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Friday, 4-February-2011 02:07:55 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Intel's Sandy Bridge recall has shaken up the market pretty seriously. NewEgg, the giant US-based retailer, have a video explaining the situation. All the major manufacturers have issued statements as well: Intel, Gigabyte, Asus, MSI, ASRock, thanks d1ng0d4n. OCAU Major Sponsor Computer Alliance have stated their policy also.
Facebook have a new feature that has people worried about privacy, so here's how to disable it. Provided you are logged into Facebook, certain websites like Pandora and Bing can ‘personalise’ their sites with data provided from your account. Any information which is set to ‘Everyone’, like your name or your birthday can be used to make the website appear more friendly and tuned in.
ArsTechnica ponder just how green green drives really are. In terms of cost, using a green hard drive compared to a normal one makes very little difference. Assuming your drive spends 4 hours reading and writing and 20 hours idle per day, switching from the WD Black to Green saves you only 45 kilowatt-hours per year. The national average cost of a kilowatt-hour is 11.93 cents, netting you a whopping $5.38 per year for your sacrifice of 1800 RPM. For comparison, changing one 60-watt lightbulb used 4 hours a day to a 7-watt fluorescent one saves you more, about $9.23 per year.
PCWorld have more info about the recent Logitech cash-back promotion that lasted a few hours at most. Peripherals manufacturer Logitech has reported what it calls "unprecedented demand" for a cash-back offer it announced for the month of February on selected mice, keyboards and accessories. $300,000 of cash-back funds allocated to the offer was exhausted halfway through the first day of February.
Canada's Government has indicated it will step in to remove broadband caps, overturning a decision by the regulator. It would not prevent the big Internet providers from continuing to use metered billing as they have for years. But the fact that smaller providers could offer unlimited accounts has likely acted as a competitive check on the market and helped keep prices from rising.
PC Perspective have some thoughts on NVIDIA, ARM, Tegra 3 and beyond. For years NVIDIA has been hiring engineers with CPU backgrounds, and with the Tegra series of products we finally see what they have been working on. NVIDIA has foregone trying to get a x86 license, and instead is jumping with both feet into the world of ARM processors. It's also worth considering that Intel would still be able to sell LGA1155 CPUs (despite their own chipset being recalled) if nVIDIA had been given a license to make chipsets for it. :)
LegionHW have a guide to overclocking the GeForce GTX 560 Ti, while MadShrimps cover Sandy Bridge overclocking. Slowly but steadily Clarkdale and Lynnfield will become End Of Life and will be phased out. At the Sandy Bridge Tech conference the representatives of Intel said that the current S1366 i7 lineup (Bloomfield and Gulftown) will remain their high end platform.
Google and Bing have been facing off over the last couple of days, after an article claimed Bing is copying Google search results. The Bing team have responded, and Google have followed up with more info. However you define copying, the bottom line is, these Bing results came directly from Google. I’d like to give you some background and details of our experiments that lead us to understand just how Bing is using Google web search results. Some more info here, thanks mpot. Discussion here.
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