Saturday, October 3, 2009

IT News HeadLines (PCSTATS) 03/10/2009


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SoundBase G3 Notebook 5.1 Surround System Review @ PCSTATS
"Today we are looking at Add Onآ’s SoundBase G3 a Dolby/DTS ready laptop/notebook pad, that offers 5.1 Dolby sound in a little package aimed at portable users.. Now normally we would dismiss this kind of product as gimmicky as there could be no way a device this size could produce quality sound, but... [PCSTATS]

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Apple iPhone 3GS 16GB Smartphone @ PCSTATS
"The iPhone has become an icon in popular culture. The iPhone, along with its sibling, the iPod, are woven into our view of the world. As a device it is sleek and sexy. It has a great sense of style and shows that while Apple may do many things wrong, they at least do them with style and flare. W... [PCSTATS]

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Home Theatre PC and Ripping Station Guide @ PCSTATS
"So, you have the big 1080p Hi-Def TV, the awesome surround system and a DVD and music collection that puts HMV to shame. You could throw together some parts in a fancy case and make yourself a home theatre PC, but thatآ’s so 2008. Instead, letآ’s spruce it up by getting your HTPC to copy your preciou... [PCSTATS]

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AMD's Phenom II X4 965 BE @ PCSTATS
So we played, and played some more and all of a sudden, the transients are no longer transients, instead, they are p-states that are locked in over extended periods of time where the CPU runs at آ½ or 2/3 of its maximum core frequency, enough to sustain the data to the peripherals like GPU and so on ... [PCSTATS]

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NVIDIA PhysX Tech Report @ PCSTATS
"Both NVIDIA and ATI graphics processors are based on a unified architecture with programmable stream processors that can handle not only traditional graphics (vertex, geometry, texture) processing but also general purpose computing operations. However, NVIDIA have an ace up their sleeves that curre... [PCSTATS]

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Maximo iMetal iM-590 Earphones review @ PCSTATS
When a few of my friends asked me casually, "Hey chc, what's your next review?" a while back, I answered without much thought. "The Maximo iMetal iM-590 earphones," I answered without much hesitation. Later on, I noticed that there are two particular ideas that stood out when I finally decided t... [PCSTATS]

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EVGA X58 x3 Classified Motherboard @ PCSTATS
In todays economic climate, shelling out over آ£300 for a motherboard may seem like madness but EVGA have a product that may sway your opinion - May I present you with the X58 3x Classified...... [PCSTATS]

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Radeon HD4890 crossfire performance @ PCSTATS
آ“A Radeon 4890X2 will never release, it is fact. The high temperature of the chip and the voltage transformers makes it impossible. But 2 Radeon 4890 in Crossfire are possible.آ”... [PCSTATS]

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Thermaltake ISGC-V320 VGA Cooler @ PCSTATS
آ“The V320 is a GFX card cooler designed to fit on almost every video card currently available. As well as being a choice for high end boards - mid range graphics cards tend to have some relatively poor cooler designs with small and noisy fan configurations.آ” ... [PCSTATS]

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Gameskulls GS-1 Tactical Gaming Helmet Headphones @ PCSTATS
A plastic tactical helmet for gaming because you want to remain a Virgin for the rest of your life.

"Three things are very important when you enter the virtual battlefield; the ability to hear your enemy's foot steps, the ability to communicate with your fellow combatants, and protection from a f... [PCSTATS]

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OCZ Rally2 Turbo 8GB Flash USB Drive - Not a Car, Not Nitro @ PCSTATS
If a USB memory stick gets reviewed, does anyone REALLY need to read about it?

"After using my PNY Attachأ© 8GB USB 2.0 flash drive for almost three years, I finally decided I couldn't deal with slow running portable applications. I usually run Trillian Astra Pro (for IM), Mozilla Thunderbird (for... [PCSTATS]

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MSI P55-CD53 Motherboard Review - One Great Leap for Homogenization @ PCSTATS
Enter now, the era of the Core i5 and Core i7 1156 CPU from Intel. The birth of their new baby has taken the benchmark proven strategies of the 1366 and further expanded on its abilities. This brings us to the new motherboards with the fresh Intel P55. These motherboards now have done away with the ... [PCSTATS]

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OCZ Sabre OLED Gaming Keyboard - Needless Bling @ PCSTATS
Sometimes cool ideas have to be dumbed down to get to market. While the Art Lebedev digital keys are fancy - Oooow Lights! - it's an unnecessarily complex level of bling for a keyboard. We're talking switches here people, switches.

The Studio created a whirlwind of excitement when their Optimus ... [PCSTATS]

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Nvidia GPU Technology Conference - Where Gamers go to Die @ PCSTATS
"Currently, there has not been any mention of clock speeds but after looking at the specs this card will be a monster on specs alone. Whether that holds true is up for speculation until we see Fermi live and in person. No claims have been made as to the gaming performance delivered but during the ke... [PCSTATS]

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NVIDIA Announces CUDA GPU Architecture - Fermi, not FermiLAB @ PCSTATS
NVIDIA today introduced its next generation CUDA GPU architecture, codenamed "Fermi" at the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, California. Fermi is an entirely new from the ground-up design architecture and is said to be the foundation for the world's first computational graphics processing unit... [PCSTATS]

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All Videocards Are The Same - Enter MSI Afterburner Software @ PCSTATS
MSI, like ASUS and GIGABYTE is facing a tough challenge - how can it differentiate its newest videocards in the market when all cards like the Radeon HD 5870 are the same? The answer seems to be overclocking software tools, though many are crudely programmed for North American tastes (we tend to lik... [PCSTATS]

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Shillin' for Ford. THX and the beast (Lincoln MKT SUV) @ PCSTATS
Reports Marco from Hothardware; "When Graham McKenna, the PR guy at THX, contacted me and asked me if I'd like to borrow a new Lincoln MKT SUV for a few days, I jumped at the chance. To be perfectly honest, I didn't care a whit about the MKT itself. I wanted to check out how THX and Ford engineered ... [PCSTATS]

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Western Digital WD TV Mini Media Player Video Review @ PCSTATS
Back a few months ago, Western Digital impressed us when it launched its very first media player, the WD TV. It was an affordable device that allowed you to playback HD movies, music and pictures on your display through a USB storage device, such as a pen drive or portable hard drive. Fast forwar... [PCSTATS]

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Mionix Saiph 3200 Gaming Mouse and Alioth 400 Surface @ PCSTATS
Newcomers Mionix are quickly proving themselves as a competent producer of peripherals for the gaming market. Their latest send-out is the Saiph 3200 Gaming Mouse and a jumbo sized mouse mat called the Alioth 400. Any gamer, casual or otherwise, knows that having just a high spec mouse is not goo... [PCSTATS]

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Onboard Graphics Shootout آ– AMD 790GX vs. 785G @ PCSTATS
While most of us on Tweak Town are after the most performance and overclocking capable boards out there, itآ’s important to note that there is still a very large side of the market that we donآ’t always give a great deal of thought to, that being the integrated market. Today as a follow up to the 7... [PCSTATS]

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ATI Catalyst 9.8 Vista Driver Analysis @ PCSTATS
I have to say that when I saw the list of performance improvements on the latest set of Catalyst drivers I was shocked. What was even more interesting, though, was the fact that theyآ’re not a bunch of performance improvements that are aimed at Windows 7, but if you have a quick look at what exactly ... [PCSTATS]

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