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GeForce 7800 GTX Cards Compared
SO YOU’RE THINKING ABOUT plunking down somewhere north of five hundred bucks on a graphics card, but can’t decide which one to get? It’s a fantastic problem to have, and it gets simpler when you consider the GPU picture. We’ve already established the GeForce 7800 GTX’s credentials in our epic review of the GPU. If you’re looking to pad your bragging rights, there’s no question at present about which GPU to get. The only questions are: Which brand of card should I buy, and how many?
If you have money to burn and want the latest and greatest GPU, check out the comparison over at Tech Report.
OCZ Gold PC3500 GX 1GB Kit Contest
I promised you guys another OCZ contest and here it is. Our buddies at OCZ is back to support us with another great prize. This
time it’s for some excellent Gold PC3500 GX memory. The stuff is great and is ideal for gamers.
Who doesn’t want to check out a contest for awesome memory? Head over to InsaneTek for the complete details!
Spire SP495S11-U QuieTude VI Air Cooler Heatsink Review
Looking at our graph we can see that this Spire SP495S11-U with its combination of aluminium construction with a copper insert gives ideal cooling performance at our 70 and holds its own at our 115 watts test, while our 170 watts test is always a little harsh on any heatsink as you can appreciated.
Jump over to A1 Electronics for the full review!
BlueGears HDA Digital X-Mystique 7.1 Gold Sound Card Review
The good news for HTPC fans is that now there is a sound card that
will provide convenient digital surround sound to your surround sound
receiver with only a single line connection. Introducing the BlueGears HDA
Digital X-Mystique 7.1 Gold – the world’s first Dolby Digital Live
Certificated sound card. Just what can a Dolby Digital Live Certified sound
card do? Read on and find out.
Check out the full review over at A True Review!
Raidmax X1 Gaming Case Review
Raidmax has focused on gaming cases with flashy looks. The X1 is their first gaming case that strips away all the hokey pokey and
adds some sense of elegance.
Head over to InsaneTek for the full review!
Foxconn WinFast NF4SK8AA-8KRS Motherboard Review
If you consider yourself a hardcore gamer and want the power that two videocards bring but are not much into overclocking, then Foxconn has the mobo for you. The WinFast NF4SK8AA-8KRS is a no-frills AMD Athlon64 socket 939, nVidia nForce4 SLI chipset based motherboard with a retail price of approximately $150 CDN ($125 USD). Standard features are limited to a 7.1 channel audio controller and Gigabit LAN but there’s plenty of expansion room if you need more, with three PCI slots and a single PCI Express x1 slot. Drive support extends to 4 SATAII and four IDE devices.
If you are looking for an amazing budget motherboard, you may want to check out the review at PC Stats.
You Don’t Know Jack About Firefox!
If you feel that the Web has lost its sparkle, that’s probably because you’re slogging across it in an old browser. I’m over here on the other side, and the grass is not only greener: there are none of those microscopic grass bugs that cause nasty rashes!
These are excerpts from a book that SitePoint publishes, but it’s packed with cool info that people may not know about Firefox. Check it out at SitePoint.
Interview with Tony Riccardi, Mesh General Manager
What are your thoughts following the announced closure of all 78 Time stores and the laying off of staff at the company?
A lot of companies are reporting that retail trading conditions are challenging right now. It is always unfortunate to hear that good people have lost their jobs.
The last time I met with Brian Flynn (former Financial Director with Time), it was obvious that they were a hard-working company with a lot of dedicated staff. Let’s hope that any redundancies are only short-term.
Head over to Hexus for the entire interview.
G-Tech G-Raid 800GB External HDD Preview
The ever-expanding storage on hard drives has taken a new meaning for performance seekers and video professionals, thanks to G-Tech’s G-Raid 800GB External HDD. The company’s latest hard drive features two drives in a Raid 0 configuration for performance with a Firewire 800 (and Firewire 400 for backwards compatibility) connectivity option.
Wow, 800GB should suffice for near anyone! Check out the preview at Cool Tech Zone.
