Tech News
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Microsoft: Google Bypasses Privacy Settings in Internet Explorer, Too
Published: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 | By: GarrettMicrosoft is now also claiming that Google is bypassing certain privacy setting in Internet Explorer like it has with Safari.
In a blog post written by Dean Hachamovitch, Microsoft’s corporate vice president for Internet Explorer, the software giant alleges that Google is using similar methods — though the actual bypass mechanism is different — to get around default privacy protections in Internet Explorer and track IE users with cookies.
Privacy is something that companies like to pay attention to when it works to their advantage. I would rather the companies focus on getting this issue resolved than turning it into a smear campaign.
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In-Win XFrame Limited Edition Review @ HardwareLOOK
Published: Friday, February 17, 2012 | By: DennisI was able to get a really good look at this test bench at CES 2012 and was quite impressed with the overall build qualtiy and layout of the features. Sadly I was told the bench would be in limited supply and likely restricted to 50 - 100 units due to them being hand built.
The In-Win XFrame is a brand new concept and view on what the classic open frame chassis should look like. The In-Win XFrame is far superior and super-exceeds current open frame chassis to date. The XFrame offers extreme amount of freedom and space between cable routing areas and innovates device installation procedures. The XFrame is a very interesting piece of kit.
It will be neat to see how they sell on the open market or if anyone really needs /or/ wants an open air test bench style case anymore.
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GameRevive.com Offers a New Option for Selling Video Games
Published: Friday, February 17, 2012 | By: GarrettIf you want to trade in your games and don't want leave the house, GameRevive might be what you are looking for.
Gamers visiting GameRevive (http://www.GameRevive.com) can enter their games into the website and receive an instant price quote. They can also print free shipping labels to send their games to the GameRevive warehouse in Beaverton, OR. Once the company receives and inspects the games, payment is issued within one business day. Payment is made in the form of a mailed check or a PayPal electronic deposit.
Like any trade in, you aren't going to get as much money as you expect but the convenience of doing it online might make it worth your time.
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Maingear Debuts New Thermal Interface Material: Meet the T1000
Published: Friday, February 17, 2012 | By: GarrettSpeading thermal paste correctly is critical in keeping your CPU cool but ensuring a thin evenly spead application can be difficult. Maingear offers different solution:
Today, Maingear has launched what they claim is a genuine advance over existing thermal pastes. The Epic T1000 kit uses a PCMA (phase change metal alloy) as an interface material between CPU and heatsink. Unlike a standard paste, which is (hopefully) applied with a razor or other straight-edge, Maingear's T1000 is a transparent wafer at room temperature that one lays over the CPU before attaching a heatsink.
The higher cost and the fact that you need to have a new waffer each time you change cpus and/or heatsinks might make hardware enthusiast shy away from it.
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AMD HD7770 1Ghz GPU Lauch Day
Published: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 | By: DennisYou may have seen some reports about how hardware sites started getting performance enhancing pills in the mail and while Valentines day was just "yesterday" you might think it was a nice gesture but really it was a marketing stunt from AMD to promote the HD7770 and HD7750.
Here are some reviews from around the inbox. Look for our preview article of the Gigabyte solution a little later today.
- OC3D: AMD HD7770 Review
- Funky Kit Review: HIS Radeon HD 7750 iCooler
- HIS Radeon HD 7750 Graphics Card Review @ HardwareHeaven
- MSI Radeon HD 7770 OC edition review
- AMD Radeon HD 7770 and 7750 Video Card Reviews @ Legit Reviews
- Sapphire Radeon 7770 OC @ PureOverclock
- AMD Radeon HD 7770 and 7750 GPU Reviews @ HotHardware
- Sapphire HD 7770 Overclock Edition @ LanOC Reviews
- AMD Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
- AMD Radeon HD 7770 & HD 7750 Review @ Hardware Canucks
- VTX3D HD7770 1GHZ Edition Crossfire Review
- PowerColor Radeon HD 7770 1 GB @ techPowerUp
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Thremal Compound Roundup February 2012
Published: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 | By: GarrettIf you were ever curious on how your thermal compound compares to the others out there, Hardware Secrets has done an excellent write up.
Following up on our Thermal Compound Roundup - January 2012 review, we are adding five more thermal compounds to our roundup, for a total of 65 different models from Akasa, Antec, Arctic Cooling, Arctic Silver, Biostar, Connectland, Coollaboratory, Cooler Master, Coolink, Deepcool, Dow Corning, Enermax, Evercool, EVGA, Gelid, Glacialstars, Innovation Cooling, Masscool, Nanoxia, Nexus, Noctua, Phobya, Prolimatech, Scythe, Shin-Etsu, Spire, StarTech, Revoltec, Rosewill, Thermalright, Thermaltake, TIM Consultants, Titan, Tuniq, Xigmatek, Zalman, and ZEROtherm. In this review, we will determine if certain products are superior to others. We will also try another alternative thermal compound to see if it works.
While it is great to see the temperature differences of each of the compounds, Hardware Secrets takes it one step further and adds some non thermal compounds like chocolate to give you an idea of why you might want to spend the extra money to get a good thermal compound.
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Don’t Blame Your Crappy Marriage On Video Games
Published: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 | By: GarrettAre you looking for a reason your marriage is on the rocks. If you are thinking of blaming video games, you might have to look somewhere else.
Any happy couple will tell you that successful relationships are built on compromises, and if one member of that relationship can't figure out how to balance his or her hobbies, that relationship is not going to work. Whether your vice of choice is World of Warcraft, fantasy football, or knitting, if you fall too deep into the rabbit hole of obsession, your personal life is going to suffer. Blame the person, not the game.
Although I agree with the article, MMORPGs can be highly addictive and you should be careful of how much time you sink into it.
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7.8GHz AMD LN2 Overclocking at GIGABYTE Extreme OC Workshop
Published: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 | By: GarrettCheck out the winning results of a extreme overclocking workshop hosted in Australia complete with video and pictures.
For the workshop we utilized GIGABYTE's flagship AMD motherboard the 990FXA-UD7, AMD Bulldozer FX-8150 processors, a GIGABYTE Radeon HD 6970 video card, Corsair Dominator GT memory, Corsair AX1200 power supplies and Corsair ForceGT SSDs.
Think you could beat their results?
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The 50 Best Video Game Endings of All Time Starts with Resident Evil and Ends with… Black Ops?
Published: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 | By: GarrettWhile you might scratch your head after reading the list, the Guinness Book of World Records with the help of 13,000 voters, have listed the 50 top video game endings.
More than 13,000 fans voted for their favorite video game ending of all time for the Guinness Book of World Records 2012 Gamer Edition, and this is what they came up with? Call of Duty: Black Ops is the greatest video game ending of all time? Maybe I need to go play it again. Oh wait, BioShock made the list, it's obviously complete BS.
I would be curious to know the method that was used for this vote, as a lot of these games are fairly recent or well know classics. The list does remind me of some awesome moments during gaming. I am looking at you, Price of Persia: The Sands of Time.
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Quadrant for Android gets updated with ICS and multicore CPU support
Published: Monday, February 13, 2012 | By: GarrettFor all those Android users out there that have used Quadrant to benchmark there phones a new verison is out.
The famous benchmarking app, Quadrant Standard Edition, has just received a much needed update which is now available at the Android Market. For the longest time, Quadrant didn’t support multicore CPUs. The folks at from Aurora Softworks decided that had to change in this new update.
Hopefully now phone reviewers can provide some better benchmark comparisons.
