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Hardware or Gadget/Multimedia News (hit read more to go straight to the full story) If you haven't noticed by now, there isn't a single GT 240 on the market that features the SLI connector on its PCB. We found it quite awkward that not even one partner has decided to go for it, especially considering the fact that most PCB designs are non-reference. The story behind it is quite simple as this card is considered as a product in the low-performance segment of the market and in order to keep the price at US $99, Nvidia has decided to ditch the SLI support for this card and keep the PCB less complex. To quote the reply of Nvidia :"We (Nvidia) did not see it fit for this product."  This one is for Faiakes - Dirty PCs Lifeforms can lurk inside a PC, so with flamethrower at ready to go in, here are some of the unspeakable horrors.  EVGA, where did your lifetime warranty go? Most people associate EVGA with their lifetime/10-year warranty and the step-up program. Asking almost anyone who is familiar with the brand and they will associate EVGA with their lifetime warranty and their customer service. Now, if they let their lifetime warranty slip, who's to say they won't or aren't letting their customer service slip too? We heard rumors that EVGA might be letting the step-up program go as well but given the origin of those sources [competing manufacturers], we aren't inclined to believe that is going on. We contacted our regular contacts at EVGA but are yet to receive an answer. Try Google's Chome OS TODAY! Download 300Mb After Google announced the availability of the Chrome OS / Chromium OS source code, one of our engineers (Jon Ursenbach), immediately got to work on compiling the code, trying to see if he could get an instance of Chromium OS running in a virtual machine. The French Bench 131 CPUs in 14 Benchmarks Anybody who claims "the French are lazy" hasn't seen their latest master piece. hardware.fr tested 131 CPUs from both Intel/AMD Camp, with 14 benchmarks. Sure the text is still in the language of love but the charts are international.   Confirmed: R2-D2 Finally Discovered In Star Trek At last, here's the droid we were all looking for. In this frame you can clearly see R2-D2's cameo in JJ Abrams' Star Trek. This time there's absolutely no doubt about it: It's been confirmed by ILM. Windows SteadyState Howto If you have a shared access computer, it can be aggravating when other users make a bunch of changes to the settings. Today we take a look at SteadyState for Windows Vista and XP which lets you return the computer to the original state after a user session. Cedarview Atom 2011 has HD support If you want Intel's platform that can alone support HD content, that will be the Cedar Trail D for desktop and some other Cedar Trail for netbooks. According to the intel we managed to gather, Cedarview 32nm Atom will feature a new graphics core that will have DirectX 10.1 support as well as HD content support. This includes Blu-ray support and official certification as well as Dual digital display support. The new graphics core will support VGA and LVDA, something that Pineview CPU already supports and additionally it will support LVDS, eDP, HDMI and DisplayPort. OCZ Plans USB 3.0 based SSD for CES 2010 Well an interesting post from an OCZ rep seems to indicate that USB 3.0 accessories are coming sooner rather than later. In a post looking for help naming the product, OCZ appears to have developed a prototype USB 3.0 portable solid state drive.   USB 3.0 vs USB 2.0 Benchmarks by Super TalentSapphire Radeon HD 5970 OC Review Overall, I was able to run the card higher than the clock speeds on the HD 5870 for a nice increase in performance, but to do so brought out the fan noise that ATI reference cards always bring to the table when you bump up the fan for additional cooling. I was able to reach clock speeds of 890MHz on the core and 1260MHz on the memory, with power consumption peaking at 486 watts on the system under load with temperatures that reached 69 degrees Celsius. The vapor chamber cooling does its job keeping this behemoth cool! Not too bad on the clocks and temperatures, but as an enthusiast you always want more performance with less power. CoolerMaster Sileo 500 Case Review A silent case may seem like a "sales gimmick" to some people, after all how can a case make noise? While it is true that the case itself isn't loud it can help transmit sound. After all it is the fans and other components that actually generate the noise. But the direct noise is only half of the battle, many of the sounds you hear coming from your case can be traced back to all of the moving parts and their affect on the case itself. Lian Li Armorsuit PC-P50 Today we are looking at the Lian Li