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Sticky: Post your Rig! Best Computer Rigs EVAH Contest
Gizmodo is running a computer rig contest. Some pretty amazing multi-monitor rigs in the gallery (an...
Mon Feb 04, 2008 12:24 pm, schmidtbag

Sticky: Definitive 2008 Hardware Guide
[b:29b99dcc4f]LAST YEAR [/b:29b99dcc4f]was a bit of a mixed bag for the hardware sector.On the one h...
Fri Jan 18, 2008 6:00 am, Editorial Team

Sticky: Hardware Reference guide
Here you will find the latest hardware, also feel free to ask anything hardware related. Video Ca...
Mon Jul 09, 2007 7:50 pm, turbino

Sticky: Best places to buy cheap components
I use www.overclockers.co.uk for buying computer components and cases etc, they usually have the che...
Sat Feb 24, 2007 5:10 am, Kougar
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Sticky: Internet Security Guide
[color=red:6644cb08d3][b:6644cb08d3][size=1:6644cb08d3]Nitrous\'s Guide to Internet Security[/color:6...
Mon Sep 11, 2006 7:27 pm, Strain
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Pyramat Wireless PC Gaming OFFICE Chair 2.1 amazing!
[URL=http://www.sharperimage.com/us/en/catalog/product/sku__PY558BLK]sharperimage.com catalogue with...
Wed Jul 16, 2008 7:53 am, colinc

AMD sticks four two-GPU cards into gaming PC
AMD is working on eight-way GPU co-operative rendering, the chip maker has revealed. In an escalati...
Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:23 am, Editorial Team

Samsung SyncMaster 245T
There\'s an awful lot of panel sharing going on in the LCD market thesedays, isn\'t there? It seems th...
Mon Jul 14, 2008 9:14 am, Editorial Team

Build a DX10 rig for under £176
We like big explosions, the bigger the better, in fact. Wealso like smoke effects, water ripples, ...
Thu Jul 10, 2008 12:49 pm, schmidtbag

2010: the 5TB 3.5in HDD cometh
Hitachi has pledged to release a 5TB 3.5in hard drive within twoyears, and it claims two of the driv...
Thu Jul 10, 2008 12:37 pm, schmidtbag

CrossfireX: 2560x1600 gameplay becomes a reality
“AMD ATI Radeon4850/4870 CrossfireX” review at Guru3D. Hilbert’s lost it again – high powere...
Tue Jul 08, 2008 6:42 am, Editorial Team

10 Best Hacking and Security Software Tools for Linux
Linuxis a hacker’s dream computer operating system. It supports tons oftools and utilities for cra...
Fri Jul 04, 2008 5:06 am, Editorial Team

AMD's dual-GPU Radeon HD 4870 X2 less than a month away
The 4870 X2, like its predecessor, the 3870 X2, essentially sports apair of GPUs, each with its own ...
Fri Jul 04, 2008 5:02 am, Editorial Team

AMD with three new Phenom CPUs at opposite ends of market
The raw specs are 140W TDP for the 9950 at 2.6GHz and 65W for the 9350e at2.0GHz and 9150e at 1.8GHz...
Tue Jul 01, 2008 6:15 am, Editorial Team

Laptop pricing continues to fall in the UK
Costs of PCs in the UK are set to continue to fall, according to the latest market reports from anal...
Tue Jul 01, 2008 6:04 am, Editorial Team

I'm confused please respond
Because this isn\'t a mandatory question I\'ll keep it short. But basically what I\'ve been seeing l...
Mon Jun 30, 2008 10:01 am, schmidtbag

New router prioritises bandwidth for games - lag-free tech
Sitecom has unveiled a router designed to provide a low latency and lag-free service online. The rou...
Mon Jun 30, 2008 5:27 am, Editorial Team

Nvidia releases PhysX code for latest GeForce GPUs
Nvidia has posted a version of its PhysX software that enables thephysics-on-GPU technology on its G...
Sun Jun 29, 2008 5:42 am, Editorial Team

Fastest ever graphics card hits shops Nvidia’s Zotac GTX 280
World\'s fastest core clock speedisn\'t something you would like to say ten times fast (unless you wan...
Sun Jun 29, 2008 5:38 am, Editorial Team

ATI releases new Radeon 4800 cards - Ends NVIDIA dominance?
NVIDIA\'s long-time hold on thegraphics market is under threat from ATI, with the release of its newR...
Sun Jun 29, 2008 5:34 am, Editorial Team

