Gear Up at Techgage Contest

Gear Up! at Techgage!

For the month of April, Techgage wants you to Gear Up! From our great friends at NCSoft, we've been given a selection of rare and sought after game gear from NCSoft games such as Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa, Guild Wars, City of Heroes/Villains and Lineage II!

This week's contest is all about Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa!

Here's what you've really been wanting to know - what do I win!? First off, there will be three winners randomly drawn from the qualifying entries.

First prize: RG Tabula Rasa t-shirt (size men's medium), RG Tabula Rasa knit watchcap / tuque, RG Tabula Rasa dog tags (very rare!)
Second prize: RG Tabula Rasa t-shirt (size men's medium), RG Tabula Rasa knit watchcap / tuque
Third prize: RG Tabula Rasa t-shirt (size men's medium)

Enter now!

One entry per person per weekly contest please.

Creative Driver Modder Sends E-mail to Wired

If for some reason you've been sleeping for the past week, you probably overlooked the the numerous Creative-related news posts that have been hogging up the tubes. For those unaware, Creative stepped forward and told a driver modder to quit doing what he was doing, even though their own drivers are buggy and purposely lack certain functionality.

Well... I first recommend you take a look at my editorial from Monday to get a sense of what's going on, then check out Wired for an e-mail that Daniel sent to them.

Reading through his e-mail... it becomes increasingly impressive just how overboard Creative went with their barring of his modded drivers. He admits that he shouldn't have asked for donations, but in all 20,000 downloads of the driver, he made $146, and in Brazil, that can't even purchase an X-Fi card. It's also interesting to see that Creative purposely disabled features on the Audigy card under Vista in order to encourage people to upgrade to an X-Fi.

What Creative did wrong: They publicly threatened me, just to show their arrogance. If they had contacted me by e-mail or private message I would do the same thing (remove everything) and no one would know about their insatisfaction.

Source: Wired

April 2nd Tech Roundup

Motherboards & Processors
• ECS A780GM-A BLACK - T-Break
• GIGABYTE X48T-DQ6 DDR3 - TweakTown
• Intel's Ultra-Portable Atom: Unveiled - HotHardware

Displays & Video Cards
• ASUS EN9600 TOP - APH Networks
• ASUS GeForce 9800 GTX - Tech Spot
• BFG 9800 GTX 512MB - Hardware Canucks
• EVGA e-GeForce 9800 GTX - Computer Shopper
• NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX - Elite Bastards
• NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX Round-Up: BFG, EVGA, Zogis - HotHardware
• XFX 9800GTX - Bjorn3D
• XFX 9800GTX - Overclockers Club
• ZOGIS 9800GTX - techPowerUp!
• Zotac 9800GTX - Technic3D

Memory & Storage
• RAID and Gaming Performance - Techware Labs

Chassis & Power Supplies
• Nesteq ECS 7001 700 Watt Power Supply - OCIA

Competitions, Complete Systems & Et cetera
• Contest: Bigbruin.com 5th Birthday Party Give Away - Big Bruin
• Gateway FX540XT PC - Digital Trends