Quote: “Gainwards Golden Sample “Goes Like Hell” Edition is famous for overclocking like mad. We take a look at an HDMI-endowed 8600 GT and see how it does”

Link: http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews.php?/gpu_displays/gainward_bliss_8600_gt_pcx_golden_sample_glh_edition_256mb/1

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Title:
Sanyo Denki A11H Online UPS

Link:
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/SanyoDenki/A11H

Brief:
These days, computer equipment is more sensitive to power disruptions than ever before. The Sanyo Denki A11H is a true on-line UPS that provides constant power to multiple computer systems, and its design allows it to work well with backup generators. We take a look at a 700W tower-style model and the optional LAN Interface card.

Every time I think of OCZ Reaper ram I get the Blue Oyster Cult song ‘Don’t Fear the Reaper’ stuck in my head, why I don’t know… but I hope it’s stuck in yours now… Anyway, if you haven’t guessed, today up on the review block is a 2 Gig kit of OCZ PC2-8500 Reaper HPC Edition CrossFire Certified ram, not only does this stuff look really cool, it performs very well also, so read on to check it out…

Read Full Review HERE 

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I4U NEWS reviews the ASUS EAH3850 Top ATI HD 3850 Video Card.

Quote from the review:
“The Asus EAH3850 Top is factory overclocked and has a clock speed of 730MHz on the core and 1.9GHz on the memory. The card uses 256MB of DDR3 RAM and is built on a 55nm fabrication process. One of the nicest features of the Asus EAH3850 Top is the built-in 5.1surround sound that allows video and audio out on an HDMI cable.”

Full Review:
http://www.i4u.com/full-review-366.html

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Wanted to send over this video of CoolIT’s new Dual Drive Bay Reference Series Cooler in action with dual ATI Radeon HD 3870’s.  They were able to overclock the cards and break 23K in 3D Mark 06.

http://www.coolitsystems.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=87&Itemid=131

Quote: “Put your motherboard ideas and feature requests to ASUS and you could be in with the chance of winning an amazing Blitz Extreme motherboard!!”

Link: http://www.overclock3d.net/news.php?/misc_content/blitz_the_competition_-_win_a_blitz_extreme_in_association_with_asus_and_oc3d/1

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Unique Cartoon Shooter Introduces a New Way to Play Battlefield

MUNICH, Germany–(BUSINESS WIRE)–At the Digital, Life, Design Conference (DLD) in Munich, Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) today unveiled Battlefield Heroes™, an all-new Play 4 Free cartoon-style shooter that will bring classic Battlefield gameplay to an all new mass audience. Available for download at www.battlefield-heroes.com this summer, Battlefield Heroes is EA’s first title that is offered completely for free, and features a built-in matchmaking system to ensure that players of equal skill are paired together for fair play. Developed by DICE in Stockholm, Battlefield Heroes is leading EA’s new web-focused free to download, free to play business model which generates revenue through advertising and micro-transactions. With zero barriers to entry, now anyone can be a hero on the battlefield!

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AMD Taiwan Embedded Forum

TAIPEI, Taiwan–(BUSINESS WIRE)–At the AMD Taiwan Embedded Forum this week, AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced a significant number of platform-stable, energy-efficient additions to its embedded roadmap. The high performance AMD Turion™ 64 X2 Dual-Core processors TL-56 and TL-62 can deliver the exceptional leading edge 64-bit application performance and low power requested by designers in the industrial control, digital signage and point-of-sale embedded markets, while the energy-efficient AMD Sempron™ processor 3700+ offers additional performance in a consistent and very low-power thermal envelope for value-based designs.

Also, the use of advanced AMD manufacturing process technology improvements allows for a new version of the Mobile AMD Sempron processor 2100+ that achieves up to a 15% reduction in thermal design power. All of these new products feature a consistent Socket S1, allowing for quicker development and delivery times through socket consistency and platform longevity.

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ATI Radeon™ E2400 Addresses Embedded Market Needs with On-Chip Memory Integration and Planned 5 Year Availability

SUNNYVALE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–AMD (NYSE: AMD) today introduced the ATI Radeon™ E2400, a high-performance graphic processing unit that delivers the latest 2D, 3D and multimedia graphics performance to the embedded market in a solution that reduces footprint, reduces design complexity, and helps speed time to market. The benefits of the ATI Radeon E2400 make it ideal for demanding embedded graphics applications such as test and instrumentation, human machine interfaces (such as Kiosks, Point-of-Sale, and Automated Teller Machines), display walls, patient monitoring, casino and arcade gaming, and various multi-display applications. The new graphics technology is backed by a planned five-year availability and long-term support offering reliability for a variety of applications on operating systems featuring Microsoft DirectX^® 10 and OpenGL 2.0.

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Ninjalane has just posted a winter upgrade to the Upgrade Alley Gaming system. Some of you may be wondering what Upgrade Alley is. Well in a way you can view it as our version of a system building guide, with rules.

Subject: Upgrade Alley “Gaming System Duo” Posted @ Ninjalane
URL: http://www.ninjalane.com/gaming.aspx

Quote: ” For this system we’re going to be building what we call a “mutt” Intel P35 chipset, nVidia 8800 goodness, and a Core 2 Duo processor. The motherboard comes with a decent onboard sound option so to save some money we’ll be suggesting that.

Being that this is a gaming/enthusiast rig we opted for a single video card however if you wanted to go dual video you’ll need to migrate to the *shudder* ATI side, though we think the 8800 will have plenty power, anything more would be showing off.”

Title: Best of CES 2008 @ Techgage

Quote: We saw numerous products and technologies at CES earlier this month, but only ten of those deserved our “Best of” award. Included inside is Gateway’s latest gaming notebook, Logitech’s Squeezebox Duet, CoolIT’s dual-GPU cooler, DisplayLink’s USB display tech and more.

NEW CONTENT (Software) - ATI Catalyst 8.1 Analysis - XP & Vista

QUOTE: “With the slow run that AMD have been having with driver releases over the past few months it will be interesting to see what happens with the new release. Considering January is generally a pretty quiet month for hardware sales thanks to the fact that everyone spent their money over Christmas, who knows what AMD will have up their sleeves with this release.

The most interesting (and potentially disappointing) fact about this driver release is that AMD mention no form of performance improvements with the driver update. We hope this isn’t true, but let’s find out what happens when we place the driver through our typical line-up of games and graphics cards.”

For more information, please visit - http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/1276/ati_catalyst_8_1_analysis_xp_vista/index.html

Title:
ZeroTherm HC92 CU 8800

Quote: SweMOD has today posted yet another review of product from APACK, today
they take a look at the “ZeroTherm Hurricane HC92 CU 8800″. Head over to
SweMOD to find out if this giant performs like one.

Link:
http://www.swemod.com/swemod/index.php?do=review&id=20&in=197

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