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Upgrade Dilemma: Ivy Bridge Benchies Leaked. Better Than SB, But Should...

Feb 06 2012 12:02 AM | qubit in News

VR-ZONE reports on some leaked bencharks posted at obr-hardware.com for the upcoming Ivy Bridge processors, specifically the Core i7-3770K, which has four HyperThreading enabled cores. The CPU used was a C0 stepping engineering sample with a clock spe...

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XFX R7950 Black Edition Double Dissipation Graphics Card – Awesome Overc...

Feb 05 2012 10:02 AM | qubit in News

HEXUS has reviewed the new XFX R7950 Black Edition Double Dissipation Graphics card. We'll leave the fine details of this card to HEXUS's excellent review, but it's worth saying something about its straight line performance, the motherboard...

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Graphene-Based Computers Come a Step Closer

Feb 05 2012 12:37 AM | qubit in News

Graphene is one of those materials that promise computers which can work much faster than they do today. Due to its very low electrical resistance, much less than that of silicon, it has great potential to be used in fast computers of the future. This...

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TorrentFreak Recent Headlines - Big Media Corruption Stories Worth Reading

Feb 04 2012 10:20 PM | qubit in News

What with all the flurry of anti-piracy news flying around the internet last month following the setting back of SOPA/PIPA and the forced shuttering of MegaUpload by vested media interests and executed by the government and the FBI, TorrentFreak has be...

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Apple's App Store: Walled Garden Doesn't Completely Protect Agai...

Feb 04 2012 08:10 PM | qubit in News

I'm not a fan of walled gardens controlled by DRM and in fact I despise them. This is something that Apple uses widely in all of its products, with examples including iPod syncing requiring iTunes to work and iPhone apps only being buyable from the...

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DRM is "a Waste of Money" - Paradox CEO

Feb 02 2012 01:16 AM | qubit in News

Gamespy recently interviewed Fred Wester, the CEO of Paradox, a relatively small games publisher that doesn't use DRM. In it, they talked about Paradox's commitment to PC gaming and the use of DRM by other companies to enforce copyright restric...

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HD 7950 Launched: GTX 580 Gets a Pasting

Feb 01 2012 03:17 AM | qubit in News

Yesterday, AMD launched the Radeon HD 7950 3GB graphics card, the little brother of the HD 7970 3GB. Judging by the reviews and the price, it will give its primary competition, the NVIDIA GTX 580 a pasting. The basic reasons for this are:Slightly fast...

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[PR] FinalWire Updates AIDA64 to v2.20

Jan 26 2012 09:13 PM | alexp999 in News

FinalWire Ltd. today announced the immediate availability of AIDA64 Extreme Edition 2.20 software, a streamlined diagnostic and benchmarking tool for home users; and the immediate availability of AIDA64 Business Edition 2.20 software, an essential netw...

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A Faster Internet… By Google?

Jan 26 2012 01:17 AM | qubit in News

Yes, that's right, the search engine is looking to speed up the internet by optimizing the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) that underpins it. Google technicians want to apply several tweaks to the TCP stack in order to implement this. In a blo...

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Warface: Free-To-Play Shooter With Stunning Visuals Coming From Crytek Kiev

Jan 26 2012 12:17 AM | qubit in News

Crytek who? That's Crytek Kiev, a wholly owned subsidiary of Crytek, the games house famous for Crysis and Far Cry. It looks like what they've done here is embrace the free-to-play (F2P) model for what looks like a triple A-rated first person s...

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New Cougar Evolution BO PC Chassis Has Innovative HDD Port

Jan 24 2012 02:24 AM | qubit in News

Compucase has added to its Cougar range of cases and will release the Cougar Evolution BO chassis next month. We will get to the basic specs in a minute, but first of all, let's talk about its most interesting feature, the HDD port on the top, whic...

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Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole to Have its Picture Taken

Jan 19 2012 11:26 PM | qubit in News

Welcome to the first news story on techngaming.com to report on scientific topics. Articles about science will make for an interesting change to the usual subjects that we report on and suggestions for stories are always welcome. Black holes have long...

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Windows NTFS Successor in the Works: ReFS

Jan 19 2012 09:34 PM | qubit in News

The Windows NTFS file system has been around since the original Windows NT was released way back in July 1993. It has proven to be a very resilient and capable file system and has had many evolutionary improvements made to it in that time. However, wit...

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Microsoft Finally Makes It Official That It Opposes SOPA.... As Written

Jan 18 2012 05:44 AM | qubit in News

This is a Techdirt republished article, which we feel is important. Note that Techdirt don't use copyright and encourage their work to be copied freely. QuoteEarly on, Microsoft was a quiet -- but definite -- supporter of PIPA. When it came to SOP...

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Apple Co-Founder Loves Android!

Jan 18 2012 04:52 AM | qubit in News

Yes, you've read that right. Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak likes Android very much, despite using an iPhone as his main smartphone, saying "My primary phone is the iPhone, I love the beauty of it. But I wish it did all the things my Android do...

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