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Ikonik Zaria A10 SIM case

The Ikonik Zaria A10 SIM case has temp monitoring bits built in. It’s a classy mid-ATX tower. Add comment

Sapphire HD 4650 and HD 4670

Sapphire throws the reference design to the wind with its new Radeon HD 4650 and HD 4670 cards. Add comment

Alphacool NexXxoS XP Core i7 water block

Guru3D builds a silent Core i7 system using the Alphacool NexXxoS XP Core i7 water block to keep its 965 EE chilled at 4GHz. Add comment

SilverStone RV01 Raven case

The SilverStone RV01 Raven case reinvents the way the motherboard fits in a chassis. Add comment

ASUS 9800GTX+ Dark Knight

Holy hand grenade Batman! It’s the ASUS 9800GTX+ Dark Knight. Add comment

Tritton AXPro gaming headset

If you’re in the market for a gaming headset, consider the Tritton AXPro. Add comment

Catalyst 9.1 driver analysis

Tweak Town benchmarks the new ATI Catalyst 9.1 drivers. Add comment

Akasa PowerMax 1000W power supply

If you’re in Europe, check out the Akasa PowerMax 1000W power supply. Add comment

EVGA GeForce GTX 285 For The Win edition

Looks like the EVGA GeForce GTX 285 For The Win video card will be the fastest air-cooled single GPU card on the market. Add comment

Head to Head: Nvidia 9800GTX+ vs ATI HD4850

Today we’ve got a rather special head-to-head comparison lined up. Rather than seeing a clash of the top-end titans from NVIDIA and AMD, we’re going to be taking a look at two extremely popular, value conscious offerings: the 9800GTX+ and the HD4850. Having been on the market for some time now, it is no secret […] Add comment

Kaspersky for Windows 7 trial

We just received a tip informing us that Kaspersky has made a preview version of their popular anti-virus application available to you Windows 7 guinea pigs. At the heart of the new technical prototype is Kaspersky Lab’s new antivirus engine which is even more effective at detecting malicious programs than its predecessor. The new engine […] Add comment

[Rumor] Intel cancels GPU/CPU cores

Blogger Theo Valich is reporting that Intel’s Auburndale and Havendale GPCPUs, CPUs that contained both x86 and GPU silicon in a single package, have been canned on account of the economy. These chips were both dual core units that connected to an internal GPU through a QPI link. These CPUs were originally pegged to debut […] Add comment

Adobe, Apple talk iPhone Flash

Apple and Adobe took the weekend to announce that a fully featured version of Adobe Flash was finally in the works for the iPhone. Bringing Adobe’s Flash to the iPhone has been an arduous and, at times, intensely political process. Reports from early March of last year revealed that Apple CEO Steve Jobs was dismissive […] Add comment

Full steam ahead for Windows 7 RC1

Ending speculation regarding Microsoft’s next step with Windows 7, an MSDN blog update by VP of Windows Engineering Group Steven Sinofsky has revealed that 7’s next milestone is a release candidate build. The next milestone for the development of Windows 7 is the Release Candidate or “RC”. Historically the Release Candidate has signaled “we’re pretty […] Add comment

Samsung paves the way for 32GB DDR3 sticks

Samsung has announced new memory chips that open the door for 8 and 16GB DDR3 memory sticks in the future. The new four gigabit chips are manufactured using a 50nm process, which increases capacity and lowers power consumption up to 40 percent compared to current offerings. Information Week reports suggest Samsung will initially offer the […] Add comment

Parallels 4.0 runs Windows 7

Parallels Desktop 4.0 lets you run Windows 7 beta virtually on your Mac. Add comment

Troubleshoot slowdowns by freezing processes

An amazing utility called Yawffer gives a user the ability to pause a process in Windows without closing it. This application would be instrumental in painlessly identifying an application that is secretly responsible for causing system unresponsiveness. If you’ve navigated the landmine of Windows processes in the task manager to root out an offending app, […] Add comment

Stanford team sets storage density record

Using a technique called electronic quantum holography, a team of researchers at Stanford university have managed to encode 35 bits per electron in a carbon monoxide molecule to render shapes in a chip of copper. Working in a vibration-proof basement lab in the Varian Physics Building, Manoharan and Moon began their writing project with a […] Add comment

Fusion-Fission reactor runs on nuclear waste

A reactor concept developed at the University of Texas at Austin would burn transuranic waste (nuclear waste) to reduce waste volume by up to 99%. Add comment

Google launches M-Lab to test ISP throttling

A 2008 partnership between Google and academia has materialized in the form of the Measurement Lab, a service designed to uncover evidence of protocol filtering and throttling at the ISP level. The issue of protocol management has become a prominent and contentious issue in the ongoing debate over network neutrality. Since the topic’s abrupt inception […] Add comment

CSX DDR3-1600 3GB kit

CSX makes the beardy Linux guys at Phoronix happy with its DDR3-1600 3GB kit. Add comment