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NL: PC Game Reviews Roundup
Published: Thursday, February 25, 2010 | By: WillWith all of the new games that just came out. The reviews for them have been pretty slim, but hey we got some for our readers.
BioShock 2 - Underwater-Shooter Review @ TweakPC
"2K Games invites again for an underworld shooting party. Is BioShock 2 a worthy successor?"
Napoleon: Total War (PC) @ GamingHeaven
"Immediately it is clear that this version of Total War, while familiar to experienced players of the series, presents more options than before. There is the open-ended campaign mode, an opportunity to play to one-off battles both historical and invented."
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NL: Radeon 4830 Roundup
Published: Thursday, February 25, 2010 | By: WillNew video cards are hitting the market to fill a void between the Radeon 4770 and the Radeon 4850. Let's see if the gap is really being taken care of in these reviews.
- ATI Radeon HD 5830 1GB Video Card @ Tweaktown
- ATI Radeon HD 5830 Review: Filling The Gap @ HotHardware
- Sapphire Radeon HD 5830 Graphics Card Review @ HardwareHeaven
- ASUS EAH 5830 DirectCu @ techPowerUp
- Sapphire Radeon HD 5830 1GB GDDR5 Review @ Hardware Canucks
- ATI Radeon HD 5830 - AMD Completes its HD 5000 Line-up @ Techgage -
Second-tier makers unlikely ship NVidia Fermi cards until April
Published: Thursday, February 25, 2010 | By: DennisThere is an interesting post over at Digitimes about the pending Fermi launch.
Second-tier graphics card makers are unlikely to start mass shipments of their Nvidia GeForce GTX 480/470-based (Fermi) graphics cards until April despite that Nvidia plans to announce the GPU on March 26 since most of the them have not yet received complete reference board designs, according to sources from graphics card makers.
The sources expect Nvidia will give supply priority to first-tier makers or makers that only produce Nvidia cards. Makers including XFX and PNY are already offering pre-orders for these upcoming cards with GTX 480 priced at around US$679.99 and GTX 470 at about US$499.99.Its kind of interesting to see XFX on the list offering pre-orders. It was said that they completely dropped nVidia from their lineup. The question now is, who are the First Teir companies? (pretty easy to answer), and who is left that "only" does nVidia stuff?
EVGA seems to be the only one.
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NL: Motherboard Roundup
Published: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 | By: WillWow, lots and lots motherboard reviews and me without a lot to say about them. Time for a roundup to make it easy on my laziness.
- Gigabyte X58A-UD3R Intel X58 LGA 1366 Motherboard Review @ ThinkComputers
- ASUS P7P55D-E Pro (P55 Express) Motherboard @ Tweaktown
- ASUS P7H57D-V EVO LGA1156 Motherboard Review @ Hardware Canucks
- Gigabyte GA-790FXTA-UD5 Motherboard Review @ HardwareHeaven
- GIGABYTE P55A-UD7 Motherboard Review @ Motherboard
- GIGABYTE MA790XT-UD4P AM3 DDR3 Motherboard Review @ EXTREME Overclocking
- MSI P55-GD85 LGA 1156 Intel Motherboard Review @ Legit ReviewsThat should do it. Need to nap now after all of that clicking.
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Gigabyte's P55A-UD7 - The Most Packed P55 Board? @ Techgage
Published: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 | By: WillGigabyte has been doing overtime on making some of the most full featured motherboards here recently. The board in this review has everything, but the kitchen sink. In the end though does it have the ability to do some extreme overclocking?
"Are you looking for the most feature-rich P55-based motherboard possible? With its P55A-UD7, Gigabyte looks like its up to the challenge. In addition to the usual slew of features we've come to expect, the UD7 includes a built-in waterblock, a Silent-Pipe add-on, 24 power phases, SATA and USB 3.0, four PCI-E 16x slots, and more"
I'm not going to tell you, go read it.
