Tech News
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Intel Core i5 661 overclocking @ Hardwareoverclock
Published: Monday, April 26, 2010 | By: WillThe new Intel Core i5 661 are getting very popular for there overclocking abilites. So it was only a matter of time before someone wrote a guide on getting the most out of this new CPU. The cool thing is they even hit into the dry ice area.
"Hardwareoverclock.com has posted another Overclocking guide. Last week we have take a look at the Intel Core i5 661 processor. In the Overclocking guide you can find a step by step description to Overclock your Core i5 661 with air, water und dry ice."
Enjoy.
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NL: Motherboard Roundup
Published: Monday, April 26, 2010 | By: WillThe inbox is full of great motherboard reviews. So why try to weed through them when we can post them all.
- ASRock X58 Extreme3 Intel X58 Motherboard Review @ ThinkComputers
- ASUS P7P55D-E Deluxe Intel P55 LGA 1156 Motherboard Review @ OCIA
- Asus MS238H LCD Monitor Review @ HotHardware
- ASRock 890GX Extreme3 AMD Socket AM3 DDR3 Motherboard Review @ OCInside
- ASRock 890GX Extreme3 Motherboard @ Hardware Secrets
- EVGA P55 FTW (P55 Express) Motherboard @ TweakTown
- ASUS Rampage III Extreme review - The best motherboard evah ? @ Guru3DI guess I should have called it the Asus & ASRock roundup.
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 Slated For June
Published: Monday, April 26, 2010 | By: WillIt looks like NVidia is ready to hit the mainstream pretty quickly with the new GTX 460 card. If the specs are correct we all might have a monster on our hands in this area for gaming and benching.
"The GeForce GTX 460 will be derived from the GF100 GPU, by further cutting down the available streaming multiprocessor (SM) counts, and trimming the memory interface a little. With four SMs disabled (probably an entire graphics processing cluster or GPC), the GTX 460 has 384 CUDA cores, 32 raster operation processors (ROPs), 48 texture memory units (TMUs) with a 256-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, to connect to 1 GB of memory. The rest of its feature-set will be common with the GeForce 400 series. It is expected to compete with ATI Radeon HD 5830, at a similar price-point."
I cannot wait.
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GIGABYTE demo On/Off Charge for Apple products @ TweakTown
Published: Friday, April 23, 2010 | By: WillHere is something for the gadget guy that loves to charge his iPods, and what not without having your PC on. Gigabyte now allows for the motherboard USB headers to charge gadgets while turned off. Now that is neat.
"Earlier today we were invited down to the GIGABYTE Technology headquarters here in Taipei where we were given an exclusive demonstration of its new "On/Off Charge" technology for the Apple iPod and other Apple products such as the iPhone and iPod.
GIGABYTE quietly launched a software driver a little while ago that allowed its motherboards to charge Apple products via USB even when your computer was turned off. Now the Taiwanese motherboard heavyweight steps things up some more with its new On/Off Charge tech."I have to say that I have been pretty impressed with Gigabyte lately.
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NL: PC Game Reviews Roundup
Published: Friday, April 23, 2010 | By: WillLooks like we have another roundup for all of you PC gamers out there.
Splinter Cell Conviction (PC) Review @ GamingHeaven
"What a difference a beard makes... Seriously. The promotional material for Splinter Cell: Conviction saw pictures of a bedraggled Sam Fisher plastered everywhere just to let us know that things had changed. Its the classic movie convention - clean cut equals a by the book good guy, stubble equals either a bad guy or a good guy with a tendency to make up the rules as he goes along but the full beard is the uniform of a broken man."
Bioshock 2 - PC @ LanOC Reviews
"When the first Bioshock was released back in 2007, one may have considered it a sleeper hit. At least at first. It wasn't long before the title became immensely popular, even to the point of spawning perhaps one of the most substantial phrases in the current gaming era. Bioshock 2 has since enjoyed the limelight its predecessor had acquired, being one of the most anticipated games of 2010. Several weeks after it's release, and some fresh DLC, I take a look back on the title. Would you kindly join me?"
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Sapphire Radeon HD 5970 TOXIC 4GB Video Card @ TweakTown
Published: Thursday, April 22, 2010 | By: WillThis Radeon HD 5970 Toxic from Sapphire looks like one of the best packages around. Not only do they give you 4GB of memory over the standard. Sapphire even gives you a super awesome cooler for that swell card as well. Then the goodies added are just to sweet. They give you two full games on Steam, and then a power DVI-Displayport adapter as well to get your Eyefinity groove on.
