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Introduces the story mode of The Ultimate Persona 4

admin — Fri, 18 May 2012 06:30:10 +0000

Stronger body and mind repeatedly the fight

This work will be legitimate sequel of RPG “Persona 4″ popular, newly written as a scenario to enjoy in-game fighting 2D. This time, it introduces new information of the story mode, which is equipped with a new version of home-use game machine. Kanji Tatsumi Yukiko Amagi and also fought with the hero, he is drawn first sequel in the “Persona 4″.

Yukiko Amagi

Yukiko was promoted to senior in high school. That heard the rumors, “Mayonakaterebi” I was definitely plan to try to show you the proof that the growth of her cooking skills, to enter the world of television still has a fresh lunch. Led to lunch, she met one girl, two ties is unborn.

Kanji Tatsumi

For the hero to come back to the city of Golden Week feather rice (Yu on tinnitus), Kanji decided to handmade amigurumi. Had to fight drowsiness while working at home, and suddenly realize, was standing in front of school gate Yasogami high school. “I see, this is! ‘S dream,” he was understood, the challenge to wrestle with a triumphant tournament.

Pepe the villain as Madrid tires of Mourinho

admin — Fri, 18 May 2012 06:22:37 +0000

By the end of the second leg of their Spanish Cup quarter-final against Barcelona, Real Madrid and Jose Mourinho had gone some way to mending their image with an impressive performance and a 2-2 draw at Camp Nou. But it might all have been too late.
For many, the lasting image of the latest dasico clash was the moment during the first leg in Madrid when Pepe stood on Lionel Messi’s hand – an image that was splashed across the front page of every sports newspaper in Spain, on both sides of the Madrid-Barca divide.
That single image seemed, for many, to sum up Madrid’s approach to the first leg: violent and, ultimately, pointless.
With Messi on the floor, Pepe glanced down, slowed his stride and then trod on the Argentinian’s hand. Afterwards Mourinho was asked whether Pepe’s actions were worthy of censor, to which he replied: “If it was deliberate”. Few doubted that it was.
Two days later, Pepe issued a video apology in which he claimed that he had done so accidentally “and if Messi feels offended, I’m sorry”. Yet the video almost made it worse and was an insult to add to the injury. Pepe’s innocence was even harder to believe because of his past record. Likeable off the pitch, Pepe is transformed on it. No one could forget the time that he kicked and attacked a prostrate Javi Casquero during a game against Getafe.
The media described Pepe as a “disgrace”, “unacceptable” and a “public danger”. There may have been no surprises when this came from the Catalan press; what was different was that the Madrid media took the same line, with AS describing it as part of a “repertoire of misdemeanours”, “far from an isolated incident”, and Marca calling it “unacceptable” and “shameful”. Typically, the competition committee stayed out of it. Pepe received no punishment, despite the moral crusade against him. He is, many said, not worthy of Real Madrid.
But the tide had turned – and some were saying the same about Mourinho.

Cynical and boring

Since Mourinho took over at the Santiago Bernabeu, Real have played against Barcelona in a way that is not commensurate with the club’s history: dirty, cynical and boring are all adjectives that have been applied to his team. And fearful, too, as he left his more talented players out and tried simply to defend in the Cup first leg. Two days later, Marca published a story revealing a training ground conversation with Sergio Ramos.
The search was on for the mole. That became the obsession, more, even, than the real substance of the story: the
discussion, while not especially strong, revealed important divisions within the squad – and highlighted the fault lines. Mourinho’s relationship with some of his Spanish players was shown to be distrustful and resentful. The media smelt blood and Mourinho smelt a crusade. His next press conference was tense and aggressive. There was little doubt that he was ill at ease.
Mourinho may have played all his most talented players in the second leg, and Madrid were impressive, having Barcelona on the ropes for much of the game. Some said that he had been wrong all along and that the players, who wanted a more expansive style, had been right. But Madrid went out anyway. Amid all the euphoria the fact overlooked was that Barcelona had progressed, and Mourinho had played 10 games against Barca and still won just one of them.
After the game, Mourinho again complained about the referee. He even waited in the car park to confront him. Just when the image could have been good, it was bad again. Three days after that, Madrid went seven points clear in the league and are clear favourites to win the title. But the damage was done.
That morning, a leak from Mourinho’s camp insisted that he was going to leave at the end of the season. Many in Madrid have grown tired of him. And he has grown tired of them.

