Tech News
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Radeon HD 6950 1GB vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti review @ guru3d
Published: Monday, January 31, 2011 | By: DeanPitted head to head, I wonder which card will come out on top. Will it be the green or, red team? Or perhaps your wallet?
When the GeForce GTX 560 Ti was released shortly ago, one things was clear - the price versus performance ratio would be great. Especially with the extensive factory overclocked models in mind these cards perform really well. So a couple of weeks ago AMD decided to sort of 'Ambush' NVIDIA, by releasing a 1 GB version of the Radeon HD 6950, a product with the very same features and specifications as it's big brother the 2 GB version has yet priced way below we all expected it to be.
Performance wise these two are rather close. It boils down to which vendor you favor, or where the best deal can be had.
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Intel Finds Flaw in P67 Chipset - Cuts Revenue Forecast - Halts Shipments
Published: Monday, January 31, 2011 | By: DennisAnd just when I was finally getting my 24/7 clocks down.
Intel cut its first-revenue forecast by $300 million. It expects the total cost to repair and replace the chip to be about $700 million.
"It was the result of a series of stress tests conducted on the chipset. It didn't show up under normal testing," Intel spokesman Chuck Mulloy told Reuters. "The problem wouldn't happen immediately but after two to four years."
Shares were down about 1.1 percent in midmorning trade.The flaw is in the P67 chipset and can cause SATA performance to degrade over time. The bad chips have been recalled and shipments will be on hold until a new batch of silicon can be issued. This of course does not vote well for early adopters who already have motherboards in hand but something like this should be covered under RMA.
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Google starts censoring Torrent searches
Published: Sunday, January 30, 2011 | By: JimWe all saw this coming, once you start down the road of restricting the internet it will never stop. I don't see this as the result this seems to be the beginning. We have all seen how easy it was for Egypt to shut of the internet inside their borders.
Google on Thursday began censoring search tools to prevent piracy, as first announced in a policy shift last December.
The change affects Google's Autocomplete and Instant tools—the services that predict your results before you finish typing—not its search results. Basically many terms with the word "torrent" in them have been filtered out of Autocomplete, along with other terms related to downloading services. Examples include BitTorrent, torrent, utorrent, RapidShare, and Megaupload, according to numerous reports on Thursday morning.Sometimes it seems we should just be thankfull that 1984 took this long to get here.
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NL: Review Block - Motherboards and Stuff
Published: Saturday, January 29, 2011 | By: DennisMotherboards
- Foxconn P67A-S H67A-S vs Intel DP67BG DH67BL Mainboard Review on Technic3D
- Sapphire Pure Black X58 @ LanOC Reviews
- Gigabyte P67A-UD4 Socket 1155 Motherboard @ Pro-Clockers
- iXBT Labs Review: ASUS P8P67 Deluxe Motherboard
- ASUS P8P67 Deluxe @ Hardwareoverclock
- ASUS Maximus III Gene P55 @ techPowerUp
Video Cards
- AMD Radeon HD 6950 1GB Review @ Hardware Canucks
- Sapphire Radeon HD 6970 @ Hardwareoverclock
- Sapphire HD 6950 Review @ Tweaknews
Storage
- OCZ Revo X2 240GB @ PureOverclock
- Putting Memory Latency into Perspective @ OCIAMore to come so stay tuned, To keep in touch subscribe to our RSS, its got it all.
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AMD Phenom II X4 975 Black Edition 3.6 GHz Socket AM3 Processor Review @ PCStats
Published: Saturday, January 29, 2011 | By: DennisOne of the last great Phenom II processors before Bulldozer.
AMD's Phenom II X4 975 Black Edition is a quad-core, 3.6GHz socket AM3 chip with 6MB of L3 cache and 512KB of L2 cache per core. It's being released in tandem with the AMD Phenom II X4 840 CPU. Both processors are ideally suited to socket AM3 motherboards built around the recent AMD 890FX or 890GX chipsets. The Phenom II X4 975 BE is backwards compatible with socket AM2+ motherboards and forwards compatible with the as yet unreleased socket AM3+ platform.
Cannot say I am in the market for a Quad Core Phenom II since for the money the Hex Core seems to be a much better deal. However if you do go for this just tell everyone you're running the 975 Quad, they might mistake it for the better Core i7 975 Extreme Edition.
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Funky Kit Review: Foxconn P67A-S motherboard
Published: Saturday, January 29, 2011 | By: DennisWe have been a long time supporter of Foxconn from their meager entry into retail motheboards to the height of their overclocking adventures. What we have determined over the years is that they always mean well but sometimes miss their mark.
