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- Intel to release Core i5 on January 3rd - Intel
is set to release the first 32nm desktop CPUs on 3rd January
2010.
Releasing first are the Clarkdale CPUs - part of the Westmere, or 32nm
Nehalem die shrinks. A total of four models are expected, Core i5 650,
660 and 670, clocking in at 3.2, 3.33 and 3.46 GHz respectively. They
will be priced at the $176, $196 and $284 respectively. The other
Clarkdale CPUs are the Core i3 530 and 540 covering $123-$150. The Core
i3 CPUs will not feature Turbo mode. A budget Pentium G6950 is also
expected at $84, without turbo, HT and 1MB less L3 cache.
- AMD Or Intel: Which $100 Gaming CPU Should You
Buy? - Multitaskers will want to look hard at the
Athlon II X4 620, while those looking for consistency will be
attracted to the Phenom II X3 710. Of course, overclockers will be
drawn to the Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition. There's no right or wrong
answer, and variety is the spice of life, so feel free to follow your
desire. One thing that is for sure here: AMD is looking at too much
inter-family competition, making it more difficult for value-oriented
enthusiasts to pick the right part.
- GeForce GTX 200 boards discontinued? - Fudzilla reports
that NVIDIA's board partners have been forced to discontinue their
GeForce GTX 285, GTX 275, and GTX 260 cards. Now obviously Fudzilla
can't quote which board partners have made this decision, as they'd
obviously end up hurting their source's relationship with NVIDIA, but
this is something that's been rumored since the GPU shortage stories
first started popping up, and really heated up when SemiAccurate
reported that NVIDIA was cancelling GTX 200 cards.
- Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 1GB video card tested - If
you want the best, and particularly if you're the proud owner
of a 30" LCD monitor, then right now that means buying the Radeon HD
5870
- Palit GeForce GT 220 Sonic Edition 40nm 512MB
Video Card Tested - The Palit GT 220 is not a gaming powerhouse
but it does allow you to play at 1280x1024 with settings that are not
the bottom of the barrel but fall into the middle of the road
- New AMD Drivers for HD 5800 and HD 5700 Series - AMD
has released new graphics drivers
for both the Radeon HD 5800 series and Radeon HD 5700 series. I
recommend all Radeon HD 5000 series users upgrade to these newer
drivers, which will work on Vista/Win7 32-bit and 64-bit via this one
package. These drivers contain a few bug fixes over initial HD 5800
series driver, and also contain a performance optimization related to
the PCI Express bus.
- Pre-order Microsoft Windows 7 - You
might be interested to know that you can get Microsoft
Windows 7
 delivered to
your home the day it comes out, October 22.
- Major bug in Snow Leopard deletes all user data - Reports
have been cropping up
on the Apple Support forums that users have been losing all their data
due to a nasty bug in Snow Leopard, Apple's latest Operating System.
Many users are reporting that all settings are being reset and most
data is gone. The only solution for getting the deleted data back is to
restore it from a backup.
- Youth 'cannot live' without the Internet - A
survey published by online charity YouthNet, has found that
75 percent of 16-to-24 year-olds feel that they 'couldn't live' without
the Internet.
- Inside Gaming: 10/14/2009 (video) - This
is Inside Gaming for October 14th, 2009.
- German Group Plans Killer Game Drive - A
German advocacy group is asking people to bring their
'killer games' down to a local event and throw them away. The
group is partially made up of parents of the children killed in the
school shootings earlier this year.
- Steampunk Toilet (video) - Introducing
the Electro-Flush! Technically, TeslaPunk Urinal. Hand-made
solid oak tank with battery powered flush pump, laser aiming assist
(aim at the laser dot in the bowl at night), lights, antique gauges,
flush capacitor, and cup holder. Bowl is a round 1949 Standard.
- A 1.1km gun that can shoot you into space! - The
gun is based on a smaller device Hunter helped to build in
the 1990s while at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in
California. With a barrel 47 metres long, it used compressed hydrogen
gas to fire projectiles weighing a few kilograms at speeds of up to 3
kilometres per second. Now Hunter and two other ex-LLNL scientists have
set up a company called Quicklaunch, based in San Diego, California, to
create a more powerful version of the gun. At the Space Investment
Summit in Boston last week, Hunter described a design for a
1.1-kilometre-long gun that he says could launch 450-kilogram payloads
at 6 kilometres per second. A small rocket engine would then boost the
projectile into low-Earth orbit.
- Audi A4 configurator on the Microsoft Surface - Imagine
the fun in configuring your dream car
in immersive 3D using multitouch technology on the Microsoft Surface
table. The application allows multiple users to configure an Audi A4
simultaneously by changing the car's paint finishes, rims and by
selecting and coloring style package components. The configured A4 is
experienced in an immersive 3d environment, in which users can navigate
seamlessly by zooming and panning using a multitouch-enabled interface.
- Full Theatrical Trailer for
Pixar's Toy Story 3! - Disney has finally debuted the full-length
theatrical trailer
for Toy Story 3. Disney is bringing Pixar's Toy Story 3 to theaters
everywhere in digital 3D starting on June 18th, 2010 next year.
- First Trailer for Lasse Hallstrom's Dear John - Sony
has debuted the first trailer for Dear John.
This stars Channing Tatum, Amanda Seyfried, and Richard Jenkins, and is
about two young lovers split apart by the Iraq war who keep in touch
via letters. Sony is bringing Dear John to theaters everywhere on
February 5th, 2010 next year. I usually hate melodramtic MTV dramas
like this, but I'm willing to see it for the gorgeous Amanda Seyfried
and to see if Tatum can still pull off a decent acting performance.
- The Expendables Trailer Online - The
trailer for Stallone's return
to the big screen action flick has hit the net and its about damned
time! A team of the world's most dangerous and highly-trained
mercenaries go on a mission to South America to overthrow and
assassinate a powerful, evil dictator and his army, who have been
causing devastation, chaos and torture for the last twenty years.
- Intense Trailer for Mel Gibson's Edge of Darkness
- Warner Brothers has debuted the
official trailer for Martin Campbell's Edge of Darkness
starring Mel Gibson and Ray Winstone.
- Doomsday sign or UFO? Strange
circle in Moscow sky
- People have been left baffled by a circular
light,
seen hovering high over Moscow on Wednesday evening. Scientists have
rejected claims of UFO activity, saying the white cloud was no more
than an optical illusion.
- Most Awesome - Couple Pranks (video) - Many
couples try new things to keep a relationship spicy, but with
this couple it's a miracle they're still together to prank each other
another day. You may have seen some of their exploits - here are five
of their best.
- Meanest Japanese Prank Ever
(video) - In this clip from Japanese TV, a
man is led to believe that a sniper is killing the people in the room
with him!
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