GIGABYTE Z77X-UD3H – Budget builder board extraordinaire

admin — Thu, 17 May 2012 06:37:29 +0000

The UD3 has been a long-time favourite of overclockers, gamers and even mainstream consumers in US. It has a large feature list, GIGABYTE’S famous build quality, a three year warranty and, most importantly of all, a fair price. It is very hard to go past the UD3, whether it be the H, R or P variation.
For anyone familiar with the Z68 UD3H, we’ll be perfectly honest: extremely little has changed. But is this a bad thing? Why mess with a winning formula? If the only changes are the addition of PCI-E gen 3, native SATA and USB 3 and support for Lucid Virtu MVP then we’re more than happy. Throw in the fact this board should retail for around $15 less than the Z68 variant and you have yourself a win-win situation.
There are a few people who would like to throw mud at GIGABYTE, and after a viral video a month or two back, people were up in arms about the “poor quality” of the UD3 series. GIGABYTE proved the nay-sayers wrong, by taking a world record on the UD3. That’s right, they beat their own UD7, OC boards, ASUS Rampage and MSI Big Bang with a motherboard that costs – in some cases – less than a third of the price.
GIGABYTE maintains the same level of quality throughout its entire lineup, and it shows with the UD3. GIGABYTE’S done a great job with this motherboard; it features all digital power, Dual UEFI 3D BIOS for performance tuning. Sadly, GIGABYTE doesn’t include pre-set overclocking profiles with the board – in this case it’s being left to the experts – but at least there’s EZ Tune.

This is a software kit designed purely for easy overclocking. You can create custom settings and profiles, learning as you go, or simply apply settings GIGABYTE have determined safe and stable for similar systems. On our i7 3770K a 4.2GHz was applied, along with 1600MHz on the RAM.
On the rear of the board we find DVI, VGA, Display Port and HDMI; along with all the other stuff we talked about in the Sniper M3 review. Put simply, it’s pretty much the same as every other Z77 board on the market, with nothing extra flashy increasing the build cost.
Good spacing between the PCI-E ports ensures your video cards will remain nice and cool should you opt for a multi-GPU solution. And if not, there is plenty of space left for other PCI devices. GIGABYTE has included a power button, along with an on-board diagnosis LED. This will help troubleshooting should you encounter hardware problems in your system build, and is not a common find on a board under $200. The addition of the m-SATA slot is also nice.
Overall the UD3H is pretty decent value, though we feel it should be cheaper still. The Z68XP-UD3R costs $149, and the Z77 chipset should cost a little less if we’re not mistaken. This means the current “early adopter” tax could be in place here, and it may be worth waiting for the Z77 prices to fall, or if Z77 features aren’t of interest to you, perhaps just pick up a Z68-UD3 instead.

ASUS Maximus V GENE

admin — Thu, 17 May 2012 06:35:24 +0000

The ASUS GENE isn’t a new board, in fact, this is the fifth board in the series (hence the roman V). With experience comes, well, experience, and ASUS have plenty of that in the gaming m-ATX market. In fact, they pretty much created the market with ROG all those years ago.
Technologies like “Game First” make the ROG brand unique, offering gamers the freedom to prioritise their network traffic allocation with software. This ensures that when you are gaming, your PC will prioritise that, and everything else comes second, including software updates and Virus Scans.
There’s a dual heatsink design around hte CPU socket, with single heatpipe connecting the setup, surrounded in turn by a 8+4+2 digital phase power design. Spread out all over the motherboard are 10K black capacitors, which offer, supposedly, up to 20% better thermal endurance – ASUS claims these caps offer up to 10,000 hours of operation at 105C (compared to industry- standard 25C over ambient).
When we take a look at the PCI-E slots, it’s worth mentioning that they are not spaced the same as the Sniper M3 from GIGABYTE. If you install a triple slot card on the top lane, it will block the second – which we find weird, given ASUS is one of the only producers of triple slot video cards. Both slots run at x8/ x8 when paired up in SLI and CrossFire, the same as all Z77 chipset motherboards.
On the rear of the motherboard we find a clear CMOS button, mini PCI-E (for WiFi or other options), ROG connect, four USB 2 ports, two USB 3 ports, Optical out, HDMI and Display port and 7.1 surround sound.
It seems ASUS removed the DVI and VGA outputs in favour of their other ROG features, something we very much agree with.
Audio is powered by Supreme FX III, which is an extremely powerful and versatile chip. It’s a solid choice for gamers, and is completely controllable though various audio software, so setting it up with your speakers or headphones shouldn’t be a hassle.
When overclocking you have two options: manual or preset profiles. We set the motherboard to its 4.2GHz profile, which also overclocked the RAM to 2200MHz. If you want to have your kit run faster, you can enable XMP as always, and the profile will still remain unchanged for CPU overclocks. For our testing we just let each board load its custom profiles, as people overclocking manually usually know what they are doing and can overclock their RAM accordingly. Our kit used for testing was Team Xtreem’s 2600MHz, so the system did not run XMP for us, and simply applied a fairly high, yet stable overclock automatically. This is reflected in some benchmarks, where other boards using only 1600MHz RAM are left behind due to the auto-overclock being slightly less intelligent or complex.
Feature-wise the Maximus V GENE is laden with useful resources and tools, is a feature We’ve looked at earlier USB 3.0 Turbo Boost in this Head2Head, and it’s pretty neat. There’s almost too much cool stuff to cover; “ASUS Flashback BIOS” is another great one, which lets you flash the BIOS without needing to boot the system or even have anything installed into the board. All you need is PSU, the BIOS on a handy-dandy USB stick (and shouldn’t we all have a mess of those!) and BAM! Your BIOS is ready to be flashed.
Overall this board is fantastic, with a few weak points compared to the new GIGABYTE competition, but also some strengths and extra goodies that you miss out on if you go with GIGABYTE. It will come down to your needs at the end of the day, and if you are only using a single video card, then the ASUS probably just comes out on top; that being said, the Sniper M3 is $80 less.

