Tech News
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Customers angry, staff defiant at China's fake Apple Store
Published: Friday, July 22, 2011 | By: DennisThis goes to show that everyone in the world wants American goods, but they are not willing to pay for it so they spend some money and create a fake.
I did see news of this early in the week but didn't think it would become such a big deal, I guess I was wrong. Doh!
"When I heard the news I rushed here immediately to get the receipt, I am so upset," a customer surnamed Wang told Reuters, near tears. "With a store this big, it looks so believable who would have thought it was fake?"
Wang, a petite, 23-year-old office worker who would not give her first name, spent 14,000 yuan ($2,170) last month buying a Macbook Pro 13-inch and a 3G iPhone from the Kunming store. She wasn't issued a receipt at the time, with staff telling her to come back later.I like how they describe "Wang" as a Petite person
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ASUS captivates tech-enthusiasts at Power User Conference
Published: Friday, July 22, 2011 | By: DennisIn the spirit of the great giveaway we are hosting for the next few weeks here ia a really cool article talking about a recent overclocking event ASUS hosted in Mumbai.
The conference aimed to educate the power users on recent technological innovations offered by ASUS’ latest Z68 motherboards, ROG and TUF Series motherboards. During the presentation, Jack spoke extensively on topics like ASUS Dual Intelligent Processors with Digi+VRM digital power design, ROG Thunderbolt card design, military-standard tested TUF components and Sabertooth series motherboards.
These overclocking events are quite fun and really educate you on what can be done with overclocking and how computer enthusiasts use their gear.. It is sad that they held it by invitation only, but considering the location that might have been the smart move.
Its an easy read, be sure to check it out.
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Kingston Dual-Channel-Kit KHX2000C9AD3W1K2/4GX Review @ ocaholic
Published: Thursday, July 21, 2011 | By: DennisThere have only been a few companies that have done watercooled heatspreaders and I have often struggled as to why you need to watercool ram. Some people just like the thought that everything is watecooled while others think it helps with overclocking.
The Kingston H2O series belong to the most powerful modules which the memory giant actually has in its portfolio. As soon as you take a closer look at the specifications you'll see that they are very serious. According to Kingston these DIMMs need only 1.5 Volt to operate at 2000 MHz with 9-11-9-27 timings.
If you are into waterchillers for your overclocking adventures then a heatspreader like this can actually serve a purpose, assuming condensation can be kept under control.
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NL: Review Block - Cases and Cards
Published: Thursday, July 21, 2011 | By: DennisQuick review block covering some of the latest Video card and computer chassis reviews from around the web.
Video Cards
- HIS Radeon 6770 ICEQX Turbo Crossfire review
- HIS Radeon 6770 IceQ X Turbo @ PureOverclock
- Visiontek Radeon 6950 2GB @ PureOverclock
- Gigabyte GeForce GTX 570 Super Overclock review <- SOC FTW
- PowerColor Radeon HD 6870 X2 graphics card review
- Zotac GTX 550Ti AMP! @ LanOC Reviews
Cases
- Cooler Master HAF 932 Advanced @ Pro-Clockers
- Moneual Sonamu G100 ECO-Friendly Micro ATX Case Review @ Tweaknews
- CM Storm Enforcer @ techPowerUp
- OC3D: Cooler Master HAF 932 Advanced Review -
Foxconn reportedly considering ECS acquisition
Published: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 | By: DennisPeople in the TW tech industry move around a lot and we hear rumors that so in so moved from here to there and whats his name moved from company a to b and then back to a. These transitions are a normal occurrence much like in any industry.
But, what if a person from Foxconn was fed up this their job and moved to ECS only to be required back into Foxconn due to a merger? It would be like they never left.
Source from retail channel pointed out that Orbbit has been operating in China retail market for many years, and is one of the few Taiwan-based players having retail channel capability in China, but since the company's market share is still trailing several China-based local players, even if Foxconn acquires ECS and Orbbit by a lower-than net value price, ECS's weak operation performance since 2007 may not make the transaction worth a while.
I would have to agree with the sources on this one, if Foxconn did buy ECS it wouldn't be to inherit their weak market share but to steal away some key partner or some of their exclusive OEM business.