Mushkin PC3500 2-2-2 Redline Review
Mushkin’s new Redline memory modules push the limits just like our favorite race cars. The latest attempt to push the boundaries puts Mushkin in a good lead in the memory market with its new Redline 2-2-2 memory modules for the hard-core gamers abroad.
Check out the full review at ipKonfig.
RIAA shuts down machinima site
RPGFilms was a website that hosted tons of machinima videos made with video-game engines. One popular machinima genre is the music video, in which a machinima artist synchs action recorded from a game to a piece of popular music.
Now the Recording Industry Association of America has had RPGFlims shut down because they argue that these “songs files” (not MP3s you understand, but humorous videos made by fans who in no way substitute for purchasing the songs) infringe their members’ copyrights.
Wow.. this is getting rediculous.. Check out the posting at Boing Boing.
Windows Vista Beta begins today
Windows Vista–the next version of Windows, formerly code-named Longhorn–hits a major milestone today with the release of Beta 1 code, Microsoft announced. Microsoft also released the first beta of Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP (as well as the version bundled with Windows Vista).
The preproduction code being released today–several days before the August 3 deadline Microsoft gave itself when it announced the name of the OS last week–will be made available immediately as a download to 10,000 technical beta testers, most of them from the enterprise information technology and developer community.
Pictures are allowed to be shown by people in the beta, so that’s a huge improvement over the last beta! Check out the article at PC World.
Vapochill Micro Ultra Silent Review
Back in the old days there was Zalman with their flower like passive coolers which were the ones you purchased when you were sick of the noise from your stock heatsink. Nowadays there are a lot of new types of coolers, heatpipe coolers, passively cooled water-cooling towers, and now there’s the Vapochill Micro cooler, (not to be confused with the high end vapochill phase change cooling). Im taking a look at the Ultra silent version with a much quieter fan compared to the other versions.
Check out the full review at BurnoutPC!
SilverStone LC-14 Lascala HTPC Review
SilverStone Technology has been at the game of creating reliable, yet fashionable, computer enclosures for only two years however, in this time, we have seen great strides put fourth by SilverStone and we now see products from the traditional computer cases to power supplies and CPU heatsinks. Today, however, we’ll be checking out the SilverStone LC-14 HTPC chassis.
Check out the full review over at Phoronix!
PC Buyers Guide – Summer Edition
Guru3D has a great new guide up to help with ideas in building your new PC. They have divided them into three catagories:
The gaming target for the low-end PC:
Target Resolution: 1024×768 with 2/4x AA and 4/8x AF, 1280×1024 with 0/2x AA and 4/8x AF
The gaming target for the mid-end PC:
Target Resolution: 1280×1024 with 2/4x AA and 8/16x AF; 1600×1200 with 0x AA and 8x AF
The gaming target for the high-end PC:
Target Resolution: 1600×1200 with 4x AA and 16x AF or better
Head over to Guru3D for the complete guide.
EverCool K803-925CA Air Cooler Heatsink Review
We can see that this EverCool K803-925AC is doing very well at our low heat setting which for an aluminium heatsink that does not have a copper core is very good indeed. Only as we start to increase the temperature higher than this EverCool K803-925AC is intended to be used at does it start to lag behind and especially so at our highest temperature test which is a rather harsh test.
Head over to A1 Electronics for the full review!
Evercool Water Cooler WC-202 Review
Water coolers aren’t just for the elite computer enthusiasts anymore. There are several all-in-one kits available that make it easy for a novice to enter the world of water-cooling. Evercool has one of these all-in-one kits; the Water Cooler WC-202, that includes a CPU cooling block, video card cooling block, an external radiator, and an internal drive bay unit that includes the pump, reservoir, cooling fan, and radiator.
For an overlooked WC kit that seems completely stable, check out the review at Big Bruin.
Do-It-Yourself Guide: Building a Home Theatre PC
Computers are a perfect fit for the entertainment room, and building your own home theatre PC is not more difficult than assembling a standard system – as long as you have the right components for the task. In this Do-It-Yourself Guide, PCSTATS are going to walk you step-by-step through the process of assembling your own home theatre PC out of contemporary components. We’ll also explore the various things you can do with an HTPC after it’s built.
