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- AMD Phenom II 965 Black Edition CPU Reviews
Roundup - The X4 965 is a little faster
overall than the Q9550,
particularly in floating-point heavy applications like video encoding
and 3D rendering. Yes, you will want a relatively large cooler to keep
the X4 965 quiet under load, but that's also true of any number of
high-end CPUs from Intel and AMD at present.
- Intel DP55KG Kingsberg Motherboard Preview at
Quakecon 2009 - The Intel Extreme Series DP55KG 'Kingsberg'
motherboard is the highest end motherboard that Intel will be
offering with the P55 Express chipset. The board has a very clean
layout and features six phase power management. Right now there is a
debug port located just to the left of the blue SATA header, but that
will be removed on the production boards. The board features a x16 PCI
Express slot and a x8 PCI Express slot for graphics cards and has been
licensed to support both ATI CrossFire and NVIDIA SLI multi-GPU
technology. The board has a pair dual-channel DDR3 memory slots as
these boards do not use triple-channel like the Intel X58 Express
platform does. The motherboard also features on-board Bluetooth and has
a location for an antenna to be attached. One interesting thing about
this flagship motherboard is that Intel is still not using
solid-state-capacitors on their enthusiast motherboards. This is
something worth pointing out as companies like ASUS, Gigabyte, and MSI
have all switched over to better components in recent years.
- Fry's selling Core i5 early - Fry's has
begun selling Lynnfield-based Core i5-750 CPUs early. On the company
website the CPU is selling for $205
and is listed as "in stock", with same-day shipping available. A quick
search for faster Lynnfield CPUs and P55 motherboards however turns up
no results.
- Windows 7: Windows 7 (Final) vs. Windows Vista VGA
game performance - The
VGA drivers are not only stable, they work really well
and perform good as well. I was afraid that with the coming of a new OS
we'd see a performance drop just like we had with the transition from
Windows XP to Vista, but if anything, Windows 7 VGA performance is as
good as Windows Vista with the obviously occasional random fluctuation
in performance here and there though. Looking at the opposite side,
Windows 7 won't offer performance increases in graphics performance
either with an exception here and there.
- ATI Catalyst 9.8 - AMD's QuakeCon blog now offers early downloads
of new version 9.8 Catalyst reference drivers for ATI accelerators.
These drivers are also being offered to attendees of QuakeCon, and they
will be officially released next week. PC Perspective has a change list.
- How to make strong, easy-to-remember passwords - I
know most of you are capable of coming up with a strong password that
you won't forget but, in case you need help, here is an article that can be helpful.
- Symantec Discovers a Botnet on Twitter -Symantec
analyst Peter Coogan wrote that researchers found an account, @upd4t3, which
was tweeting out links to download a piece malware called
Downloader.Sninfs. The account has since been suspended by Twitter.
- Internet Explorer comes out on top against
Phishing - NSS Labs, an independent security research group,
found that Internet Explorer 8 was
the best browser tested at thwarting phishing attempts. Firefox was
statistically tied with IE for first with Opera and Chrome bringing up
the rear. Safari was the real loser of the group with only 2% of
phishing attempts blocked and there was no difference between the Mac
or Windows client.
- Zune HD Grand Tour (video) - Brian
Seitz of Microsoft's Zune team demonstrates
the new Zune HD on video.
The new thinner, sleeker device features an OLED screen, puts out HD
video to your TV and costs about $100 less than a similarly equipped
iPod
- Ticket Details Announced for Avatar Day on August
21st! - Starting on Monday, August 17th at Noon PST on the
official Avatar website - AvatarMovie.com
- Fox will be giving away first-come, first-serve tickets for free.
There will be two screenings on Friday, August 21st (one at 6:00PM, the
other at 6:30PM) in over 100 IMAX 3D theaters around the world. I don't
have exact details on which theaters will be involved, but it looks
like it'll only be in IMAX, so you better find the nearest one now.
These tickets will probably go very fast on Monday.
- Creepy Trailer for Alien Abduction Thriller The
Fourth Kind - A thriller involving an unsolved mystery in
Alaska, where one town has seen an extraordinary number of
unexplained disappearances during the past 40 years and there are
accusations of a federal cover up. Universal is now bringing The Fourth
Kind to theaters everywhere starting on November 6th.
- First Red Band Trailer for Paul Bettany's Legion -
Having lost faith in the human race, a legion of angels
descend to Earth to bring about the Apocalypse. Humanity's only hope
lies in a group of strangers trapped in a diner and the Archangel
Michael himself. Sony Pictures will be bringing Legion
to theaters everywhere starting on January 22nd, 2010 early next year.
- F. Gary Gray's Law Abiding Citizen Trailer with
Gerard Butler - The
trailer for F. Gary Gray's Law Abiding Citizen starring
Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx has debuted.
- Robot running (video) - Toyota
humanoid robot running at 7km/h.
- The Corvette ZR1 was chasing a Lambo LP670-4 SV
around Millbrook - This
really is an unbelievable video. First of all, you got two of
the hottest cars in the world. Second, the Lambo should be a bit
quicker than the ZR1, right? It has around 30 more horsepower, weighs
about 60 pounds less and has AWD, allowing it to exit corners more
quickly!
- Police Chief Gets Pwned by Marijuana Advocate
(video) - Scott Kirkland is the Chief of the El Cerrito
Police Department. Watch as he gets pwned by Richard Lee,
co-owner of Hemp Research Company and marijuana advocate for 17 years.
- MEGAWOOSH Bruno Kammerl jumps (video) - Who
cares if it is fake or not it's awesome!!!!
- Fan invades Field with a knife and hits Player
(video) - The match between Blooming-BOL-URU and River
Plate, at the Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, the preliminary phase
of the Copa Sul-Americana, was interrupted and suspended by the referee
Victor Hugo Carrillo, 20 minutes for the second time, after a
fan invaded the pitch and attacking the player Henry Gimenez,
the Uruguayan team.
- Heidi Montag Playboy Pictures - Heidi
Montag in Playboy!
- Joanna Krupa Swimsuit Pictures In Jack Magazine - Here's
Joanna Krupa showing off her
hotness in a variety of swimsuits for Jack Magazine.
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