ACER recalls their overheating Predator gaming PCs
Published By admin On Sunday, March 22nd 2009. Under Work Tags: acer, ASG7200, ASG7700, Components, Hardware, NVidia, Personal computer, predator, Video card
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News hit the web recently that ACER, one of the biggest 1tier PC manufacturers was forced to recall some models (ASG7200 and ASG7700 to be precise) of their Predator gaming PC series since they were inclined to overheat and eventually catch fire. Issue ... Read More
PhysX in all EA’s games: revolution or expected?
Published By admin On Thursday, December 11th 2008. Under Work Tags: Ageia, ATI Technologies, Components, Electronic Arts, Games Convention, Green Goblin, Hardware, mirrors-edge, NVidia, Physics, PhysX, Video card, Video game
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I am the happy owner of an "old" original PhysX PCI 100 card, which still works flawlessly with the new NVidia drivers. When I received it as a sample I was really hoping to be able to see, in a very near future, ... Read More
AMD vs INTEL: clash of the titans on the overclocking battlefield
Published By admin On Friday, November 21st 2008. Under Work Tags: Advanced Micro Devices, AMD, BIOS, Central processing unit, Components, core i7, intel, Intel Core, Memory controller, overclock, Phenom, processor
Some days ago I was reading about the overclocking capabilities of the new Core i7 CPU which, with some new parameters to be set in BIOS, and paying some attention to the integrated memory controller which appears to block some overclokers with their overvolting intentions. Well, it appears that this ... Read More

