Artic Cooling Accelero Xtreme 4870 X2 GPU cooler
If you’ve got the stones to strip down a HD 4870 X2, the Artic Cooling Accelero Xtreme 4870 X2 GPU cooler can lower temps by 30°C! Add comment
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Patriot Gamer Series DDR3-1600
The 6GB kit of Patriot’s Gamer Series DDR3-1600 is a steal at $100 and offers ample overclocking headroom. Add comment
Windows 7 hits RTM milestone
Hell, we were wrong. Microsoft has announced today that Windows 7 has received the RTM signoff and is on its way to OEMs, IHVs and ISVs who must now prepare their ecosystem of products for the October 22 launch. The straight skinny Build number: 7600.16835 Build string: 6.1.7600.16385.090713-1255 Compile date: July 13, 2009 @ 12:55 […] Add comment
Catalyst 9.7 drivers are out
Okay, so it’s early and AMD/ATI hasn’t had time to update their pages. Catalyst 9.7 drivers are out for Windows 7 and Vista users, even if the pages still refer to 9.6. Click here to explore. Driver guru Terry Makedon says XP users will have to wait until tomorrow to snag theirs, at which time […] Add comment
Amazon acquires Zappos
Amazon is acquiring Internet shoe retail giant and all-around awesome company Zappos in a stock trade deal announced today. No worries — Zappos will retain its awesomeness. Add comment
Summer 2009 system guides
Money burning a hole in your wallet? Here’s some system guides to direct the spending of your hard earned. Add comment
790FX and nForce 980a go head-to-head
Tech Report tests the Phenom II X4 955 on 790FX and nForce 980a motherboards to see where the AMD performance king is hiding. Add comment
AMD bags 500 millionth x86 CPU
AMD announced today that it has shipped its 500 millionth x86 processor to coincide with ongoing celebrations marking the processor firm’s 40th anniversary. As an added perk, the landmark shipment for the company means all you Twitter-usin’ AMD fans have a shot at landing your very own Congo-powered ultra thin. You definitely want a Congo-powered […] Add comment
AMD releases three new processors today
AMD’s Athlon II X2 250 has been hyped a lot in the past few days considering it was released June 1, but it all makes sense seeing today’s release of the slower Athlon II X2 240 and 245 processors. The 65W AM3 processors are clocked at 2.8 and 2.9 GHz respectively. These are no-frills, meat-and-potatoes […] Add comment
Fixt! Corsair brings Dominator GTs back
Corsair announced today they are bringing back the Dominator GT line of memory modules removed from retail sales earlier this month. Corsair says the issue came from bad batches of RAM and future Dominator GT modules based on Elpida Hyper ICs have been cured! Hallelujah! “The issue with the Hyper RAMs was discovered with the […] Add comment
The official Windows 7 RTM timeline
The internet’s echo chamber has spent the last two weeks whipping itself into a frenzy over the date and build number for the Windows 7 RTM. While today’s update to the Windows Team Blog doesn’t put that speculation to rest, it does provide a timetable for the RTM’s distribution which we can use to do […] Add comment
Google Wave dev preview
Several sites are reporting the news that 100,000 Wave invites will go out on September 30, but few are reporting the (to me) much more interesting point: Invites continue to go out as we speak, and I suspect today witnessed a significant widening of the dev preview. Why? They just added me to the pool. […] Add comment
Intel hatchets SSD prices
Enthusiasts are excited about the SSD’s tantalizing possibilities, but it’s true that most of us would rather take one square in the jewels than summon the bones for solid state. Might the SSD market soon emerge from the ninth level of pricing hell? If Intel — and their herculean manufacturing capacity — has anything to […] Add comment
More on AMD DX11 and Intel’s Westmere
UPDATE: 27 July, 2009 @ 11:57 AM Ex-Inq journo and long-time Valley rabble-rouser Charlie Demerjian has recently offered new insight on the wild world of ATI’s DirectX 11 codenames in a brutal piece on plagiarism in the world of tech journalism. Here’s the breakdown: Hemlock: Highest-end desktop part, probably dual Cypress GPUs a la the […] Add comment
Star Wars: Uncut
Re-film a 15-second piece of Star Wars: A New Hope and get it stitched back into a collaborative re-cutting of the movie. Add comment
Intel slashes Core 2 prices
Intel Corporation has slapped some price cuts on its Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad line of processors in advance of AMD’s Tuesday earnings announcement. Ah, isn’t competition just darling? Add comment
Crucial enters the high-speed SSD game
While other memory manufacturers have been big players in the SSD race, Crucial has remained largely absent until this week’s introduction of the modestly-named M225 SSD series. Crucial has been a long-time player in the memory market. Through flash cards, memory modules and flash drives, the consumer arm of Micron Technology has cemented a reputation […] Add comment
Apollo 11 40th anniversary
Kottke has a great roundup of 40th-anniversary Apollo 11 points of interest around the ‘net. Add comment
NASA’s LRO spots Apollo landing sites
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has beamed back images of moonwalks and landers from the Apollo missions. [via] Add comment
Microsoft! and Yahoo! back! at! it!
It seems fitting that almost one year after we published a detailed account of the dramatic history between Microsoft and Yahoo! that the rival web outfits may finally be close to an actual deal. News of rekindled romance broke yesterday when 24/7 Wall Street revealed that sources inside a major client of the investment firm […] Add comment
Mind of UPSLynx: July 12
Mind of UPSLynx for the week of July 12. In this episode: The mission is Street Fighter 4 Life.Icrontic! Windows 7 is teh pwnage (I know I rave about not having problems with Windows 7, but as a matter of fact I ran into a crippling codec-related error in Win7 after I shot this episode, […] Add comment
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