Written by Luke Ponio
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Wednesday, 01 September 2010 15:24 |
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Remember back in the day when you strapped 80mm or bigger fans to your video card with zip ties just for that extra performance and to stop you from going crazy with that whiny 60mm fan droning in your ears all day? Who knew that someday there would be aftermarket coolers with not one big fan, but three! The Accelero XTREME Plus cooler from Arctic uses three 92mm (81 CFM 900-2000RPM) fans on a gigantic heatsink to give great efficiency up to 250 watts while staying quiet.
- Unmatched cooling performance – 250 Watts – for a multi-compatible VGA cooler
- 3 ultra quiet 92mm PWM fans with low noise impeller
- 5 heatpipes and 84 fins for efficient heat dissipation
- Patented fan holder eliminates buzzing and vibrating sound
- Pre-applied ARCTIC MX-4
- Compatible with CrossFire and SLI
The Accellero XTREME Plus uses a single standard design and then sells accessory packs for your specific card for greater flexibility and compatibility. Check the product page to see which accessory kit you need for your graphics card. The XTREME Plus is compatible with almost every card in the last 2-3 generations as long as you buy the right kit. The big bonus of this accessory kit method is that it allows the cooler to be used on future graphics cards without buying an entirely new product.
The Accellero XTREME Plus MSRP is $65.95 US and it comes with a generous 6 year warranty.
Update: The MSRP for each accessory set will be $5.50 US for VR001 to VR003 and $6.95 US for VR004.
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Written by Luke Ponio
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Wednesday, 01 September 2010 15:11 |
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According to Digitimes and their anonymous source, Nvidia has recently been developing an Intel chipset that combines the GPU and southbridge. Their goal is to reduce costs for PC manufacturers and to reduce size. The new chipset design is expected to cost $10-15 USD less than Intel's standard onboard graphics chipsets and won't require motherboard manufacturers to use an extra graphics chip.
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Written by Luke Ponio
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Monday, 16 August 2010 11:16 |
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According to Hardware Canucks, customers of BFG products are starting to receive RMA denial letters. The letter is very short and doesn't even look real. There is a plain logo in the top left and address in the top right. The body of the letter is only 4 sentences and there is no greeting or closing. Something else suspect is that Hardware Canucks says the letter is included with a power supply that was received by a customer, but the letter states that they are returning an unrepaired graphics card. The entire body of the letter is as follows:
BFG Technologies Inc. is in the process of winding down and liquidating its business. Unfortunately, our major supplier would not support our business. As a result, we are returning your graphics card without being able to repair it. We apologize for the inconvenience.
If this letter is indeed not a hoax, I am disappointed in the abrupt way BFG is treating their customers. Using the standard "We apologize for the inconvenience." is meaningless and really shows that BFG cares very little. The letter as a whole is very unprofessional and I hope, for BFG's sake, that the letter is not official.
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Written by Luke Ponio
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Thursday, 05 August 2010 20:24 |
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The latest CPU cooler from Glacialtech, the Siberia, reminds me of the old Thermalright XP-120, and XP-90. The big difference is that the Siberia uses two fans, one 140mm fan on top and one 92mm on the bottom. Most heatsinks with two fans position the fans perpendicular to the motherboard so the exhaust is blowing into the exhaust case fan. Siberia's fan position is the old standard, parallel to the motherboard.
The included 140mm fan can be tuned with PWM from 800-1400rpm while the 92mm fan on the bottom is fixed at 1300rpm.
Features :
- Six 6 mm high performance heat pipes with nickel coating
- Copper base
- Fins with high heat exchange ratio
- Multi-platforms (Intel LGA775, 1156, 1366, AMD AM2, AM3)
- Easy to install.
The Siberia should be available this month.
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Written by Luke Ponio
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Thursday, 05 August 2010 20:09 |
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Choiix Power Fort, CoolerMaster Storm Inferno, and the MSI GTX 460 are making the rounds today.
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Written by Luke Ponio
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Wednesday, 04 August 2010 20:48 |
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Starcraft 2:Wings of Liberty doesn't have the mass appeal or console port to crush sales records of games like Modern Warfare 2, but SC2 is selling faster than any PC game since 2008's Wrath of the Lich King WoW expansion according to Gamestop and Activision. SC2 has already taken the title of fastest selling strategy game of all time. On the first day of the simultaneous international release, SC2 sold more than 1 million copies which is better than any PC game this year. It went on to sell over 500,000 more copies in the following 24 hours. It has been a week since the release so first week totals should be out soon.