GIGABYTE G1.Sniper M3

admin — Thu, 17 May 2012 06:32:58 +0000

It’s about time GIGABYTE started making a motherboard to compete with the ASUS GENE. m-ATX is growing in popularity, and rightfully so. m-ATX can house every feature a gamer needs and more: multi GPU, enthusiast sound quality, Intel LAN, four RAM slots, as many external connections as the full sized ATX boards possess; and sometimes even more.
The G1 .Sniper M3 is probably our favourite board out of this round up. Not just because it’s something new for GIGABYTE, but because it’s better value than what is already out there. GIGABYTE offers many of the features ASUS offers with the GENE, and some different ones, for around $70 less. Not a bad saving at all.
The top PCI-e slot is spaced well, allowing room to breathe. In fact, you can fit two dual slot video cards in easily, and even have
the freedom to install a triple slot cooler on the top PCI-e slot, with a dual slot card occupying the bottom slot. Of course this assumes you have a single PCI-E slot spare space in your case or more, so not all m-ATX cases will support that setup, though it is nice that GIGABYTE has done everything it can to make multi-GPU setups on m-ATX easier.
Overclocking is relatively simple; in fact it’s exactly the same as overclocking on any other GIGABYTE board on Sandy Bridge or Ivy Bridge, though unfortunately there is no automatic overclocking function on this motherboard. You’re on your own if you want to get some free performance. Luckily enough,
Ivy Bridge should boot on 4.2GHz using stock voltage, so it’s as simple as changing the CPU multiplier from 35 to 42. Some may even go to 4.4GHz using stock voltage.
There are four fan headers included on the board, which to be honest should be more than enough to cool your average m-ATX case. We also find internal USB headers, for both USB 2 and USB 3, along with a “USB charge” header, which receives power even when your PC is powered down.
Video outputs are VGA, DVI, HDMI and Display Port. Audio output is 5.1, with the addition of Digital out. Four USB 2 are included on the rear 10 panel along with two USB 3 ports, giving you the same USB connectivity as most other Z77 boards on the market. If you want more, a Z68 board won’t have the video outputs, and therefore will have more USB connectivity instead.
The heatsinks around the CPU are minimalist, which should free up the precious room required for large air coolers on a board of this size. The one area where GIGABYTE has cut back on the design of the Sniper M3, however, is the SATA connections; only two SATA 3 ports, and two SATA 2 ports are provided. This shouldn’t be a problem for most m-ATX users, though if you planned on using this board along with a lot of hard drives, you’re going to be better off with the full ATX G.1 Sniper.
As for the price tag of $219, we think it’s fair. Sure, you can get some pretty good full ATX options for around the same price, and even $10 less, but that’s not really important. What is important is comparing this board to other m-ATX boards, and when you do that you will quickly realise just how much value GIGABYTE has packed in here. The GENE is nice, but hot damn, it’s expensive. There are mainstream m-AXT boards, but their multi-GPU solutions are limited, along with sound and LAN, something important to most gamers. The fact is, GIGABYTE has included the gaming essentials, to deliver a true m-ATX gaming board.

