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Its time to Spring Forward!!
Published: Sunday, March 9, 2008 | By: DennisFor those of us in the upper hemispheres and also acknowledge Daylight Saving Time don't forget that today is the day to make them clocks faster.
Of course in 2006 DST was later in the year but some idiot figured that if we moved it ahead 3 or some weeks we could save money. The proof is in the pudding as they say and well, independent studies concluded that we used 1% more energy instead of saving.
So here is a big "fuck you" to those geniuses.
Oh and don’t forget to move them clocks
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More ChipChilla and Coollink Stuff
Published: Friday, March 7, 2008 | By: DennisSadly Coollink didn't think of us when sending out review samples, but we'll see about getting that changed.
- ChipChilla - Chipset Cooler at Modders-Inc
- Coolink GFXChilla VGA Cooler Review @ DragonSteelMods
- Coolink Silentator CPU Cooler Review @ Hardware CanucksBlue fans unite!!
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Coolink Chip Chilla Chipset Heatsink Review @ Techwarelabs
Published: Friday, March 7, 2008 | By: DennisThis has to be the coolest name for a chipset cooler ever!
Cooling your chipset can be very important. Think of the chipset as the nerve center of your motherboard. It communicates with the CPU commands from many components and if running hot can lead to reduced performance or end up in a damaged system. Read our review to find out why the Chip Chilla has both a good and bad design.
Of course we wouldn't need these things if the chipset coolers the mfgs supplied actually had some cooling capacity.
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Chinese hackers: No site is safe
Published: Friday, March 7, 2008 | By: DennisZHOUSHAN, China (CNN) -- They operate from a bare apartment on a Chinese island. They are intelligent 20-somethings who seem harmless. But they are hard-core hackers who claim to have gained access to the world's most sensitive sites, including the Pentagon.
The leader of these Chinese hackers says there "is always a weakness" on networks that allows cyber break-ins.
In fact, they say they are sometimes paid secretly by the Chinese government -- a claim the Beijing government denies.
"No Web site is one hundred percent safe. There are Web sites with high-level security, but there is always a weakness," says Xiao Chen, the leader of this group.The sad thing about all of this... its true. No website is completely safe and if the front door is blocked "they" will find a back way in. The part that confuses me is that while websites may get hacked there is rarely a direct link from that website to a local lan.
So how are they downloading sensitive information? I really doubt any site admin dumb enough to push sensitive information to a public webserver unless they had a good reason to, like are running a honeypot or loading trojan horses for tracking purposes.
Either way it really doesn't make too much sense as to why hackers/crackers target websites.
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WORLD EXCLUSIVE: FOXCONN Dreadnought 790i chipset mainboard @ Hexus
Published: Wednesday, March 5, 2008 | By: DennisFOXCONN gives us an early peak at the NVIDIA triple SLi mainboard for overclockers.
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NL: Review Block - Misc Stuffs
Published: Wednesday, March 5, 2008 | By: DennisJust some extra stuff we had floating around in the news inbox.
- XFX 8400GS 256MB Video Card Review @ gamepyre
- Asus P5E3 WS Professional Motherboard Review @ mikhailtech
- AMD 780G Chipset Motherboard Preview @ Legit Reviews
- AMD 780G Chipset and Athlon X2 4850e Preview @HotHardware
- XFX nForce 630i / GeForce 7150 Review @ Motherboards
- Crucial Ballistix Tracer PC2-8500 2GB DDR2 Memory Kit Review @ EOClong names amazing results, or something.
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Neoseeker E8500 Review and Overclocking Analysis
Published: Wednesday, March 5, 2008 | By: DennisHere I'm just gonna repost the entire email message, it pretty much says it all.
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Neoseeker has published a review of Intel's 45nm Wofldale E8500 C2D CPU. As usual we also push this baby to its limits and manage to clock it to a very health 4.275Ghz, from its stock of 3.16Ghz.
"The E8500 still performed like a champ on the X38 based board I tested it on; and I was able to reach a stable overclock of 4.275GHz while only air cooled.I was able to get to the Windows desktop at 4.52GHz - however it was not stable, and I did not wish to crank Vcore high enough to stabilize it. The Intel data sheet shows 1.46V to be the maximum safe Vcore for the E8500, so I did not want to exceed that by much. 1.468V was enough to get the system stable for all our benchmarks at 4.275GHz."
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Ken’s World 3/5/08 - Nerd Breakup
Published: Wednesday, March 5, 2008 | By: DennisI remember similar comics over at geek.com, funny stuff at the time, though now when you look back at their comics you can tell they had like 50 or so actual comics and they just changed the text to make them funny.
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Ultra m998 Mid-Tower ATX Case Review @ DragonSteelMods
Published: Wednesday, March 5, 2008 | By: DennisOMG OMG OMG, I sooo have seen this case before. Like 7 years ago! There was a little company called Freeway Design that designed this case in Aluminum then farmed the design out to various companies looking for something to sell.
This is sooo cool.
and here it is! http://freeway.twotop.co.jp/product/design/fwd-case/index.html Sadly I was never able to review it
I guess its time to call up Ultra!Today for review I've got the Ultra M998 Mid-Tower ATX PC Case and it just might be one of those cases that offers most if not all of the things we want to see in a quality case. The M998 is named after the tough and rugged M998 HMMWV military vehicle or more commonly know as the Hummvee, the case isn't quite military standard issue but it does have some resemblance to military stylings on the outside with user friendly features inside and out as well.
Funny thing is most of these people have no idea.
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Complete GeForce 8800 GS/GT/GTS Voltmodding Article posted @ techPowerUp
Published: Wednesday, March 5, 2008 | By: DennisIt never ceases to amaze me at how easy some of these mods are.
Got an itch to push your new NVIDIA 8800 GS, GT or GTS 512MB a little by doing a voltage modification? Well, you're in luck. All you need is a soldering iron and some simple resistors.
Warranty violations included
