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Nova Master 7th Aug - Mouse mats
As we’ve seen with many reviews of mouse pads they can be an important part of a gamers arsenal of ultimate ownage. Nova have been making high quality gaming surfaces for over 15 years by now they should have gotten ...
Sunbeamtech Core Contact Freezer 6th Aug - CPU coolers
You can see all manner of designs and technology these days on CPU coolers ranging from the weird and wonderful, to the more conservative and stylish. But it is the technologies behind the cooling that matters the most ...
Renegade Gaming Chair 31st Jul
When visiting the Channel Expo trade show in Birmingham a few months ago, I stumbled upon one booth ...
Spire CoolFlow III 28th Jul
When it comes time for an enthusiast to upgrade his or her processor, it's usually quite a ...
Sherlock Holmes Vs. Arsene ... 23rd Jul
Sherlock Holmes: A popular fictional detective, born and based in London, created by Sir Arthur ...
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Interview with Kevin from GameShare 1st Aug - Gaming
With a market worth over £25 million a year, the game trade-in industry isn't something to be scoffed at. As valuable as it is, one complaint with the typical trade in locations, is that the money given to the person ...
Why E3 Matters 29th Jul - Gaming
Every year the games industry gathers around many a collective camp fire and tell stories of their past and future. E3 has long stood as the biggest and most exciting of these, garnering not only the best people and ...
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A smaller round-up today, but there's plenty of interest to read. Bit-tech have a 280 GTX Superclocked from EVGA, and Tweaktown have a monster 4850 Toxic crossfire setup.
CPU COOLERS
- Scythe Shuriken by Mikhailtech @ 12:46 GMT
DRIVES
- Lexar 8 GB Class 2 SDHC by TechPowerUp @ 12:49 GMT
GRAPHICS CARDS
- EVGA GTX 280 Superclocked by Bit-tech @ 12:28 GMT
- Sapphire HD 4850 TOXIC in Crossfire by TweakTown @ 12:48 GMT
MOTHERBOARDS
- GIGABYTE EP45-DS3R by VirtualHideout @ 12:29 GMT
OTHER PRODUCTS
- abit IP35P by Xtreme Computing @ 12:30 GMT
- Palit 9800GX2 by Overclockers Club @ 12:33 GMT
- Vantec NexStar 3i External Hard Drive Enclosure by Think Computers @ 12:44 GMT
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Nvidia have announced that as of next week, their high end GPUs from the 8, 9 and 2 series. This will allow owners to experience the advanced physics processing that the new cards will be capable of thanks to the on-board PhysX processor. This technology was purchased by nVidia back in February when they bought out independent PhysX processing unit developers Ageia.
Read more: Nvidia adding PhysX to GPUs next week [more available]
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Asus have announced that they are releasing a Wii-like motion controller controller that promises to bring motion gaming to the PC. It features 3D motion, tilt sensing and pointing and will operate in a dual nunchuk way, but without having to link the two parts of the controller.
Read more: Eee Motion Controllers Launched [more available]
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The Big 3 search engines, Google, Microsoft Live and Yahoo have all banded together to come up with a policy for dealing with search results for China and other countries with similar restrictive policies on what it's citizens are allowed to search for.
Read more: Big 3 "Deal With China" [more available]
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Fudzilla have reported on a recent announcement that AMD will be putting Havok onto their graphics cards when it's running "a bit faster." In testing with Physics on GPU in the past, it's resulted in slight slowdowns of GPU power, and AMD wants to avoid that if they can.
Read more: AMD to put Havok on GPU [more available]
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Bioshock lead designed Ken Levine has told EuroGamer in an interview that he thinks Bioschok has paved the way for similar FPS/RPG hybrid titles that wouldn't have succeeded before.
Read more: Levine praises Bioshock Innovation [more available]
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Lots of reviews of "other products" today, so plenty of interesting articles to read. The highest end review, hardware wise, today though is the 9800 GX2 from TheTechLounge.
DRIVES
- n-Trance n-Tegrity Pro 1 GB by Overclockers Online @ 11:50 GMT
GRAPHICS CARDS
- ASUS GeForce 9800 GTX+ by TweakTown @ 11:47 GMT
- BFG 9800 GX2 1GB by The TechLounge @ 11:50 GMT
HEADSETS
- Creative Aurvana X-Fi by InsideHW @ 11:52 GMT
MOTHERBOARDS
- Asus M3A78-T by Legit Reviews @ 11:39 GMT
- ECS P45T-A by Overclockers Club @ 11:48 GMT
OTHER PRODUCTS
- Samsung SC-MX10 Solid State Memory Camcorder by TweakNews @ 11:41 GMT
- int 220 Wireless Digital Music Station by I4U @ 11:42 GMT
- Gigabyte GA-EP45T-EXTREME P45 by Benchmark Reviews @ 11:44 GMT
- AMD 790GX Chipset Platform by Hot Hardware @ 11:47 GMT
- Audioengine AW1 Wireless Audio Adapter by Top Review Shop @ 11:49 GMT
RAM
- Kingston HyperX 3GB by VirtualHideout @ 11:43 GMT
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Forums have been abuzz with recent talk of EVGA possibly jumping ship and joining the ranks of other ATI partners selling Radeon cards. However, that rumour appears to have been quashed, with many saying that even though EVGA tried, ATI weren't interested as they had to protect their current partners business.
Read more: EVGA will not Become ATI Partner [more available]
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The first beta release of Mozilla's Firefox 3, will be downloadable on August the 19th. It will incorporate the new HTML5 <audio> and <video> tags which could be the advent of some sort of visual standardisation for media on the internet.
Read more: Firefox 3 beta 1 Announced [more available]
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The makers of the popular Sam and Max revival series will be releasing their newest point and click adventure title based on the Homestar Runner universe, "Strongbad's Cool Game for Attractive People" on the Wii and PC, simultaneously on August 11th.
Read more: Strongbad's first Episode Released August 11th [more available]
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