Month: August 2013
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Nanoxia Preview Deep Silence 4, 5 And 6
Silent case manufacturer Nanoxia have just previewed three of their new cases named the Deep Silence 4 (pictured above), Deep Silence 5 and Deep Silent 6 according to TechPowerUp. These three new cases use Nanoxia’s own 120/140mm Deep Silence fans and noise dampening material. The Deep Silence 4 is aimed…
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Many UK And US Officials Confused About Where Damascus, Syria, Is Located
While the UK and USA’s governments talk strong anti-chemical weapons rhetoric against Assad’s Syrian government, do they even know where Syria’s capital city Damascus is? Well according to usvsth3m.com of 65 people in the American department of defence 43% couldn’t locate Syria accurately. In the UK the figures were slightly better for…
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Microsoft And ValueAct Sign Cooperation Deal Shortly After Ballmer’s Departure
Well it appears ValueAct Capital might have been behind Steve Ballmer’s departure after all. Steve Ballmer, pictured above, was quick to deny rumours that the Microsoft investor was behind his decision to leave on the day he announced his scheduled retirement from Microsoft. Yet Microsoft and ValueAct recently released a…
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Cooler Master Unveil HAF Stacker Series
Just a week ago we brought you the news about Cooler Master preparing the new HAF Stacker series of cases. I posed the question “how do you take the unique HAF Series case and combine it with the unique Stacker Series case?” in that article. Well now Cooler Master have…
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Microsoft Sues NSA For Permission To Disclose More Data
Microsoft has announced that it is making another push for transparency against the NSA. It claims that lawsuits filed against the U.S government have been totally ignored and despite extending the deadline six times and being actively involved in talks with the U.S government, everything has ended in failure. This…
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Intel Bay Trail Silvermont Powered Atom Z3000 Series Gets Performance Exposé
WCCFTech have managed to score some Intel presentation slides which reveal the performance of the upcoming “Silvermont” CPUs in the Atom Z3000 series on the Bay Trail platform. These CPUs use the latest 22nm process and are available with up to 4 cores and 4 threads, 2MB of L2 cache,…
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Microsoft Offering Refurbished Surface RT Tablets For $299
Microsoft has decided to start offering refurbished variants of its Surface RT tablets on the Microsoft store for $299 with free shipping and free returns in the USA. This means American consumers can pick up the 32GB refurbished Surface RT model for $299 or the 64GB model for $349. Microsoft…
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Xbox One To Launch In Late November According To Doritos Ad Promotion
The eagle-eyed news-writers over at Softpedia have spotted signs of the Xbox One’s release date courtesy of a promotion being run by Mountain Dew, Microsoft and Doritos called “Every 2 Minutes”. The competition gives away the hints that we should see the new console launch in late November: “Xbox One…
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Windows 8.1 RTM Shown Off In Leak Video
The Windows 8.1 RTM version is now available and has been sent to Microsoft’s hardware partners. Somewhere along the way a user has managed to get a chance to make a video about the Windows 8.1 RTM and upload it to YouTube. The video shows viewers briefly around the new…
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Qualcomm Says It’s Not About Cores – Its Quad Is Better Than Rival Octa
Qualcomm has been losing a bit of ground to some cheaper ARM processors on the market and the company has produced a video to show why they are a smart choice if you’re looking for a high performance phone according to Android Authority. Qualcomm says its mainly about how efficient…
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Kingston NaVi Limited Edition DDR3 1600MHz 8GB Memory Kit Review
Introduction Kingston are quite well known for their tendency to release limited edition products that are branded to celebrate certain events or partnerships and the NaVi series memory kits we have here today are no different. These NaVi series memory kits are essentially Kingston HyperX kits branded yellow to celebrate…
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Winners Of The Roccat Kone Pure Color Gaming Mice Announced
Our Roccat giveaway ended on Monday August 26th and with 377 entries your odds of winning were actually pretty good at around 1.06%. We have picked four lucky winners who will now be given mice based on their preferences. Luckily enough none of the four random winners choice’s clashed thanks…
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Nvidia Teams Up With Warner Brothers For Batman Arkham Origins
Nvidia has announced that it is teaming up with Warner Brothers Interactive and WB Games Montréal to bring the next instalment of the Batman video game series to Nvidia users. Customers who purchase a quality GTX series graphics card from a participating retailer will be entitled to a complimentary copy…
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Inno3D Reveal iChill HerculeZ X3 Ultra VGA Cooling Kit
Inno3D have just unveiled their newest VGA cooling kit which forms their “iChill HerculeZ X3 Ultra” VGA cooler. The cooler features 11 scythe blades on each of the three 90mm fans as well as five large heat pipes, 6mm as far as I can tell. The fans casing and blades…
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EVGA Announce 600B Power Supply
EVGA have just unveiled their latest budget power supply – the EVGA 600B which joins their recently announced 500B model. The 600B is capable of supplying 600 watts of continuous power at 80 Plus Bronze efficiency levels. EVGA have opted for HEC/Compucase as the OEM supplier of the 600B. The…
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