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So, you may (or may not!) have noticed I've been away for a couple of weeks. Thanks to Rezin for keeping the news page going pretty much single-handedly in my absence. I was in the USA, getting my fill of blues and BBQ in the deep south, in an enormous hire car, with Sciby. More on that later - in the meantime, here's some news.
The ACCC is looking into online price inflation, thanks d00dz. The competition regulator has announced it will investigate clothing importers who are making deals with international online stores to inflate prices for Australian shoppers. There are reports that some fashion importers and retailers are asking international websites to increase prices for Australian shoppers or restrict sales of particular brands.
A Call of Duty trojan has earned a hacker 18 months in prison. After gamers installed the fake patch, the 20-year-old was able to remotely monitored computer users' keystrokes, stealing bank details, credit card numbers, passwords, codes and other personal information. While it's not reported that he used any of these stolen log ins himself, Martin allegedly sold them to "crooks and villains" who certainly did, stashing the proceeds in an off-shore bank account in Costa Rica.
Outy spotted this Google Street View prank apparently played on Volkswagen by rival FIAT. Fiat's Swedish base of operations is just 45 minutes away from the VW building, so the prank wouldn't have taken very long to pull off, but just how Fiat knew that Google Street View was in the area is a mystery. But judging by past pre-planned Street View gags, it's clear that once someone spots the car, word travels fast.
The modding community is working together to raise money to help one of their own with some serious health issues. bit-tech member, JohnHanlon303 lives with incurable Asbestos Poisoning, which leaves him with 40% lung capacity. He can no longer be employed with this condition. Hes filed paperwork for Government financial assistance, but won't see 1st check until this April. Until then, he needs financial help with living expenses and medical prescriptions. To help raise money for John, I've teamed up with Darth Beavis to build a custom PC, to auction off on Ebay.
Facebook are lining up for a an even bigger IPO than expected. Facebook has priced its initial public offering at $US38 a share, giving the world's No. 1 online social network a $US104 billion valuation amid strong demand for the stock. The company and its funders stand to reap as much as $US18.4 billion ($18.6 billion) from the IPO, if the extra shares reserved to cover additional demand are sold too, making it the sixth largest share offering in history. Discussion continues here.
Some close friends of mine have a child with food allergies. They've been involved in the creation of a short film to help spread awareness of this issue. Hopefully viewing and sharing this film can prevent or reduce the number of allergic reactions in kids like Peter and other allergy sufferers. These reactions, which can have fatal results, are often caused by naivety, ignorance or malicious actions (bullying) which are preventable by just understanding what some people live with and the issues that people face in everyday life. Website here, YouTube video here, Facebook page here. Discussion thread here.
Issue 19 of The Overclocker is now available for reading.
Thursday Morning Reviews
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Thursday, 17-May-2012 00:51:03 (GMT +10) - by Rezin
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Portable:
ASUS G75VW-DS71 Notebook on TechReviewSource.
Lenovo IdeaPad Y480 Laptop on TechReviewSource.
HTC One X Android Smartphone on HardwareHeaven.
Cases:
Corsair 550D on Vortez.
NZXT Switch 810 Special Edition on HardwareHeaven.
Cubitek HPTX ICE Frozen Solid Chassis on TweakTown.
Antec GAME ONE Mid-Tower on NickKTech.
Cooler Master HAF XM Mid-Tower on Big Bruin.
Thermaltake Level 10 GTS Snow Edition on Overclockers Club.
Cooler Master Cosmos II Computer Case on APH Networks.
Chillblast Fusion Vacuum on XSReviews.
Storage:
OCZ Vertex 3 Max IOPS 240GB on HCW.
Corsair Accelerator 30GB & 60GB on Neoseeker.
Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Home Network Storage System on The SSD Review.
Audio & Visual:
KRK Systems KNS 6400 Headphones on techPowerUp.
Noontec Zoro Headphones on eTeknix.
Vizio M3D550KD HDTV on TechReviewSource.
