NZXT Phantom Full Tower ATX Case Review
The Phantom is well priced at $139.99 and comes in black, red, and white colors. It includes many high-end cooling features like a built-in fan controller and 7 fan cooling options with dual 200mm, single 230/200mm, triple 120mm, and front 140mm fans. Will it exceed the gaming community's expectations?...
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Intel Demonstrates 50 Gbps Silicon Photonics, Could Replace Electronic Signals
Today Intel held a press briefing to discuss a milestone in the development of silicon photonics reaching a reproducible 50 Gbps link between two modules. Silicon photonics is the process of creating, modulating and reading photons via lasers for communications entirely on manufactured silicon. The technology and work being done is very complex but the ideas are pretty simple: create a piece of silicon that can create a laser to transmit data and another chip that can receive and decode the data at a low cost....
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That game that came out yesterday
It has become usual for the release of a PC game to disappoint anyone who tries to grab it on the first day, as brick and mortar stores can't be bothered to carry enough physical copies and the publishers download service collapses under what should have been an expected demand, but many people are now happily playing. Many of those are probably f...
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Intel's illuminating new transfer technology
The big news from Intel yesterday was the announcement of photonic signalling to transfer data at an incredible 50Gbs and that is just to start. Using four non-interfering wavelengths of light in the form of silicon lasers, Intel has found a way to combine the four wavelengths each capable of 12.5Gbs into a single signal which can be passed across...
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ASUS provides Optimus and USB 3.0 on the N61Jv
Yesterday Ryan finished up his review of the ASUS N61Jv Optimus Core i5 16" notebook. As the name implies this notebook does have Optimus technology allowing you to switch between the GeForce GT 325M GPU and the Intel HD graphics that are a part of the HM55 chipset. It is a bit on the heavy side at 6lbs, though a part of that weight is the batter...
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Two different takes on the 890GX
Though they are based on the same chipset, the Gigabyte 890GPA-UD3H and ASRock 890GX Extreme3do have differences. The Gigabyte board is a member of the Power of 3 family, so it sports USB 3, S-ATA 3 and USB Power 3x as well as a pair of PCIe 16x slots. The ASRock also has threes, advertising USB 3.0, SATA 3 and e-SATA 3 (even though the later p...
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Meet the 6 core Xeon 5600
The Westmere-EP is a 32nm process and it's current representative is the Xeon 5680, a 6 core 3.33GHz CPU though it will hit 3.6GHz via Intel's TurboBoost technology. If you want a dual CPU PC then the Xeon family is currently the way to go, though you might not choose to use the board that The Tech Report did. The focus of TR's review was not the...
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More news about AMDs upcoming chips
DigiTimes has some news on AMD's release plans for the near future. We should see an integrated USB 3.0 controller on the upcoming Hudson D1 southbridge chipsets that will be arriving before the end of the year. Along with that release a number of processors including the Phenom II X6 1045T; dual-core X2 560; a pair of quad-core Athlon II X4s and...
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Apple drops NVIDIA from most default systems, brings on ATI
Today should have been a good day for NVIDIA - StarCraft II was released and only their cards support anti-aliasing out of the gate AND the new Fermi-based Quadro graphics offer a significant jump in performance over previous generation parts and AMD's FirePro options. Apple apparently had other plans though and has updated its entire line of iMac...
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So you want to power three GTX480's eh? Corsair's got an amp for that
As wonderful as the performance of the GTX480 is, the ability to power them has become somewhat of a running gag on online review sites. A recent review by Lee offers a solution to the power concerns that doesn't involve building your own pebble bed nuclear reactor. His solution is the Corsair Professional Series Gold AX1200 power supply which no...
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MeeGo Gaining Steam: In-Dash OS by Car Makers, and Intel Plants MeeGo R&D Group in China
In the most current installment of the Slate of the Nation - Your Guide to Upcoming Slate Devices, I listed the MeeGo mobile OS as something worth keeping an eye on, but not necessarily something to go out of your way to acquire because of its early development state. Well it seems MeeGo is getting a big boost on two fronts today and we may see ...
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Going for graphical overkill - Quad Crossfire or Triple SLI
X-bit Labs took a Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD9 Super-Mainboard and attached two different sets of GPUs for testing, four Radeon HD 5870s in one case and three GTX 480s in the second. This board sports a pair of Nvidia NF200-SLI chips so there are plenty of PCIe lanes to go around and with the addition of a Xigmatek 1500W PSU to the installed Zalman 1000W ...
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Corsair's H50 gets some competition from the CoolIT ECO
The CoolIT ECO C240 is similar to the other self contained liquid based CPU coolers, what CoolIT has done differently is offer more surface area for cooling and tried to make it the easiest of the bunch to install. The radiator sports a pair of 120mm fans, so those hoping to mount it within their case had better ensure they have the space, otherwi...
