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Russian mass spammer not killed due to net activity
The murder of Russia’s biggest spammer Vardan Kushnir was not connected with his Internet activity, but with a straightforward robbery, Moscow investigators reported.
Kushnir, 35, was found dead in his Moscow apartment on Sunday. He died after suffering repeated blows to the head. Investigators, quoted by the Kommersant newspaper, said this was not a contract murder or revenge for spamming. “Things are simpler. He became a victim of clonidine. For now, this is the only theory.â€
So it turned out to be a huge coincidence. Check out the posting at Mos News.
Japan to Make the World’s Fastest Computer
Japan has announced plans to manufacture a super computer that will be 73 times faster than IBM’s Blue Gene/L, currently the fastest computer in the world capable of making 136,8 trillion calculations per second. Construction will start next year.
They want the computer to run 10 quadrillion processes per second, and it will set them back near 100 Billion Yen. Ouch! Check out the posting at Zaman.
Desktop Graphics Card Comparison Guide Rev. 9.0
Covering over 220 desktop graphics cards, this comprehensive comparison allows you to easily compare 15 different specifications for each and every card! If you need to find out about the specification of any card, just come over and check out our Desktop Graphics Comparison Guide!
We hope it will prove to be a useful reference. We will keep this guide updated regularly so do check back for the latest updates!
This is a great chart that you could even print out for a reference. Check it out at Rojak Pot.
ECS PF5 Extreme i945P Motherboard Review
ECS’ PF5 Extreme has its fair share of good and bad points. Let’s take the good first. The company’s Scalable D.G.E. technology offers up a possible quad-display setup that’s run off two PCI-Express cards. No, it’s not SLI or CrossFire, so don’t expect true dual-card 3D performance, but it’s handy for those that need the screen real estate and a step up from mixing onboard graphics displays (i945G) and discrete cards’. The layout and feature-set for a £90 board are both good, too.
Check out the full review of the board over at Hexus!
Thermaltake Liquid Cooling System “Rocket” Fanless Review
Thermaltake Technology Co. Ltd. is founded in 1999. The American branch of the company is established at the same time. After 5 years they are still going strong making and designing eye-catching hardware. As hardware gets more and more powerful the cooling solutions change just as fast. Air-cooling works great but is pretty noisy in some cases. Switching to water cooling will take care of the noise but how do they perform? Today I’m looking at the Liquid Cooling System aka “Rocket” from Thermaltake.
This is no doubt unique looking, it’s taller than the computer case! Check out the whole review at HardwareXL.
Swiftech CoolSleeves Review
For those of us water coolers, one issue that we all have to deal with eventually, is the kinks that end up forming within our tubing. Swiftech has come out with a solution!
It looks like these do a great job of keeping kinks out of the cooling, and look great as well. Check out the review at WC 101.
Matrix Orbital MX610 PLED Display Unit Review
The possibilities seem to be endless… I never knew the power of a PLED screen, and the ability of Matrix Orbital’s MX610 to monitor any information your computer can obtain is overwhelming. In addition, the accessories proved to be very useful; such as the LED indicator, internal USB cable and the temperature probes. These features are coupled with a bright easy to read screen that can be seen from any angle.
If you are in the market for a cool looking LED panel, check out Big Bruins review of this product!
Hiper Type-R Modular 580w PSU Review
Among the Honda or Accura line of cars we can find the Integra Type-R, a High Performance car tuned to give you the utmost output. So it makes sense that UK based High Performance Group (Hiper) would use the Type-R label to indicate their top of the line PSU. The goal of the Hiper Group is to try and bridge the gap between affordable and enthusiast (read expensive) components such as power supplies, modding accessories and media centre chassis’.
This is a cool PSU with neat ideas, but some we can’t be too sure about. Check out the full review at Viper Lair.
Mikhailtech Basic System Buyer’s Guide – July 2005
This month we’re pleased to give our video card yet another slight boost. Unfortunately a 256-bit 9800PRO or a vanilla GeForce 6600 (non-GT) is still out of reach, but we were able to squeeze in a 256MB, 256-bit 9600XT. This particular model uses a 500MHz/600MHz core/memory configuration. This card is more than capable of playing every new release on medium settings at the very least.