AMD CPU shoot-out: Phenom X3 and X4
The birth of AMD’s quad-core Phenom processor was plagued withproblems. After a gestation period m...
Tue Jun 24, 2008 9:37 pm, schmidtbag

Samsung confirms Spinpoint drives
Samsung has finally confirmed the rumours that it is putting their laptop HDDs Spinpoint M6 and M2 i...
Tue Jun 24, 2008 9:16 pm, schmidtbag

nVidia turning it's GPU's into 'PhysX Physics Processors'
3D card manufacturers shouldn\'t take this the wrong way, but ittakes a lot to make us crawl out of t...
Mon Jun 23, 2008 4:11 pm, Editorial Team

RM launched its new Windows XP-based RM Asus miniBook
RM dumped the Eee name, as it feels the connotations of the letter in between of D and F with drug m...
Mon Jun 23, 2008 4:09 pm, Editorial Team

60GB Xbox 360 to launch at E3
The new version of the Xbox 360could launch at the E3 games event next month in a bid to halt thepro...
Thu Jun 19, 2008 3:09 pm, Editorial Team

4 ATI GPUs = 25,000 Pentium Pro CPUs
AMD kicks off this week, with the announcement of the 9250 card,without providing lots of details an...
Thu Jun 19, 2008 2:43 pm, Editorial Team

Evaluating your graphics card needs - Full iVirtua Guide
If you happen to have a friend or a family member who’s an expert oncomputer graphics cards, you...
Tue Jun 17, 2008 4:32 am, Editorial Team

US teens get Game Camp
Like Gilligan\'s Island and the American Constitution, everything Iknow about summer camp, I know fro...
Sun Jun 15, 2008 6:33 pm, schmidtbag

AMD delivers Xbox 360 graphics on handhelds
AMD claims that it can now achieve Xbox 360 quality graphics on a handheld system. [URL=http://www...
Fri Jun 13, 2008 4:46 pm, Editorial Team

UK court declares modchips legal
[b:f344c53e92]A landmark ruling a[/b:f344c53e92]t the UK Court of Appeal (criminaldivision) which po...
Fri Jun 13, 2008 4:28 pm, Editorial Team

CoolIT’s latch-on liquid CPU cooler
Motherboards.org is reviewing CoolIT’s Eliminator Liquid CPU cooler and it’sso easy even your gr...
Fri Jun 13, 2008 4:14 pm, Editorial Team

Intel's Core 2 Quad Q8000 coming soon
Intel’s Core 2 Quad Q8000 CPU series will go head to head with AMD\'s triple-core CPUs, by offering...
Fri Jun 13, 2008 4:12 pm, Editorial Team

Intel focuses on graphics and games
In a statement, Intel said, "Supporting the new Intel 4 Series chipset familyintroduced at Comp...
Fri Jun 13, 2008 4:11 pm, Editorial Team

AMD to pair CPUs, GPUs with Intel's physics tech
AMD is partnering with Intel to improve the way its graphics chips can handle physics and other scie...
Fri Jun 13, 2008 3:57 pm, Editorial Team

Intel prepares $45 Solid State Harddrive (SSD)
Most of the worlds market is looking onwards towards thenewly-released platforms like Intel’s Atom...
Mon Jun 09, 2008 8:41 am, Editorial Team

AMD launches external graphics card box
AMD used the Computex show in Taipei this week to propose XGP -eXternal Graphics Platform, a slimlin...
Mon Jun 09, 2008 8:35 am, Editorial Team

OCZ does 3GB memory kits
[b:61cf614c3d]A [/b:61cf614c3d]3GB memory kit. On top of that was the usual unusualassortment of mem...
Mon Jun 09, 2008 8:29 am, Editorial Team

Sapphire shows off 56 inch quad 1080p monitor
They had the usual high-end GPUs, but the best thing was a quad 1080pmonitor all driven from one PC....
Thu Jun 05, 2008 4:25 pm, Editorial Team

Acer’s Atom-based Aspire One £299 Eee Rival
The new machine does have something of an identity crisis – Acer iscalling it a “mobile internet...
Thu Jun 05, 2008 4:05 pm, Editorial Team

Dell XPS 730 H2C - 4 graphics cards super rig 2GB DDR3
[b:809dfe5304]HOTHARDWARE HAS A MASSIVE [/b:809dfe5304]gaming machine that’ll make mostgamers droo...
Wed Jun 04, 2008 4:35 am, Editorial Team

