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Plextor Announces New Optical Drive LineupNov 24, 2008 - in News
A name that used to crop up when talking about elite optical products years ago has made a comeback! Plextor has come out of the woodwork, announcing a new lineup of optical drives after lying low for a while.
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Nvidia Releases X58/SLI ForceWareNov 20, 2008 - in News
Did you hear that? Nvidia has just released its ForceWare 180.48 drivers, aka ‘Big Bang II’. The new ForceWare set is required to enable SLI on ‘some’ new and upcoming Intel X58 Express based boards. We covered a bit regarding the ‘Big Bang II’ release,
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Netgear's New LAN Powerline AdaptersNov 20, 2008 - in News
Look ma! No wires! Well, sort of. NETGEAR introduces their Powerline Adapters for HD and Multimedia Streaming without the hassle of degraded wireless performance and most of all, wires.
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Mushkin's New Triple-Chan DDR3 KitsNov 19, 2008 - in News
With all the buzz surrounding the Intel Core i7 debut, memory manufacturers are delivering the goods. Mushkin is now offering up its triple channel kits to the mix, with some pretty impressive timings.
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Report: 3GB vs 6GB RAM on Core i7 BenchedNov 19, 2008 - in News
Planning to build your brand spanking new Intel i7 based gaming system with that fancy new Intel X58 Express board? Just make sure you toss 6GB of memory into the mix for the best possible experience, according to Corsair’s recent study.
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Stealth Announces In-Vehicle MiniPCNov 18, 2008 - in News
Stealth Computer has announced a new mini-PC designed for in-vehicle, mobile and embedded applications
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Kingston Shipping HyperX T1 Series MemoryNov 13, 2008 - in News
Kingston Technology brings us another line of enthusiast based memory with its new T1 heat spreaders and HTX technology. HTX technology is a new innovation design by Kingston’s engineering team dedicated to building enthusiast memory.
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Fujitsu Launches 500 GB Notebook Hard Drives – Full Drive EncryptionNov 12, 2008 - in News
With the ever increasing demand for more storage by users that are always on-the-go, Fujitsu launches a set of hard drives at half of a terabyte.
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Seagate Responds to Freezing HDDsNov 10, 2008 - in News
Last week Toms had covered a bit about the freezing problems with Seagate’s Barracuda 1.5TB drives. We would like to update readers with the response that Toms has gotten directly from Seagate.
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Tom's OC Competition: Update 2!Nov 8, 2008 - in News
It’s about 6:12PM PST now and the four teams are crunching away with benchmark scores. The competition overall is pacing along really nicely, and the teams are getting riled up. We saw a few competitors shaking hands with each other but deep down their c
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Fire Dept. Crashes Our OC EventNov 8, 2008 - in News
Things arrived smoothly the day before. Equipment, liquid nitrogen tanks — all eight of them — and the contestants. Everyone was definitely gearing up and getting prepared for the event that would occur today.
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Tom's Overclocking Competition Begins!Nov 7, 2008 - in News
This weekend commences the start of Tom’s Hardware’s Overdrive competition, in which teams of enthusiasts compete for the position of reigning world champion. Bestofmedia Group announced the first Overdrive Overclocking Championship by Tom’s Hardware sev
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SanDisk Makes SSD up to 100x FasterNov 6, 2008 - in News
SanDisk explained its new file system technology for SSDs, which it calls the ExtremeFFS, that it could boost random write speeds by up to 100 times over existing systems.
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Gigabyte Announces Two New X58 MotherboardsNov 4, 2008 - in News
Gigabyte has announced two new X58 motherboards designed for the Core i7 platform
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Zotac Offers Mini-ITX Solution With Wi-Fi and Nvidia GraphicsOct 30, 2008 - in News
Been looking for a good Mini-ITX solution for a project? Home Theatre PC? Zotac has packed Nvidia power onto one of its new Mini-ITX boards, along with semi-built in Wi-Fi.
