EK Waterblocks For The Asus Rampage III Extreme
If you are as fond of watercooling as I am, you will no doubt appreciate this EK Waterblocks full cover block for the Asus Rampage III Extreme. MadShrimps has the full review, here's a quote: Ever tried to keep your X58 motherboards IOH and ICH temps at a reasonable operating temperatures ? To be honest most of the stock heatsinks really need some help as they are underdimensioned and/or lack an active fan. Temperatures over 65آ°C are very comon. Many watercooling companies jumped on the wagon to manufacture a all in one cooling solution for all the hot parts of the mainboard. Comments
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Pirate Bay Founder 'Disappears'
After seeing what happened to his co-defendants, I'd be hiding out too. At the end of September 2010 three of the four defendants in the Pirate Bay case arrived at the Court of Appeal in Stockholm. The fourth defendant, Gottfrid Svartholm, was nowhere to be seen. The appeal continued without him, with his hearing and sentencing to be conducted at a later date. Now Swedish media are reporting that the Court cannot set a date for Gottfrid's hearing because he has disappeared. Comments
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Governments Press ICANN Over New Domain Rules
I have a feeling we are going to see a lot more of this in the future. In a statement released over the weekend, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, listed 23 areas of continued disagreement over the rules for approving new top-level domain names. Hundreds of applications for these suffixes are expected later this year, including .car, .love, .movie, .web, and .gay. Comments
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Software Progress Beats Moore's Law
According to this article, a recent report by an independent group of science and technology advisers to the White House, says that software advances are driving computer innovation, not hardware. There are no such laws in software. But the White House advisory report cited research, including a study of progress over a 15-year span on a benchmark production-planning task. Over that time, the speed of completing the calculations improved by a factor of 43 million. Of the total, a factor of roughly 1,000 was attributable to faster processor speeds, according to the research by Martin Grotschel, a German scientist and mathematician. Yet a factor of 43,000 was due to improvements in the efficiency of software algorithms. Comments
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Samsung Reaches 1TB Per Disk Platter
Samsung has announced that it has reached the 1TB per disk platter milestone and the company will have 4TB hard drives out later this year. When the 4TB HDDs will begin shipping wasn't revealed, but when they do, they will be part of the company's Spinpoint EcoGreen series. As such, they will have 5,400RPM rotational speeds, have 32MB of cache and a SATA 6Gbps interface. Samsung added that the technology would also allow for 10TB drives with some more modification, though this wouldn't happen for a while yet. Comments
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Microsoft On a Xbox Developer Hiring Spree
It looks like Microsoft is hiring Xbox hardware developers. Next-gen Xbox in the works? Regardless what they are working on, you guys need to dust off those resumes and go snag one of these jobs. The software giant has listed a plethora of new job openings, with the most interesting ones being at its Mountain View research campus, where a team responsible for "defining and delivering next generation console architectures" is looking for fresh blood. Comments
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AMD Radeon HD 6990 Review Round-Up
AMD has launched the new Radeon HD 6990 today and, as we do every time a new product is launched, we've rounded up all the reviews we could find from the far corners of the web and posted them here in one convenient location. We'll add more to this list throughout the day as they come in, here's what we have so far: [H]ard|OCP PC Perspective Legit Reviews Hardware Heaven Neoseeker techPowerUP! Techgage AMD today announced the launch of the fastest graphics card in the world, the AMD Radeonآ™ HD 6990, packing so much raw performance it delivered a new single graphics card world record score of P11865 in the industry standard 3DMark11 benchmark. AMD Radeon HD 6990 graphics cards are available immediately from retailers worldwide, with select models starting at US $699 MSRP. Designed for the power gamer, AMD Radeon HD 6990 graphics cards include AMD's second-generation, Microsoft DirectXآ® 11-capable architecture, advanced image quality features for the best looking games, and AMD PowerTune intelligent technology to enable higher clock speeds and faster gaming. The AMD Radeon HD 6990 offers the ultimate in immersive HD gaming and computing with native support for up to five displays using AMD Eyefinity multi-display technology, with six display support possible via DisplayPort components available for purchase later this year. The AMD Radeon HD 6990 graphics cards also feature a dual-BIOS toggle switch, allowing enthusiast gamers to unlock the card and rev up the clocks and voltages for even more performance. Finally, AMD HD3D technology provides a cutting-edge stereoscopic 3D gaming and movie experience, thanks to HDMI 1.4a support. Ongoing Discussion
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Report: Number of Malware-laden Sites Have Doubled
Well this sucks. More than 1 million Web sites were believed to be infected with malware in the fourth quarter of last year, nearly double from the previous year, according to figures released today by Dasient. Malvertising, advertising containing malware, also is on the rise, with impressions doubling to 3 million per day from the third quarter of 2010. Comments
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Intel Processors Deliver Leading Security, Manageability and Performance
Bringing industry leading security and manageability, and better, more flexible performance to business computing, Intel Corporation today unveiled its newest family of business processors. The new 2nd generation Intelآ® Coreآ™ vProآ™ processor family features the performance and capabilities of Intel's new microarchitecture, enhancements to Intelآ® vProآ™ technology and new security features, including a 3G "poison pill" option to help protect a PC's data. Computer makers around the world, including Dell, Fujitsu, HP and Lenovo, are introducing new laptop, convertible-tablet, desktop and all-in-one PCs for businesses based on the new Intel Core vPro processors. Comments
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Microsoft Research TechFest Demonstrates the Future
Small r, Big D: Microsoft Research TechFest demonstrates the future. We get a lot of questions about what Microsoft does with the more than $9 billion we invest in R&D every year. There's a lot of research for sure, but most of that investment goes toward development. With 850 Ph.D.-level researchers in Microsoft Research and around 40,000 developers in our product teams, that should give an indication of how we balance that $9 billion between research and the development of shipping products. I call it small r and big D. Comments
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Interactive Games Count As Exercise
The latest issue of the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine says that interactive games are good for kids. Researchers stated that the level of intensity offered in these interactive games is "consistent with current physical activity recommendations for children." "Active video games have the potential to increase energy expenditure during otherwise sedentary video gaming and may provide a viable adjunct to more traditional exercise," the authors write. "The potential of these games to promote fitness and extended periods of moderate to vigorous activity in normal and overweight youth has not been evaluated." Comments
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Kingston Technology Ships HyperX Genesis with New Heatspreader
Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, today announced a new look to its HyperXآ® Genesis enthusiast memory. The new look accentuates the traditional blue color with a military/ballistic trim along the top, similar to the Genesis Special Edition Grey modules made especially for the Intelآ® P67 Sandy Bridge platform. Kingston has begun transitioning all skus in the Genesis family آ— which range from 1333MHz to 2133MHz frequencies and are available in various single, dual and triple channel configurations آ— to the new look heatspreader. All part numbers will remain the same. Comments
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Google Maps As Art
Art? Who cares about art? Could you imagine how cool it would be to drive on these roads? Comments
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AMD Radeon HD 6990 "Antilles" Video Card Review
The Radeon HD 6990 is being launched today, and we have full coverage of specifications and our gameplay experiences compared to several high-end dual-GPU solutions out there. If you are looking for a single video card package that packs a punch and provides headroom for hardware enthusiasts, this is a solid solution.
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