Unrelated - Speed Bumps of the Future: Creepy Optical Illusion Children

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2010/09/07/speed-bumps-of-the-future-creepy-optical-illusion-children/
just read this.. and let me know what you think.
It made me think about how well these would work, unless you drive past it frequently and ignore it. Then suddenly a real kid appears... then your fucked.

A nifty idea anywho.

AMD 6000 series

F yeah, early leaks of the 6xxx series GPU's by AMD? yes please.

This is the 6700, which will be the low-midrange card (somewhat similar 5750/5770 in pricing, but far better in performance). The card is pretty similar to the 5000 series visually. Check its 5 video outputs tho. No info on its specs tho.

This it the 6350, the real low end (or HTPC, whatever way you look at it) card. Its been confimed by chiphell to get around 1.7k P in vantage, pretty decent for a low end card.
I didnt link to chip hell incase you guys didnt have a registered account or read chinese, so i linked to VRzone instead.
link here

PC+XBOX 360 COMBINED

what has the world come to...
A computer manufacturer (and a small one at that), Origin PC has combined a personal computer with a xbox 360 to create a sweet looking and very powerfull rig.

(YES IT IS TWO F***ING TOWERS WIDE.)

The BIG O works by actually incorporating a 360 into the chassis itself, (rather than using the computers components to run the system, which would have so many drawbacks with compatability) and allows gamers to just have this BEEFY pc and play both xbox and pc games. A good idea for portability, especially if you go to a lan and suddenly peoples computers break; crank out the 360 controllers and have a TDM on GOW2 :P

Great stuff.

http://www.originpc.com/thebigo-features.asp

"bulldozer" 8 core AMD CPU

ALL GLORY TO THE OCTO CORE

"Seven years have passed since AMD first launched its K8 “Hammer” microarchitecture, which was updated three years ago by K10. Brand new, the Athlon 64 processors based on K8 kicked ass and took names, flying past Intel’s Pentium 4 processors to become enthusiast favorites.


This development, along with a shift to 32 nm SOI manufacturing, is leading AMD to estimate a 33% increase in core count and a 50% increase in throughput (suggesting significant IPC gains) in the same power envelope as Magny-Cours-based Opteron processors. The projections here are based on simulated comparisons between today’s 12-core Opteron 6100-series chips and upcoming 16-core Bulldozer-based models, currently code-named Interlagos." - Tomshardware


Its estimated the price will be around the mid-high end, and expect massive price drops from both the amd and intel courts when these badass douche-bags are released, absolutely curbstomping last gen cpus causing them to be unwanted and sold off asap.


Prepare your anus, guise.

eVGA Classified SR-2 review with Quad SLI GTX 480 on LN2

Hey bloggers... got a sweet piece of news for yall :P. Here is the EVGA Classified SR-2, purely designed for overclockers and those who want extreme performance regardless of any cost. In this review, it will be run under LN2, with 4 (!!!!!!!) GTX 480s.

Here's a photo of the dual socket board, and let's start up this massive, seriously massive experience with dual six-core processors clocked over 5 GHz, quad GTX 480 SLI (each over-volted and clocked to 1050 MHz). Yes im serious, 5ghz per 6core, with 4x GTX 480's. Check this out, yo.

Benchies here.

Dont forget to follow and let me know your opinion on it :)

Cooler Master V6 GT review

Final words and conclusion

Alright, let's wrap thing up. In its bare essence the V6 GT is a pretty nice looking cooler. Many other reviews actually conclude this cooler to be some seriously hot stuff, praising it into heaven. There are however a number of negatives that somehow other reviewers seem to leave out.

First off, the mounting system is just dreadful. You need a handful of components to mount the cooler making it the most user-unfriendly cooler I have ever seated onto a motherboard. The motherboard will need to come out 100% as you'll be flipping and tossing it around to get the mounting brackets secured. With two hands this is a near impossible job, two persons for installtion are recommended, yep. Seriously, we have seen this more often with Cooler Master cooling mounts, with some models being the worst designs in the business when it comes to an innovative workable mounting solution for the end-user. I really dislike the installation process of this cooler and just wonder why a company who makes excellence in all its ways continuously messes up the cooling mounts.

Then there is noise. The amount of noise the fans create when the CPU starts to heat up is rather high. With the CPU at default and the motherboard automatically regulating FAN RPM we reached roughly 47~48 dBA, and to translate that into understandable terms, that's as loud as a GeForce GTX 480 fully stressed. Now, in idle the fan rotation will go down, but it remains at a noise level that I find somewhat atrocious. My tip: To compensate for the noise levels use a fan controller or set your BIOS at, say, 50% RPM maximum. Only then will the noise levels calm down, at the cost of some performance of course.

Design wise we also have to admit that Cooler Master did some funky stuff with the two fans, V-shaped heatpipe array and the LED on top of the cooler. It would have been nice to see some sort of fan-control function applied to that button/LED combo though, as that is really what I feel to be lacking on this product. I mean, it is competing with the more expensive 10X series from Zalman, which are cheaper, perform roughly equal and are more silent and come with a controller on the top of the line models.

Performance wise we see decent cooling performance. You should not be afraid to overclock your processor, as the V6 GT will keep the temperatures at acceptable levels witha lot of capacity. But here as well, for a two fan cooler I expected a tiny bit more bite out of the design. So overall we feel the V6 GT is a nice cooler with decent performance levels. The design and looks are great but we do feel that the noise levels are rather excessive for a product in this price range, but you can tweak that out by lowering RPM levels manually.

