Ya’ know when you’re doing character creation at the beginning of an mmo and a you have such a hard time deciding between the elf archer, the warrior, and the wizard? Trine alleviates that problem by allowing you to be all three at the same time, but it’s not an mmo, it’s a [...]
I read my fair share of hardcover books, most of the time they are rather thick, and in the beginning and end of the book the pages bend steeply inwards toward the seam making them rather hard to read. You have to apply a good amount of pressure to bend the pages back far [...]
Not too long ago Bigfoot networks released a pair of $250 NIC cards called the “Killer” and the “K1″. Both cards debuted with tons of hype surrounding them, but were ultimately not well received. The goal of these cards is to prioritize UDP traffic which in theory should speed up your online gaming [...]
MWave.com has 4GB Patriot Memory 4-4-4-12 timings for $91.00
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For years I have been wanting to give Lian-Li a try. I have heard very good things about their cases and the brand name has been synonymous with performance pc rigs for a very long time. Recently I outgrew my 750gb of storage in my gaming pc so I set out to build [...]
Killer’s newest network card offering, the K1, has a processor on the nic dubbed the NPU. How clever. The nic has it’s own linux OS and an onboard Bit Torrent client. Supposedly you can dl torrents and play online games at the same [...]
[H]ardOCP is reviewing a new 8800GT from a company called Palit. I know what you’re saying…”Wow, yet another video card manufacturer.” The vid-card market is already over crowded..I know..However Palit is bringing something to the table the big boys have yet to accomplish, [...]
128gb for $3k? [link] Seriously?!!? The IDE SS drives look somewhat affordable, but you would have to be willing to sacrifice 167 MB/s of bandwidth compared to SATA 2 as well as settle for only 32gb of storage. It’s going to be around late 08′ and into 09′ before a practical desktop [...]
My friend tact found an interesting site [http://skullcandy.com/]. Skull Candy caters to the designer headphone crowd. From pink faux fur ear pads to bullet holster head bands Skull Candy is a radical shift from your average pair of sony headphones. Having gone [...]
My previous post about the Netgear XE103 got me thinking about another really cool technology on the horizon that involves electricity. You’ve heard of LAN and WAN, meet HAN (Human Area Networks). Essentially, what this means is using the electromagnetic field found encasing every human as a data transfer medium. Imagine [...]
I have never really liked wireless ethernet. The connection is sketchy at best and is susceptible to interference from every day household items such as microwave’s and cell phone’s, not to mention the most widely used form of encryption, WEP, is extremely easy to crack. Now you can use your electric lines [...]
NCIX is Canada’s answer to Newegg (http://www.newegg.com). While searching for another Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro I came across NCIXUS (http://www.ncixus.com), which is ncix’s store front to the states. Historically Newegg has been the cheapest place to find just about anything, on the ACF7P however, NCIX beat Newegg by 50%. $36.99 [...]
Intel’s lowest clocked quad-core, the Q6600 is one hell of an overclocker. Marketed as a 2.4ghz processor it is the cheapest LGA775 quad-core on the market hovering around $280 since it’s release. The better over clockers are the G0 stepping processors, denoted by the part number ending in “slacr”, [...]
I have been reading good things about the Tt Duorb vga cooler. Some have reported temperature drops in the 20 degree range versus the stock nvidia cooler. The goal of an after market VGA cooler is to bring load temps on the card down to a reasonable [...]