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MSI P55-GD65 motherboard preview by windwithme

Cameron Wilmot — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:25:02 -0400

What is probably most interesting about this board is that it has overclocking buttons - yep, you heard right. There are plus and minus buttons which allows you to adjust the base clock speed of the Core�

Friday Morning Roundup

Steve Dougherty — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:51:12 -0400

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CA Apologizes for false positives

Sean Kalinich — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:05:56 -0400

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Intel helped Google develop Chrome OS

Sean Kalinich — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:57:24 -0400

This would run contrary to the popular belief that Intel and Microsoft are best buddies. After all the term WinTel was used to describe the alliance between Microsoft Windows an Intel CPUs. If this is�

Microsoft releases Silverlight 3.0 early

Sean Kalinich — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:44:39 -0400

Smooth Streaming is probably going to have the biggest impact as it can allow for streaming of 720p video with no buffering. This is simply an amazing feat and one that is being integrated into the Zune�

MP3 player might have caused car fire

Sean Kalinich — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:48:07 -0400

Recently a 2007 Saab 9-3 Combi was burned pretty much to the ground. The owner was barely able to rescue their dog before the car burned. Saab, after hearing of this incident took possession of the car�

nVidia quietly launches two DX10.1 desktop cards

Sean Kalinich — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:22:43 -0400

What is interesting is that these new cards we launched without any fan fare from nVidia. One reason for this is that they do not have quite the punch that ATi�s 4770 40nm part has. It is not known if�

EU looking to revamp internet downloading rules

Sean Kalinich — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:04:24 -0400

While searching around I stumbled across this little bit of news on how the EU is planning to revamp its rules for internet downloads. Now, thinking about the way that most governments handle any kind�

Apple MacBook Pros cannot show Millions of Colors

Sean Kalinich — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:40:35 -0400

It has been about a month since Apple announced its new line of Mac Book Pros. This new line was supposed to dove-tail in nicely with the release of Snow Leopard and usher in a new era of Mac Book dominance�

Chrome OS pictures leaked?

Sean Kalinich — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:24:25 -0400

The blogger describes a Start Menu that can access applications, files and also has the basic commands (reboot, shutdown, etc). The task bar auto hides, contains the usual clock and can have the search�

Download of the Day: VLC Media Player 1.0.0

Steve Dougherty — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:59:29 -0400

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Deal of the Day: Patriot Viper 4GB DDR2-800 Kit

Steve Dougherty — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:59:11 -0400

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Thursday Morning Roundup

Steve Dougherty — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:56:57 -0400

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Some ASUS P55 benchmarks and pictures leak online

Cameron Wilmot — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:20:50 -0400

Intel seems to be playing annoying games at the moment with what can be posted and what cannot - and it's horrible as media to work with. Just last week they allowed motherboard manufacturers to show�

Sony CEO not concerned about Activision threats

Sean Kalinich — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:10:42 -0400

It seems that Howard Stringer (Sony CEO) feels that Robert Kotic (CEO of Activision Blizzard) �likes to make a lot of noise�. Now I don�t know about you but that does not sound like we are going to see�

Corsair to stop making modules using Elpida memory

Sean Kalinich — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:42:03 -0400

Although there has been no �official� announcement from Corsair on this other than the Forum page, it is very nice to see a manufacturer like Corsair standing behind their products even though the flaw�

Shortened URLs becoming popular with spammers

Sean Kalinich — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:33:22 -0400

This new trend has been see as spam increases through Twitter and now has shown up in e-mail spam too. The problem is that not every spam/virus protection suite available can drill down to the original�

nVidia 40nm Desktop GPUs pop up

Sean Kalinich — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:07:54 -0400

We heard all about nVidia�s 40nm roadmap and plans at Computex. We all know that 40nm is the new battle ground for your gaming dollars. But we have not really seen much from nVidia on the 40nm process�

nVidia launches their own SLI patch

Sean Kalinich — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:06:50 -0400

eVGA has been getting great press as they put out their SLI enhancement patches. These handy little patched include updated SLI profiles for games and often provide for much faster and stable performance�

Google Announces Chrome OS

Sean Kalinich — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:37:37 -0400

The core design is Google Chrome running with a windowing system on a Linux Kernel. The developer�s blog for the new OS sounds very much like a Mac add. Including making the comment �we are going back�

Tuesday Evening Roundup

Steve Dougherty — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:44:20 -0400

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Sony pushes Vaio W netbook on the US Market

Sean Kalinich — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:54:57 -0400

The new offering will still fall under the Vaio name (Vaio W). This confusingly named product will run similar to most other netbooks. The Vaio W will have an Atom N270, 160GB HDD, 1GB RAM, Windows XP�

Opera Unite raises security concerns

Sean Kalinich — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:39:43 -0400

Opera Unite has come under fire from some leading security experts. In upcoming Opera 10 the Unite feature actually puts a web server inside the browser. According to Opera�s CEO this will make it easier�

New Silverlight Ads might be coming on Xbox 360

Sean Kalinich — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:16:15 -0400

It is a bad day for Microsoft, as rumors get to us that MS is adding Silverlight based ads to Xbox Live. This is not something to approach lightly as many Xbox 360 users are angry over this possible move�

Weekly Giveaway - CoolIT Domino Liquid Cooler

Cameron Wilmot — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:08:53 -0400

This fancy cooler promises to offer simple installation and fit into any computer chassis for who looking to get into liquid cooling of their AMD or Intel processor. This baby supports Intel 775 and 1366