Overclockers Club news FeedThe latest news on Overclockers Club!Second Wave in the ATI Radeon HD 4850 Assault Coming Soon- June 25, 2008 AMD is not resting on its laurels after the recent HD 4850 release, especially in the face of the 9800GTX+ salvo fired across its bows by NVIDIA. Reports are that ATI has pulled the gloves off and removed any overclocking restrictions from its HD 4850 allowing its board partners to release new products. Apparently the second wave in the assault should hit the shores somewhere in the second week of July with higher core and memory clocks along with a cooler change. Rumors also report the...http://www.overclockersclub.com/news/22602/ Hardware Roundup: Tuesday Edition- June 24, 2008 NVIDIA's new FTX280 videocards are barely a week old and we're already seeing factory-overclocked versions on the market. Today we get a look at one such example from XFX and its GTX 280 XXX Edition card. Also up for review today are a CPU cooler from ASUS, a high-def camcorder from Samsung and a look at the Blu-ray BD Live system. Cooling ASUS Lion Square CPU Cooler Legit Reviews CPUs Intel Core 2 Extreme Mobile X9000 Processor HotHardware Digital PhotographyVideo Samsung SC-HMX10A High...http://www.overclockersclub.com/news/22601/ Court Overturns Dad's Grounding of Daughter for Internet Abuse- June 24, 2008 A Canadian court has decided that a father's decision to ground his daughter and not allow her to go on a school trip was too severe and overturned the punishment. The girl, 12-years old, disobeyed her father and was chatting on the Internet on sites he had tried to block. In addition, she used a friend's computer to post "inappropriate" pictures of herself on line. Now remember, we're talking about a 12-year old girl here and a father who is trying to establish some rules and...http://www.overclockersclub.com/news/22600/ Limbo of the Lost devs push blame on to others- June 24, 2008 Nearly two weeks ago, I made a post in the forum regarding point-and-click adventure game Limbo of the Lost apparently plagiarizing mega-hit role-playing game Oblivion. Developer Majestic was on a break until this week, and finally responded to the accusations. According to a Majestic representative, the company had no idea there was use of "unauthorized copyrighted materials" and if it had known, development of the game would have been ceased. So basically it seems that Majestic is...http://www.overclockersclub.com/news/22599/ Blizzard Teaser Sparks Rumors- June 24, 2008 This weekend is Blizzard Entertainment's 2008 Worldwide Invitational, held in Paris, France, and rumors have been swirling all over the web that Blizzard is going to announce something big. Unless you've been living under a rock, you probably remember Blizzard's surprise announcement of Starcraft II at the 2007 Worldwide Invitational. If you visit Blizzard's home page, you see a mysterious image of shattered ice, so many are wondering if this is a teaser of things to come. Is it the long...http://www.overclockersclub.com/news/22598/ Nuvation Unveils Air Hockey-Playing Robot- June 24, 2008 Are you a lonely computer geek with no friends to play air hockey with Don't fret! Nuvation, an engineering services company, designed a robotic arm that can play air hockey. According to the company, the robot beats human opponents 90% of the time. The video of it in action is interesting, but in my opinion, the human opponent sucks. I, on the other hand, am an air hockey god, and so I'm not as impressed, as I'd surely destroy it. Nevertheless, it's still pretty cool.http://www.overclockersclub.com/news/22597/ New Top Level Domain Names Possible- June 24, 2008 The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, better known as ICANN, opened its annual meeting today in Paris. Attended by more than 1,300 delegates from over 130 countries, the body is set to vote this week on whether or not to open up the addressing system used to assign top-level domains to Internet to country names and other well-known identifiers such as .com and .net, the proposal would open up the system to names registered by individuals or companies seeking their own corner..http://www.overclockersclub.com/news/22596/ Hardware Roundup: Monday Edition- June 23, 2008 It should come as no surprise that today's round contains some videocard reviews after all the releases from last week. First up is a look at the 9800 GTX+ from NVIDIA. Next in line is a pair of Radeon HD 4850 cards from ASUS and Diamond. Silenx is a well-known manufacturer of low-noise fans and has now launched a CPU cooler. Follow the link below to see how well it stacks up against a some of the top coolers out there. Our roundup also includes reviews of a 750i chipset motherboard, a notebook.http://www.overclockersclub.com/news/22594/ Yahoo Loses More Executives- June 23, 2008 Joshua Schachter and Brad Garlinghouse are the latest leave the company in a series of high profile departures. Schachter is the founder of social bookmarking tool Delicious and Garlinghouse is (or more accurately, was) Yahoo's serach division senior vice-president. This fallout continues following the company's failure to come to a deal with Microsoft in a takeover attempt that would have given Google a bit more to think about. Other announcements of departures this week included Flickr...http://www.overclockersclub.com/news/22590/ Hardware Roundup: Weekend Edition- June 22, 2008 It's the weekend and time to catch up on some reviews from around the web. Every now and then we need to catch up on some items we missed during the week and that's how we ended up with three different cooling reviews from Virtual-Hideout beginning with the Cooler Master Hyper 212 (also reviewed by OCC here). With all the videocards happenings this past week, we're in for a treat with reviews of the different cards and today we have the HD 4850 in CrossFire mode and a look at overclocking the...http://www.overclockersclub.com/news/22593/ |