"The other day we gave you a little bit of a sneak peek at the latest video card from Sapphire, the HD 5970 TOXIC 4GB. In that article we mentioned that we tend to leave previews to products we've seen at tradeshows or at the manufacturers headquarters. However, due to the limited samples of the HD 5970 TOXIC 4GB and the actual time frame it takes to do a review, we thought that we would just give you a bit of a sneak peek at what looked to be the fastest video card on the market.
Today we'll be giving the HD 5970 TOXIC 4GB from Sapphire the normal review treatment which means a bucket load of pictures and even more benchmarks. The HD 5970 TOXIC 4GB was actually first seen at CEBIT and word got around the interweb that the model was the HD 5990; this of course turned out to be incorrect. It was just a pimped out version of the HD 5970 sporting a heap of RAM."In the end though I bet this bad boy is expensive.
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Swiftech Komodo 5870 GPU Water Block @ PureOverclock
Published: Thursday, April 22, 2010 | By: WillWith all of the new graphic cards coming out with incredible potential for overclocking. The full cover water block for the GPU has really started taking hold now. This does rescrict the water block to a single type of graphics card, but the performance and ease of installation is well worth it. Check out this review to see what I'm talking about.
"Swiftech is a very well known water cooling company that understands the demands and the needs from the water cooling enthusiast. They've launched the Komodo HD5800 full cover water block series; it's a cooling solution for high-end graphics cards, and is designed to have superior thermal performance for the top dog Radeons HD5870 and HD5850. Let's find out how it performs on a 5870."
I think I need one of these.
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Proof In Steam's Mac Client Of Linux Support @ Phoronix
Published: Thursday, April 22, 2010 | By: WillValve is moving the Steam client over to the Mac. Well there goes those days of us making fun of no Mac gaming rigs. Well maybe not. They might be able to play a mean game of Peggle already. Truth be told adding more gaming to the alternate OSes out there is a very good thing for all gamers.
"We have our hands on the bash launcher used by Valve's Steam client for Mac OS X that was recently announced -- along with the Source Engine for OS X -- and is currently in closed beta. While such scripts are usually insignificant, there is something interesting within it and that is explicit support for Linux."
Linux is next and then what?
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Hybrid PhysX Mod v1.03 @ NGOHQ
Published: Thursday, April 22, 2010 | By: WillI think that NVidia needs to get there head out of the sand and notice that people want to use NVidia GPUs for PhysX. Not only are people wanting it. People are fixing the issue NVidia has created on Using a primary ATI graphics card for graphics and a secondary NVidia card for PhysX. Go check out this interesting piece of software if you want your cake and eat it too.
"This mod will enable hardware PhysX support for NVIDIA GPU, when non-NVIDIA GPU is used as a primary display device."
NVidia give the people what they want break down your walls.
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NL: PC Game Reviews Roundup
Published: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 | By: WillIt is now time for another PC game review roundup for all of us gamers.
Mount and Blade Warband Review @ XSReviews
"Since quite a few people were saying that Warband wasn't much of a change over the original game, I did my research into the series by playing around ¾ of a year of Mount & Blade senior, checking out the different features, learning the combat model and just getting a feel for the franchise. Now I could go completely in depth with this review and describe every facet of Mount & Blade Warband and is predecessor but that would take forever; really it's a huge game. So instead I'll focus on a few key points of the game, giving some pros and some cons and ultimately conclude it to see whether it's worth its price tag."
God of War 3 PlayStation 3 Review @ TweakTown
"When Sony first decided to publish God of War it was highly unlikely they would have realised how popular the series would become. Now a system seller, God of War and Kratos is synonymous with the PlayStation system, one of those games that almost every PlayStation owner has at least heard of, if not owns. When the PS3 was announced, everyone awaited the announcement of God of War, but to our surprise the second title remained on PS2. Finally, the third and final (so they say) title in the series is here and if epic is what you want, epic is what you get.
For those of you who have played GOW 1 and 2, you would be very familiar with the gameplay mechanics. It's an action adventure with a bit of puzzle solving thrown in. The game is designed in such a way that you generally will only get stuck for ten or so minutes before figuring out what to do. The puzzles are not taxing and the combat is designed for action rather than difficulty and as such God of War is an incredibly enjoyable game to play."Okay one of these is not a PC game, but it is on top of most gamers list. So I had to list it on here.
