Forum: BE News

Seems there were many fake 920 CPU's that some how got into newegg's warehouse... http://www.hardocp.com/article/2010/03/05/newegg_selling_fake_intel_cpus Looks like it was around 300 of them and many shipped out....These were fake with no pins and plastic fan...also the intel book was...

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http://www.behardware.com/articles/778-1/giant-roundup-131-intel-and-amd-processors.html What a comparison!!!

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/windows_7_update_closes_70_activation_hacks I dont care about them closing hack holes, but THIS is just not acceptable: Looks like I will be sticking to XP for whole lot longer than I thought. Screw you, MS.

http://www.tcmagazine.com/comments.php?id=32529&catid=2 Mmmmmmmmm. Looks nice. And easy to install. And really stable. And nice. :D Ships Feb. 12th

http://vr-zone.com/articles/thermalright-venomous-x-review-the-return-of-the-king/8339-1.html

Looks like Nvidia might be going with a different name for it's (whenever released) Fermi card. Seems as though the enthusiast card is not on the front burner for the company.. http://www.techpowerup.com/114342/NVIDIA_s_First_DirectX_11_Accelerators_are_GeForce_GTX_480_and_470.html

AMD is just about complete with its top-to-bottom lineup of DirectX 11 compliant GPUs, whose series is codenamed Evergreen. Under this, the company has a GPU and its derivative targeted at almost every price point, from the entry-level Radeon HD 5450, to the fastest graphics card - Radeon HD 5970....

AMD introduced as many as five new value-thru-mainstream processors in its Athlon II and Phenom II series. It starts with the energy-efficient Phenom II X4 910e quad-core, which runs at 2.60 GHz, with 65W TDP, and features 8 MB of total chip cache. It is priced at $169. Next up is the Phenom II X2...

Active Media Products, manufacturer of SSDs and endangered species USB drives, today added a new 128GB capacity drive to their SaberTooth ZX series of 1.8-inch PATA ZIF SSDs. The new 128GB SSD is ideal for upgrading popular laptops and netbooks. With sequential read speeds up to 80MB/sec and...

Gigabyte's top of the line socket LGA-1156 motherboard, GA-P55A-UD7 just got a face-lift before release to the market. The GA-P55A-UD7 was pictured in its production form as early as in November, 2009. The retail model has notable changes from the production version. To begin with, GA-P55A series...

With just over four month to go until Office 2010's release, the Microsoft Office 2010 Engineering blog has been updated with some info regarding the upcoming suite's system requirements. According to Alex Dubec, Program Manager on the Office Trustworthy Computing Performance team, Office 2010 has...

Rambus Inc., one of the world's premier technology licensing companies, today announced that the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) for its U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) action against NVIDIA Corp. and other respondents issued an Initial Determination finding them in violation of Section...

EVGA released an out of the order update for its Precision overclocking software (version 1.9.1), which enables it to work with NVIDIA's newest GeForce 195.62 drivers. the workaround is applied only to 196.00 - 196.21 driver versions range in order to ensure compatibility with future fixed NVIDIA...

CPU & Motherboard - Gigabyte X58A-UD7 and P55A-UD6 motherboards @ FiringSquad - Intel Core i5-750 @ APH Networks - Intel Core i3 530 @ AnandTech Storage - Kingston SSDNow V Series 40GB @ Techgage - Toshiba T6UG1XBG Solid State Drive Controller (Kingston SSDNow V+ SNV325 SSD) @...

Cooler Master has recently revealed its second generation Ceturion 5 mid-tower chassis which, compared to its predecessors, offers an increased drive bay capacity, more airflow, and new easy-to-install features. Coming with or without a side window (in black or black/silver schemes), the 7.5 kg...

ASRock has updated the BIOS of its H55M Pro socket LGA1156 motherboard to include a "Turbo 100" feature. The feature is designed to run with the entry-level Pentium Dual-Core G6950 processor, which overclocks it from 2.80 GHz to 4.20 GHz, with a turbo ratio of 100%. This, the company claims,...

CPU & Motherboard - Intel DP55WG motherboard @ X-bit labs - GIGABYTE GA-H57M-USB3 (H57 Express) Motherboard @ TweakTown - MSI H57M-ED65 Motherboard and Biostar TH55XE Motherboard @ Hardware Secrets - Gigabyte GA-790FXTA-UD5 Motherboard @ motherboards.org Storage - OCZ Throttle...

Mozilla has today introduced the awaited 3.6 version of its popular open source browser, Firefox. This latest release is based on the Gecko 1.9.2 engine and brings quite a few fresh features including support for HTML5, DOM and new CSS attributes, improved JavaScript performance, enhanced...

As we previously reported, MSI is working on a Lightning Edition of the ATI Radeon HD 5870. The card will be designed with overclockers in mind and comes with two 8-pin PCI-Express power connectors for maximum power delivery. It also has easily accessible measuring points for the GPU voltages - a...

Corsair, a worldwide leader in high-performance computer and flash memory products, today announced that the Dominator GTX1 ultra-high performance DDR3 memory module (CMGTX1) has passed Intel's XMP-Ready certification at the blistering speed of 2333MHz, surpassing Corsair's 2000MHz modules as the...

The Opera Software Desktop Team has rolled out a new alpha (or is it pre-alpha?) build of the upcoming Opera 10.50 browser, but only for Windows and Mac OS (Linux users will have to wait a bit more to get it). The release comes with an updated version of the Presto layout engine (2.5.20) for...

Microsoft has yesterday published an advanced notification regarding the highly-discussed Internet Explorer vulnerability that has been exploited in last year's attacks on Google services. According to the notice, an update to fix the critical-rated bug will be released later today. Allowing for...

CPU & Motherboard - Intel DH55TC Motherboard @ Hardware Secrets - ECS H55H-M motherboard @ Guru3D Memory - Corsair Dominator GTX Series PC3-18000 4GB Kit @ TweakTown Storage

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