, which organizes photos in a three-dimensional space and lets you swoop around from one area to another.

Specifically, the software analyzes a batch of photos (ideally of a place or object), looks for similarities among them, then reconstructs them in an interactive 3D environment.

For the moment this is just a tech preview, meaning you can’t try it with your own photo collections. And it requires Internet Explorer. But it sure is slick, and definitely worth a look. Thanks, Anton!— Rick Broida

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We’ll try not to bother you with every single second of these guy’s Best Buy exploits, but a few soundbites TG Daily picked up from the Burbank PS3 campers the other day were just too good pass up. Apparently one of the campers called in sick (for two weeks?), and had to postpone his engagement to divert the ring fund to a PlayStation 3, while another guy quit his job altogether. Hit the read link for a full video of these crazies, who fend off naysayers saying “They look at us like we have nothing to do… but we are getting a PlayStation 3.” Well, we would sure hope so!

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BOLD MOVES: THE FUTURE OF FORD A new documentary series. Be part of the transformation as it happens in real-time

Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

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Macworld details how you can set your headphone volume independently of your Mac’s system volume.

One possible use for this tidbit of knowledge is to create a muted “non-headphone” setting. Plug in a set of headphones, set the volume level to your preferred level, then unplug the headphones. Now mute the system sound by hitting F3 (or Fn and F3, if you have your machine so set). Until you plug in your headphones, your Mac will be silent to the world, letting you use it in the library without fearing everyone will hear your AOL-inspired “You’ve got mail!” new e-mail announcement. Plug in your headphones, though, and the previously-set level is restored, and mute mode is canceled.

Anyone who’s felt the embarrassment of an accidental headphone-unplugging in a public workspace should see the usefulness of this handy tip. — Adam Pash

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