Content and news by Rob Williams

“Overclockers in Asia pick A-DATA as the top choice for overclocking memory, just like how top overclockers in the U.S. choose OCZ. It is only recently that they’re reaching out to the overclockers here in the U.S. As soon as they start sending out review samples and making themselves more available in the online market, I’m sure enthusiasts will pick up the name in no time.”

Check it out at InsaneTek.

“Many of today’s high-end PSU’s come pre-sleeved from the manufacturer. Users with lower-end PSU’s must find their own solution if they want the benefits of sleeving. Companies have seen this demand and began producing cable sleeving kits of all different varieties. Today we have a kit from Ultra Products, the UV Cable Sleeving Kit.”

Check out the full review at Phoronix.

“Asus is known the world over for bring us some to the most stable
motherboard today, and also some old the highest performance video cards.
Asus puts it’s all in everything thing they make. So, I’m sure the Asus
StarIce will be no different. And speaking of different, the shape and
size is.”

Check out the full review at Pro-Clockers.

“What we have today is Corsair’s new addition to their DDR2 line of memory. Although not the fastest rated memory available, the XMS2 PC2-4300 Pro allows low latency operations at 266MHZ.”

Check it out at InsaneTek.

“MSI creates a revolutionary new technology and implements it on the new MSI P4N Diamond mainboard for Intel Pentium 4 LGA 775 CPU – an intelligent digital switch to detect and automatically switch from normal mode to SLI mode. Moreover, the MSI P4N Diamond motherboard not only supports NVIDIA’s outstanding SLI technology for extreme 3D performance, but is also the first one to integrate the most advanced controllers for outstanding connectivity and storage, SATA2 RAID. High-definition audio is ensured by Sound Blaster Live! 24Bit.”

Check it out at HardwareXL.

“Wrapping up the reviews for this week, we have a case fan from Cooler Master. This is not any ordinary fan, but is constructed entirely out of aluminum. In this review, we’ll experience what exactly this aluminum construction offers over the traditional plastic frame.”

Check out the review at Phoronix.

“There are a total of 374 pins aluminum alloy pins inserted into a half-inch thick CNC machined C110 copper bottom. Base dimensions measure 3″ x 3″ x 1.66″. You’ll notice this is very close to the inner dimensions of the stock P4 bracket. In other words, the cooler fits perfectly into the bracket and because it’s almost the same size, it doesn’t wiggle around. This eliminates improper/uneven installations. Total specified weight is 620g – not light but not nearly as heavy as the larger all-copper heatsinks.”

Check out the full review at MikhailTech.

“In this review, PCSTATS will be testing out one of it’s latest TFT-LCD models, the 24-inch Samsung SyncMaster 243T. This lovely piece of LCD technology sports some impressive specs including a 1920×1200 native resolution, a 500:1 contrast ratio, 170 degree horizontal/vertical viewing angles, 0.270mm pixel pitch, a pivoting display and dual digital/analog modes. It is ideally intended for commercial applications where its wide viewing angles and crisp graphics would be a definite asset. At a cost of approximately $2700 CDN, this is not a home desktop monitor by any stretch of the imagination.”

Check it out at PC Stats.

“We at Pro-Clockers have totally redone our site, to better suit our
readers. We realized that the site was kinda difficult to read and didn’t
look to professional. So, we hope we changed that with our new design. And
we hope with these changes we can get added to your site/affiliates list.
Also to have our review standdards, to be more complete and detailed.”

Great looking site, for sure. Check it out at Pro-Clockers.

“While high speed TCCD is attractive, it’s difficult to find. TCCD overclocking results are also inconsistent. Enthusiasts often go through multiple purchases before finding the right kit. All those transactions are a pain. Yet now, OCZ has the fastest DDR available, the Platinum PC4800.”

Check it out at InsaneTek.

