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Thursday Afternoon (4 Comments) (link)
 Thursday, 30-December-2010  17:08:46 (GMT +10) - by DiGiTaL MoNkEY

Looks like Vodafone is in hot water this holiday season, with Australian law firm Piper Alderman calling for angry customers to register their interest in participating in a class action law suit against Vodafone, following the mobile telco’s recent spate of outages and technical glitches.

SemiAccurate have a sneak peak at MSI's upcoming GeForce GTX 580 and Radeon HD 6970 Lightning video cards. Both boards use a much larger PCB than you normally get on a graphics card, akin to the N480GTX Lightning, but MSI has come up with a new cooling solution called Twin Frozr III which aesthetically looks much better than the older card.

X-bit Labs preview Intel's Sandy Bridge microarchitecture. In a few weeks we will start posting reviews of Intel processors based on the new Sandy Bridge microarchitecture. But while we are still bound by the NDA, we decided to sum up all the information we know about these promising new products, which doesn’t fall under the NDA.

For AMD Radeon HD 6950 users that may have missed it, your AMD Radeon HD 6950 can be unlocked to HD 6970 with only a few easy steps. Looks like Santa brought an extra present for us hardware enthusiasts this year. Thanks to a less secure locking method AMD's new Radeon HD 6950 can be unlocked to a full blown HD 6970 with a few mouse clicks.

HardwareCanucks review Western Digital's Caviar Green 3TB hard drive. This combination of size and a low price per GB is why Western Digital’s Green line has been so popular. The latest addition to this product range pushes things to the next level. With a massive amount of capacity on tap, the new Green 3TB seems to fit the bill perfectly but with increased space comes a unique set of challenges as well.

IBM has announced its fifth annual Next Five in Five – a list of five technologies that the company believes that have the potential to change the way people work, live and play over the next five years.

Tom's Hardware round-up twelve of the latest gamer-centric power supplies. Gamers demand a lot from their computers, starting with the PSU. Therefore, almost every PSU manufacturer sells products optimised for gaming PCs. We introduce ripple and noise testing in this round-up to further improve our power supply evaluations.

They also take a look at Thermalright's Shaman VGA cooler. Thermalright's Shaman is the largest VGA cooler we've ever seen. Having recently reviewed three competing aftermarket graphics cooling solutions, we're eager to find out if size really matters when it comes to overclocking the ultra-hot GeForce GTX 480.



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