The global eight week-long ASUS 1156 Overclocking Championship, which commenced September 20, has successfully wrapped up on November 21. Many overclockers from all around the world competed in weekly contests, striving to raise their respective country flags to the top. The championship proved great fun for all participating ASUS users, and many were able to win numerous valuable prizes.
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HIS makes Radeon HD 5450 for PCI-Express x1
HIS revealed its newest entry-level DirectX 11-supporting card, a Radeon HD 5450 which features a low-profile, is passively cooled, and has a PCIe x1 interface, which might get handy for HTPC owners.
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Nvidia out of most Apple notebooks for next year
The fresh rumors from various industry sources claim that Nvidia is out of Apple, and that Intel will replace it in most of its low-end notebook models with AMD getting many of it's mobile GPUs in some higher end MacBook Pro class models. Again, AMD will get Fusion to Apple in late 2011 for some entry level notebooks as well. Nvidia will continue to provide GPUs for recently refreshed MacBook Air products, and this won't change in 2011.
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EU fines five LCD companies for price fixing
The European Union has fined five companies $863 million USD for being part of an LCD cartel that helped fix prices from 2001 through 2006. Samsung, the sixth LCD maker in the scheme and the largest in the world, blew the whistle on the other companies and therefore avoided a fine from the European Commission. LG Display, the second largest LCD maker in the world, was fined $284 million, and execs for each of the companies met in Taiwanese hotels at least 60 times during the time period, dubbing the exchanges the Crystal meetings . During the meeting, the execs would work on fixing prices while sharing information on future production plans.
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Samsung Omnia 7: Galaxy S in a Windows Suit
After the first impressions obtained (and put to words on our website (Reviews/Gadgets/Samsung-Omnia-7-Preview.html)) not so long ago, now, after almost a month, we're allowed to officially present to you one of the first Windows Phone 7 smartphones. The hardware part of the device hasn't changed one bit, but subtle changes in the operating systems are evident compared to the version that we saw before. A very elegant casing made of plastic and light alloys gives a positive impression of the overall production quality. Without unnecessary details, and a simplistic design, mostly due to its cubical shape, it's perfectly fit for any situation.
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