“Of course, everyone knows that a hard drive is very important when you want
to store lots of data. Many people forget or don’t understand that a hard
drive is the biggest bottleneck in a computer. A fast hard drive allows you
to load the OS quicker, save files faster, load programs quicker, access
swap files faster, etc.., etc.. With speed in mind, let’s find out how fast
the Samsung SP1213C SATA 150MB drive is.”

Check it out at A True Review.

“The NGO Universal Driver supports both ATI/NVIDIA cards! The main purpose is to satisfy the users with a better performance, image quality and Features.

Features:
• New Control Panel for both NVIDIA/ATI.
• New Driver Architecture.
• Performance and Quality improvements.
• Added Digital Vibrance for ATI Cards.
• New features.

Check out the driver at NGOHQ.

There is a lot of fooling going around the web today. I will update this list as I come across them.

AMD Enter GPU Market
Anarchy Online WarCry
Apple Founder Joins IKEA
Blizzard Merges with Guild Wars for WoW PvP
Cisco to merge with Nabisco
Epic Announces Unreal III
Fark.com
Freelancer 2
Gabe Newell Leaves Valve
Gmail
Google Gulp!
Google RideFinder
Hammer of Thor Advanced Engine
Hexus Sues Beyond 3D
Lethal Computer Virus Spreads To Humans
Lineage 2 Tax Day
LucasArts Announces Sequel Trilogy in 2007
McDoom World
Paris Hilton To Support Linux
QuakeCon Overrun
World of Warcraft Announced
World of Warcraft – Pandarian Xpress

More to come as it’s found..

“A new set of highly critical flaws has been discovered in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Outlook programs, according to research company eEye Digital Security.”

Remote Code Execution oh my! Check it out at News.com.

“Sixteen premium rate services have been fined a total of £1.3m following a crackdown on rogue operators over the Easter weekend.

Last week ICSTIS warned punters to be on their guard against dodgy operators using illegal Automated Calling Equipment (ACE) after receiving credible market intelligence that scamsters were to step up their operations over the long weekend.”

Ahh, payback. Check it at The Register.

“Stated clearly on the A-Top Technology website is “A-Top will NOT provide any tech. support or warranty for their customers.” Will the lack of all the support lead to a lower cost passed onto the consumer, or will A-Top chassis’ prove to be something to steer clear from? In this review, we will be trying first hand the new A-Top Technology XPlode, with its exclusive ventilated design.”

Check out the review at Phoronix.

“HP’s immediate fate now lies in the hands of a wholesome company man. Twenty-five year NCR veteran Mark Hurd sold cash machines and bean counters. He’s dependable – rock solid. He’s the kind of guy you want standing between the women and children when the bank robbers arrive. He’d take the bullet or at least broker a sturdy deal. Even a cursory glance at Hurd’s outstanding book reveals his dependable traits.”

Lol.. bean counters? Check the article at The Register.

“In the previous months I have reviewed two X700 videocards, one offered by Sapphire and the other by Powercolor. We saw that the 128MB powercolor card, while cheap, did not deliver the performance that the 256MB Sapphire card gave us. The best bang for the buck ended up being the Sapphire card. This time around we test a 128MB card from Sapphire but we have tested their Toxic edition.”

Check out the full review at GotApex.

“The Mozilla Foundation has awarded five “bug bounties” worth $2,500 (£1,400) to a German security researcher who discovered vulnerabilities in its open source Firefox web browser.”

Looks like it’s a good way to make some cash. Check it out at Computer Weekly.

“It has been a year since Google unveiled a free e-mail service with a gigabyte of storage. Now there’s word the search provider is doubling the storage capacity for each account and pledges to keep raising the limit in the future..

..As the e-mail upgrade takes effect Friday, Gmail users will be able to store up to 2 gigabytes of e-mail and attachments for each account. The company says more capacity will be made available later for its users.”

So there you have it, Gmail will now give users 2GB of space. Which is funny.. because I highly doubt *that* many people have come even remotely close to their 1GB. Unless they keep spam.