Nvidia GT200 sucessor out: GT200b: Nvidia face tough summer
Nvidia\'s CPU mouthed off about Intel, the firmfollowed it up with the stunning NV5800 \'Dustbuster\'. ...
Wed Jun 04, 2008 4:09 am, Editorial Team

Spec, Photos and Pricing: Dell Mini Inspiron: atom powered
It\'s a small form factor notebook, just like the Asus Eee and the HP2133.He wouldn\'t tell me what OS...
Mon Jun 02, 2008 9:43 am, schmidtbag

Abit launches hybrid gamer mobo
The Taiwan-based outfit\'s new AN78GS board is based on AM2+/AM2processors running HT3.0 up to 5200MT...
Sun Jun 01, 2008 5:21 pm, Editorial Team

Would you buy a premium priced PC? New Ultimo High spec PC's
High end PCs are starting to emerge from the shadow of gaming, as British company UltimoPC is launch...
Sun Jun 01, 2008 4:45 pm, Editorial Team

Samsung Announces New 256 GB SSD
[CENTER][img:cfe05638d9]http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/05/samsung-256gb-s...
Tue May 27, 2008 5:04 pm, Editorial Team

Coolermaster 88% efficiency PSU - a new era
Cooler Master has unveiled itslatest PSU announcing that the ‘world’s first-ever 80 Plus Silverc...
Tue May 27, 2008 3:35 pm, Editorial Team

When Intel used to love Nvidia... In pictures
Nvidia is on thewarpath, telling anyone that will listen that: a) Intel is really big, andreally mea...
Tue May 27, 2008 3:17 pm, Editorial Team

Dual-core Atom details
Details are firming up about Intel’srumoured Atom dual-core processor – which is increasingly lo...
Tue May 27, 2008 2:22 pm, Editorial Team

Samsung overtake Dell in LCD PC displays, Dell lose top spot
Dell has lost its grip on the LCDmonitor market – according to DisplaySearch figures which suggest...
Sat May 24, 2008 6:23 pm, Editorial Team

AMD Game! aunches new PC hardware gaming labels
AMD has announced a new initiativeto increase sales of gaming PCs, introducing a new game labellings...
Wed May 21, 2008 8:47 am, Editorial Team

First look: Acer Aspire Predator gaming PC (out of box)
Giant of the corporate PC arena,Acer, has announced that it’s launching the ‘Predator’ range o...
Wed May 21, 2008 8:45 am, Editorial Team

AMD puts DDR5 on R700 graphics cards
AMD IS TO STICK DDR5 memory on its upcoming ATI Radeon R700 graphics cards. AMD said it is workin...
Wed May 21, 2008 8:33 am, Editorial Team

X-Fi finally goes PCI-Express
The \'Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series\' card is a fairly standard X-Fi card w...
Tue May 20, 2008 3:56 pm, Editorial Team

Elpida offers one-chip 512Mb DDR2
[b:b84586243c]MEMORY MAKER[/b:b84586243c] Elpida will be sampling what they say is theindustry\'s fir...
Tue May 20, 2008 3:42 pm, Editorial Team

Sony Vaio breaks laptop design tradition
Sony’slatest Vaio laptop model, just announced for the Japanese market, breaks withthe traditional...
Tue May 20, 2008 3:34 pm, Editorial Team

Nvidia marketing at its worst: 9600GSO 768MB confusion
ow, reviewers are becomingpretty annoyed at what they see as a Nvidia marketing doing its worst... a...
Tue May 20, 2008 3:33 pm, Editorial Team

UK Samsung R410 laptop is £499 boasting ATI graphics
We’ve managed to get a glimpse of Samsung’s latest mainstreamnotebook – the R410. Wandering th...
Sat May 17, 2008 5:22 pm, Editorial Team

Creative unveils Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium range
Creative has announced the latest version of its popular X-Fi Sound Blaster sound cards – with the...
Sat May 17, 2008 5:14 pm, Editorial Team

Intel updates gaming laptop chips
[b:06cceed576]INTEL IS GOING[/b:06cceed576] to launch a raft of 35W \'desktop\' parts onJune 22 of thi...
Fri May 16, 2008 3:53 am, Editorial Team

Samsung to demo next-gen, 240Hz LCD TV tech
Samsung has developed what it claims its the world\'s first LCD panelwith a 240Hz image frame rate - ...
Fri May 16, 2008 3:44 am, Editorial Team

