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November last year was crucial for the two graphic card leaders. The NVIDIA's G92 core was expected to provide incredible performance delivered on tempting price. The same applied to RV670, which was to be ATI's "salvation" to return good profit and to gain on NVIDIA at the high-performance market. Back in November…
Fear not my friends, the pill is being developed as we speak, son will come the time to use it! Whoever of you dreamed as a boy to live in the world of Fallout, now can sleep peacefully - at least RadAway will be available at every local drugstore. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded $540,000 for…
Aarghh, matey, are yee be ready to pillage plunder and rape? Yee want to be a pirate like ours and live above the law? Then this new MMO may be the pearl for thee, alas, it faces the gruesome task to find a market niche and muster a pitiful existence before the haegemonia of WoW. Be the Pirates of the Burning Sea to…
Dell may not be the first, but their 17" beast XPM M1730 deserves a warm wellcome in the NVIDIA 8800M GTX club. The two video controllers provide 49% gain in performance (3DMark06) over its predecessor, which had dual 8700M GT configuration. This places the laptop on par with the performance of many DX10 desktop rigs.…
AMD just released their first truly high-end video controller after the Radeon X1950 XTX. Our colleagues from bit-tech put to test the Radeon HD 3870 X2 with six of the hottest games in the moment to check whether AMD are competitive again on the high-end market. Source: http://www.bit-tech.net
Everex's site has been updated with a new CloudBook ship date. The little 9-inch, Via-based laptop with 7-inch display, 30GB disk, and 5-hours battery is now expected to pop with a gOS Rocket on Walmart.com and ZaReason.com February 15th. A day earlier would have required a pink version which nobody wants... at least…
Water Cooling Experts - Danger Den, have shown a prototype of a new full cover water block designed to work on ATI Radeon HD3870 X2. The copper water block is a single slot R680 water cooling solution that will fit only ATI Radeon HD 3 series X2 video cards, currently only ATI Radeon HD3870 X2. It worths mentioning…
Right on the heals of AMD announcing the availability of the ATI Radeon HD 3870 earlier this month, CoolIT Systems debuts the third installment in the Reference Series line of liquid cooling systems designed to quietly and effectively cool Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. highly anticipated performance graphic cards, the…
Taipei, Taiwan – January, 28rd, 2008 – TUL Corporation - a leading manufacturer of AMD graphics cards today announces the high-end graphics solution, HD3870X2, aim to bring incredible performance and life-like graphics to all gamers. This stunning graphics solution built-in Dual HD 3870 GPU, clocks at 825MHz core…
Sarah Michelle Gellar, AKA Buffy The Vampire Slayer, has confirmed that she is still very eager to develop a movie adaptation of American McGee's Alice , the surreal platformer based on a twisted interpretation of Alice in Wonderland . Source: http://www.bit-tech.net
There are very few things about watercooling that are misunderstood more than the waterblock. After all, how does it really work? And what makes a good block? We take a look at the anatomy of a waterblock and even give you some tips for if you want to build your own. Source: http://www.bit-tech.net
Sure, it looks like the Eee , it sports the same CPU as the Eee, heck, it even appears to use the Eee's OS -- but it's actually the CM900! What does that mean ? Well for starters, you'll pay more money for less computer ($349.99 for a 2GB system, the same price for a 4GB ASUS)... but of course you'll have that…
Good news, everyone! According to reports, a US spy satellite which has lost power and propulsion is weeks or even months away from striking Earth. Officials say that the space junk -- which can now no longer be controlled and could contain hazardous materials -- is due to come smashing into some location on our…
The Apevia X-Telstar Junior is a budget-option ATX chassis with a fan controller, temperature display, side-window and internal thermometer - but is it any good? Source: http://www.bit-tech.net
We don't know about you, but we were doing far, far less productive things than Andrew Angelloti when we were 16. The green-minded youth -- a forum member over at Ecomodder -- has taken his 1988 Mazda pickup truck and converted it to run solely on electricity using $6,000 he'd earned as a part-time lifeguard. Source:…
