Friday, December 11, 2009

IT News HeadLines (Legit Reviews) 11/12/2009


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iBUYPOWER Offers System With The Thermaltake Level 10 Case

iBUYPOWER just announced it is the only systems integrator to offer the new Thermaltake Level 10 enclosure. The unique case was designed in partnership with the BMWGroup Designworks USA., and provides gamers with to increased configurability, unmatched aerodynamics, and a revolutionary case design sure to turn heads. The iBUYPOWER Level 10 is available now exclusively at iBUYPOWER.com, starting at $2,499.

Thermaltake Level 10 Case

We are constantly searching for the best components, cases and peripherals to use in our systems, said Darren Su, Vice President of iBUYPOWER. The Level 10 system is just another example of our drive to offer gaming rigs that can deliver the performance and aesthetics our customers demand. iBUYPOWER outfitted the breathtaking Level 10 with cutting-edge technology to match its stunning exterior. The new system will feature the Intel Core i7 920 Processor, 6GB of DDR3-122 Memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 2GB, 1 TB of storage space and a 128 GB SSD for speedy boot times. iBUYPOWER customers can also upgrade their new Level 10 system with a Killer Xeno Gaming Network Card, NZXT Sentry LCD Control Panel or a LG Blu-ray drive.


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DiRT 2 Games For Windows Live Edition Now Available!

PC gamers everywhere rejoice! The DirectX 11-powered Games for Windows LIVE edition of DiRT 2 is now available in stores for $39.99, just in time for the holidays. Put this one on your wish list! Codemasters takes advantage of DirectX 11 features to add to the realism of the racing environment. Hardware tessellation further improves the appearance of water and other surfaces as well as crowd animations. The performance of Shader Model 5.0 aids in creating an even richer 3D experience, enhancing key image quality parameters such as depth of field, ambient occlusion and shadows. These DirectX 11 features have produced the most exciting and visceral racing experience yet.

DiRT 2 takes players on a World Tour where gamers compete in more than 100 breathtaking events, including aggressive, multi-vehicle races and intense solo challenges set in an array of real-world environments. From the muddy tracks of the Malaysian rainforest to spectator-packed stadiums in London and Los Angeles, racers compete in a variety of contemporary off-road racing styles that include Rallycross, Trailblazer, Raid, Landrush and Rally.


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Mozilla Releases Thunderbird 3

One of the best free mail applications just got better with the release of version 3. If you have been thinking about trying Thunderbird, it looks like now is a good time to give it a go.

Thunderbird Logo

Mozilla Messaging pushed the stable release of Thunderbird 3 out of the nest on Tuesday, and there's a lot to like in case you haven't been following the beta development of this Outlook alternative. Available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, the long-overdue Thunderbird 3 introduces several hefty new features and some long-needed improvements, including an overhauled search and message indexing, tab support, and a revamped setup wizard that's designed to make new account setup quick and painless.


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Facebook Introduces New Privacy Controls

Today, Facebook began rolling out new privacy options to its 350 million users. If you login to your Facebook account you will see a newer and simpler privacy settings page that gives you the ability to set specific options for every post made to Facebook.

Legit Reviews on Facebook

The move comes as Internet search engines like Google and Microsoft are increasingly interested in incorporating the growing trove of user-generated content from social media websites into their search results, and as Facebook faces competition from rival services like Twitter, in which all information is viewable to the public.


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Legit Reviews Folding Team #38296 Enters The 100 Million Point Club!

The Legit Reviews Folding team has reached a new milestone today as Team 38296 has broken the 100 million point mark! Only 82 teams out of the 169,634 teams can say they have reached this incredible milestone. The team has completed nearly 223,000 work units since it was created and has had over 250 people contribute work units over the years. Currently the team has 60 active members and a total of 368 CPU's and GPU's folding thanks to these 60 members. The team is currently looking for more members, so if you are interested in folding please feel free to look into it and join our active team. The Legit Reviews folding team is free to join and always welcomes new members! We are also doing a contest and a drawing right now where those on the folding team have a chance to win one of ten AMD Phenom II 965 Black Edition processors! be sure to follow the link below to the forum thread on the folding war to find out more about this! If you have a video card, a processor or a Sony Playstation 3 that you want to fold on please consider joining Legit Folding Team #38296!

Legit Folding Team 38296 breaks 100 million points

The goal of F@H and Stanford is to apply this new technology to dramatically advance the capabilities of the project, applying their simulations to further study of protein folding and related diseases, including Alzheimer's Disease, Huntington's Disease, and certain forms of cancer. With these computational advances, coupled with new simulation methodologies to harness the new techniques, Stanford believes they will be able to address questions previously considered impossible to tackle computationally, and make even greater impacts on our knowledge of folding and folding related diseases.


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Buffalo Introduces SuperSpeed USB 3.0 ExpressCard Reader

Last week we showed you that SuperSpeed USB 3.0 is one of the biggest changes in the PC industry when we looked at performance of an external hard drive using the ASUS P7P55D-E Premium motherboard. It would appear that SuperSpeed USB 3.0 devices are becoming more popular as Buffalo recently announced a SuperSpeed USB 3.0 ExpressCard adapter than you can purchase for around $57 when it becomes available on the market. The SuperSpeed USB 3.0 ExpressCard adapter appears to feature not one, but two USB 3.0 ports on it that are able to run at 4.8Gbps!

Buffalo SuperSpeed USB 3.0 ExpressCard Adapter

Buffalo Group's core businesses, Ltd. announced the ExpressCard standard notebook adapter with the latest high-speed transfer slot to 2-port USB 3.0 expansion card to interface "IFC-EC2U3/UC".


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Intel Core i3 530 2.93GHz Dual-Core Processors For Sale Already?

Have you been waiting for Intel Core i3 processors to come out? Well, you can have one for $152.19 right now as A-Power is selling them way ahead of time! According to the website A-Power that has them listed for sale you can get a this 32nm chip -- with its 2.93GHz speed, 512KB of L2 cache, and 4MB of L3 cache for $152.19.

Intel Core i3 530 2.93GHz Dual-Core Processor

  • Model Number - Core i3-530
  • Manufacturer Number: BX80616I3530
  • Packaging - Retail
  • Manufacturer Warranty - 3 Years
  • Frequency - 2933 MHz
  • L2 Cache - 2 x 256 KB
  • L3 Cache - 4 MB
  • I/O Bus - DMI
  • Multiplier - 22x
  • TDP - 73W
  • Socket - LGA 1156

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