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Gigabyte Launches “OC Guru Is YOU!” Competition
Feel like getting your OC on, but don’t have a good reason to? Well, our friends at Gigabyte are giving you that reason, in the form of the “OC Guru Is YOU!” overclocking competition. All you need is a sweet graphics card overclock and achieve the best overall score with 3DMark Vantage, and $1,500 will be yours. Or, hit the best GPU score…
Initial Crucial RealSSD C300’s Suffer Potential Failure, TRIM Issues
It’s known amongst tech enthusiasts that being the first to upgrade will always incorporate some additional level of risk. The problem with brand-new technology (especially that which expands the current envelope) is unforeseen complications that can develop. Or, new limitations that previously were never a concern before, or even…
Intel’s H67/P67 to Feature SATA 6 Gbit/s, But Not USB 3.0
According to fellow tech site VR-Zone, Intel’s upcoming chipsets to be based around the company’s Sandy Bridge processors will be called H67 and P67. The former will be for the affordable segment and the latter for the mainstream. If the “67” moniker is going to be utilized only for Sandy Bridge, it’s unlikely there will be an enthusiast model…
Ubisoft Offers Compensation for DDOS-affected Gamers
By this point in time, I’m sure most are aware of the asinine DRM scheme that Ubisoft employs with Assassin’s Creed 2. You might even recall that during the first weekend upon release, the company’s servers were DDOS’ed which resulted in no PC gamer being able to play. Being that AC2 is an offline game, the mere thought of…
Reminder: Our Birthday Contest Ends on Wednesday!
As a quick reminder, our month-long contest that avails you the chance to win a kick-ass gaming PC ends in just a few days, so if you for some reason haven’t entered yet, you should get on it! For those who have been living under a GTX 480 to keep warm and haven’t been paying attention, our contest PC is valued at just over $4,000 and includes…
NVIDIA Announces GeForce GTX 470 & GTX 480
During a press conference today at PAX East, NVIDIA officially launched its first Fermi/GF100-based GeForce GTX 470 and GTX 480 graphics cards. We’re still chugging away on our review, but are a bit behind due to some complications that arose during testing (which ironically have little to do with the GTX 480). For those who want to dive…
Command & Conquer 4 Includes Internet Connection DRM
Earlier this month, I urged everyone to avoid purchasing Assassin’s Creed 2. The reason had to do with the absurd DRM scheme, one that essentially ruins your gameplay if you A) don’t have an Internet connection at the time or B) your Internet connection happens to drop off during gameplay. It’s unfortunate that game developers pushes around…
Taking 7digital’s Music Store for a Spin
Earlier this week, I caught an article over at Ars that took a look at the upcoming “music store” that will become a feature in Ubuntu’s upcoming “Lucid Lynx” release (10.4 LTS). Essentially, via GNOME’s popular Rhythmbox, users will be able to purchase music right through the application in a similar manner as Windows users can purchase music…
Intel Releases TRIM-Supporting RAID Drivers
(Updated) The advantages of SSDs over traditional hard drives are widely known. Enthusiasts searching for higher levels of performance have long favored combining several slow platter-based drives together in a RAID array to better mask the latency issues, even while increasing overall read and write throughput rates. Extreme…
EA Planning to Release Paid DLC Prior to Game Launches
After EA was paid a visit from an investor, plans for strategic “Premium Downloadable Content” came to light. Analyst Michael Pachter wrote that “PDLC would be sold for $10 or $15 through Xbox Live and PlayStation Network, and would essentially be a very long game demo, along the lines of 2009’s Battlefield 1943.” As to avoid confusion, EA stated…
Nintendo to Launch 3D Gaming Handheld in 2011
I think it’s clear by this point that companies of all stripes are taking this whole “3D” thing very seriously, from display vendors to content producers to even GPU manufacturers like NVIDIA. When thinking of 3D though, most people (rightfully so) picture a huge TV, and possibly some funky glasses. Nintendo sees things a bit differently, and aims to…
OCZ Raises $15.45 Million to Accelerate its SSD Business
Earlier this week, we broke the news that OCZ was closing Hypersonic-PC down in order to shift the majority of the company’s focus to more important areas. The custom-built PC business just wasn’t cutting it, and when we’re comparing it to the SSD business, it’s easy to understand why one is far more attractive than the other.
