IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (Legit Reviews) 30/04/2012

MW3 Content Collection DLC for PC Finally Available May 8
Activision sure know how to make their PC gaming customers feel special. Neither the paid-for nor free forms of the Call of Duty Elite service have been made available to PC...

Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Super Overclock Windforce 5X Pictured
Gigabyte has revealed a new NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 design during their Tech Tour 2012: The GTX 680 Super Overclock Windforce 5X. The GPU, which uses Gigabytes new Windforce...

Rumor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 Details, Third GK104 SKU likely
NVIDIA seems to be preparing the GeForce GTX 670 and a third GK104 based GPU possibly the GTX 660 (Ti). The GK104 die which will make up 3 SKUs in NVIDIA's lineup, the...

Valve Introduces The Portal 2 Perpetual Testing Initiative
Valve is gearing up to release a free batch of downloadable content for Portal 2 that allows players to create their own puzzle maps and share them with the community via...

Enlighted Ebook Publisher Goes DRM-Free
While the big American content companies, fronted by the RIAA & MPAA continue to press for more DRM and more oppressive laws to stamp out so-called 'piracy', many...

Tiger Direct Builds PC For Multiple Sclerosis Fundraising
TigerDirect has teamed up with Corsair Memory and EVGA to build a killer gaming PC that will be sold on E-Bay with all the proceeds going to the National MS Society. These...

Corsair Looks To Raise $78 Million w/ IPO, Aims For $13 Share Price
Corsair Components, a Fremont-based maker of gaming hardware for personal computers, intends to raise $78 million for an initial public offering, according to a regulatory...

Nanotextured Glass to Eliminate Glare and Fogging - Great for Smartphones, Monitors and Cars
One of the most instantly recognizable features of glass is the way it reflects light. But a new way of creating surface textures on glass, developed by researchers at MIT,...

Long-Standing Internet Routing Vulnerability to be Fixed
The internet's routing system currently has a significant vulnerability in it that can cause traffic to be blocked or rerouted, by an attacker. The problem is present in...

Zerg Rush Game Eats Up Your Google Search Results!
Google has come up with yet another fun online game. If you key in term 'Zerg Rush' in the Google search box, the fun begins. Google displays the search results just...

Acer to Announce Ivy Bridge-Based Laptops in Japan on Sunday
Acer has revealed that it will be making part of its new Ivy Bridge-based V3 series laptops available from this weekend. The V3-571-H78F is the temporary name for a laptop...

NVIDIA: The Impact of Process Technology on Kepler's Efficiency
So, what makes NVIDIA's current midrange card, the GK104-based GTX 680 way more powerful than their previous top dog GTX 580 and even AMD's HD 7970? A close, three...

Rumor: Nexon Seeks EA Takeover
Nexon, a South Korean online game company, may be seeking to buy out EA. The rumors, which started in a South Korean newspaper, have got investors responding with EA's...

AMD Cuts Prices on A-Series APUs and FX CPUs to Compete With Intel Ivy Bridge
We heard rumors that Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) would be slashing prices on their desktop processors in order to compete with Intel Ivy Bridge processors and that is...

Firefox 13 Beta Already Available
Mozilla certainly don't sit around when it comes to developing their Firefox web browser. Having released Firefox 12 only three days ago, they have now also released the...

April 27, 2012 News from Around the Web
VisionTek Radeon HD 7950 3GB Video Card Overclocked Review @ TweakTown and other reviews from around the web can be found by visiting our forums!

"With the recent AMD price...

AMD Catalyst 12.5 Beta Has Been Leaked
Apparently a new AMD Catalyst Beta is making the rounds, the 12.5 beta was leaked to the web just days after the release of AMD's 12.4 WHQL driver. The new software suite...

Panasonic and NHK Announce 145 inch 8K Plasma Display
Digital displays just keep getting ever more extreme. Here, we have Panasonic announcing a collaboration with NHK to produce a huge 145 inch plasma display, sporting an...

LG Announces IPS4 Range of Affordable Monitors
Affordable monitors have been made with Twisted Nematic displays for years, but they have various problems such as poor viewing angles and colour reproduction. However, they...

Microsoft Justifies Windows 8 VDI Price Hike for Non-Windows Devices
Microsoft has made it more expensive for users of non-Windows devices to connect to Windows, with a new Software Assurance option for Windows 8, called Companion Device...

Intel Ivy Bridge Processor Overclocking Proves Challenging For Some Motherboard Makers

If you plan on buying an Intel Ivy Bridge processor we have an article that you have to read today! We have discovered an issue on Gigabyte motherboards that use the Intel 6-series of chipsets that is going to cause overclockers to cringe. Basically, the Gigabyte Z68 and P67 motherboards can't overclock Ivy Bridge processors as the CPU multiplier is locked due to BIOS limitations. This means that Intel 'k' sku processors like the Intel Core i7-3770K processor are stuck at a multiplier of 39 on these boards!

Crucial Adrenaline 50GB m4 Cache SSD Review

Cache SSD drives are all the rage now since large capacity SSDs haven't come down in price to the level that the masses can afford. Crucial's offering in the SATA 6Gbps interface drive realm is the 50GB Adrenaline m4 SSD which, when paired with the supplied Dataplex software, can really boost performance. How does it compare with other cache solutions and against a full fledged SSD system? Have a look and see.

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IT News Head Lines (Legit Reviews) 30/04/2012

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