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Cooler Master Storm Sirus Launch Day
Published: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 | By: DennisIt is launch day for a new product from Cooler Master called the Storm Sirus. We have seen this product many times since CES and we are glad it has finally made it to market.
The gaming headset is not your normal 2 speaker surround system but rather a true 5.1 speaker system with 4 individual speakers in each ear cup. The position of these speakers is what gives you audio depth and the tuning module allows you to adjust any setting you wish.
Reviews from around the web
- Cooler Master CM Storm Sirius 5.1 Gaming Headset Review @ Tweaknews
- Cooler Master Storm Sirus 5.1 Gaming Headset at Modders-Inc
- Cooler Master Storm Sirus 5.1 Headset Review @ Hardware Canucks
- Cooler Master Storm Sirus @ PureOverclock
- Cooler Master Storm Sirus @ LanOC ReviewsBe sure to check out our review of the CM Storm Sirus Gaming headset and then look to get one for yourself.
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Corsair H60 Self-Contained Liquid CPU Cooler Review @ Techgage
Published: Sunday, July 17, 2011 | By: DennisThe H50 is quite old in product years so to keep the product line fresh Corsair has been busy "upgrading" the popular platform to increase performance and compatibility.
When Corsair earlier this year announced its partnership with CoolIT, it at the same time also announced a follow-up to its popular H50, the H60. At first glance, the H60 looks simpler in design to the H50, but with an entirely rethought inside, featuring a split-flow design with micro-channel cold plate, that's not the case at all.
The way I understand it asetek makes the coolers but CoolIt supplies the system monitoring software, what a great combo.
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NL: Review Block - Motherboard Roundup at the Ninjalane Corral
Published: Sunday, July 17, 2011 | By: DennisJust a few mobo reviews from the inbox.
Motherboards
- Gigabyte G1.Assassin X58 Motherboard Review @ Hothardware
- ASUS Maximus IV Gene-Z (Intel Z68) mATX Motherboard Review
- ASUS Maximus IV Gene-Z review @ Guru3D
- ZOTAC Z68-ITX WiFi @ techPowerUpThe Zotac boards seem to be quite popular, I wonder if we should start reviewing them?
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F.E.A.R. 3 (PC) Review @ HardwareHeaven
Published: Sunday, July 17, 2011 | By: DennisI wouldn't normally post something like this but I have been playing this title for the past couple weeks and have thus far been very impressed. The game does support DX11 at some level but due to the however due to the GTX 275 in my gaming rig I'm forced to play in DX9 mode.
At its core F.E.A.R 3 is a modern day first person shooter so all of the key ingredients are here, the ability to carry multiple weapons, including two of the same type for dual handed attacks, we can zoom to target and health regenerates when we seek cover. Day 1 have however retained some of the key aspects of the original title which ensure that this feels like a F.E.A.R title, the main thing being the ability to slow time while attacking which allows us to target and attack multiple enemies more successfully in dangerous situations.
The only thing I'm not so happy about is the mouse movements being rather quick and jumpy due to a lower than expected framerate (again due to the GTX 275). Despite this I find the action to be well paced with the right amount of enemy interaction and plenty of places to hide during the fire fights.
There is also plenty of spooky parts and a few places where bodies hanging from meat hooks appear out of nowhere.
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The science of fanboyism @ TechReport
Published: Sunday, July 17, 2011 | By: DennisThis is a pretty good article, I will admit I did read the entire thing and stuff towards the end gets rather confusing but given the subject, I'm thinking that is what he was going for.
What pushes sane, otherwise intelligent people to develop an irrational bias toward a given brand or product? Are we seeing the manifestation of a rational process, whereby people attempt to validate and elevate themselves by loudly trumpeting the superiority of their choices? Or is something else at play?
As it turns out, various scientific studies have pointed to the existence of a basal process that, when one chooses between two roughly equally desirable items, causes the brain's perception of the two items to change significantly. The data from those studies are interesting and quite surprising.In the end they conclude that we "all" are fanboys (or fangirls) at some level.