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NVidia GeForce GTX480 Cards Launch
Published: Monday, February 22, 2010 | By: WillPAX East 2010 looks to be one incredible show with NVidia this year. They look to be ready to launch the over due GeForce GTX480 as well and start selling them on the spot. This sounds like to much fun.
"Come see NVIDIA unveil the next generation of PC gaming. Want to see what's hot and what's next? If you're even vaguely a fan of PC games and miss this special event, you'll likely be spending the next few months kicking yourself. Line up early as seating is limited. ‘Nuff said."
"Test drive our highly-anticipated, next-generation GPU...you may even be able to buy one before anyone else"Wow, I want to go just for the GeForce LAN.
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NL: Graphic Card Roundup
Published: Monday, February 22, 2010 | By: WillGiven all the GPU news and reviews we have been doing let's have a good old roundup.
- Sapphire Radeon HD 5850 TOXIC GFX Review @ HardwareHeaven
- HIS Radeon HD 5670 IceQ+ 1GB Video Card @ Tweaktown
- Sapphire HD 5450 512 MB GDDR3 @ techPowerUp
- Sapphire Radeon HD 5850 Toxic @ Techgage
- Sapphire Radeon HD 5850 1GB Toxic Edition Review @ Hardware Canucks
- Zotac GeForce GT 240 512MB Graphics Card Review @ Verdis ReviewsEnjoy!
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Digital Signage Expo 2010: VIA to demo dual-GPU S3 graphics card
Published: Monday, February 22, 2010 | By: WillWe at Ninjalane have been playing with so many ATI graphic cards here recently that we almost forgot there is others out there. VIA is one brand that not many people will get to excited about, but hey it might be an interesting low end card for the HTPC crowd.
"VIA Technologies has announced plans to demonstrate a dual GPU add-in-board, the S3 Graphics Chrome 5400E x2, aimed at multi-display digital signage applications at Digital Signage Expo 2010, which will be hosted from February 24-25 in Las Vegas."
More than likely not.
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OCZ Vertex LE (Limited Edition) 100GB SSD Review @ Legit Reviews
Published: Monday, February 22, 2010 | By: WillLooks like the new Sandforce controller are moving in on the SSD drive front. Good to see new stuff that makes everything faster, and may also make prices come down on the older SSD Drives. I wonder if this new drive is everything it is hyped to be?
"The OCZ Vertex LE is one of the fastest SSDS that we have ever seen here at Legit Reviews. It was able to give the Intel X25-M G2 160GB SSD and Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB drives a run for their money in many of the benchmarks. We were able to reach read speeds of up to 290MB/sec. and write speeds of up to 240MB/sec in ATTO on the Vertex LE and that was impressive. We were able to get much higher than the 270MB/s max read speed, but we were unable to reach the advertised max write of 250MB/s on our test system in any benchmark. The Vertex Limited Edition SSD has just 5,000 pieces available and with performance results like these they shouldn't be around for too long..."
Bigger drives and lower prices just around the corner.
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Webcams used 42 times to find laptops
Published: Friday, February 19, 2010 | By: Dennisand if you believe the subject you're pretty darn dense.
Young tells The Associated Press that only two technology department employees were authorized to activate the cameras - and only to locate missing laptops.
He says Lower Merion school officials did not tell students and parents about the security technique.I'm not sure exactly what software they are using, but I suspect its similar to "lojack" and when the computer accesses the internet the software will phone home and allow anyone with the proper permissions to remotely access the PC.
The school is within their rights to protect their property but against popular myth not all IT people have a proper moral compass and many will abuse the power they have for personal gain or just for cheap tricks. For instance email admins will read your email, often times not to be nosy but to investigate problems, or look to see why you're sending 5megs of something across the network.
In the end, this may work for finding lost computers but only if they are turned on. Along the same lines if someone wanted to steal the computer it they would likely be smart enough to either disable the camera or reformat the hard drive.
I mean it's not rocket science.