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Soak Your PC in Mineral Oil: Puget Systems Announces DIY Aquarium CoolingOct 29, 2008 - in News
Been eyeballing that old aquarium in the garage (the fish long since gone) for your next extreme system mod and cooling solution?
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G.Skill Launches DDR3 Memory Kits for Intel Core i7 PlatformOct 29, 2008 - in News
G.Skill launched its new triple-channel DDR3 memory kits for the Intel Core i7 platform
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BFG Geforce GTX 200 Series Bundled With Far Cry 2Oct 24, 2008 - in News
For a limited time, purchase any BFG Geforce GTX 200 series graphics card and receive a free full copy of Far Cry 2, a free full copy of 3DMark Vantage Advanced Edition and a BFG branded mini super bright LED torch.
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New Vapor-Chamber Cooling Solution Coming to ATI Graphics CardsOct 22, 2008 - in News
Need a new cooling solution, even for overclocking? CT Electronics Limited, a leading Vapor Chamber (VC) cooling solution provider announced its GVC-1 graphics card cooler.
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Silverstone Releases Clear CMOS: The External CMOS Reset SwitchOct 17, 2008 - in News
Tired of having to open up your case every time your have a failed overclock just to move that tiny jumper cap? Silverstone has the answer!
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Corsair Shows New Energy Efficient and Quiet PSU LineOct 15, 2008 - in News
In need of a quiet, energy-efficient power supply for that new build? Announced today, Corsair brings you a new line of economical, quiet, energy-efficient desktop computer power supply units – dubbed Corsair Power.
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Foxconn Introduces 'Green' MotherboardOct 10, 2008 - in News
Foxconn has announced its second board in its ‘Green Series’ line up. Based on Intel’s G45 chipset, the G45MG is said to offer many new power management capabilities to reduce overall power consumption without impacting system performance.
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Crucial DDR3 Memory — Now With More Bling!Oct 8, 2008 - in News
Just in case the whir of fans and the occasional tick-tick of a hard drive doesn’t provide enough clues that that yes, your PC really is powered on, Lexar Media is now offering its LED-laden Crucial Ballistix Tracer SDRAM in DDR3 trim.
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The First sub-$1,000 Water-cooled PCOct 2, 2008 - in News
Considered a water-cooled gaming rig, but haven’t had the nerve to mix electronics and liquids? Visionman Computers has just announced a new gaming PC that features a water-cooled dual-core CPU that sells for $999.99.
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Windows Campaign Violating Trademark?Sep 30, 2008 - in News
Microsoft is being targeted by a startup company going by the name ‘G.ho.st’ in an apparent claim that Microsoft is violating a company trademark.
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Chip-less Mod Tool Leaked for Nintendo Wii.Sep 19, 2008 - in News
With all the raging and ranting about piracy going around these days – developers getting miffed about losing profits to piracy and people voiding warranties just so they don’t have to pay for games.
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EFiX Dongle Turns (Some) PCs into MacsSep 16, 2008 - in News
Back in June, a European company called EFiX announced its EFi-X USB dongle for desktop PCs. The dongle promised the ability to not only install legitimate copies of OS X on any PC, but to utilize the Software Update feature, something Hackintoshes and P
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Control All Aspects of Your Home WirelesslySep 5, 2008 - in News
Want to automate things in your home like fans and lights using your PC? Two widely backed specifications are quietly battling for supremacy in the wireless home-control market: Z-Wave, a proprietary technology developed by the Norwegian firm Zensys, and
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Guy Makes a PC Out of Nintendo WiiSep 4, 2008 - in News
Modding your computer to look cooler is one thing, and overclocking it your processor and memory is pretty cool too. But someone has managed to stuff a fully operational desktop PC into Nintendo’s minuscule Wii. Of course, the internals of the Wii were g
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Windows XP Learns New Nag Tactic for PiratesAug 29, 2008 - in News
Vista hands Windows Genuine Advantage features down to XP Professional