Heat sink reviews receive a lot of attention. People want to make sure that their microprocessors run cool and safe. However, certain conditions can lead to fan failure or even fallen off heat sinks. TomsHardware checked out what happens to the CPU once this nightmare scenario occurs. Ouch...
For those of you with nVidia cards, well, the latest and greatest is out. Promising up to 30% performance increase, the Detonator4 drivers look pretty l33t to me. Grab them over at HardOCP, ComputerChaos, or the nVidia site.
The latest IDE drives in the market are unable to surpass their predecessors in terms of performance, but showed considerable improvement in noise and temperature reduction. Seagate's Barracuda ATA IV is particularly impressive with low noise levels and strong performance. I personally cannot say much about it since I burnt mine about 2 days after getting it. Anyway, you can get the full write-up here.
If you have a CD burner, you'll most probably have used those cheaper 650MB 74min discs. Well, here come the kickass discs that blow away even the 700MB 80min discs, enter the 90 and 99 min CDRs. Check out the full article here.
For those of you that think water-cooling your system’s components is some ridiculously intricate procedure, well, you are incorrect. Got a car? Good, cause your car most likely utilizes a cooling system that is very similar to the one is being reviewed today. Check out the full story at MadOnion.
Reaching a long-sought goal in computing research, scientists have created a computer circuit based on a single molecule, which could lead one day to far smaller and faster computer chips that use less power.
International Business Machines Corp. said Monday that its researchers have built a logic circuit -- a set of electronic components that performs a processing function -- based on a tiny cylindrical structure made up of carbon atoms that is about 100,000 times thinner than a human hair.
Newest SoundBlaster cards quadruple the processing power, add 1394 ports and high-quality DACs.
Creative is launching this week a new line of sound cards aimed at bringing professional quality sound to your desktop.
The Duke of URL has just posted its review of the Gigabyte GA-7DXR. The GA-7DXR is one of the latest in the new wave of DDR motherboards. It sports 3 DIMMs, AGP Pro, IDE RAID, and the AMD 761 chipset. The review covers everything from layout, configuration, overclocking, to benchmarks on Linux (MP3 encoding, Quake III Arena, Kernel Compilation).
After teasing with technology announcements, ATI is finally unveiling the line of graphics boards that implement its advances, notably the Radeon 8500 gaming board that features twice as many transistors as its predecessor.
A little-known Austin startup expects to make a big splash in the chip industry today when it unveils a new design technology that could transform the way extremely fast processor chips are created. The announcement by 4-year-old Intrinsity Inc. offers further evidence of Austin's prominence as a hot spot for designing processor chips, which are the glamour products for the semiconductor industry.