Crysis “Xtreme” Particle Chaos Mod Ups the Physics
I think there would be few people who would disagree that advanced physics can really add to the enjoyment of a game, but up to this point, there have been few titles on the market that have pushed the boundaries and really have shown us what robust physics really look like. We have games that utilize PhysX, sure, but even there…
Microsoft Announces Courier – Personal Journal & E-Reader Device
In the post-Vista era, Microsoft has done a lot of good in order to win back the trust of its fans, or at least regular users of its software, thanks mostly to the very successful Windows 7 launch. Not long after that OS launch, we were impressed once again with the announcement of Windows Phone 7. Well, it looks like “Courier” is the next possible…
OCZ Technology Shutters Hypersonic-PC
A couple of weeks ago, rumors were floating about that OCZ Technology would be selling off PC Power & Cooling, a company it acquired just three years earlier. Not too long after our post was made, OCZ contacted us to let us know that the rumors were absolutely false, and that PC Power & Cooling was healthy and even had more models…
MingleStick Offers New “Social Media” Flash Drive
Over the weekend, I received a press release from a company I haven’t heard of before, MingleStick, with an interesting product that allows you to quickly sync information with other people, effortlessly. On its latest product, the company has teamed up with our friends at Kingston to improve the drive and give it more than one purpose… syncing…
Is Palm on its Deathbed?
When thinking of the word “PDA”, it’s hard to not think of Palm, given that since the company was launched in the early 90’s, its devices were in the hands of a lot of people. It can be said that those companies that kick things off early have the best chance of succeeding, but that’s not really the case with Palm, as the company has been…
EVGA’s Dual-Socket W555 Debuts as the Classified SR-2
If Intel’s recent launch of the Core i7-980X Extreme Edition six-core, twelve-threaded monster of a CPU wasn’t attractive enough to get you drooling into your keyboard, then the latest motherboard from EVGA aims to fix that. Formerly known by the W555 codename, the EVGA Classified SR-2 (Super Record 2) is designed as the ultimate motherboard.
Is Paid DLC Good or Bad for the Gaming Industry?
Over the past week, there have been two DLC-related (downloadable content) stories that have caught my eye, mostly because of the ill effects it seems to be inflicting upon today’s gaming. Years ago, if you wanted a new map for your favorite game, you could go online and download one, either from the developer or from other fans of the games. Today…
Intel Releases 40GB X25-V Solid-State Drive
For as long as Intel has been offering solid-state drives to consumers, none of the available models could have ever been considered “budget” or “value-oriented”. That is until now, with the X25-V. This 40GB drive isn’t much different from Kingston’s SSDNow V series from a few months back, and it’s for good reason… the internals are identical…
Don’t Miss Our Intel Core i7-980X Extreme Edition Review!
It seems like we’ve been waiting a while for it, but wait no more! Gulftown is here, and that means six cores, “sick scores” and some incredible performance. As always, we have our in-depth review posted to the top of our front page, and we highly recommend you check it out even if you’re not interested in spending $999 on a new processor…
Razer and Sixense Release SDK for Motion-Sensing Controller
At this year’s CES, one of the coolest products being shown off at the show was the result of a joint venture between Razer and Sixense. It also happens to be a product that I completely managed to avoid while at the event (I am still kicking myself over it). It’s a motion controller that actually works really well, and everyone I know who had seen…
Windows XP will Have Issues with Advanced Format HDD’s
By early 2011, all hard drives produced will begin featuring a technology called “Advanced Format”, which reduces the drive’s overhead by moving the sector sizes from 512b to 4Kb. The benefit is that less space inside the drive will be hogged by ECC blocks, and it will ultimately result in more available storage on a given hard drive, up to 7-11% more…
Has OCZ Sold PC Power & Cooling?
Earlier this week, a rumor surfaced online that claimed that OCZ Technology was trying to sell PC Power & Cooling, a company that it acquired three years ago. German tech site Planet 3DNow! yesterday made the rumor even more interesting by coming right out and claiming that OCZ has sold off PCP&C. As of today, OCZ still hasn’t verified the rumor…
Microsoft’s Browser Choice Screen Working Well for its Competitors
We’ve talked a fair bit in the past about Microsoft’s browser-selection pop-up that has been introduced to European users of Windows, but since it’s been implemented, it’s been difficult to know what kind of effect it’s had on overall browser adoption. While the numbers still aren’t definitive, it looks like every browser company aside…