Fudo over at The Inq. is reporting that Epox has jumped ship and has started to use ATI chipsets on their upcoming socket AM2 motherboards. This is interesting news if it proves true as Epox Continue reading “Epox to use ATI chipsets for AMD’s AM2 Processors”.
Motherboard maker ECS – aka Elitegroup – has posted details of its first Socket AM2 mobo, a product based on ATI’s as-yet-unannounced Radeon Xpress 1100 chipset up on their website for all to see. At Continue reading “ECS Website Shows AMD Socket AM2 ATI Radeon Xpress 1100 Motherboard Listed”.
In a surprise turn of events at E3, new Dell XPS machines in very bold and wild colors and designs turned up at the nVidia booth. Shifting from their traditional industrial charcoals, grays, and silvers, Continue reading “New XPS cases spotted. No barfing on the carpet please.”.
Websearch giant Google has been zeroed in by New York Nassau county representative Jeffrey Toback in an unusual lawsuit. In light of news trends in the past few weeks though, not entirely unexpected. The suit Continue reading “Child porn for the masses, profits for Google?”.
Well, what exactly did you expect from Apple? Apparently, a netizen had gained access to an Apple “Service Source manual for the MacBook Pro” and found that it instructed the application of gobs of thermal Continue reading “Fix Apple’s blunders, receive cease and desist.”.
The Termaltake Matrix VX is rumored to be Light as a feather, but solid as a rock. Today we take a look at Thermaltake’s new all-aluminum Matrix VX VD3000SWA computer case. The stylish mesh front panel provides maximum ventilation for the packed room at your local LAN party. Read on to see if the Matrix VX is worth your money.
Since launching of the 7900 series GPUs, there’s been no small amount of griping about the lack of heatsinks on the “mid-range” (and I use the term very loosely) 7900GT model products. eVGA now has Continue reading “256MB 7900GTX for the price of a 7900GT? Ok, maybe not exactly.”.
Word on the net has a Seagate pdf showing the new 750GB 7200.10 Barracudas. The pdf document can readily be accessed on Seagate’s website at http://www.seagate.com/pdf/marketing/po_barracuda_7200_10.pdf. And even more interesting, there are rumors of a Continue reading “750GB Barracudas on the way, and 960GB in the works.”.
Kicking off new laptops these days is somewhat of a non-event for us desk-dwellers, but on the rare occiasions where something more than just longer battery life, bigger screen, faster CPU, or brighter screen is Continue reading “Go 7900 GTX? Yes, please.”.
After years of complaints from users, the StarForce boycott finally seems to be making progress. Ubisoft, maker of some of the most prominent StarForce protected titles has officially announced that they are dropping StarForce in Continue reading “Confirmed: Ubisoft dumps StarForce”.
Passwords, the last line of defense against malicious intruders to a computer network. When all else has failed and a hacker sits perilously over an employee’s desk at 3AM in the morning, little stands in Continue reading “Please enter passface:”.
If you were offered a flash drive that could read and write 1000 times faster than any existing flash technology, would you take it? According to the Nikkei Business Daily, Sharp and Shizuoka University have Continue reading “RRAM to be the NAND killer?”.
Linux and open source, the very essences of everything that Microsoft stands against and fears, yes? Perhaps, but it doesn’t mean they can’t learn from eachother. This Thursday at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, Microsoft Continue reading “Microsoft better than Linux”.
After the months of labor and slaving away, die hard fanatics of Apple hardware (insert witty biting comment) have been rewarded by The Steve with Apple’s very own beta software (titled Boot Camp; also to Continue reading “Apple’s enlisting, so sign up maggot!”.
Not to be outdone by nVidia’s release of the G71, ATi has released info to its partners about the new R580+ chip. If you’ve taken the SATs and read the title carefully, you may already Continue reading “G70 is to G71 as R580 is to…”.
