Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag Review
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Logitech G510s Gaming Keyboard Review
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Review
A look at NVIDIA's answer to the R9 290X from AMD and their partners.
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Assassin's Creed Revelations 2-Years Later Review
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Assassin's Creed III 1-Year Later Review
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Evercool AIOLUS Notebook Cooler Review
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PowerColor R9 290X OC Review
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ROCCAT Raivo Stealth Black Mousepad Review
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Thermaltake eSPORTS CRONOS Gaming Headset Review
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Assassin's Creed Brotherhood 3-Years Later Review
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ROCCAT Kone Pure Optical Gaming Mouse Review
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Unexpected Behavior in Ferroelectrics
Ferroelectric materials are a special class of materials that have the unique property of switching polarization when an electric field is applied. This property could see use in advanced forms of computing and memory storage, in part because electric fields are very easy to create. Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory however, have made a rather unexpected discovery while writing domains of switched polarization onto a ferroelectric material.
Normally one would expect that when writing domains to a material, they would simply be written where and as you want them to be. As the domains got closer together though, forming denser arrays, the domains started affecting each other. Sometimes a new domain would not form or it would form with an alternating, checkerboard pattern. Not only has this never been seen before, but at first the researchers thought this was impossible. Upon further examination, the researchers determined that this behavior was chaotic, which is typically seen over a length of time, and not over a distance in space.
With one domain able to affect those immediately next to it, and far away, this discovery could have impacts on memcomputing. This field of computing attempts to mimic neurons in our brains, which are able to both store and process information. Of course, far more research must be done before a computer operating on this domain interaction effect could be built.
Source: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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iBuyPower Shows First Steam Machine Prototype
iBuyPower is one of the third party manufacturers currently working on a version of the Steam Machine from Valve. The company has released some photos and small details of its first two prototypes, code named Gordon and Freeman. The systems are currently running an early version of the Steam OS, but iBuyPower wouldn't go into detail about the system internals. However, iBuyPower did confirm that the systems are capable of running all Steam games at 1080p at a frame rate of 60 frames per second which indicates that the system has some power behind it.
Source: Engadget
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Steam Updates Review System
Valve is currently revamping the review system in place on its Steam service to give better insight to consumers looking to buy new games. Steam will now display the most helpful reviews to help influence potential purchases. Reviews can be voted up or down to help push the most useful reviews to the top and also to bury unhelpful reviews. If you find a user that had a particularly helpful review, you can easily see if that user has written any other reviews. Reviews will also display how long a user has played the game to help determine if they have enough experience with the game to give an informed opinion. A number of questions are answered in an accompanying FAQ section.
Source: Steam
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Strong Start to a New Astronomical Field
Right now there are high energy particles called neutrinos streaming through your body. These particles are produced from high energy events, such as the nuclear fusion of the Sun and experiments at particle accelerators. There are other sources of neutrinos in the Universe, and the IceCube observatory, manned by researchers from across the world, including Berkeley Lab, is helping to find them.
Neutrinos are an interesting family of particles that have very little mass, high energy, and no electrical charge. This makes them very useful, as they can pass through barriers like the atmosphere, and difficult to work with, because they do not always interact with a detector. The IceCube observatory however was designed to catch them, with its 5160 detectors buried under a kilometer and a half of Antarctic ice. So far it is found 28 extremely high energy neutrinos that most likely occurred from astronomical events that took place outside of the Solar System. Two of these were the highest energy neutrinos ever reported then, exceeding one quadrillion volts, and one more actually doubles that.
Now that we are finding some of these neutrinos, the question becomes, 'where are they coming from?' IceCube can point us in the right direction, and currently the best theory is that they are being produced as a result of particle jets from black holes.
Source: Berkeley Lab
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Hardware Roundup: Monday Edition
We have just a couple of items for you to kick off the final week of November, with one being rather unique. Western Digital managed to fit a 120GB SSD and a 1TB HDD into a single 2.5" drive, which effectively eliminates any tough decisions when choosing what option to go with, especially in a laptop. It's an intriguing concept, so be sure to check out the review to see how well it performs. There's also a review on the Lenovo Yoga Android tablets that feature a stylish design and plenty of features in multiple screen sizes.
Storage/Hard Drives
Western Digital Black2 Dual Drive - 120GB + 1TB HDD in a single 2.5" package @ PC Perspective
Laptops/Tablets
Lenovo Yoga Android Tablet @ Benchmark Reviews
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HighPoint to Offer Thunderbolt Storage Solutions
With the arrival of Thunderbolt on Intel Haswell platforms, the desire for enterprise storage solutions using the high speed interconnect is popping up. HighPoint has announced a partnership with Netstor to expand availability of its storage solutions to Thunderbolt host platforms. HighPoint brings a long history of providing high performance storage solutions and Netstor is a veteran of industrial rackmount design. There will be 3U and 4U options available with support for 16 and 24 drive configurations, respectively. Each enclosure can be connected using a single Thunderbolt connection with drive control provided by HighPoint RocketRAID host bus adapters. The enclosures will be available early next month from HighPoint authorized distributors at an undisclosed price.
Source: Press Release
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Hardware Roundup: Friday Edition
November is flying right along, as there's only one more week left before we're into the final month of the year. To help get your weekend going, we have some reviews for you to check out, including a showdown between the PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. It's a way to see just what it would take to build a gaming PC to deliver the same (or better) graphical capabilities as the new consoles, as well as plenty of other features. We also have a look at the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti and AMD Radeon R9 290X at 2560x1600 resolution to see how the two heavy-hitters do at one of the largest resolutions available. There's a review on the new Creative Sound Blaster ZxR sound card to hear what the company's new flagship is capable of. SteelSeries' Sensei Fnatic gets put to the test to explore how well it performs. We finish things off today with a new podcast looking back at all the latest news and reviews from the week.
Gaming
PC vs. PS4 vs. Xbox One Hardware Comparison: Building a Competing Gaming PC @ PC Perspective
2560x1600: GeForce GTX 780 Ti vs Radeon R9 290X @ Benchmark Reviews
Keyboards/Mice
SteelSeries Sensei Fnatic @ LanOC Reviews
Sound Cards
Creative Sound Blaster ZxR @ Madshrimps
Miscellany
Podcast #278 @ PC Perspective
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Hardware Roundup: Thursday Edition
We have just a couple reviews for you to check out today, but each one should be pretty interesting. There's a look at the OCZ Vertex 450 128GB SSD, which features an Indilinx Barefoot 3 M10 controller to deliver read/write speeds of 525MB/s and 290MB/s. The review also sees how a pair of the drives perform in a RAID 0 configuration, so it's definitely one you won't want to miss. We also have a review on the Corsair H80i liquid CPU cooler to see how well it can keep some of the hottest CPUs on the market from going up in flames.
CPU Cooling
Corsair H80i @ LanOC Reviews
Storage/Hard Drives
OCZ Vertex 450 128GB SSD @ Neoseeker
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