Check out the latest version of the guide over at MikhailTech!
Titan Bianca Water Cooling System Review
Overall, Titan Bianca is a good budget water cooling kit that suitable for entry level user who does not have much experince on water cooling. Besides that, it’s portable and suitable for every cases since it is an external water cooling kit. The price is acceptable but we wish it could be cheaper as there are entry level users who can’t afford to spend much.
Yet another great looking WC kit! I gotta get me into one of these someday. Check out the full review at PC Modding Malaysia.
Evercool WC202 Watercooler Review
Im happy, it performs a lot better than I expected from a water-cooling kit that fits in one 5 1/4 bay, and im really impressed by the easiness of getting this kit running and how silent it was. Installation was easy, the waterblocks look really nice and aside from the somewhat higher temperatures than with a normal water-cooling kit, I would still recommend this product since it’s so cheap, it’s almost a steal.
This is a great looking WC kit which turns out to be a fantastic value. Check out the full review at Burnout PC.
Stratics EverQuest House of Commons Thursday
Stratics is pleased to announce a House of Commons with the developers of the Developers of EVERQUEST on Thursday July 28th. It will be at 6pm PST / 9pm EST in the #StraticsHoC channel on Stratics IRC. The topics of discussion for this HoC are Depths of Darkhollow and Live Events. The…..
Foxconn WinFast NF4K8AC-8EKRS Motherboard Review
Today, PCStats will be checking out the econo line Foxconn WinFast NF4K8AC-8EKRS socket 939 Athlon64 motherboard. This motherboard is based on the vanilla nForce4 chipset and it seems like the only difference between this and the Ultra version is Serial ATA II (this version supports standard SATA). Other onboard features include a PCI Express x16 and two PCI Express x1 slots, an integrated 7.1 channel audio codec, Gigabit LAN and IEEE 1394a firewire.
Head over to PC Stats for the entire review!
Geil Ultra Platinum PC4400 Review
Once the modules are out of their bags, we get a good look at the platinum mirror finish. There’s a nice-looking holographic sticker at one end of the heat spreader with the memory specifications on it, and at the other end is GeIL’s innovative temperature thermometer. One thing though is that the plating is very susceptible to fingerprints, so if you’re at all worried about looks you might want to handle these along the edges or with a cloth so as not to mark up the surface.
Head over to OCIA for the full review!
Russia’s Biggest Spammer Brutally Murdered in Apartment
Vardan Kushnir, notorious for sending spam to each and every citizen of Russia who appeared to have an e-mail, was found dead in his Moscow apartment on Sunday, Interfax reported Monday. He died after suffering repeated blows to the head.
He knew that many, many Russians hated him for his massive spamming, and must have known that this was a chance he was taking. It wouldn’t surprise me if we see more of this type of news in the future. Check out the full news post at MOS News.
MSN Virtual Earth Gives People an Immersive Way to Search, Discover and Explore Their World Online
REDMOND, Wash. — July 24, 2005 — Microsoft Corp. today announced beta availability of MSN® Virtual Earth™, a new Web service that further builds on the company’s investment in the search category by harnessing the company’s extensive search and mapping capabilities to give people an immersive way to utilize location-based information online. The service enables users to search, discover, explore, plan and share information and activities relevant to specific U.S. locations by combining aerial imagery, detailed maps and precise local search capabilities. Users can access the beta version of the service at http://virtualearth.msn.com.
You can read the full press release here. I am a huge fan of Google Maps and Google Earth, so I was hard pressed to like Microsofts version. After playing around with it for a bit, I find it much more buggy than Google’s version, but with Virtual Earth, you can zoom in further than Google, and still have great looking quality. I look forward to seeing updates in a future.. and hopefully like Google, they will release a stand alone application.
Next Major Release of Firefox Delayed
The Mozilla Foundation Latest News about Mozilla Foundaton is delaying the release of the next version of the increasingly popular Firefox Latest News about Firefox Web browser, adding more development cycles to create better features for the next big update.
Firefox 1.5, codenamed Deer Park, was tentatively scheduled to be released during the summer, but the project remains in the alpha development stage. The official launch of the major upgrade now will be moved to September, according to Mozilla, after a beta version appears in August.
