Techconnect Review Round-up 18/12/09
CPU & Motherboard
- Intel DP55WG and DP55KG P55 Motherboards @ Legit Reviews
- Asus P7P55-M @ TechRadar
Memory
- Corsair Dominator 6GB PC3-12800 RAM @ Techware Labs
- Gskill PI Blue 2200MHz memory @ Bjorn3d
- G.Skill RipJaws DDR3-1600 CL7 Memory Kit @ Benchmark Reviews
- CompuStocx 4GB Kit PC3-10600/DDR3-1333 Memory @ ocinside
Storage
- Kingston SSDNow V Series 40GB SSD @ Hardware Canucks
- Kingston SSDNow V+ Series 64GB SSD (Updated!) @ HardwareZone
- Imation M-Class SSD @ TechRadar
Graphics cards
- XFX HD 5970 Black Edition Video Card @ motherboards.org
Enclosures & PSUs
- AzzA Solano 1000 Full Tower Case @ TweakTown
- SilverStone Grandia GD03 case @ PureOC
- NZXT Panzerbox Case @ HardwareLogic
- Zalman ZM600-RS Power Supply @ Hardware Secrets
Displays
- Sony Bravia KDL-46Z5800 @ TechRadar
Cooling and modding
- LGA1156 cooler shootout: Arctic Cooling, Corsair, Scythe and Zalman go head-to-head @ Hexus
- GlacialTech Igloo 5710 Plus Silent and F101 PWM Coolers @ X-bit labs
- Evercool HPK-10025EA CPU Cooler @ Hardware Secrets
- Noctua NH-U9B Special Edition SE 2 CPU cooler @ Overclockers Club
- Thermaltake V1AX CPU Heatsink @ Extreme Overclocking
Peripherals
- SteelSeries Merc Stealth Gaming Keyboard @ TweakTown
PCs
- Toshiba JournE Touch tablet @ TechRadar
Photo and video cameras
- Veho Muvi DV Camcorder @ XSReviews
Sound
- Teufel Cinebar 50 @ TrustedReviews
Other
- Popcorn Hour C-200 HD Media Player Video Review @ TweakTown
- TVonics DTR-HV250 Freeview PVR @ TrustedReviews
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GPU Caps Viewer 1.8.0 debuts with OpenCL support
JeGX has worked, toiled into the night and managed to deliver a new update for GPU Caps Viewer just before the holidays. This latest release, known as version 1.8.0 features the following:
- New: added four OpenCL GPU / CPU demos. These demos use an OpenGL 3.1 or 3.2 code path.
- New: added two OpenGL 3 demos.
- New: added OpenCL panel for OpenCL capable devices.
- New: for Radeon, display of core and memory frequencies (idle / UVD / 3D).
- New: added GPU Computing checkboxes.
- New: reorganization of the first panel to display essential information.
- Change: reorganization of the first panel to display essential information.
- Change: updated OpenGL extensions database links.
- Change: updated GPU database with latest GeForce, Radeon and Intel.
- Change: Mb in MB.
- Removed Show PhysX Properties button
- Bugfix: Bugfix: OpenGL version in xml report fixed.
- Bugfix: wrong system memory size for system with more than 2GB
... and can be downloaded from this page.
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Google ordered to pay 300,000 Euro in book scanning case
Google isn't entering the weekend all that well as the Paris Civil Court has today ruled that it has indeed violated copyrights with its book digitizing project. The search giant, which has scanned millions of book in order to make them accessible online, has been sued by a major French publisher and authors groups for digitizing some 4,000 books without the approval of copyright holders.
The Paris court's decision states that Google has to pay 300,000 Euro ($430,000) in damages for its infringement and orders the company to halt the scanning of French books or face a 10,000 Euro daily fine. Google can appeal the decision but it hasn't said anything about the possibility of doing so.
Earlier this week French President Nicolas Sarkozy revealed that the EU country's government aims to spend 750 million Euro to digitize national libraries, film and music archives, thus rivaling Google.
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