HANNSG announces £400 HD 1080p monitor
HANNSG, the Taiwanese panel manufacturer, has just announced its latest 1080p monitor, the HG281DJ. ...
Fri May 16, 2008 3:40 am, Editorial Team

MSI card-cooler 'inspired by seaweed'
MSI engineers have found stimulation in the briny depths for itslatest graphics card innovation: a c...
Fri May 16, 2008 3:38 am, Editorial Team

The most advanced multi touch system in the world
Perceptive Pixel, Inc. was founded by Jeff Han in 2006 as a spinoff of the NYU Courant Institut...
Fri May 16, 2008 3:36 am, Editorial Team

First-ever USB-enabled 5.1 surround sound system released
Creative’s newaddition to its X-Fi range, the Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1, is thefirst of its ...
Thu May 15, 2008 7:38 am, schmidtbag

Nvidia: CPU-GPU balance in PCs skwered towards CPUs
Just forked out for a new rig with a fastprocessor on board? Then Nvidia has some very bad news for ...
Thu May 15, 2008 7:37 am, schmidtbag

Buying the best Power Supply (PSU)
Introduction Today we are going to look at a slightly different class of power supplies than we...
Wed May 14, 2008 4:51 am, Editorial Team

Dell has killed off its XPS range of desktop gaming machines
Dell has killed off its XPS range of desktop gamingmachines. The Texans picked up east-coast maveri...
Wed May 14, 2008 4:00 am, Editorial Team

Vvikoo 9600GT Turbo
[b:abd485e451]THIS LAST GENERATION [/b:abd485e451]of GPUs – and the general attitudeGPU-makers hav...
Sun May 11, 2008 5:56 pm, Editorial Team

MSI releases amazing £235 desktop Eee PC rival
Fed up of waiting for Asus\' desktop Eee PC? Rival Taiwanesemanufacturer MSI has stepped in with a mi...
Fri May 09, 2008 7:38 pm, Editorial Team

OSX Capable PC is here finally
Because we think it’s informative to see how OS X performs on a computer that isn’t a Mac, [i:da...
Fri May 09, 2008 7:38 pm, Editorial Team

Gigabyte GK-K8000 gaming keyboard - Review
[img:e726392ff7]http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/8159/peripheralproductimgk80yg3.jpg[/img:e726392ff7...
Fri May 09, 2008 7:21 pm, Editorial Team

New Xbox coming: Xbox Jasper 65nm chips ready
Jasper is due this summer and features chippery shrunk from 90nm to 65. IBM is supplying 65nm Xenon...
Fri May 09, 2008 7:12 pm, Editorial Team

AMD plans 12-core server chip for 2010
AMD today shed light on its upcoming server workstation roadmap,revealing details on its first six-c...
Fri May 09, 2008 12:38 pm, schmidtbag

First Quad-LAN motherboard
[b:03b5e42b65]HAVE YOU EVER[/b:03b5e42b65] plugged your computer into a network routerand thought - ...
Fri May 09, 2008 12:37 pm, schmidtbag

Hybrid SLI comes and goes: Nvidia, 'best of both worlds
Nvidia has brought to the fore its latestgeneration of chipsets with AMD CPU support. Nvidia is call...
Thu May 08, 2008 6:00 am, Editorial Team

NVIDIA to 'simplify' product range
NVIDIA has revealed plans to simplify its gaming product range in order to appeal to a wider audienc...
Wed May 07, 2008 9:25 am, Editorial Team

Hardware analysis suggests the Xbox 360 HDD is overpriced
This just in: the [URL=http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/xbox-360-elite.ars]Xbox 360 proprieta...
Wed May 07, 2008 7:34 am, schmidtbag

Lenovo ThinkPad X300 sub-notebook
VerdictThe ThinkPad X300 is an expensive piece of kit but it’s a superblaptop that is well worth t...
Tue May 06, 2008 4:53 am, Editorial Team

The World's Fastest SATA Hard Drive, WD's New VelociRaptor
[SIZE=2][FONT=Arial]Western Digital\'sRaptor line of high performance hard drives has been a long-tim...
Mon May 05, 2008 6:40 pm, Editorial Team

MSI use Stirling Engine theory to Cool CPU
Duringa recent visit to MSI here in Taiwan, we learnt of an interesting andnew technology which they...
Mon May 05, 2008 6:35 pm, Editorial Team

Alienware ships 'most powerful' 15in laptop to Brits
Alienware\'s first gaming laptop designed from the ground up by thecompany itself, the Area 51 m15x, ...
Mon May 05, 2008 5:58 pm, Editorial Team