Armorsuit PC-P50, a well crafted and premium mid-tower case that packs some very innovative features, classic aesthetics, and impeccable quality for consumers with discerning tastes. OCZ DDR3 PC3-12800 Intel XMP LV 4GB review The bright side is the modules ability to run tight timings at their stock frequency. After spending a few hours with them, making sure sure I got the most out of every setting while keeping them fully stable, I was able to drop them to 7-7-7-18. Amd Athlon 2 X3 435 CPU AMD has been pushing out alot of different Athlon 2 versions to the market so today we are giving our attention to their tri channel 435 CPU on our test bench. We decided to run this a couple of AMD cpu's and also vs a Intel processor to give you an idea how this unit performs. We will of course push our luck when it comes to overclocking so lets take a closer look. Sapphire Radeon HD 5850 Review The graphics solution world is constantly evolving with visual quality being stepped up at an ever-growing exponential rate. The launch of Windows 7 and with it the tantalising prospect of DirectX 11 games is perhaps not so much just a single step up but a whole flight of stairs designed to deliver unparalleled graphics quality. With nVidia sliding by the way side, ATI is setting about monopolising the market rolling out numerous members of its 5 series cards, each of which offers a different price/performance ratio, following the main launch of the 5870 – a card which packed some serious performance and certainly turned heads at the beginning of the DirectX 11 era. However, with DirectX 11 games still very much on the horizon and price of the 5870 way over budget for many enthusiasts, the inevitable introduction of the 5850 followed shortly. Based on the same RV870 core, codenamed Cypress, but located inside the $250 price bracket, the 5850 should consolidate the performance achieved by its bigger brother placing it in the upper mid-range section so as to push all the buttons for DX11 enthusiasts. Sapphire Radeon HD 5750 review Sapphire Radeon HD 5750 review also features Sapphire Radeon HD 5770. Sapphire Radeon HD 5750 has 18% lower clock speed, 5% lower memory speed and 10% less Shader Processors. InWin Maelstrom Case The inWin Maelstrom Case is the next PC Case in the Technic3D Editorship. The case designed for gamers, a maximum of 10x120mm Fans and many more can you see in the following Review from Technic3D. ATI Radeon HD 5970 2GB in CrossFireX So, we've looked at the HD 5970 in single form and we've also seen the massive OC potential of the card. You have to wonder what else there is to do? - We'll, that's easy; install our second HD 5970 into the system and see how CrossFireX goes. Since the second card arrived from big red themselves, there isn't a whole lot to look at. We'll have a quick peek at the card, just in case you haven't had a chance to see what's happening with it. We'll also snag a quick GPU-Z screen shot to make sure CrossFireX is working before we simply get into the benchmarks. Elixir 6 GB 1600 MHz CL9 Tri-Channel Elixir is known for their standard JEDEC modules, usually found in budget and mid-range systems. Their 1600 MHz tri-channel kit tries to give you that same value with a hint of overclockability thrown in the mix, for those who want that magical 1600 MHz speed, while spending as little as possible. OCZ Agility EX 60GB SSD (SLC) The OCZ Agility EX 60GB drive we are looking at today runs about $400 so they are pricey drives. That works out to $6.67 per Gigabyte of storage which is expensive compared to ordinary platter drives. Take your run of the mill 500GB platter drive which can easily be found for about $59.99 for a 7200 RPM 16MB cache drive, those run about $0.11 a gigabyte. The platter drives tend to run in the 60 - 70MB/s range and most end users settle for that and are happy with the considerable savings. Gigabyte Goes Renaissance , Holds Media Event In Rome, Italy.ASUS P7P55D Pro On the lookout for a P55 motherboard to match that shiny new Lynnfield CPU? Given the sheer selection available, deciding on one can be a hassle. ASUS' P7P55D Pro looks to appeal to a large crowd, though, by offering a slew of useful options, impressive overclocking abilities and a great design for an easy-to-stomach $170. Leadtek Expands into Desktop Virtualization Market with VMware Ready PC-over-IPWindows Home Server Power Pack 3 available November 24th Power Pack 3 improves the Windows Home Server experience with Windows 7 and Windows Media Center by providing new features like: backup and restore of computers running Windows 7, Windows 7 Libraries integration, enhancements for Windows Media Center, and better support for netbook computers. Power Pack 3 will enable the most optimal experience for Windows 7 users on a Windows