Mozilla noted that the delay is not due to security issues, but for feature sets. At any rate though, 1.5 should be worth the wait, at least we hope. Check out the posting at Sci-Tech Today.
Yahoo! Widgets
Yahoo! has just launched their Widgets section of the website. Available for both the Mac and PC, you can download these to have different functions on your desktop, such as Search, Weather and even Finance. Check it out at Widgets Yahoo!.
Windows Vista to be changed?
Microsoft may be in trouble for naming its forthcoming operating system Vista after it transpired that the name has been registered by an American company for nearly six years.
Vista, which operates a small business internet interchange, is actually based in Microsoft’s home town of Redmond. It was started in May 2000 by John Wall, the founder of Wall Data and an erstwhile investor in SCO.
This is definitely going to be interesting. Vista may of found this a good chance to either score some money from Microsoft, or simple really wants the PR. I don’t understand how they could win an arguement over this.. it’s not like they renamed the company to Vista. Check out the full news post at VNU Net.
ECS KN1 Extreme Review
The KN1 Extreme is ECS’ first entry in to the nForce4 and Athlon64 world. In fact, it might be said that it is ECS’ first true entry into the enthusiast motherboard market ever. We put it through our normal evalutions and come away surprised.
ECS hasn’t had the best track record, but [H] left feeling impressed with the board, so hopefully we will see that continue in the future. Check out the review at Hard|OCP.
Seagate 400GB Barracuda 7200.8 SATA Hard Disk Review
Size matters when it comes to hard disks. Bigger is always better. Everyone is always looking out for the biggest hard disk in the market. Today, we are going to take a close look at one of the biggest hard disks in the market – the Seagate 400GB Barracuda 7200.8 SATA hard disk! Check out why we consider it worthy of our Reviewer’s Choice Award!
Check out the full review at Rojak Pot!
NetGear WG511T 802.11g Wireless PC Card Review
Like overclockers, networking enthusiasts have their favorite chip for the job. Although a wireless networking Chipset may not lead to as many advantages as say a good TCCD batch or BH5 memory chips but poor wireless chips can also lead to a weaker signal and poor performance. In this review, we’ll be trying out a NetGear WG511T, which utilizes the infamous Atheros Chipset.
Seems to be a solid card with a lot of good features. Check out the full look at Phoronix.
Maxtop Diamondback CSX-502 ATX Mid Tower Case Review
With the system powered on you can now see the brightly lit front panel temperature display. The readout is a bright blue color with a small animated thermometer on the left side. The numbers are clear and easy to read, with them extending to one decimal place. Compared to my ExTech digital thermometer, the included probe was only 1-2 degrees off from the actual temperature.
This is a great looking case, I love the orange/black color scheme. Too bad it doesn’t have a side window, though. Check out the review at Big Bruin.
Microsoft’s new Vista – can you see through it?
By now anyone within 10 feet of a computer, TV, or mobile phone has heard that Microsoft’s visionary Chairman Bill Gates told the his minions attending the Microsoft Global Sales Briefing, last Friday (an internal sales event) in Atlanta Georgia in the US that from that day henceforth the long used and somewhat abused name, “Longhorn,†would be expunged from the vocabulary of all Microsofties and most likely anyone wanting to have any association with mighty Microsoft – that would include, well, the universe, right? I’m OK with that, Vista is a cooler name than Longhorn, and in fact, I personally didn’t like the Longhorn name all that much to begin with, reminded me of big mean tempered cows I had met when I lived in Texas a few million years ago.
Check out the full article over at Hexus!
nVHardPage SE released
Guru3D is proud to bring you the new Second Edition of NVHARDPAGE. Our NVIDIA tweaking tool underwent quite some changes. nVHardPage nVidia videocard tweaker is tweaking utility for nVidia display adapters running under Windows 98 (SE) / Windows ME / Windows 2000 and Windows XP. With this tweak utility you can enable/disabe hidden features in nVidia control panel, tweak nVidia Direct3D and OpenGL settings and overclock your nVidia display adapter.
There is a lot of fixes and additions to this version, including support for the G70 cards. Check out the official homepage for the tool here and download it here.