Tech News
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Gigabyte Radeon HD 4770 512MB @ Techgage
Published: Thursday, August 27, 2009 | By: DennisDoes cheap = good?? Techgage seems to think so.
Have just $100 to splurge on a new graphics card? Is having low power consumption and low temperatures important to you? If so, the HD 4770 certainly deserves your attention. This budget card handled each one of our games at 1920x1080 just fine, overclocks like a dream and has power and temp numbers worth drooling over.
Sometimes the cheaper cards are the way to go, then again they could also be like mopeds, and we all know how that saying goes.
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Core i7 Extreme Overclocking with LN2 @ HotHardware
Published: Thursday, August 27, 2009 | By: DennisEventually we would like to feature some extreme cooling action here at Ninjalane again but there is a certain amount of skill and patience required that frankly many of us do not have. Not to mention additional cost required to store and use LN2.
Intel's Extreme Edition processors are not for everybody. Economically, they just don't make much sense for mainstream users. These extravagant chips were designed for smaller segment of the market where the consumers who buy them tend to push their hardware a lot harder than most folks.
Extreme Edition is nice (just ask JimmyZ) but for the money I'd take a i7 920 any day.
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10 Reasons Why Geeks Make Good Fathers
Published: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 | By: WillThis is to classic for us geeks out there with families. I hit on a few of these pretty well. "Geek Love for the wife" right here all the way.
As my wife likes to often point out to my children, I'm a geek. No shame in it - be proud of who you are. Stand on the mountain tops and share with the world - "I'm a geek, and I'm proud!" Any who - Here's my ten reasons why my children should be happy to have a geek dad...
Yep, the Darth Vader love scene in Revenge of The Nerds is a classic.
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Gamescom 2009 boothbabes report @ dvhardware
Published: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 | By: WillSince we at Ninjalane love our boothbabe moment as much as the next guy. Well we had to post this little tidbit of yumminess. Then I got to the second page, and noticed things had gone horribly wrong. The babes started becoming dudes.
DV Hardware has posted its first piece of coverage of Gamescom 2009, in this article we focus on the boothbabes and video game characters of Gamescom.
Okay, do not title anything as boothbabes if it is mainly going to be 1.5 pages of hot chicks and the rest of it custome characters and dudes.
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Onboard Graphics Shootout AMD 790GX vs. 785G @ TweakTown
Published: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 | By: WillHere is an interesting read for all of the normal consumers that get talked into buying a system with intergrated graphics, but also want to game. This practice happens from retailers more often then they like to admit.
While most of us on Tweak Town are after the most performance and overclocking capable boards out there, it's important to note that there is still a very large side of the market that we don't always give a great deal of thought to, that being the integrated market.
Today as a follow up to the 785G chipset review, we are taking a look at the 785G's graphics performance compared the 790GX's. Since the 785G is DX10.1 compatible, will it have any performance increase over the 790GX? - Let's have a bit of a look see."I still wonder how they can sleep at night. You know who you are!
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BlizzBabes: The Babes & Cosplayers of BlizzCon '09 @ Legit Reviews
Published: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 | By: WillYep, somewhere deep inside I have some strange fetish for babes with blue skin and elf ears. If you do to then take a look at BlizzBabes, and enjoy.
"we really do know what our readers are looking for...it's not the hardware, it's not the software titles...it's the Booth Babes! Well, we have them for you today. We encountered not only Booth Babes, but more CosBabes and even CosDudes in costume. In fact there were so many CosPeople that it was hard for us to just narrow down the top ones that we saw. Trust us, there were more people in costume for the cosplay and the BlizzCon Costume Contest than you can shake a 20-side die at...."
Wow, some of those customes are even to weird for me.
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Intel Core i5-750 Overclocking Preview @ HardOCP
Published: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 | By: WillLooks like Fry's dropped the ball and let some Core i5 out into the wild. Also looks like the gang at HardOCP got ahold of one to torture.
Our first preview of our Intel Core i5 processor that we purchased online last week. We put the 2.66GHz Core i5 model 750 through some overclocking paces to show you what can be achieved easily with an enthusiast air cooler.
I think we need to take action against the torture of these poor innocent processors.
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Gigabyte, Intel, Kingston Lynnfield Core i5/i7 Demo @ Bjorn3D
Published: Monday, August 24, 2009 | By: WillIs the Core i5 here yet? Everyone is very antsy to get ahold of it.
"We recently made a meeting in California for the Gigabyte, Intel, Kingston Lynnfield Core i5/i7 demo on Gigabyte boards with Kingston HyperX. We have to tell you we've seen Nirvana and it was good. Imagine a room full of some of the industries leading people and having hours on end to pick their brains. Sheer nerd Nirvana.
With all the brain picking and idea bouncing going on we still had time to see some boards, get a peek at i5/i7 demonstration, look at the Kingston HyperX lineup for i5/i7, and spent copious time attending our drool towels."It's almost here are you ready?
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NL: PC Game Reviews Roundup
Published: Monday, August 24, 2009 | By: WillIt's been a while but here is another PC Game Reviews Roundup. Okay, maybe it is just a Wolfenstein Roundup.
"The Second World War is one of the darkest times for Europe and also the basis for many first person shooter. Back in MS DOS times Wolfenstein was already one of the most favourite games when looking at fps-games. The latest title from id Software is name simply Wolfenstein and tries to bring the successful story to the next level."
Wolfenstein (2009) PC Review @ Gamingheaven
"We recently reviewed the console version of Wolfenstein 2009 and we came away a little unimpressed with the overall experience - even though the core gameplay was pretty good. By no means a bad game it however didn't knock our socks off - something we are hoping the PC version might rectify today."
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Windows 7 vs. Vista CPU & Memory Performance Comparison @ TweakTown
Published: Friday, August 21, 2009 | By: WillWe just recently looked at a GPU performance of the 2 Windows Operating Systems. I guess it is time to look at the Memory Performance.
"We've had a good look into the VGA side of things when it comes to Windows 7. However, while for many people that's the most important section, it's not all of it. Today we'll be having a closer look at how some of the other components in our system run under the new operating system due out in just a few months.
Today we'll be looking at two core components; the memory and the CPU. We'll be using a triple channel memory configuration with our Core i7 920 processor clocked at 4GHz. We'll be running our testbed through our standard memory benchmark line-up which does a good job of testing both the memory and CPU."It's almost here.