Case in point the P67A-S, this is a great board for the Sandy Bridge platform but is rather limited when it comes to overclocking and multi GPU support.
In this review, we'll be taking a look at the Foxconn P67A-S motherboard. It utilises the Intel P67 chipset, which we all know has been released at the same time to complement perfectly with Intel's new Sandy Bridge processors socket LGA 1155. The motherboard supports dual channel DDR3 channel memory, SATA3, USB 3.0, and dual PCIE x16 slots for Nvidia SLI or CrossfireX multi-GPU configuration.
The Foxconn P67A-S is aimed and targeted at the higher-end of the mainstream market, and comes with some suprising features which are normally found on higher-end enthusiast motherboards. These include solid capacitors, digital PWM, a 2-digit debug diagnostic LEDs, as well as onboard power-on and reset buttons. The motherboard uses a black colored PCB, and there's also a unique looking heatsink that somewhat resembles a shark-fin.We did get a chance to review the Foxconn P67A-S during the Sandy Bridge and P67A launch, be sure to check it out.
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NL: Review Block - GTX 560 Ti Wrap-Up
Published: Saturday, January 29, 2011 | By: DennisEarly this week the GTX 560 ti was announced and reviewed by millions, here is a wrap-up of reviews sent to us during the week.
Be sure to also check out our review of the nVidia GTX 560 Ti, it gives the GTX 470 a run for its money.
- KFA2 (Galaxy) GeForce GTX 560 White edition and Anarchy review @ Guru3D
- XFX 6870 Black Edition vs [the world] @ HardwareHeaven (real title too long to post)
- Gigabyte GeForce GTX 560 Ti SO - supercharged performance @ Hexus
- Gainward GeForce GTX 560 Ti Golden Sample Video Card @ TT
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti - Titanium is Back @ Techgage
- Palit GeForce GTX 560 Ti Sonic 1 GB @ techPowerUpThe one nice thing about the 560 Titanium is that for the price you can get a wide variety of custom boards designed for all sorts of things. You wanna overclock? grab a superclock edition, you wanna good cooling? find a mfg with a custom cooling solution. Sky is the limit here and the best part? They all use the same GPU and have the same basic performance.
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A Case of the Uglies: 10 Ugly PC Cases @ Bigbruin
Published: Saturday, January 29, 2011 | By: DennisHere is a nice human interest peice, the top 10 Ugly PC Cases. I think 10 cases is really narrowing it down too much since the list could be considerbly longer.
I was on the fence about adding the final case to the list... I think it is ugly, but I know a great deal of people think it is a revolutionary work of art. I'm not sure that term can't mean ugly anyway, and with a quick survey enough people agreed with me, and it was added. Some agreed it was definitely ugly, while others said it was OK until they realized that it sells for about $700! Appropriately enough the Thermaltake Level 10 is ugly case number 10.
Yep they put the level 10 on the list, and you know what?
I agree. The case is cool, its spendy, it is over engineered, and designed by BMW. So what is it missing? innovation and practacalibity, its a board with a stand attached and several "boxes" to encase the various computer components, by far not BMW's best work. -
Crysis 3 plot already mapped out.
Published: Friday, January 28, 2011 | By: DeanIf all goes well we could see a Crysis 3 in the future.
Asked if the studio has Crysis mapped out as a trilogy, or as an even bigger story, Crytek CEO Cevat yerli said:"We definitely want to make Crysis 3. I'm not making a formal announcement. We'd like to make Crysis 3 but the second game needs to be successful first. I will mention that there is a plan for how the fiction of Crysis should roll out, but again, it depends on the success of Crysis 2.
Guess the "can it play Crysis" joke, might never die.
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Crysis 2 Demo released, fixes on their way.
Published: Thursday, January 27, 2011 | By: JimFinally Crysis launches, you get it downloaded and all ready to settle in for an afternoon of blasting up NYC and.....The game refuses to load. Have no fear, lots of issues with the Demo were reported around the web. It seems the developers are already on it and hope to have some fixes out very soon. This is what BETAs are for after all.
"In a short statement, Crytek downplayed the number of complaints, saying that the technical problems were limited to just a few people. It thanked players - or would-be players in some cases - for their patience and support and said that it was working hard on fixing the problems. With the demo ending in just over a week, however, Crytek will have to move pretty quickly to get these bugs resolved in time."
