Tuesday, January 26, 2010

IT News HeadLines (bit-tech.net) 26/01/2010


bit-tech.net
Crysis 2 to be set in New York
Details of the sequel to the PC's most graphical intensive game surface in Official PlayStation magazine
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Mystery Intel 6-core CPU overclocked to 4GHz
bit-tech forum member, windwithme, has got his hands on Intel's latest 6-core Gulftown CPU with some very interesting results!
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Fractal Design Define R2 - Follow Up
Following our review of the Fractal Design Defne R2 case last week, we received a huge response from the community asking for some follow up testing with some extra 120mm fans installed.

This is something we usually try to avoid, as we believe a review should be an assessment of a product as you buy it, rather than what you can do it to it- otherwise we could simply argue that any case or CPU cooler will perform great as long as you slap in half a dozen noisy cooling fans.

However, this time the voices were so many that we've decided to make an exception and have rebuilt our test rig into the Define R2 one more time, this time with the addition of three Sharkoon Silent Eagle 120mm 1,000rpm fans. And the results can only be described as extraordinary.
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N900 hacked to boot Android
Nokia's flagship N900 smartphone - built around the Maemo 5 operating system - has been hacked and made to boot Google's rival Android platform.
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Asus DR-950 eReader pictured
Asus has released images of its up-coming DR-950 eReader device, and it's looking gorgeous - although the 'in-the-wild' shots appear to be of a non-functional prototype.
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Intel GMA HD Graphics Performance
We test Intel's latest GMA HD graphics in its Clarkdale Core i5-661 CPU to see how it stacks up against AMDs 785G and Nvidia's 9300 IGPs when it comes to gaming and HD video. Long derided as terrible, GMA HD might be about to prove Intel's graphics detractors wrong.
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