Life in the lab with Noctua's CPU coolers

URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techreport/articles/~3/-3dpWmmRW08/21873

Modern PC hardware has a shorter shelf life than the average teenage idol. While it's common for CPUs, graphics cards, and other components to remain serviceable for years after their initial releases, most retire to closet file servers, auxiliary BitTorrent boxes, and other secondary systems far removed from the limelight of an enthusiast's primary desktop. Can you blame them? With each fresh generation of parts comes better performance, lower power consumption, quieter cooling, and tantalizing new capabilities. The aging stars of yesteryear just can't keep up.

Obviously, the turnover in some component categories is higher than it is in others. Playing games on a three-year-old graphics card involves more trade-offs than living with a case of the same vintage, for example. Cases can remain in their prime ...

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Who Stands to Gain From Hard Drive Shortage?

URL: http://www.storagereview.com/who_stands_gain_hard_drive_shortage

If we've learned anything after Western Digital and Seagate's quarterly conference calls this week, it's that the hard drive industry is going to be pretty "volatile," as both companies say - or layman's terms, a cluster$%@* - over the next 6-9 months. Flooding in Thailand has caused severe issues for both companies, but WD's heavy exposure to not only Thailand, but specifically the heavily flooded region, is causing them an extra level of pain. Regardless of which company hurts more, the industry at large is going to suffer, with forecasted drive supplies for the current quarter only reaching 62-76 million units from WD and Seagate out of projected demand of 170-180 million units. 

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Does The USB 3.0 Controller On Your Motherboard Matter?

URL: http://www.pheedcontent.com/click.phdo?i=ab28b500b0af84526de3256e51f9e85d

Given a lack of chipset vendors integrating USB 3.0 support into their core logic (with the exception of AMD's Socket FM1-focused A75), motherboard manufacturers are forced to lean hard on third-party solutions. We take a few for a test drive.

Toshiba Introduces New 2.5" Hard Drives with 15K RPM Spindle Speed

URL: http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/storage/display/20111013231258_Toshiba_Introduces_Hard_Drives_with_15K_RPM_Spindle_Speed.html

Toshiba Unveils New Ultra-Fast 2.5" Hard Drives with New Platters, 15K RPM Spindle Speed

Court Bans Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1" in Australia

URL: http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/mobile/display/20111013220520_Court_Bans_Samsung_Galaxy_Tab_10_1_in_Australia.html

Apple Wins Legal Action Against Samsung in Australia

Legendary Game Designer No Longer Sees PC as Leading Platform for Games

URL: http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/multimedia/display/20111013202425_Legendary_Game_Designer_No_Longer_Sees_PC_as_Leading_Platform_for_Games.html

John Carmack: PC Is Not the Leading Platform for Games Anymore

1/6 dos celulares ingleses têm germes fecais

URL: http://exame.abril.com.br/tecnologia/ciencia/noticias/1-6-dos-celulares-ingleses-tem-germes-fecais

Estudo britânico mostra que as bactérias encontradas nas mãos e nos aparelhos são associadas à falta de higiene

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18TB hard drives made possible using table salt

URL: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2011-10-16-002-41-NW-HW

Geek.com: "The key to this massive increase in data storage density. Dr Yang used table salt, or more specifically, sodium chloride."

AMD FX-8150 8-Core CPU Review: Bulldozer Is Here

URL: http://hothardware.com/Reviews/AMD-FX8150-8Core-Processor-Review-Bulldozer-Has-Landed/

When we sit down to arrange our thoughts and write an introduction for a new product launch, we typically want to put together some interesting and suspenseful prose that sets the stage for an exciting reveal of an as-yet undisclosed, eagerly anticipated product. No such luck this time around, as the product we’ll be discussing today...

Sony vai consertar gratuitamente TVs Bravia com defeito

URL: http://redir.folha.com.br/redir/online/tec/rss091/*http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/tec/989986-sony-vai-consertar-gratuitamente-tvs-bravia-com-defeito.shtml

A Sony, por meio de nota à imprensa, se prontificou a realizar a inspeção e reparo dos componentes internos em todos os televisores de modelo KDL-40W300A, vendido no Brasil, que apresentarem defeito, sem qualquer custo para os consumidores.

• Sony investiga defeito em 1,6 mi de TVs Bravia em todo o mundo

A medida também vale para os modelos KDL-40VL130, KDL-40V3000, KDL-40L135, KDL-40XBR4, KDL-40XBR5, não comercializados no Brasil, mas que tenham sido importados para o país. Todos os modelos são da linha Bravia. Leia mais (13/10/2011 - 11h44)

Intel Confirms Plan to Bundle LGA2011 Chips with Own-Brand Liquid Coolers

URL: http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/coolers/display/20111009230134_Intel_Confirms_Plan_to_Bundle_LGA2011_Chips_with_Own_Brand_Liquid_Coolers.html

Intel to Bundle and Sell Liquid Coolers Separately

Biostar TZ68K+ - Energy-Efficient LGA1155 Mainboard for Thrifty Users

URL: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/mainboards/display/biostar-tz68k-plus.html

Since Intel Z68 Express chipset boasts a pretty good set of features by default, Biostar decided to add a minimal number of extras and roll out their TZ68K+ mainboard, which will be the main hero of our today's article.

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Should You Upgrade? From A Hard Drive To An SSD

URL: http://www.pheedcontent.com/click.phdo?i=a9d077a3ff2cff3679400a645a4b6ca4

Should you buy a new processor for your next machine? How about a new graphics card? Have you given any thought to the status of your storage subsystem? We're making a case for incorporating solid-state technology the next time you're upgrade-shopping.

Wozniak Tearfully Remembers His Friend Steve

Kodak Playfull Waterproof, gravando seus vídoes debaixo d’água a 720p

URL: http://targethd.net/2011/10/03/kodak-playfull-waterproof-gravando-seus-vidoes-debaixo-dagua-a-720p/

A Kodak lança uma nova versão da câmera Playfull, com um desenho mais compacto e leve (85 gramas de peso) e com a capacidade de resistir à quedas de 1,5 metros, poeira e imersões aquáticas de até 3 metros, incluindo um modo especial de balanço de brancos, o que ajuda na hora de obter imagens [...]

Nvidia Begins to Include GeForce 6-Series Support into Drivers

URL: http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/graphics/display/20111004142342_Nvidia_Begins_to_Include_GeForce_6_Series_Support_into_Drivers.html

Nvidia's Latest Drivers Potentially Include 28nm GPUs Support

AMD Brings New Desktop Chips Down To 65W

URL: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/9yPU_ctZIZ4/AMD-Brings-New-Desktop-Chips-Down-To-65W

crookedvulture writes "AMD's new Llano-powered A-series APUs have had a difficult birth on the desktop. The first chips were saddled with a 100W power rating, making them look rather unattractive next to Intel's 65W parts. Now, AMD has rolled out a 65W version of Llano that's nearly as fast as its 100W predecessor despite drawing considerably less power under load. This A8-3800 APU doesn't skimp on integrated graphics, which is key to Llano's appeal. If you're not going to be using the built-in Radeon, the value proposition of AMD's latest desktop APUs looks a little suspect."

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