Friday, July 30, 2010

IT News HeadLines (PC Perspective) 30/07/2010


PC Perspective
See [H] upgrade their graphics and feel the envy
Since having only nVIDIA Surround on a machine with a pair of GTX480's doesn't allow you to compare the real differences between nVIDIA and AMD's multiple monitor solutions [H]ard|OCP is upgrading one of their machines with an ASUS ROG Matrix 5870 Platinum. Drop by to see a video of it in action along with a few hints as to how powerful (and overc...
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NZXT's new Phantom case just walked away with a Gold Award
NZXT has designed something a little more luxurious than their usual, the Phantom. Whereas cases like the Hush are priced well under $100 this case should retail just above but with some very good reasons. For instance the included air cooling consists of an blue LED 200mm fan on the top as well as a rear mounted 120mm fan and there is room for...
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Another peek at Intel's coming year
As is usual, Intel declined to comment on the information that DigiTimes has uncovered about the plans Intel has for 2011 but don't let that shake your confidence that DigiTimes is probably right on the money. The upcoming Waimea Bay platform will consist of a Sandy Bridge E-based processor in conjunction with the Patsburg chipset and will handle ...
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A different kind of DisplayPort adaptor
Usually when we discuss DisplayPort adaptors on PC Perspective it is to talk about active DisplayPort to DVI adaptors used to bring a half dozen screens to a Crossfire setup. There is another use for this connection type however, as evidenced by the Accell UltraAV DisplayPort to DVI Multi-Monitor Adapter that ThinkComputers just reviewed. Withou...
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NVIDIA shows off Optimus driver updates
NVIDIA Optimus technology is a feature that allows discrete NVIDIA GPUs to interact with integrated graphics, either on a chipset or on a CPU package like Arrandale, in such a way that allows the performance of the discrete option to be available only when it is necessary and idle otherwise. This ability allows notebook vendors to include a discre...
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For those who still need the space, a 600GB Velociraptor
SSDs are great, they offer speeds that were previously only seen from system RAM for long term storage but their one weakness is price. While that price doesn't sting quite so much when you are looking to purchase a 60GB SSD for your OS drive, those who need several hundred gigabytes of storage are going to need to dig deep in their pockets if the...
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older/ lower range nvidia GPU folding performance
Does anyone have GPU clients running on something like a 9800GTX or a GT240/250? I see theres a decent price on a low-end CPU/mobo/case combo at NE...
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Starcraft 2 Ending - Spoiler Alert
I made a separate thread so we can just say "spoiler alert" once and be done with it. Having just completed the game, all I can say is: HOLY CRAP...
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HARD OCP Hacked
Kyle_Bennett HardOCP Editor-in-Chief, 13.2 Years Kyle_Bennett is offline Report Post The forums were hacked. We have been hacked three times...
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Another Dafanman Fishing Trip
Went out last night with Cliff and Whacked some cats, had a great time, caught plenty of fish for the freezer n my belly :D Biggest this trip...
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What size PSU for i7?
I am building a system with the following specs, what size PSU do I need? P55 motherboard i7 860 CPU 8GB DDR3, 1.35V Geforce 9600 -- I'm not a gamer...
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New Windows SMP Client 6.30
There is a new Windows SMP Client, ver 6.30 that runs on 32bit and 64bit Windows and does NOT use MPI at all (no Deino or MPICH) and does NOT need a...
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FPS in BC2 ?
just curious as to the FPS everybody is getting.
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wtb; socket 939 cpu and ddr and ati 5850
looking for an old opteron 170-175 to overclock with or even a athlon 4400-4800 plus 2-4 gigs of DDR pc 3200 to b shipped to western canada. also...
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Atom d410 and 1080p video ?
Hi, I'm about to sell my laptop and long story short I'm wondering what would be needed for an atom d410 with 1gb of ram to run 1080p video under...
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Help with cooler choice on 775 q9550 on EP45-Exteme MB
Hi All, I have searched and searched the web to no avail reading different reviews with contradictions and varied opinions. I intend to run my...
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StarCraft 2 question from NVIDIA
"NVIDIA's override anti-aliasing for StarCraft 2 applies AA to the entire scene, including HUD elements. Do you believe AA improves image quality on...
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Hard forums down?
Anyone here browse them alot? Or know what the hell is going on?
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