If you want some ideas in building your HTPC, check out the guide at PC Stats.
Evercool New Product Roundup
Evercool may not be one of the names that immediately comes to mind when you think of cooling products, but they are actually one of the top five cooling manufacturers in Taiwan. Evercool has been around for about 13 years now, and has been supplying top PC companies like HP, FIC and others for many years. Their company goal is to provide innovative designs and high quality products at competitive costs. Recently, Evercool announced its new EL bearing technology. The EL bearing is supposed to provide longer life and quieter operation, all at a reduced cost compared to ceramic and other types of bearings. Today 3DXtreme has a chance to look at four of Evercool’s newest products that feature the EL bearing. These are the Neon Crab RAM cooler, the HDD System Cooler Lander, the Spider Filter Fan.
That RAM cooler definitely intrigues me! Check out the entire roundup at 3D Xtreme.
Stratics: Irth Online Interview
Stratics interviews Alan Chipura – Lead Designer of Irth Online who speaks to us about Irth and their plans for Irth Online. In Irth Online you can choose any race and develop any skill. You can be whoever and whatever you want to be. If you do not like what you have…..
Gainward Geforce 7800GTX Review
The reference Geforce 7800GTX core is clocked at 430 MHz and the memory is clocked 1200 MHz. The Gainward 7800GTX Golden Sample core is clocked at 480 MHz for the core and the memory is clocked at 1300 MHz. Yep you read it right; this is the fastest air-cooled Geforce 7800GTX card clocked at 480/1300. Memory bandwidth reaches 41.6GB/second. And the best part is that you are under warranty from Gainward at that speed.
Gainward is one company that’s sometimes overlooked when it comes to video cards, but should they be? Check out the full review at NGOHQ for the full review.
No more updates for pirated Windows!
Microsoft is no longer providing updates to non-genuine versions of its Windows XP operating system. From today, the company has switched over to a full launch of its Windows Genuine Advantage Programme as part of its ongoing anti-piracy campaign.
Users will now have to join the WGA authentication program if they want to receive software updates from the Microsoft Download Centre or from Windows Update. However, MS says it will still provide security patches for pirated systems, which will be available via Automatic Updates in Windows.
Check out the full news posting at The Register.
Windows Vista FAQ
Once envisioned as a minor upgrade to Windows XP, Windows Vista (formerly codenamed “Longhorn”) first took on all-new importance in early 2002 when Microsoft decided to reach for the brass ring and make this upcoming Windows release an all-encompassing major upgrade with a new security architecture, a hardware 3D-enabled user interface, and many more exciting new features. Here’s the first–and most comprehensive–Windows Vista/Longhorn FAQ ever created, constantly updated to include the latest information about this exciting release.
This was a great Longhorn FAQ, but has been completely updated in support of the Vista name. Check it out at Win Supersite.
Battlefield 2 Hacked
Many users logged into Battlefield 2 today to discover that they had access to all of the game’s weapons unlocked in their profile. We have fixed the root issue that caused this to occur and by tomorrow morning all users will return to having access only to the weapons which they had earned. Once our solution is in place, if you find that you do not have access to weapons appropriate to your in-game rank, please direct inquiries to the Support sites linked below. In some cases users may be prompted to re-select the Unlock weapons that they are eligible for (if you are eligible for two weapons you will get to choose the two you wish to have unlocked).
Wow, EA’s track record for July 2005 has hardly been smooth! Check out the full post here.
OCZ EB DDR2 PC2-5400 Titanium – 1GB Kit Review
OCZ provided a simple blister pack to safely house the RAM modules. The packaging is simple yet effective, holding each stick of RAM securely in place. The packaging is clear so that you can completely visualize the RAM. At the top “HIGH PERFORMANCE†is written in large bold type to assure the buyer that this is not the generic RAM. You can see the bright chrome heatspreaders and the large OCZ logo.
Head over to Gruntville for the full look at this memory!