Asus GTX 670 Direct CU Mini
Need a new video card for your LAN box or HTPC? LanOC just reviewed the Asus GTX 670 Direct CU Mini and the reviewer seemed to really like it.
My last LAN build was easy to carry around while having (at the time) the second fastest GPU from Nvidia and a high end CPU. Of course because of my GPU I couldn't go any smaller. Asus has a new GPU that is going to change that. Their new GTX 670 Direct CU Mini is the same length of a MiniITX motherboard. With that size, my LAN rig is going to need a complete rebuild.. To go smaller!
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PC Shipments Down Again This Quarter
PC shipments are down again this quarter, but not as bad as analysts had predicted. Doom. Gloom. The end of the PC is near...and all that.
IDC has released its latest worldwide PC shipments for Q3, and they're not as bad as expected. While the PC market has declined once again, by 7.6 percent in Q3, IDC had originally projected a decline of 9.5 percent for the quarter. Conversely, Gartner says the PC market has declined by 8.6 percent. According to IDC, Lenovo remains on top worldwide with 17.3 percent market share, closely followed by HP with 17.1 percent. Lenovo saw encouraging growth of 2.2 percent worldwide, while HP secured a 0.4 percent improvement from the same quarter last year. Surprisingly, Dell saw its first year-on-year growth since Q4 2011, remaining in third position with 11.7 percent market share and an increase of 0.3 percent compared to the same quarter last year.
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Dude Puts 2,000 Volts Through A Plasma TV
This is what happens when you put 2,000 volts through a plasma TV. Things get really good after the 3 minute mark and he even cranks things up to 4,000 volts later in the video.
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MPAA Responds To "Piracy Isn't Harmful" Study
Not only is the MPAA a little hot under the collar over a recent study claiming piracy doesn't hurt the movie industry, they did a point-by-point rebuttal of the study.
Last week, the London School of Economics released a media policy brief suggesting that piracy isn't harming the creative industries and in fact, may be helpful. Unfortunately, the paper includes no new data and the authors' arguments include some fundamental scientific flaws that undermine the paper's credibility. (This isn't the first brief with these kinds of flaws that we've seen from these authors.)
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Ratpadz Still $5 Off With Free Shipping
While this is obviously a bit of shameless self promotion, our RatPadz XT is still $5 off with free shipping in North America (add to cart for discount). So, if you need a new mousing surface, you should step up to the best and grab yourself a RatPadz XT. This could quite possibly be the last mousepad you ever buy.
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NZXT Phantom 530
If a mid-tower case is what your heart desires, techPowerUP! says the NZXT Phantom 530 might be just what you are looking for.
The newest addition to the Phantom Series is a mid-tower with updated looks and quite the number of features from its bigger brethren. Available in red, black, or white, we wonder how much better the new model will be when compared to the likes of the Phantom 410, which costs just as much.
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GTA V Breaks Six Guinness World Records
Here's a few for the record books. Grand Theft Auto V holds the record for:
1. Best-selling action-adventure videogame in 24 hours
2. Best-selling videogame in 24 hours
3. Fastest entertainment property to gross $1 billion
4. Fastest videogame to gross $1 billion
5. Highest grossing videogame in 24 hours
6. Highest revenue generated by an entertainment product in 24 hours
7. Most viewed trailer for an action-adventure videogame
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Free Citywide Google Wi-Fi Needs Replacing
Wait, you wanted Google to give you free citywide wi-fi AND upgrade and maintain it too?
It covers most of the Silicon Valley city and worked well until last year when connectivity got rapidly worse, according to residents. An August field test by IDG News Service found it impossible to get a working connection at numerous points around the city, including City Hall and the main library.
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Ken Levine: Stop Looking At BioShock Porn!
What's the first thing you do when someone tells you not to look at something? You get on Google and search for it. Thanks Mr. Levine, now I need eye bleach.
Look here, you nasty pervert horndogs. Ken Levine has seen all that porn people are making out of Elizabeth, from BioShock Infinite, and he wants you to know That's Not Cool. "It's like coming across a picture of your daughter," he says.
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New Thief Gameplay Trailer
There is a new Thief gameplay trailer out today. Fans of the franchise will definitely want to check this one out.
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AMD Aims To Give OpenGL A Big Boost
Long time [H] forum member Lorien spotted this article over at Dark Side of Gaming. It looks like AMD has some pretty ambitious plans for its upcoming high performance OpenGL extensions.
As Sellers claimed, AMD aims to expose all of the hardware of their GPUs with these upcoming high performance extensions of OpenGL, and gamers will be able to get close to theoretical peak and performance. Not only that, but Sellers claimed that games using the modern versions of OpenGL won't be bottlenecked by the API anymore, meaning that gamers will hit HW limits first.
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MSI GTX 770 Twin Frozr Gaming OC Edition
ThinkComputers has the MSI GTX 770 Twin Frozr Gaming OC Edition video card strapped to the test bench today for a few rounds of benchmark action.
The GTX 770 is clocked a little higher than the GTX 680 with a 1049 MHz core clock and a boost clock of 1085 MHz. The memory is also higher at 7010 MHz (effective). With these improvements and since many companies are already used to working with the GK104 chip this should make for better performance and a more powerful card.
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BitTorrent Behind Controversial NSA Billboard Campaign
You know all those weird billboards that were popping up saying "the internet should be regulated" etc. etc.? Turns out that it was a BitTorrent ad campaign.
A billboard advertising campaign claiming that the Internet should be regulated and that everyone's data should belong to the NSA turns out to be the brainchild of BitTorrent Inc. The campaign, which has been running in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, is designed to draw attention to what the Internet has become and remind netizens that there is another way – a people-powered and people-owned Internet with freedom to choose.
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AMD Radeon R9 and R7 Series Re-branding Introduction
AMD is announcing a new re-branding structure for its video cards. The AMD Radeon R9 and R7 series will make up AMDs new video cards moving forward. Most are re-brands of current series GPUs, but two will be next generation. We will discuss each model announced with specifications and comparison.
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Scythe Grand Kama Cross 2 CPU Air Cooled Heatsink
Many times in the world of CPU cooling, heatsinks look much the same from one to the next. The Grand Kama Cross 2 caught our eye due to its very unique design and we wanted to see if there was more to it than just aesthetics. The design is somewhat reminiscent of V type engine, but let's see if it has any horsepower to back it up.
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ASUS R9 280X DirectCU II TOP Video Card Review
We evaluate the new ASUS R9 280X DirectCU II TOP video card and compare it to GeForce GTX 770 and Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition. We will find out which video card provides the best value and performance in the $300 price segment. Does it provide better performance a than its "competition" in the ~$400 price range?
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