Home Server network. “If you've recently upgraded to Windows 7, Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 is an essential download providing enhanced integration between the two platforms and a number of cool new features. Combine library support with enhanced features for Windows Media Center, and we're really starting to see Microsoft bring together the Windows Home Server and Windows 7 client experience so that your media can be stored on your home server and enjoyed seamlessly on TV, PC and Mobile devices with little effort from the user. The bad old days of copy, paste, convert and transcode may well be behind us,” says Microsoft Most Valued Professional (MVP) Terry Walsh of We Got Served. Microsoft MVP Alex Kuretz of MediaSmartServer.net says “Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 makes storing and accessing your media easier by bringing all the content contained on your Home Server smoothly into your Windows 7 libraries. TV Archive is also a very nice feature that has allowed me to record TV shows and move them to my Home Server to be watched at a later time.” GPU-Z 0.3.7 Released - Available for Download To begin with, GPU-Z now shows the GPU Computing features your graphics cards support, including whether they support technologies such as DirectCompute, OpenCL, CUDA, and PhysX acceleration. Building on the infotips feature the previous version came with, the Sensors tab now includes handy infotips too. For NVIDIA users, GPU-Z is able to display the exact amount of video memory in use by making use of a new driver-level feature by the company.  Google pulls the curtain off Chrome OS As planned, Google showed Chrome OS to the world for the first time earlier today. The unveiling came hand-in-hand with the release of the operating system's source code under the Chromium OS project, which allows anyone to grab the code, modify it, build it, and run it. Google doesn't seem to have released a pre-built distribution, though. Laymen might not be able to grab Chrome OS and use it just yet—the public launch isn't scheduled until a year from now—but Google has given everyone enough to salivate over. For starters, the company has revealed the OS's user interface, which places the web browser at the center of the user experience The reasons you need to buy Left 4 Dead 2 on PC Today, we're going to deviate from our standard review format for just a bit... and we beg your indulgence for this exercise. Left 4 Dead 2 is available now, and many of you have most likely already purchased the game. Some may still have hard feelings about how quickly the game was released after the first game—which is out of character for Valve. Some of you may still be on the fence about plopping down your money for the game. Instead of describing the game and giving you the good and the bad, it's time to just put the cards down: this is a great game that's worth your time and money. We present to you, in no particular order, the reasons you should buy Left 4 Dead 2... on the PC. Techsweden Gets Holds Of Exclusive Pics of MSI's H57M-ED65 Motherboard We have now got hold of unique pictures on a new motherboard that MSI will be launching shortly. There are no specifications or the like, but we see that it is based on the H57 chip and that it is in mATX form factor. . We can also find their OC-Genie chip on the motherboard along with jump parameters for live Bclk adjustment and it is therefore motherboards designed for us enthusiasts. Two PCI-e x16 is available and cooling for the processor voltage (DrMOS chip) consists of their "Super-Pipe". It promises to be a very nice motherboard from MSI.  Driver lost on 600km shops trip due to one wrong turn Eric Steward told police he failed to stop because he "liked to drive". Visiting friends in Yass, a country town south of Sydney in New South Wales state, Mr Steward left to buy a newspaper on Monday morning. More than eight hours later, after taking a wrong turn on the highway, he asked Victoria state police for help. Hands on with Office 2010 Beta Office 2010 is due in a few months, but the beta release is available now. It has interface changes, bug fixes, one secret new feature – and although it's still a long way from being finished, it shows much more clearly than the technical preview what you'll be waiting for. Like Windows 7, the Office line-up has gone on a diet; instead of six different versions, there are just three (for home users). Antec Unveils TruePower TPQ-1200 PSU One of the basic components of a computer of any type is the power supply. With today's high-end video cards needing hundreds of watts of power and many computers using more than one of the power consuming cards, a high wattage PSU is a necessity. Antec has announced its latest PSU called the