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The California Energy Commission has passed a new energy standard to apply to all televisions that will need to be followed fully by 2013. The regulation targets all televisions under 58 inches, and requires a 33 percent decrease in energy consumption by 2011 , and 49 percent by 2013. The ...
Displays
LCD
Panasonic
Consumer Electronics Show
AMD is dominating the videocard news these days with its 5000-series graphics cards and the recent release of its Radeon HD 5970 is just adding fuel to the flames. OCC just published a review of the Sapphire Radeon HD 5970 OC and our roundup also includes a look at HD 5970 CrossFireX ...
Video Cards
Radeon HD 5970
AMD
Sapphire
AMD Athlon
Radeon HD 5850
While it has been talked about for some time since the release of the Google Chrome browser, the Chrome operating system has not been heard about much until now. Google is just today revealing its Chrome operating system to the general public, though no release time or much information at all ...
Motherboards and Memory
Chrome
After yesterday's round of reviews on the latest graphics card from AMD, the Radeon HD 5970, we managed to turn up a couple more reviews. Nvidia also released its GT 240 cards this week and we have a look at the Palit GT 240 Sonic videocard (also reviewed by OCC here ). Although new ...
Video Cards
Sapphire
Radeon HD 5970
AMD
Palit
NVIDIA's Senior PR Manager Brian Burke has uploaded the first picture of a working GF 100 video card on the company's Facebook page. For those of you in the dark, GF 100 is the codename for the first GeForce GPU based on NVIDIA's Fermi architecture. The card is running Unigine Corp's DX ...
Displays
Dell
ATI has released the latest version of Catalyst drivers, version 9.11. The new release is compatible with the ATI Radeon HD 2000, 3000, 4000 and 5000 series of video cards. Catalyst 9.11 brings support for hardware acceleration of H.246 videos in Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta and enhanced ...
OS
Adobe
Windows 7
Windows Vista
Windows XP
AMD
NVIDIA has unveiled its newest driver, GeForce 195.55. This new driver is NVIDIA's first driver to support the GT 240 video card and GPU acceleration of HD videos in Adobe Flash 10.1 Beta, in line with the recently released ATI Catalyst 9.11. SLI support for new games such as Call of Duty: ...
OS
Adobe
SLI
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Windows 7
Windows Vista
Windows XP
Patriot Memory today announced the PS-100 series, a new line of solid state drives targeted at consumers looking for the high-performance and reliability of a SSD at an affordable price.
"Our PS-100 is a great option for consumers that want all the reliability and performance of an ...
Motherboards and Memory
Patriot
SSD
Pandemic Studios, the game developer purchased by EA 2 years ago, will be shutting its doors . This is the result of EA's plan to lay off 1500 people to cut costs. About 200 people will lose their jobs from this closure, with about 25 people being transferred to other studios. Pandemic was ...
Other
Electronic Arts
Activision
Blizzard
In the shadow of AMD's launch yesterday of its dual GPU HD 5970 card , Nvidia quietly launched another card of its own in the form of the GeForce GT 240. Targeted at the more budget minded user the cards offer the opportunity for upgraded performance in the $90-$100 range. Kingston's SSDNow V ...
Peripherals
Kingston
Intel
RAID
In the past two months AMD has been busy launching new videocards in it 5000-series lineup and today marks the fifth entry in the hit parade with the official release of the Radeon HD 5970. As suspected , the HD5970 is going to be priced around $600 so it's definitely a top of the line card ...
Motherboards and Memory
AMD
PowerColor
Sapphire
Antec today announced the TPQ-1200, the latest addition to its TruePower Quattro line of high-performance power supplies. The TPQ-1200 is Antec’s first 1200-watt model and the first to feature Antec’s new PowerCache technology. With PowerCache, the TPQ-1200 provides an extra power ...
Cases and Coolers
Antec
TruePower Quattro
The original Tempest computer case has been one of NZXT's best sellers and now the company is announcing an upgraded version called the NZXT Tempest EVO. While keeping the good cooling performance of its predecessor, the Tempest EVO sports four 120mm fans with resdegned blades that deliver ...
Cases and Coolers
Tempest
NZXT
OCZ Technology, manufacturer of computer parts has officially announced their first 3.5” Colossus Solid State Disks . The new drives will come in capacities of 120 GB, 250 GB, 500 GB and 1 TB , will use MLC NAND flash technology with an internal RAID 0 architecture and 128 MB of Cache. It ...
Motherboards and Memory
OCZ
RAID
Just today, the popular Linux operating system that follows alongside Ubuntu and openSUSE, Fedora, has been updated to version 12 . With the update come many things, such as improved HD video codecs, Moblin support, improved webcam support, support for Intel BIOS-RAID, more support for Intel ...
OS
Linux
Intel
Ubuntu
RAID
GNOME
We're back on track today with some interesting reviews in the storage arena beginning with a look at the Fusion-io ioXtreme PCIe solid state drive card. For something a bit more mundane, if you can call it that, there's the Thecus N0204 pocket RAID device. Moving on to graphics cards we have ...
Video Cards
Sapphire
PCI Express
Thecus
RAID
Left 4 Dead
It looks like the computer parts website ZipZoomFly slipped some info regarding the HIS H597F1GDG graphics card. The price is set as $599.99 for that particular model, with the latter featuring 2GB of GDDR5 memory and support of all the other features in the actual DX11 generation of ATI cards, ...
Video Cards
HIS
Besides the copies of the new Office that were found on a few torrent sites that were rumored to be loaded with viruses, Microsoft has officially put up Office 2010 on Technet in beta form of course. This means that the first beta will soon become available to some users, and the product will ...
OS
Microsoft Office
Microsoft
The Cray Jaguar is officially the most powerful computer in the world, dethroning the IBM Roadrunner. IBM had spent five years at the top of the list, with the Jaguar, a Cray XT5 model, coming in at number 3. The performance boost was achieved by changing out the quad core Opterons in the ...
CPUs
IBM
After having a pretty substantial weekend roundup, we're left with a light start to the week. Corsair's rather substantial Obsidian Series 800D chassis marks the company's first foray into the crowded field of computer cases. Does the Obsidian deliver? Read the review to find out. We also have ...