Lenovo ThinkVision LT1421 14-inch Portable USB Monitor on ThinkComputers.
Cooling:
SilenX EFZ-120HA5 Heatsink on FrostyTech.
Coolermaster Hyper 412 SLIM CPU Cooler on Rbmods.
Noctua NH-L12 Low Profile CPU Cooler on ThinkComputers.
Corsair Hydro H100 Self Contained Watercooling Heatsink on FrostyTech.
CoolerMaster TPC 812 CPU Cooler on Bjorn3D.
Zero-Infinity Free-Flow+ CPU Cooler on Overclock3D.
Deepcool/Logisys Gammaxx 400 CPU Cooler on Hardware Secrets.
Misc:
Capdase 320A MKeeper SLR Camera Bag on TestFreaks.
OCAU forum member leroyxx spoke to The Register about the Folding@home Chimp Challenge 2012, which started yesterday. For the ten subsequent days, eight teams will go all-out to take the coveted "Jaded Monkey" trophy, a somewhat ugly image file that only the winning community is entitled to use. Hardware Canucks currently holds the Jaded Monkey, but will be challenged by teams from Australia, the USA, Russia and multinational outfits like TechPowerup. You can find more information and discuss the challenge here.
Tech ARP have updated their CPU Comparison Guide. Currently covering 837 desktop CPUs, this comprehensive comparison will allow you to easily compare 19 different specifications for each and every CPU.
ThinkComputers looks at the history of Epic Games, who recently celebrated their 20th anniversary. Epic has given us some of the best first person shooters for PC, arguably the best game and franchise for the Xbox 360, and a cult-like following in the video game industry. Just thinking of some of these games brings back great memories of playing at LAN parties and on the internet with friends.
Phoronix compare the performance between Ubuntu versions 11.10 and 12.04 using Intel Sandy Bridge hardware. The tests in this article are primarily looking at the Sandy Bridge graphics performance as well as the all around processor performance for this now generation-old Intel hardware.
They also visited the Ubuntu Developer Summit which was held last week. There was a lot of interesting notes shared on Phoronix from the UDS-Q event, so here's a summary of the most prominent happenings last week as the future of Ubuntu Linux was plotted.
If you weren't aware that Kodak had a small nuclear reactor in a bunker at their research complex, you're not alone - not many did. Kodak used small research reactors, including one at Cornell University, and possessed a dollop of californium-252, a radioactive isotope that endlessly sheds neutrons. But it wanted a more potent in-house system, so in 1974 it acquired a californium neutron flux multiplier, known as a CFX.
Watch bands can be annoying sometimes, but I can't say that they annoy me enough to want to implant magnets into my arm to hold one. We applaud Dave Hurban's originality, as we would have never thought of drilling into our arm and plugging the holes with four magnets to keep the iPod nano literally close at hand.
Motherboard & CPU:
Gigabyte Z77-D3H on eTeknix.
Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H on Funky Kit.
ECS Z77H2-AX Black Extreme on Madshrimps.
Intel DZ77GA-70K on Benchmark Reviews.
... and several reviews of AMD's new Trinity A10 APU on: HotHardware, PC Perspective, Neoseeker, TechwareLabs, Bjorn3D, and VR-Zone.
Input:
CM Storm Trigger Mechanical Keyboard on eTeknix.
Corsair Vengeance K90 Keyboard on TechwareLabs.
Pulse-Eight Motorola NYXboard Hybrid Wireless Keyboard and IR Remote on MissingRemote.
Video Cards:
MSI GTX 680 Twin Frozr III OC 2GB on techPowerUp.
Gigabyte GTX680 Windforce on Vortez.
Gigabyte GTX680 Windforce on Overclock3D.
Storage:
Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB SSD Review on TestFreaks.
Testing 10 Gigabit Ethernet Performance: QNAP TS-879 Pro & Synology DS3612xs NAS on TechSpot.
Memory:
G.Skill Ares 16GB DDR3-2133 on PureOverclock.
