Archive for September, 2006

Friday’s News September 29th 2006 Edition

September 29, 2006
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Friday’s News September 29th 2006 Edition

Asetek WaterChill Xternal High-End Water Cooling Review "There are many water cooling systems for the PC and Mac on the market, whereby the choice of the right one is not really easy. The company Asetek offers beside the well known VapoChill Compressor cooling units (see ocinside.de Test section) since a few years in addition...
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Silverstone Nitrogon NT06 CPU Cooler Evaluation

September 28, 2006
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Silverstone Nitrogon NT06 CPU Cooler Evaluation

Product: Silverstone NT06 CPU Cooler Author: Paul Mercer Category: Cooling Date: October 2006 Product cost: MSRP $59.99 Manufacturer: Silverstone Spelling and Grammatical Editor: Jason Hambly & Jon Aubrey   Introduction: Silverstone are quite a large company founded in 2003. Better known for their PC enclosures and power supplies, today I?ll be reviewing a different...
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AGEIA Joins Futuremark’s 3DMark Benchmark Development Program

September 27, 2006
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Hardware accelerated physics pioneer endorses value of benchmarking via real-time 3D game content Saratoga, California – September 27th, 2006 – Futuremark Corporation, the leading provider of system performance-analysis software and services for PCs and handheld devices, and AGEIA(tm) Technologies, Inc., pioneers of hardware-accelerated physics for games, announced today that Mountain View, California based AGEIA...
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– GIGABYTE Enables ATI CrossFire? Support for Intel? 965- Based Motherboards–

September 27, 2006
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– GIGABYTE Enables ATI CrossFire? Support for Intel? 965- Based Motherboards–

--Unleashes Extreme Multi-GPU Gaming Performance– Taipei, Taiwan, September 27, 2006 - GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co., Ltd, a leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards and other computing hardware solutions, today announced support for ATI CrossFire? dual graphics technology for their award-winning range of Intel? 965 motherboards including the GA-965P-DQ6, GA-965P-DS4 and GA-965G-DS4. Combined with support for...
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Wednesday’s News September 27th 2006 Edition

September 27, 2006
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Wednesday’s News September 27th 2006 Edition

Intel Creates 80-Core Microprocessor. Promises 80-Core Commercial Chips in Five Years Intel Corp., the world?s largest maker of x86 microprocessors, announced on Tuesday that it had created a test chip that contains 80 processing cores, which is a prototype of a chip that should deliver trillion floating-point operations-per-second (teraFLOPs) of performance. The actual commercial...
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Tuesday’s News September 26th 2006 Edition

September 26, 2006
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Company of Heroes Review "I?m a big fan of the Real Time Strategy genre, with games like Command and Conquer Generals and Act of War two of my favorite games of all time. Does Company of Heroes fit the bill as a RTS game? I enjoyed the game to no end as the AI...
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- PandaLabs warns of the appearance of W32/Spamta.CY.worm -

September 25, 2006
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Madrid, September 25, 2006 - PandaLabs warns of the appearance of W32/Spamta.CY.worm. This worm spreads via email using its own SMTP engine. It has been detected today, September 25, 2006. The main characteristics of this worm are: - Message subject. One of the following:    Mail Server Report    Error    Mail Delivery System...
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AMD Announces Torrenza

September 24, 2006
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SUNNYVALE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sept. 21, 2006–AMD (NYSE:AMD) today announced that its Torrenza Initiative is serving as a collaborative force toward achieving future processor socket compatibility in the server industry. By leveraging the advantages of AMD64 with Direct Connect Architecture and HyperTransport(TM) technology, OEMs will be able to standardize on a Torrenza Innovation Socket for many...
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Thursday’s News September 21st 2006 Edition

September 21, 2006
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Thursday’s News September 21st 2006 Edition

Spire Verticool II SP601B3 Heatsink Review @ Motherboards.org "Though there are installation quibbles, this cooler has enough potential in its small package to hold down the loads from even the hardest pounding of chips. But here we stand, remember these words, these scores, systems and tests well readers. They’re the last things you’ll see...
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Wednesday’s News September 20th 2006 Edition

September 20, 2006
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Wednesday’s News September 20th 2006 Edition

ECS Elitegroup Announces ECS Green Competitive Advantage and Quality Plan – The new plan is a part of the company?s continued commitment to protect the environment through its leadership role in the industry – "Fremont, CA (September 20, 2006) ? Elitegroup Computer Systems, Inc. (ECS?), the world?s leading motherboard, barebone system and notebook manufacturer,...
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