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Written by Luke Ponio
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Wednesday, 04 August 2010 20:19 |
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Corsair used to rebrand Swiftech watercooling kits under the COOL brand name but since the release of the closed loop H50 CPU cooler they have gotten out of the full-blown watercooling kit market. The H50 debuted as a cheap, reliable CPU cooler that is much easier to install than a custom solution and still provides performance comparable with the better air coolers on the market. The Corsair H70 is an update to the H50 and costs about $110 which is $30 more than the H50. While that might seem expensive compared to an air cooler, it is quite cheap for liquid cooling.
Corsair details the differences between the H70 and the H50 on their blog. Some improvements are:
- Double thick radiator
- Faster fan - H50 1700 RPM vs H70 2000 RPM
- Dual fans included
- Fan adapters - two adapters are included to drop the RPM from 2000 to 1600 for low noise
- Better performance - Corsair claims 13°C difference at load compared to the H50
The H70 will fit on Intel 775, 1156, and 1366, as well as AMD AM2 and AM3 sockets. It comes with a 2-year warranty. It should be available at your favorite e-tailer soon.
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Written by Luke Ponio
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Wednesday, 04 August 2010 20:10 |
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The Choiix Boom Boom look likes the hot product of the day. Read more for the rest of the reviews.
Audio
Choiix Boom Boom @ Tweaktown
Choiix Boom Boom @ ASE Labs
Choiix Boom Boom @ Neoseeker
Choiix Boom Boom @ OCC
Choiix Boom Boom @ Pro-Clockers
Case
Thermaltake Element V @ Overclockers Online
NZXT Vulcan Case Review @ KitGuru
Cooling
Koolance CPU-LN2-V2 @ PureOverclock
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Written by Luke Ponio
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Wednesday, 28 July 2010 16:06 |
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People who wanted to make phone calls anonymously used to use pay phones. With pay phones being removed in most places and dirt cheap prepaid cellphones being available almost everywhere, it is only natural that people would start buying prepaid phones for disposable, anonymous use. The FBI has now endorsed legislation sponsored by Senators Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and John Cornyn, R-Texas, that would require personal identification to be required at the point of sale for prepaid cellphones. FBI Director Robert Mueller has endorsed the bill for fighting terrorism and called it essential to the success of investigations.
Every day it seems like more and more of our privacy is being stripped away in the name of anti-terrorism. How exactly is the government going to know who purchased the cell phone at your local store? Are they going to require businesses to scan the personal identification and record it? This isn't like age checking with alcohol and tobacco. The government wants to keep track of the data. It is sad that because something is used for nefarious acts, restrictions are imposed upon everyone. Similar to gun control laws, the bad guys are still going to get their prepaid cell phones without ID or with fake ID. It is the rest of us that are going to be restricted.
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Written by Luke Ponio
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Wednesday, 28 July 2010 15:49 |
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Firefox 4 Beta 2 is now available for download. The beta update includes some of these new features from the previous Beta 1:
The biggest feature of the update is the addition of "App Tabs" which open every time you open a browser window and take up less room than a tab. You also can't accidentally close them. This is great for things like webmail and streaming radio services that you might like to have off to the side while doing other browsing. When the feature is complete it will be persistent across browsing sessions.
Remember that all your add-ons still might not work right away. If you have something that you want the Firefox dev team to know about make sure you use the feedback button to the right of the navigation bar. A full set of release notes can be found on the Firefox 4 Beta 2 release notes page.
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Written by Luke Ponio
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Wednesday, 28 July 2010 15:22 |
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First half of the week is over. Here are some reviews that have been posted so far.
Case
Thermaltake Armor A90 Review @ HardwareLogic
Enermax Volcanus Case Review @ Hardware Secrets
ProlimaTech Super Mega Heatsink CPU Cooler @ Benchmark Reviews
Cooler Master HAF-X Computer Case @ Benchmark Reviews
Antec DF-30 Dark Fleet Computer Case @ Benchmark Reviews
Corsair Obsidian 700D Case Review @ HardwareHeaven.com
NZXT Phantom @ PureOverclock
Silverstone Sugo SG07 Review @ KitGuru
Cooling
Thermaltake Frio @ techPowerUp
Spire TherMax Eclipse II Cooler Review @ KitGuru
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