ASRock Z77 Extreme 6 – Price meet performance

admin — Thu, 17 May 2012 06:31:00 +0000

This ASRock Z77 Extreme 6 board is an attractive board, the gold-on- grey heatsinks work, and the gold finish on the solid capacitors is a nice touch, but what about the actual board? Does it perform as well as the offerings from ASRock parent company ASUS?
The short answer is yes, and then some.
In many of the benchmarks conducted, the ASRock board actually stands above the Z77 Pro from ASUS, which we must admit took us a little by surprise. The connectivity is fair, the spacing between PCI-E sockets is exactly how we would lay it out, and there is even a space for m-SATA storage should you want to install it.
The EFI BIOS is fairly intuitive, offering a bunch of advanced options for overclockers, while keeping a fairly simple layout for the newbies. We must admit, we didn’t like the change from Analogue to Digital BIOS screens, though now we see that there really is a lot more information to be displayed, and it can make life easier when working with an unfamiliar system. In this case ASRock has made a nice BIOS screen, with plenty of controllability and information.
If you’re not an overclocker by hobby, but still like the idea of extra performance for nothing, ASRock has pre-set overclocking profiles for you to enable. You can set anywhere from 4Ghz to 4.8GHz with an i7 3770K installed, giving you a healthy 500- 1300MHz boost depending on which you choose.
On-board we find plenty of fan headers (six in total), a USB3 internal connector, reset and power buttons plus an extra molex power connector for PCI-E graphics stability. This will allow open-bench users to overclock on this board easily while connecting enough fans to keep it all cool.
Unfortunately, the heatsink covering the top VRMs is rather tall on this motherboard; it’s the only real problem we can find. Some coolers may have issues fitting correctly, and for this reason we would suggest water cooling if you plan on using this board, either custom or a compact loop from one of the many manufacturers now producing them.
DisplayPort, HDMI, DVI and VGA ports are included on the rear IO panel, along with a clear CMOS button. Due to these, and the inclusion of 7.1 surround sound, the board is completely insane.
Overall the Extreme 6 offered by ASRock is a solid choice, and one that is very hard to fault. The only question left is warranty and cost, something that can be more important than the performance of the product itself.
In Australia the price is currently $209 from reputable online retailers, which is actually more than reasonable considering the performance offered. As for warranty, it sits at three years offered, and that is above the industry average. A very good choice.

Team Xtreme LV 2600MHz 16GB CLIO, So much RAM at ludicrous speeds

admin — Thu, 17 May 2012 06:28:09 +0000

Team Xtreme is a name many Atomicans would be familiar with; we sang their praise back when 800MHz kits were the must have piece of kit with your E8600 C2D CPU. Team offered a lifetime warranty, a good binning process that guaranteed far better clocks than those printed on the box and most importantly, they looked great.
Jump forward to today, and Team Group are keen to show relative newcomer G.Skill that they haven’t lost their touch. Today we look at a new kit from Team, and it’s still bearing the same name as it was all those years ago – Xtreme.
Enabling XMP in BIOS will give you the 2600MHz CL10 clock as seen in the specifications above, but that isn’t important: what we want to know is what else this kit can do. Taking manual control we pushed our poor i7 3770K to take us further, remembering 2600MHz is already a very high frequency for the Intel IMC.
Booting at 2800MHz with cache timings of 11 -13-13-34 didn’t seem to be too much of a problem. We simply had to increase the RAM voltage from 1.65v to 1.8v, easy enough.
Taking the RAM further proved difficult, however, even increasing the IMC voltage to 1.05v (up from 925mv) didn’t give us any joy, nor did pumping 1,9v into the RAM itself. We aren’t sure if it was the kit refusing to take us further, or the IMC on the new Intel Ivy Bridge platform, but given we hit a stable clock of 2800MHz on this kit with nothing more than passive cooling, we think it’s safe to say this kit has the goods.
If you want a kit that has a lifetime warranty, overclocks like the clappers, has a “moderate” heat sink size and comes in dual or quad channel, this kit is as good as it gets. There is one small problem however, and that is the price tag. We don’t have a concrete price confirmed for Australia yet, but our educated guess is we will see this kit online for around $500, meaning this is a piece of hardware reserved for serious overclockers, or your PC user from 2007 who hasn’t noticed the average price of RAM in 2012.

