Fallout: New Vegas 5-Years Later Review
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This War of Mine: The Little Ones Gameplay Trailer Released by Deep Silver
Deep Silver, a company that develops and distributes interactive games for all platforms, has released the official gameplay trailer for This War of Mine: The Little Ones. The title places gamers into an immersive environment that forces them to face the realities of war through the mind of a child. Gamers must not only think about survival throughout This War of Mine: The Little Ones, but must also focus on how to laugh, cry, play with toys, and see the world in a different perspective.
Source: Press Release
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Phanteks Enthoo Mini XL Dual System Holds Two Systems in One Case
Phanteks designed the Enthoo Mini XL Dual system with the ability for the user to install two full systems using micro ATX or mini ITX in a single Super Micro form factor tower. Users are able to run both systems off a single power supply using the included power splitter. The case has two sets of front panel I/O connectors and space for three 5.25" drives, six 3.5" drives, and eight 2.5" drives. Two 140mm fans are included at the front of the case with a single rear 120mm fan. Additional 120mm and 140mm fans can be installed in the front, top, rear, bottom, side, and HDD cage. Liquid cooling radiators from 140mm to 360mm in size can be accommodated at various mount points along with GPUs up to 410mm in length and CPU coolers up to 215mm in height.
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Noctua Announces Chromax Colored Fan Accessories
Noctua is well known for its high performance heatsinks and cooling fans, and the company is now giving users the ability to add anti-vibration pads in a range of colors. The pads will be available in red, blue, green, yellow, black, and white in two product lines, NA-AV2 and NA-AVP2. The NA-AV2 pads are compatible with all Noctua fans while the NA-AVP2 are limited to NF-F12, NF-S12A, NF-A14, and industrialPPC fans. Noctua CEO Roland Mossig described the new parts stating, "The introduction of our redux and industrialPPC product lines marked a first step towards offering fans that fit in well with the typical colour schemes favoured by today’s overclockers and enthusiasts. With the new chromax line, we’re taking another step by allowing users to colour-customise their fans with red, blue, green, yellow, black or white anti-vibration parts." Both lines will be available "shortly" at an MSRP of $6.90.
Source: Noctua
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Optimizing White Graphene Growth for Future Devices
Ever since the discovery of graphene in 2010, many groups have been working on ways to use it and other two-dimensional materials. Among these other materials is hexagonal boron nitride, which is also known as white graphene, despite having very different characteristics from its carbon-based cousin. Now ORNL researchers have made some useful discoveries concerning the fabrication of white graphene and it could lead to several technological advances.
One of the differences between graphene and white graphene is that the latter is an electrical insulator, which makes it viable as an ultra-thin, strong, transparent, and flexible substrate. Making high quality films of hexagonal boron nitride is challenging though, in part because it is not always hexagonal but can also contain triangles and other shapes. The researchers discovered that typically ignored conditions when producing white graphene can actually influence the process, and with this knowledge are able to create higher quality samples. The researchers are confident the new method they discovered can be scaled up for large production values.
One of the potential uses for white graphene is as a substrate for graphene, as it has been previously discovered that when paired together like this, electron mobility receives a significant boost. This is the actual speed the electrons move at and could translate to data transfers far faster than what is possible today.
Source: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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Hardware Roundup: Wednesday, December 2, 2015, Edition
The middle of the week is upon us, with a couple of items to help give you greater control of your PC. We have a review on the SteelSeries Apex M800 Gaming Mechanical Keyboard, which uses a new mechanical switch design for lower actuation, throw, and force for an easier typing experience. It also has LEDs in the center of the keycap for a more uniform lighting style. Our other keyboard is the Zalman ZM-K700M Gaming Keyboard, another mechanical model, this time with Cherry MX switches, and some impressive lighting modes to take advantage of. On the right side of the keyboard is a lighted gauge that shows your typing speed, so if you've ever been curious on how fast you type (or issue commands in a game), this keyboard may be the one for you.
Keyboards/Mice
SteelSeries Apex M800 Gaming Mechanical Keyboard @ Madshrimps
Zalman ZM-K700M Gaming Keyboard @ ThinkComputers
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Defects Removed from Monolayer Semiconductor
Thin is in for a variety of electronics when it comes to the devices we hold and the components within them. Actually making these thin components can be very difficult though, because defects have a more pronounced impact on thin materials, with monolayer materials being impacted the most. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and Berkeley Lab though have discovered a way to remove defects in molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) and dramatically improve its photoluminescence quantum yield.
Ultra-thin materials, including molecule-thick monolayers are interesting to scientists because they absorb very little light and are very flexible, making them very resilient. To remove the defects from a monolayer of MoS2 the researchers used the superacid bistriflimide or TFSI. The superacid removes contaminants on the monolayer's surface and by protonation adds protons or hydrogen atoms to fill in the defects. This increased the photoluminescence quantum yield, the ratio of light generated and the amount of energy applied, for MoS2 from less than one percent to 100%, making it optoelectronically perfect.
This perfection should make it an excellent material for creating high performance LED displays, which would also be transparent and flexible. Also, because of how thin monolayers of MoS2 are, it can be highly electrically tunable to the point that pixels made from it could emit different colors just by applying different voltages. Potentially this discovery could also be applied to improving the quality of transistors as they reach to ever smaller sizes.
Source: University of California, Berkeley
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