G.Skill Ripjaws Z DDR3 2133 8GB Quad Kit on Pro-Clockers.
Motherboard & CPU:
ECS Z77H2-AX Golden Edition on Overclockers Club.
Gigabyte Sniper M3 on Bjorn3D.
Gigabyte A75M-D2H and A75-UD4H on Overclockers Club.
MSI X79A-GD65 (8D) on X-bit labs.
Intel Core i7 3770K Ivy Bridge on PureOverclock.
Storage:
Kingston MobileLite G3 Memory Card Reader on Big Bruin.
Patriot Memory SuperSonic Boost 32GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive Review on NikKTech.
OCZ Vertex 4 128GB SSD Review and 1.4RC FW Comparison on The SSD Review.
Data Memory Systems Celerity 6G Plus 120GB SSD on TweakTown.
Storage Perspective: A Google Drive Preview on PC Perspective.
Video Cards:
HIS Radeon HD 7870 IceQ X Turbo X 2GB on eTeknix.
Zotac GeForce GTX680 2GB on HardwareLOOK.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 2x2 GB on X-bit labs.
Virtu Universal MVP on Hardware Secrets.
Prebuilt:
Zotac ZBox Nano XS AD11 Plus on Funky Kit.
Zotac Zbox Nano XS AD11 Plus on t-break.
Roku HD on TechReviewSource.
Lenovo IdeaCentre Q180 on PC Perspective.
Lenovo C325 All-in-One PC on ThinkComputers.
Egreat S-Series R300 Network HD Media Player on NikKTech.
Pivos aios HD Media Center on NikKTech.
PSUs:
PC Power and Cooling (OCZ) Silencer MkII 750W on Guru3D.
Cooler Master Extreme 2 475W on Hardware Secrets.
Xigmatek Centauro 1000W on TweakTown.
Audio Visual:
Dell UltraSharp U3011 30" Monitor on HotHardware.
SteelSeries Diablo III Headset on NikKTech.
PC Perspective got confirmation that the GTX 670 will eventually support 4-way SLI. In our launch review of the GeForce GTX 670 2GB graphics card this week, we had initially mentioned that these $399 graphics cards would support SLI, 3-Way SLI and even 4-Way SLI configurations thanks to the pair of SLI connections on the PCB. We received an update from NVIDIA later on that day that in fact it would NOT support 4-Way SLI.
Legit Reviews take you through the steps they performed to build their water cooled Mini-ITX SFF PC. Building a Small Form Factor Mini-ITX computer can be challenging, but it is worth the extra work as the end result can be amazing. We managed to stuff a ton of enthusiast grade hardware into a PC case that measures just 9.06" x 12.33" x 14.29" (WxHxD)!
Tech ARP have updated their Mobile CPU Comparison Guide. Currently covering 729 mobile CPUs, this comprehensive comparison will allow you to easily compare 19 different specifications for each and every CPU.
If your multi-monitor setup has irritating gaps, check out TweakTown's de-bezel modification guide. No longer did I get the fishbowl effect, or any stretching in my games. At a field-of-view of 90 in most first-person shooters, it looked like a very large single screen. I was happy with my results, until my friends saw it and noticed the bezels. For months, all I heard was "the bezels, Anthony, the bezels". Discussion here.
Everyone who's ever lost data will aggree that backups are important. While I was visiting family over the Christmas holidays, two of the three drives in the systems's RAID 5 array died. A sagging 5V rail in the PSU was to blame, and my 2TB array was toast. ... My initial response was panic.
Royalnine noticed that the first episode of the Video Game High School webseries has been released. It's a story of a young FPS player, Brian who's stuck in a town where he doesn't belong. His fortunes change when he scores a massive kill against the world's top amateur player: VGHS senior "The Law." Brian rockets into the national spotlight and lands an invite into the hallowed halls of VGHS. There his skills will be tested as he fights to fit in with the most talented gamers alive.
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