Roccat Kone[+] gaming mouse

admin — Thu, 17 May 2012 06:24:55 +0000

At first blush, there is a lot to like about Roccat’s Kone Plus (or more accurately, [+]). From the luxurious packaging, to the shiny credit-card like Roccat ID card, it seems a pretty premium product – kinda like the mousing equivalent of an Alienware PC. Even out of the box, it feels like it should be all about good gaming times, but then, you plug it in, get the almost inevitable firmware update… and your gaming life turns to shit.
Harsh words, yes, but if you’re an FPS gamer like me – then this really is a mouse worth avoiding. That warning counts double if – again, like yours truly – you’re fond of picking up your mouse for fast direction changes. My biggest issue with the Kone – or at least the Kone sample we have in the lab – is that the sensor is just too damn jittery. Even if you’re trying to achieve a flat, level movement, in a game like BF3 you’ll get some pretty noticeable jitter, and this is only magnified when scoped in. Even worse, the cursor drifts in an almost predictable diagonal movement upon pick-up and put-down. It’s just random enough to render any chance of compensating for it impossible. All up, it makes FPS gaming a frustrating, distinctly un-fun experience. It’s not unlike the jitter we felt with SteelSeries’ last mouse, but that was fixed by a firmware update – Roccat’s own update, which in itself suggests the company’s aware of issues, has not had any noticeable effect.
To add injury to insult, the effort to control the jitter leads to a nasty forearm ache. Fun.
This is annoying from a game-performance level; otherwise, the Kone Plus is a very comfortable mouse, and structurally well-made. The thumb recess in particular is uncannily comfortable; more curiously, the software to support the mouse talks at you by default. It’s… odd, to have a mouse tell you when you’ve switched DPI up or down.
First impressions of the Kone Plus are obviously not everything. It feels great, but in game it just makes you want to ragequit and consider treatment of whatever carpal torture you’ve just put yourself through.

Gainward GTX 680 Phantom – expensive choice, great card

admin — Thu, 17 May 2012 06:22:23 +0000

It hasn’t been all that long since the GTX 680 first hit the market, yet Gainward have still managed to release a custom cooled, custom PCB design GTX 680 onto the mainstream market. Yes you read correctly, this card is custom PCB design.
The significance of NVIDIA allowing companies to step off their pre-set path is significant because that allows manufacturers to also step away from the restrictive “GPU Boost” technology Nvidia implemented on their reference PWM. The fact that cards are coming out with non-reference PWM and VRM design gives hope that GPU vendors will have the freedom to create top-tier overclocking cards – without ‘‘GPU Boost” holding them back. As for this card, it reached around 1225MHz (boost clock) before finding instabilities.
When using MSI Afterburner with this card, you can set a specific clock, though GPU Boost still comes into play and will alter it – you’re simply setting a “maximum” core clock, not a static one. In EVGA Precision X, it is the same story as reference, with GPU Boost taking over clock control, and power draw being monitored and throttled when the card is not under heavy load.
The GPU is fed power via a 6-pin and 8-pin PCI-E power plugs, which – the same as reference – have been “stacked” on the top of the card, making for easier connections and removal of the card from your case.
As for the cooler, it does a fairly decent job, never spinning above 2,500 RPM with the stock profile, and never becoming audible, even when run on our open-air desktop. Temperatures stayed at around 68°C typically under 3D gaming load, with the maximum load reaching a respectable 76°C under 3DMark 11. The card takes up two and a half PCI slots, so be aware of that if you plan on running SLI.
Overall Gainward is a nice addition to the GTX 680 family, especially considering it is one of the first models to come out with a non-reference design. If you are looking for some more RAM , Gainward are releasing a 4GB variant shortly.

GIGABYTE GTX 680 Overclocked Edition

admin — Thu, 17 May 2012 06:19:31 +0000

GIGABYTE were fairly quick in getting the GTX 680 overclock sample to market, this is largely due to the fact it is built following the NVIDIA reference design. This means full-cover water blocks will fit easily on to the cards, and also means “GPU Boost” is fully enabled, for better or worse.
The Windforce cooler looks to be the same as always, comprising of three thin fans and a fairly slim aluminium heat sink that spans the entire length of the card. The cooler is thin enough to “stack” four cards together in 4-way SLI, unlike many other models on the market today, yet efficient enough to keep the GPU core and all on-board componentry nice and cool.
In our testing we never exceeded 80°C, even while running the fans at an inaudible 1,800 RPM. If you would like to keep temperatures closer to the 70°C mark under 3D load, increasing the fan speed to a whisper-quiet 2,500 RPM will provide a good balance of temperature and audibility.
For air overclockers this card is more than adequate and even water-cooling Atomicans will find joy in working on this card. We managed a core clock of around 1230MHz, which should be more than enough grunt for any game, even when spanned across three screens. For those wanting to take the card further, we would suggest waiting for the Super Overclock Edition, which will have a new VRM design, allowing users to bypass the “GPU Boost” technology.
GPU output includes two DVI, single HDMI and a single Display Port, giving users the freedom to connect any monitor without the use of dongles or adapters.
All in all the GTX 680 Overclock Edition from Gigabyte is a good all-round card, offering high connectivity, a compact – yet powerful – cooler, a three year warranty, fair price tag and decent overclocking headroom, one can’t really complain. All that is left to do is find a store than has 680s in stock.