World record DDR3 overclock on X58 BloodRAGE
In case you missed it, yesterday Foxconn issued out an announcement in excitement of the world record DDR3 memory overclock achieved from their mighty X58 based Blood RAGE motherboard.
A very talented Taiwanese overclocker got hold of this very impressively kitted out board and chucked a Core i7 920 processor onto it along with some of of A-DATA's highly overclockable DDR3-1333 memory modules. The result was astonishing.
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New Aluminum Apple Mac Books are Picky on RAM
If you are thinking about buying one of the new "Green" Mac Books there is some information you might want to know about first.
It seems that the new chipset used in the latest Mac Books is rather picky about RAM. According to Tuaw.com (The Unofficial Apple Weblog) Apple customers are complaining about high failure rates with 3rd party RAM upgrades.
Apple has a long history of only supporting its own upgrades (Samsung). This leaves many of these customers in the dark and pretty much out of luck.
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Cooler Master Unveils Black Label Limited Edition
After teasing all of us for a few weeks, CoolerMaster has finally released the full scoop on the black Cosmos bundle they have been preparing.
This new bundle is going to be sold under the name Black Label Limited Edition and features more than just a black Cosmos case.
When you shell out the $600 for this beauty you are also going to receive a Black Label Hyper Z600 cooler and a UCP power supply (listed as a "Powerful PSU Unit"). Each case will have the Black Label logo on a metallic plate as well as a serial number.
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EA and 2K Games License NV PhysX Technology
EA and 2K Games have both licensed nVidia's PhysX technology for use in their game titles.
The announcement, made this morning, come after a few months of build up by the green team surrounding what you can do with PhysX on their GPUs.
This also dovetails in with the upcoming Mirror's Edge game that should be hitting the market very soon.
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Microsoft to release "RED" edition Vista Ultimate
For some time now Dell has been shipping some of their PCs and notebooks as Red marked models, which means their accompanying operating system is a special Red edition of Microsoft's Windows Vista Ultimate.
The operating system itself is identical to the normal version of Vista in almost every way; however, the Red labeling is a brand licence which indicates that the affiliated company partnering the OS with their products are donating part of the revenue made from the sale to a good cause; that being for the Global Fund to help fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
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Anti-Censorship group raises $30,000 in a day
Many people have been following the story on the Australian Government's plan to put in a Filtering Firewall similar to the one that China currently employs.
This plan has to be about as unpopular as they get, even Child Advocacy agencies do not think it is a good idea while many Australian ISPs are fighting it.
Now it seems the people are showing their displeasure, in the form os 80,000+ signatures on a petition and $30,000 + dollars in donations to one of the main organizations fighting the plan called GetUp.
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YouTube finally moving to HD?
YouTube has been providing the world with videos of just about everything for so long that it has just about become its own verb like Google.
But the videos have never really been high quality but more of the "webcam" style shots heavy on the pixels with an extra side of grain.
Now it looks like YouTube might finally be taking the wrapper off of its long awaited HD Video selection. According to an article over at Techcrunch.com the words "Watch in HD" are starting to appear below some videos.
Apple moves in Lawyers to keep iTunes locked down
Apple has been flexing it legal muscle recently. It has not been enough that they have tried to write code to lock iPods to iTunes but now it seems they are going to stomp out anyone that posts a work around.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Apple has threatened the operator of website bluwiki.com with dire consequences if he did not remove a method for getting around the locked up iTunesDB file on the iPod and iPhone.
"When a lawyer calls you up and implicitly threatens litigation that would bankrupt your little project you obviously have no choice but to comply," Sam Odio, operator of bluwiki.com
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Obama uses a Zune?
It is that time of the morning, the Apple news, I have found a few interesting stories this morning on Apple antics. The first is a rather ridiculous one.
It seems that President-Elect Barack "Gotta Have My Blackberry" Obama was seen in a gym using a Microsoft Zune player. The reporter (*Cough*) who saw this posted it up in blog and was pounced upon by the Mac fans out there.
One of my favorite comments was:
NVIDIA's 55nm-based GTX 260 to get 1.5GB memory?
A guy called Theo Valich (you'll know him from TG Daily and INQ, etc) has started his own blog and seems to be doing pretty well, just breaking the 50,000 page view mark.
More importantly, his latest blog post discusses the upcoming launch of NVIDIA's new and improved GeForce GTX 260 graphics card based on a 55nm manufacturing die process. Included are pictures from a Chinese website of the new GTX 260 with the new GPU.
Theo goes on with a lot of speculation including that since the new GTX 260 makes use of 14 memory chips, it can support up to 1.5GB of memory. He also goes onto to speculate that the GTX 295 (dual GTX 260 part) could end up coming with a massive 3GB of memory - all speculation remember, anything could happen.
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