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Believe it or not, set up a hardware file quickly, cheaply and easily
Setting up a hardware firewall is not quite like it was just a handful of years ago when the appliances were purpose built and rather expensive. Now with dd-wrt you can flash your routers firmware and change it into a powerful security appliance with far more options than the router had previously. There are numerous Linux distributions specifica...
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Franz Ferdinand ain't just a band you know
While you can get lost in the complexities of the tech world, especially if you listen to the PC Perspective Podcast, but on the forums you will be welcomed be you totally new to the wide weird and wonderful world of PCs or a seasoned old salt. A basic question about the fundamentals of networking will never bring a demeaning reply, instead at lea...
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AMD's Gaming Evolved Program Pushes Dev Tools, Marketing
AMD's Gaming Evolved program is finally launching during the Comic-con event in San Diego. PC Perspective first saw the fruits of this developer and consumer campaign during GDC where AMD detailed its targets for innovation, industry standards and development support for gaming. The triple-headed goal for the program is summed up nicely with this...
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Even Apple's suppliers are getting into the SSD biz
Other World Computing, aka OWC, has been a major supplier of components for Apple and they are branching out with their new Mercury Extreme Pro 120GB SSD. Using the Sandforce SF-1222 controller which implies a certain level of performance, the drive retails for ~$320 putting it at a reasonable price point for an SSD of that size. There is a sligh...
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A little box that can record any video you want to feed it
At $200 the Hauppauge HD PVR High Definition Personal Video Recorder is a small box that connects to any video source and records it. To test that claim Bjorn3D tried recording from their cable set top box, an Xbox 360 game, a Xbox game, satellite television, Blu-Ray movies in 1080i, a SD DVD movie, and even a movie off of a VCR. All were comple...
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The Slate of the Nation, a mobile decoder ring
Similar to the SSD Decoder Ring that Allyn created to bring some illumination to the internals of the new breed of hard drive, Jon spells out what you can find inside that tablet. From the OS that runs on the hardware to the internals themselves, he has covered all the current ultramobile platforms available. There is even a downloadable pdf at t...
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ARM, the little company you didn't know you counted on
The ARM Cortex, especially the more recent models like the A8, are showing up just about everywhere. HTC, Apple, Samsung and just about any other company producing smart phones depend on ARM for their processing power. It is estimated that there is around 20 billion ARM processors in use when you count them all, almost putting the x86 and x86-64 ...
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Playing with three screens
[H]ard|OCP was subjected to some terrible hardships recently as they were forced to play games on three screens in order to test the differences between EyeFinity and nVIDIA Surround. If you can bear to see what happened to them during the testing of this feature with SLI and Crossfire setups then you can click through. Thankfully there are not t...
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Check whether the trader is "normal"? A suggestion
I've seen your post on trading (http://forums.pcper.com/trading.php) where you recommend ZabaSearch for 'background checking' the trader. I was...
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AMD Temps do not show
I have 2 Asus Formula IV boards. One with a 1055 and the other with a 1090. My problem is with the 1055 and any temp monitor. I have tried AMD...
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Suggestions on PC software
Hello Everybody, Me and a buddy are planning on starting our own company that makes high end computers. We currently do this but business has been...
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eyefinity with 24" monitors
So, I'm getting an ATI HD5870, and i already have 2 24" viewsonic lcd monitors (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824116401) and...
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Wecome to a New Folding Mod
Welcome jeremytkai Our new overlord Folding Mod
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WTB OEM HP XP home installation disk
Anybody got one they don't need anymore?
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Music Question
Recall back in the 80's, they had the "Hooked on Classics" series of records. I'm looking for similar recordings where they take classical music and...
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Driver issues on reformatted Asus G51VX-X3A
I recently had to reformat my Asus laptop. It's a G51VX-X3A. It has Windows 7 Home Premium. I had a recovery DVD which I used. I went through the...
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upgrades
ok i am looking to upgrade my computer. sticking with same mobo, cpu, case, psu, sound card, but wanna add 1-3 gigs of memory and a new video...
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setting up a takeover
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot a bit of history for you to enjoy.
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FS : Phenom II X4 940 BE & 2 x 2GB Mushkin DDR2-800
Due to my shuffling around of components again, I have a CPU and some memory for sale.... #1: Phenom II X4 940 Black Edition in retail box, but...
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FS: Crumpler camera bag and Nikon 55-200 VR AF-S lens
Prices are shipped Heatware: DriveEuro - 180+ positive evals since 2003 - Not a single neutral or negative Paypal or money...
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What do you all think about starting????
What do you all think about starting another GPU and CPU stats again. So we know what we are doing in folding PWR.
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anyone wanna help make a photoshop/painters database?
i've been thinking, photo shoppers and painters use a lot of photos in their art. it would be nice if they had a source which they KNEW would be safe...
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P2684 deadline
HFM.net is reporting that this thing has a 3 day deadline, which seems rather insane considering that it's taking my i720 QM 2 and a half hours a...
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