GameStop began accepting “limited” preorders for the PlayStation 3 last month, asking customers to put down $100 in advance for the game console, with a modest expectation of eight units per store in most cases. Continue reading “GameStop won’t get enough PS3s to fill preorders”.
Asustek Computer was ahead of competitors in terms of quantity of motherboards presented to support Intel’s launch of quad-core CPUs, formerly known under the codenames Clovertown (for servers and workstations) and Kentsfield (for desktops). Today, Continue reading “Asustek Has 10 Boards Supporting Intel Clovertown and Kentsfield Processors”.
The Thermaltake Big Typhoon VX is the long awaited update of the Big Typhoon and features upgraded mounting hardware and a variable speed fan. LR takes the latest and greatest cooler from Thermaltake and tries it out on our Core 2 Duo platform to see how it performs. The Thermaltake Big Typhoon VX made short work of the competition, but can it hang with Active TEC and Water Cooling?
OCZ Technology Group, a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance and high reliability memory, today announced it has signed a distribution agreement with D&H Distributing, one of the nation’s leading technology distributors specializing in emerging Continue reading “OCZ Technology Signs with D&H Distributing”.
omputer server and software maker Sun Microsystems Inc. said Monday that it had begun to make its Java technology an open-source software project available for free on the Internet. Making Java an open-source project allows Continue reading “Sun changing Java to open-source”.
Starting early next year, the address bar in Internet Explorer 7 will turn green when surfing to a legitimate Web site–but only in some cases, not all. The colored address bar is designed to be Continue reading “With IE 7, green means go for legit sites”.
Sony Corp. sold 88,400 units of its PlayStation 3 game console in the first two days after the launch in Japan, leaving most stores without any stock, video game magazine publisher Enterbrain said on Monday. Continue reading “Sony sold 88,400 PS3s in Japan in 2 days”.
Kingston Technology will invest about 240 million yuan in its Shenzhen subsidiary, Payton Technology, to boost monthly window ball-grid array (WBGA) capacity to 10 million units, according to media reports in China. According to Payton’s Continue reading “Rumor: Kingston To Increase Investment in China Packaging Subsidiary”.
Elitegroup Computer Systems, Inc. today announced the new PN2 SLI2+ Extreme motherboard based on the latest NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI media and communication processor (MCP). Designed for the Intel Core2 platform, PN2 SLI2 Extreme tops Continue reading “ECS Announces The PN2 SLI2+ Extreme 680i SLI Motherboard”.
The NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX graphics card faced a resistor change just days before the launch of the industry’s first fully unified architecture-based DirectX 10 compatible GPU. Legit Reviews followed the resistor change as we had one of the cards that had a resistor with the wrong value. If you are interested in what needed to be changed read on.
Some musicians spend 18 months working on a whole album. At Microsoft Corp., that’s how long it took to perfect just four seconds of sound. Of course, this isn’t just any four-second clip. It’s the Continue reading “Insane: Microsoft Spent 18 Months for Vista Start Up Sound”.
IBM is ramping up its push into virtual worlds with an investment of roughly $10 million over the next 12 months, including an expanded presence within the popular 3D online universe Second Life. Chairman and Continue reading “IBM accelerates push into 3D virtual worlds – Second Life”.
Hard disk advocates have long looked down their noses at flash storage. But enterprise storage pros may be thinking differently about solid state, even (gasp!) for RAID. Flash memory is catching the notice of IT Continue reading “Is There a Flash Memory RAID in Your Future?”.
In a year that has seen a lot of changes at Dell, tradition is holding in one key area of the company’s manufacturing strategy: building notebook computers. Dell, of course, rose to prominence by emphasizing Continue reading “Dell bucks the notebook-outsourcing trend”.
Celebrating the company?s 1 millionth premium modules shipped in 2006, Corsair will offer 5 custom 2GB DDR2-8888 gold-plated DOMINATOR memory kits as contest prizes for the ?Why I Love Corsair? 200-word essay contest. Legit Reviews has managed to find out that these modules are 18K gold plated and even got Corsair Co-Founder Andy Paul to pose for us with the modules! Read on to see how these modules can be had for free.
