Marvel has mastered the art of using their solo film franchises as not only storytelling vehicles for each solo player, but also as a large interconnected marketing machine that reinforces audience interest and awareness of the Marvel brand.

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Testing the cards on an Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700-powered machine with 2GB of RAM, the single R600 card bested the solo 8800 GTX in basically every benchmark they tried, with common applications seeing minimal gains, but games saw between ten-percent (Half-Life 2: Lost Coast) and 42-percent (1701 A.D.) hikes.

ENGADGET: ATI R600 graphics card benchmarked, cruises by NVIDIA's GeForce 8800 GTX

But once the music started, Gainsbourg really seemed to lose herself in the dreamy tracks from her third solo album, IRM, which gets its title from the French term for what Americans know as the MRI machine.

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