I must admit that I am kind of spoiled. My primary media box is a full PC running XBMC and so I have come to have high expectations from my media device. I don't think I am alone though in my expectations. However the Box Office does definitely have price in its favor, and if you can overlook some of its UI shortcomings you will get an inexpensive device that is well built, quiet as a mouse (even after playing 1080P video), power friendly and very small.
The word on the street is that game developers are only using PhysX because they get paid to implement it in their games. There is a large part of me that believes that. Games that use PhysX look/play better on NVIDIA hardware as NVIDIA is the company pushing PhysX. Of course, all of these rumors come from AMD, but it is still an interesting thought. ThinQ has more info.
“They’re not doing it because they want it; they’re doing it because they’re paid to do it. So we have a rather artificial situation at the moment where you see PhysX in games, but it isn’t because the game developer wants it in there.”
As we keep the news rolling, we've got a few motherboards to fire through the news bucket. There are mostly Intel boards, but there is a good AMD board in the mix for good measure.
We've highlighted a variety of free ways to protect data on castoff drives from being retrieved. As you can see, your best bet is to overwrite data directly, but you also might want to consider using a program such as SDelete to scramble filenames first and then use a disk wiper such as Eraser or WipeDisk to finish the job.
Overall, it is a very good gaming mouse - with one exception - it feels a little out of balance. If you place your hand in normal position and pick it up it feels a little heavy in the palm. If you like a mouse with a little "junk in the trunk" this would be perfect. After a few hours of use it become familiar; the initial booty shock is what surprised me.
ATI is certainly cleaning house in the graphics market these days. They have DX11 cards for every budget. To prove that point, TechPowerUp has a look at the ASUS EAH 5850 TOP DirectCU card that looks to be pretty speedy. It is an overclocked version of the standard 5850 and it seems to do pretty well.
When comparing this card to the ASUS EAH 5830 DirectCU that we reviewed recently, the only difference is the GPU core and the red stripes on the cooler. The PCB design and component selection is 100% identical. Of course both cards have a different BIOS with different clock, voltage and fan settings, but otherwise the cards are the same.
If you're short of cash, but still want some DX11 action, the HIS HD5570 at HiTechReviews may be more your cup of tea. This card is quite a bit slower, but has the same feature capabilities of the more expensive cards. It would be a great HTPC card as it doesn't generate a lot of heat.
So this time around AMD/ATI has once again introduced a sub-$100 card that is taking names and kicking major butt. The card is the HD5570 1 GB card, as you will see by our benchmarks this little $82.00 card does and outstanding job of handling the various tests we subjected it to.
If you think that just because you bought yourself a Windows Mobile phone you are strapped to the OS provided by Microsoft, you're wrong. It appears that PocketNow has installed some Ubuntu action on their phone and gives us the scoop and a little demo. It looks pretty sweet for sure.
This may be a testament to the versatility of Windows Mobile devices or to the genius of certain XDA members. It looks like user sebbo90 has figured out how to run Ubuntu on his Touch Pro2 through haret. Last month, user fatsal did likewise on the XPERIA X1.
We've got everything from enclosures, traditional HDDs to SSDs below. If you're looking for somewhere to put your files, you've got a lot of choices today.
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