Archive for the 'Other' Category

Toms Hardware has a neat write up on how a CPU is made, from beginning to end.   The details were pulled straight from a Intel walk through that was recently released.   Pretty interesting read in you have ever been curious how the magic happens.   Read about it here.

“Fisker Automotive is a green American premium sports car company with a mission to create a range of beautiful environmentally friendly cars that make environmental sense without compromise.”
What makes the Fisker special?  Materials, technology and style from what I gather.  Build materials are eco friendly and the technology is pretty forward thinking, at least for [...]

Some highlights of the proposed new features :
HDMI Ethernet Channel – This will allow for ability to send and receive 100 Mb/sec of data straight over HDMI.   This is great as it simplifies connections reducing the need for additional cabling.
Audio return Channel – Not as cool as the ability to receive data at 100Mb/sec, but [...]

Over in the HardOCP forums, a user stumbled upon a technique for bringing some dead or dying graphics cards back to life. In his particular case, his 8800 GTX suffered from artifacts and random crashing. The fix is to strip everything off the card (cooler, screws, etc) and using wadded up aluminum [...]

So I know that this is not computer related, but having professionally roadraced motorcycles for 7 years, I am still a huge fan and when I see something cool like this, I feel I should post something.
So MotoCzysz originally aimed his sights several years ago about building an American MotoGP bike.   In case you are [...]

Corsair just released the Ice T30 sub-ambient cooling for Dominator GT ram.   Sure it is $200 and the pimping Dominator GT costs $500 for 6GB of the stuff running at 2000mhz, so insanely overpriced for what essentially will be just a slight performance increase.   Still….the hardcore overclocking persona living deep in my soul still drools [...]

Popped on my Arctic Cooling Accelero S1 on my Gigabyte HD 4890 as I had grown tired of the annoying fan whine that came from it.   Mini review can be found here.

Yes, you read that right, a review on some water guns testing range, optimum soaking distance, etc..   Totally not computer related, but hilarious none the less, so I thought I would link it.   Check it out here.