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Antec CP-850w 1st Jul - Power supply units
Antec CP-850w

When it comes to PSUs, for years now the ATX unit has taken centre stage with little thought going into producing a different form factor. However, Antec have changed all this and decided that it is time for a revamp. ...

Sitecom USB Hub 23rd Jun - Other products
Sitecom USB Hub

A growing amount of USB peripherals and devices are being produced and for a large amount of PC enclosures, there are a limited amount of USB ports on the front panel. To make it easier to plug in different devices such ...

Roccat Vire 18th Jun
Roccat Vire

Traditionally a headset is basically a large pair of earmuffs which have speakers in the ears and ...


Scythe Bay Rafter

The hard drive in a computer system is a crucial component for storing data and programs. In some ...


AMA Aragon 900

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Hardware round-up | 03/07/09
Friday, July 3rd 18:00 GMT (8 views)
Hardware round-up: 03/07/09
CPU COOLERS
CASES
GRAPHICS CARDS
MISC. COOLERS
MOTHERBOARDS
OTHER PRODUCTS
RAM
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Gaming | Borderlands Interview at Shacknews
Friday, July 3rd 17:44 GMT (6 views)
Borderlands Interview at Shacknews Shacknews have interviewed an exec. behind the development of Borderlands, here's a few exerpts:

"The art style...is the glue to everything," Gearbox's Mikey Neumann explains above the gentle hum of a crowded meeting room during E3. "It allows us to embrace what our game actually is, and man, when we had that epiphany, when it all came together, we were like, 'shit man, that's what this game is, this game is about having fun.'"

"During cert, if you have a lot of level designers who have nothing to do--which is pretty common, you pull level design and art off first--they're gonna be making cool shit," Neumann notes hypothetically. "That cool shit, that tends to be what DLC ends up being. It's the stuff we couldn't add to the game because we're making it during cert."

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Gaming | Billions of Eve Money Stolen
Friday, July 3rd 17:43 GMT (6 views)
Billions of Eve Money Stolen Billions of Kredits have been stolen from the largest Bank in the Eve game, by one of the players that acted as director for the institution.

The 27 year old Australian named only as Richard, took the billions of virtual currency, and sold them for over £3000 in real money.

"Basically this character was one of the people who had been running EBank for a while. He took a bunch of (virtual) money out of the bank, and traded it away for real money," Ned Coker, of Icelandic company CCP which runs Eve, told the Reuters news agency.

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Hardware | Half Billion Dollar for Plane Thrower
Friday, July 3rd 17:39 GMT (9 views)
Half Billion Dollar for Plane Thrower A giant electromagnetic system developed by a company called General Atomic, has been given the go ahead and a half billion dollar loan by the US government.

The so-called Electro Magnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) is intended to replace traditional steam catapults in all future US carriers.

Fixed wing jets and prop planes need to use catapults to fire the plane forward when taking off from aircraft carriers, as even with the ship sailing into the wind at full speed, there isn't enough room for them to get up to speed without them.

Since world war II steam powered catapults have been used, but now this system could be set to replace it.

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General | Don't use iPhone in the Sun
Friday, July 3rd 17:23 GMT (10 views)
Don't use iPhone in the Sun With reports flying in that case discolouration has occurred on many iPhones while being used in the heat, Apple has released a statement saying it's a good idea not to use them when it's hot.

The recommended operational ambient temperature range is between zero and 35 degrees Celsius, which works out to 32 to 95 degrees Fahrenheit for you INQ readers in the US.

Apple has said that the iPhone can use up extra battery or even stop working temporarily under excess heat conditions.

This gives Apple a reason to blame their obviously flawed design of the new iPhone on the recent heatwave.

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Hardware | Thermaltake Launches Big WC Setup
Friday, July 3rd 17:13 GMT (14 views)
Thermaltake Launches Big WC Setup Thermaltake has announced the release of their latest water cooling kit in the ProWater series; the the PW880i.

Compatible with Intel's LGA775, LGA1366 and AMD 939, AM2, AM2+ and AM3 CPUs the PW880i is made up of a water block, pump, liquid tank, and a rather large 240mm radiator.

"The 336g heavy water block is made out of pure copper and supports 3/8-inch tubing. The rest of the pack includes a 500l/hr pump that generates just 16dBA of noise and has a MTBF of 80,000 hours, and which draws liquid from a 350cc liquid tank. The aluminum 240mm radiator comes with two fan that spins from 1000 to 2000 RPM and produces 20 to 28dBA of noise."


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Gaming | Relic Releases Dawn of War 2 Patch Beta
Friday, July 3rd 17:06 GMT (11 views)
Relic Releases Dawn of War 2 Patch Beta A day late, Relic have released the beta for their upcoming Dawn of War II "There is only War" patch for the much loved - at least by yours truly - Warhammer 40,000 real time strategy game.

To participate in beta, you need a copy of Dawn of War II, "in Steam, select "file," then under the "beta participation" section, click "change." Select Dawn of War 2, restart Steam, and the patch will automatically download."

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Hardware | Swimsuit Technology Could Bring More Records
Friday, July 3rd 16:58 GMT (16 views)
Swimsuit Technology Could Bring More Records Speedo last year released a new technology of swimsuit, that allows for much improved swimming times at the highest level of competition.

Now though, with several world records being brought home by people wearing the suits, including the world record setter from the Olympics last year, Michael Phelps, a huge spate of development has begun by other companies; seeing the release of several different suits.

The new materials used and manufacturing techniques are seen to be behind many of the record smashing that occurred last year.

One of the major issues with the new suit production however, is that they can only be warn by people sponsored by the makers; which is why only some wore the Speedo suit last year.

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Hardware round-up | 02/07/09
Thursday, July 2nd 15:40 GMT (15 views)
Hardware round-up: 02/07/09
CPU COOLERS
CASES
DRIVES
MOTHERBOARDS
OTHER PRODUCTS
POWER SUPPLY UNITS
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Gaming | Shacknews Starcraft II Interview
Thursday, July 2nd 15:17 GMT (18 views)
Shacknews Starcraft II Interview The guys at Shacknews have interviewed a member of the Starcraft II development team to get an insight into certain aspects of the title.

"Shack: I played a version of StarCraft II two years ago, then last year, and now today. With the game being in a playable state for so long, obviously this has been a considerable iterative process for you guys. How has the experience been on your end?

Dustin Browder: Hard. [laughs] Yeah, it's easily the most challenging development environment I've ever worked in. It's really exacting. We're really focused on quality, and that doesn't mean--when I first thought about, I want to work at Blizzard, it's going to be so cool--I thought we would make the game and then polish it. But no: we polish it. That's what we do. "

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