The Cooler Master V6 GT is currently selling for roughly 55 EUR / 65 USD.

http://www.guru3d.com/article/cooler-master-v6-gt-review/1

sandy bridge

http://www.anandtech.com/show/3876/intels-core-2011-mobile-roadmap-revealed-sandy-bridge-part-ii

A real eye catcher.
comment and let me know your opinions, kay ;)

My DP

Ive been getting a few questions on the source of my DP. Unfortunately there is none :P its at fremantle harbor (WA, PERTH) where theres a statue of a dog and a man. The person pictured is one of my friends sitting on it. Looks pretty good amirite?

heres a larger version of it for the sake of... nothing really lol.

Fastest SSD (PCI-E)

It's the proverbial hot shit my man ... As what OCZ did was done right. They smacked 120GB or alternatively 240 GB of the fastest NAND Flash memory on the PCB, armed that Flash memory with two separate 8-channel SandForce SSD ICs, then bind them to a SIS RAID controller, pop on a PCie x4 bridge and then offer a "PCIe SSD" (if you can call it that) reaching 300, 400 even 500 MB/sec read and write speeds.


http://www.guru3d.com/article/ocz-revodrive-120gb-review/
shiiit.

Ho-ly-shit

Scythe Ninja 3 CPU cooler review

Scythe has been a name in the CPU cooler industry that is known for reputable but also unconventional cooling design. We've seen the weirdest forms, shapes and performance levels coming from these coolers. But overall, they have always been able to push out really interesting coolers, often to be positioned in the upper level of heatpipe coolers in terms of performance versus low noise levels

http://www.guru3d.com/article/scythe-ninja-3-review/

it looks fucking extreme

only the text that is readable is what you need to know :P

AMD Set to Phase Out ATI Logotype for Radeon Graphics Cards - Sources.

AMD to Make Questionable Branding Move

[08/28/2010 04:56 PM]
by Anton Shilov

Advanced Micro Devices, the world's largest supplier of central processing units (CPUs) and the currently the largest vendor of discrete graphics chips, plans to phase out the "ATI" logotype from the markings of graphics processors, which are developed by engineers of ATI Technologies, which AMD acquired back in 2006.

The new logotype that will mark discrete graphics processors developed by AMD will only carry the "Radeon" sign on it, but the "ATI" mark, which has been around for 25 years now, will be missing, people who saw the new image, but declined to be identified, said. The new logotype is projected to appeal to both gamers, the group that acquires expensive graphics cards, and general consumers, potential buyers of performance solutions that are set to tangibly speed up their applications.

The loss of ATI letters from the logotype of Radeon graphics processors marks AMD's intention to unify the brands of products that are developed within it and emphasize the importance of the Sunnyvale, California-based company. However, end-users are likely to miss the ATI logotype since in general people associate the brand with high quality, performance, experience and so on. Besides, 25-years old trademarks like ATI are generally recognizable.

People, who saw the new logotype of Radeon-branded graphics cards, claim that it would still catch an eye even without the ATI label on it.

"When I saw the new Radeon logo, I shortly forgot that ATI was not next to it. It looks rather compelling," a person, who has seen the new logotype claims.

The re-branding of ATI Radeon into plain Radeon may easily become the worst branding decision ever made by AMD due to the fact that ATI has a larger scope on the market of discrete graphics chips than AMD does on the market of CPUs. However, it is also likely to play a significant role when AMD launches its hybrid Fusion chips featuring x86 cores and graphics engines on the same silicon in 2011.

AMD did not comment on the news-story.

http://www.guru3d.com/article/pov-geforce-gtx-460-tgt-ultra-charged-review/

Point of View GeForce GTX 768MB Ultra Charged

It is time for another GeForce GTX 460 review, this time the fastest 768MB model available on the globe. Recently the guys and cute Dutch gals over at Point of View introduced a new line of enthusiast overclocked graphics cards cards under a label called  TGT tuned graphics cards.

The TGT cards are a series of cards that have been pre-overclocked. No special cooling or anything, just BIOSes with it's voltage and RPM tweaks allowing higher clock frequencies on the graphics card, and a not by a little ...

See, some of the TGT products are clocked pretty darn high, the GeForce GTX 460 Ultra Charged version we test today actually comes with a 820 MHz core clock, and bare in mind .. the reference baseclock is 675 MHz for this product series. In the air-cooled segment, this is what that looks like:

The POV/TGT CHARGED versionThe CHARGED version is the version that is clocked faster than the standard out-of-the-box graphics card. This version is using clock speeds that are pretty interesting.

The POV/TGT ULTRA CHARGED versionThe ULTRA CHARGED versions are carefully selected graphics cards that can reach top speeds and still use the standard cooler. This top model can reach very high performance speeds right out of the box.

• TGT-460-A2-768-C GTX460-768MB Charged Core 780Mhz / Memory 3800Mhz
• TGT-460-A2-768-UC GTX460-768MB Ultra Charged Core 820Mhz / Memory 4000Mhz
• TGT-460-A2-1024-C GTX460-1024MB Charged Core 780Mhz / Memory 3800Mhz
• TGT-460-A2-1024-UC GTX460-1024MB Ultra Charged Core 820Mhz / Memory 4000Mhz

So the first sample arrived today and we'll be having an in-depth look at the GeForce GTX 460 768MB Ultra Charged version. Will this card manage to keep his cool, will it remain to be inaudible ? All very valid factors worthy checking out of course, and as such we'll make that happen. head on over to the next page where we'll start up this review. 

a good review imo

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