TPQ-1200. The PSU, as its name implies, has 1200W of power, is the latest addition to the TruePower Quattro line of PSUs, and is the first 1200W model that Antec has produced. The PSU is also the first consumer model to use PowerCache. PowerCache is wired at the end of the graphics, CPU, and motherboard connectors and provides an extra margin of stability during sudden changes in power demand. The TPQ-1200 is also 80 PLUS Silver certified making it at least 85% efficient at a wide range of operating loads. In 2011 we get new Atom CPU: Cedar Trail We managed to find out that the successor to the Pine-trail 2010 netbook and nettop based Atom platform is codenamed Cedar Trail and this chip is set to launch at some point in 2011.We don’t have any additional details than the launch date and the name but we can suspect that after two generations of 45nm, Intel might be ready to move Atom to 32nm if not even 22nm process and get even more power efficient products on market. JavaScript, graphics performance improvements coming in IE9 Both the new JavaScript engine and the new graphics technoogy will improve the browser's performance. Microsoft made the point that different websites place different performance demands on a browser. Some are more scripting intensive, others more graphically intensive; some have complex layouts, others are simple. This has the consequence that to improve performance across the board demands a wide range of optimizations and improvements. With IE9, Redmond intends to not just improve performance in limited benchmarks (that focus on a single aspect of browser performance), but to ensure that real-world websites become faster. ThinkPad 'netbook' seems to be real, AMD-based This 11.6" laptop apparently bears the ThinkPad X100e moniker, and it's actually a consumer ultraportable based on AMD's Athlon Neo MV-40 processor. According to a chart at the end of Netbooknews.de's news post, the system also has an RS780 chipset with Radeon HD 3200 integrated graphics, up to 4GB of RAM, 160-320GB of mechanical storage, 802.11n Wi-Fi, and a choice of three- or six-cell batteries, the latter allowing for up to 5.1 hours of run time. Pricing starts at only $449, and the system is a lightweight 3.3 lbs with the six-cell battery. It's not going to be the thinnest around, though, measuring 1.16" at its thickest point. How to secure your Windows 7 Installation? Securing your desktop computer against threats is an essential task for everyone, therefore we will inform you about the most important Windows 7 security tools. Galaxy planning dual GTX 285 board? It’s a dual-GPU graphics card featuring 14 layers of PCB and enough space for sixteen memory chips, so it couldn’t be single-PCB GeForce GTX295. Considering every eight memory chip form a 512-bit memory interface, we assume it to be a dual-GPU GTX285. Aliens vs. Predator DX11 In-Game Engine DemoedBomb-Proof Wallpaper Developed Working in partnership with the US Army Corp of Engineers, Berry Plastics has rolled out a new breed of bomb-proof wallpaper. Dubbed the X-Flex Blast Protection System, the wallpaper is so effective that a single layer can keep a wrecking ball from smashing through a brick wall, and a double layer can stop blunt objects (i.e. a flying 2×4) from knocking down drywall. According to its designers, covering an entire room takes less than an hour. Good karma: an in-depth review of Ubuntu 9.10 The growing popularity of Linux on netbooks has created a strong incentive for distros to boost their boot performance. Canonical hopes to deliver a 10-second startup with the release of Ubuntu 10.04 next year. In Karmic, they have already taken the first steps towards achieving that goal, but the changes won't help everyone yet. The most noteworthy boot performance optimization that was introduced in Karmic is sreadahead, a prefetching service that will massively reduce startup time for computers with solid-state drives (SSD). We discussed this feature back in September when we showed that the final Karmic alpha release booted in only five seconds on a computer with an SSD. Leadtek announces WinFast PxVC1100 bundled with CRI Dual-CS Coder for Adobe Premiere Leadtek, a world leader in the multimedia solutions arena is pleased to announce the launch of its brand-new generation of MPEG4-AVC/H.264 trans-coding card - WinFast® PxVC1100. The new card has aboard Toshiba®’s High-Performance Stream Processor, SpursEngine™*1 Synergistic Processing Elements (SPE)*2 cores based on the "Cell Broadband Engine™*3” intelligence power protection, a one-slot adaptive cooling FANsink, and PCI-Express Low Profile form factor. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat benchmark released - download mirrorsRead More News |
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