Super Talent's new DDR3-1600 tips up
[b:d1ad301229]THE MODESTLY NAMED[/b:d1ad301229] Super Talent Technology, whichmanufactures DRAM and ...
Mon May 05, 2008 5:57 pm, Editorial Team

Summer will bring a GPU war
[b:b07de76b25]THIS SUMMER WE[/b:b07de76b25] are going to see an large scale GPU war,something we hav...
Sat May 03, 2008 6:26 pm, Editorial Team

Asus Crossbow-proof screen
What’s unique is that this LCD seems like itreceived bullet-proofing (or something) with a 9H Hard...
Thu May 01, 2008 4:37 pm, Editorial Team

AMD's next CPU will be radical departure
Giuseppe Amato, the grandly-titled Technical Direct of Sales and Marketing for EMEA, let slip in a r...
Thu May 01, 2008 9:12 am, schmidtbag

The story emerges about HD3450 and gaming
[b:6abd51b15c]YOU’LL PROBABLY READ[/b:6abd51b15c] this review of an HD3450 with the samemorbid cur...
Tue Apr 29, 2008 5:43 pm, Editorial Team

Nvidia declares the CPU dead
Nvidian boy Roy basically declares that the CPU is dead, and Nvidia\'s chipsdo all the real work in a...
Tue Apr 29, 2008 7:43 am, schmidtbag

GDDR5 is here: DAAMIT 4800 series outed
SOME NEW INFO on the latest round of AMD graphics processors has suspiciously reared its head on a G...
Mon Apr 28, 2008 12:13 pm, Editorial Team

Optimus keyboard - Amazing!
Every key of the Optimus keyboard is a stand-alone display showing exactly what it is controlling at...
Fri Apr 25, 2008 6:14 pm, DualFusion

Nvidia betas reveal new cards
[b:cbf4fe20f1]BETA DRIVERS FROM[/b:cbf4fe20f1] the eager-beaver technicians at Graphzillahave someth...
Wed Apr 23, 2008 4:48 am, Editorial Team

Abit unveils Hybrid SLI motherboard
[b:e05ce3b9a8]ABIT HAS UNVEILED [/b:e05ce3b9a8]its newest motherboard, the A-N78HD, forAMD Socket AM...
Wed Apr 23, 2008 4:45 am, Editorial Team

Nvidia PR girl gets graphic on Youtube (video)
[FLASH=425,350]http://youtube.com/v/9nqiiScmIwg[/FLASH] [b:a7e91cb666] [/b:a7e91cb666] [b:a7e91cb...
Wed Apr 23, 2008 4:26 am, Editorial Team

Turn your PC into a CCTV system
In the future we\'ll probably havelittle robot sentries patrolling our home and vaporising burglars, ...
Wed Apr 23, 2008 4:22 am, Editorial Team

IBM smacks rivals with 5.0GHz Power6 beast
The rest of the server world can play with their piddling 2-3GHz chips. IBM, meanwhile, is prepared ...
Wed Apr 23, 2008 4:11 am, Editorial Team

BT Home Hub defaults to no security
By default, the BT Home Hub, which is manufactured byThomson/Alcatel, uses a weak algorithm to gener...
Thu Apr 17, 2008 5:02 am, Editorial Team

First Centrino Atom portable coming to Japan in June
The first devices to be based on Chipzilla’s Centrino Atom were unveiled atthe Intel Developer For...
Thu Apr 17, 2008 5:01 am, Editorial Team

S3 launches 4300E embedded graphics chip
S3 is boasting that the newcomer outperforms competitor products by as muchas 30 per cent, and that ...
Thu Apr 17, 2008 4:58 am, Editorial Team

CPU vs Graphics Card: What to upgrade? nVidia says graphics!
OK, they are not the most objective source, but graphics processormanufacturer nVidia does make a pr...
Mon Apr 14, 2008 7:54 pm, schmidtbag

Quad Core War: AMD Phenom vs. Intel Core 2 Quad
[b:82918010f8]THE TWO CONTENDERS [/b:82918010f8]in the quad-core PC world are duking itout today on ...
Sat Apr 12, 2008 7:05 pm, Editorial Team

Next Gen Intel Core2 'Bloomfield' spied before IDF!!
Intel\'s next-generation 45nm processor architecture, \'Nehalem\', madean appearance at the as-yet-unop...
Sat Apr 12, 2008 7:02 pm, Editorial Team



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