Ever wondered what would happen if you were to pit the Wowwee Roboquad against an excitable, yapping puppy? Wonder no longer, friends, as the answer to this age-old question has been captured on video -- replete with NES sound effects and 8-bit scorecard. Watch the battle for ultimate supremacy ... our money is on the…
Sure, you might've napped through the marketing speak and blearily paged through the tech documentation, but apparently you haven't heard all there is to know about the new Isaiah architecture from Via . The folks at [H] Enthusiast got to see the chip in action, and were most impressed by the 1.8GHz bugger's ability…
Holy Teraflops gamers, AMD just launched the Radeon HD 3870 X2. Their new flagship card previously known by its R680 codename features a pair of RV670 GPUs with CrossFireX built-in to a single card. According to HotHardware 's performance testing, The 3870 X2 was "usually the highest performing single-card in the…
In a bit of shocking news today, two members of the Rock Band instruments set (drums, guitar) have declared that come February 12th, they're going solo. Citing "creative differences," and the original bundled guitar's inability to "clean up its act," the two solo pieces will be on their own and available for $79.99…
It fits in a manila folder, you can slide it under a door, and if you threw it hard enough you could probably chop someone in half with the thing. It's the thinnest, and if we may say so, sexiest laptop around today: the MacBook Air . Source: http://www.engadget.com
Apparently Sony has decided to start both hangin' tough and unleashing the fury in the console wars, at least in Europe. According to SCEE president, CEO, and player-hater David Reeves, 2008 will be the year that the PlayStation 3 takes the gloves off and makes a nasty dent in the UK games market, amongst others.…
It may look like something that emerged from a dorm room laboratory, but a team of apparently professional researchers say that the helmet pictured above could one day be used to treat patients with Alzheimer's, and potentially even reverse some of the effects of the disease. Source: http://www.engadget.com
You already loved it in its USB 2.0 incarnation. Now check the HDD Stage Rack with an additional eSATA interface. Who couldn't use an extra 315MB/s transfer rate for their 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch disks? Yours now for $57.15 before those excessive shipping costs are factored in. Source: http://www.engadget.com
We think it's dark and it looks like rain. The wind is blowing like it's the end of the world, you said. It's so cold, it's like the cold if you were dead. And then you smiled for a second, and told us the $19 Evergreen Goth keyboard is available in Japan only. Sigh...
Anyone can go into Office Depot and pick up a rolling desk seat for fifty bucks, but it takes a truly lazy individual to shell out almost $22,000 for a chair that very slowly "walks" you into proper working position. Source: http://www.engadget.com
The original Striker was arguably the most popular motherboard in the Asus RoG series and now it gets a brother - the Striker II. It's based on the new Nvidia nForce 780i SLI chipset and has many tweaked features - we check it out to see what's changed. Source: http://www.bit-tech.net
Well, what do you know. After years of watching Microsoft chase billions of dollars into the bottomless pit that has been its Xbox Entertainment and Devices Division, the company is finally, as predicted, returning with some loot -- $524 million in income over the past six months, compared to $423 million in losses…
No one should be surprised, but if you were looking for a speed freak of a laptop, you're going to want to glaze those lustful eyes over the MacBook Air. While the new hotness has a speedy memory bus, overall its performance is dramatically smushed by its integrated graphics, anemic 1.6GHz Core 2 Duo processor, and…
Remember that yeast-and-sugar-powered generator Dr. Cedrick Ngalande of Malawi a while back? Ol' Ced's back with a video of the system in action -- and an explanation of how it works, to boot. Just as most of you guessed, the system is powered by the yeast / sugar mix giving off CO2, leading to a pressure imbalance…
Apple's been known to cover all its bases in the patent department, meaning this is certainly no guarantee we'll be seeing light-up iPods in the near future, but all the same we can't ignore the fact that a patent just popped up that has Apple postulating on backlit click wheels. Source: http://www.engadget.com