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The Cooler Master Notepal Infinite EVO keeps its cool in the lab Featured
Written by Sean KalinichMSI's Big Bang Marshal shows off for us Part I Featured
Written by Sean KalinichThe Lenovo USB 2.0 Dock with Digital video trys to impress Featured
Written by Sean KalinichAnon goes legal? Well legal action any way... Featured
Written by Sean KalinichNetflix deauthorizes Windows Media Center Plugin?
Written by Sean Kalinich
In an odd turn of events Netflix, one of the largest internet streaming media companies, appears to have locked out the Windows 7 Media Center Plug-in. The issue began on June 29th in the early evening when reports of this issue popped up from different users around the net. We checked into the problem and found that while the rest of the service appeared to work flawlessly, you still could not view any movies. The error? Our apologies – we could not authenticate this request.
The Z68 has been touted as “cougar point done right” and many other things. I have been asked if the Z68 is going to replace the X58 and many other things beside that ever since it came onto the scene. We have taken a theoretical and design look at one Z68 and now we are going to take a look at another. This one is from Gigabyte; the Z68X-UD3H-B3 (we are getting back to the long names again). This board has a more than its share of selling points. It features the new TouchBIOS (also called Hybrid EFI), the usual compliment USB 2.0 and 3.0 ports and of course SLI and crossfire. But there is more to the Z68X-UD3H than just this. We also see that it comes complete with the new VirtuGPU technology from Lucid Driver MOSFETs, and much more. So let’s see what we can find digging into the design and features before we get to the performance numbers in part II.
Thermaltake V9 BlackX Edition in for a spin Featured
Written by Sean KalinichMSI's Z68A-GD80 Design and Feature Preview Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich450Mbps in a little package; Meet the TRENDNet TEW-684UB Featured
Written by Sean KalinichThe X58A-OC from Gigabyte hits our Lab for some OC time Featured
Written by Sean KalinichWe bring 450Mbps wireless into the Lab with the TRENDNet TEW-687GA Featured
Written by Sean Kalinich
The net is full of articles talking about how this or that technology company is controlling their software, hardware, IP (Intellectual Property) or some other item that they want to complain about. You also cannot run a search on net-neutrality, DCMA, MPAA, RIAA, Pirate Bay or, of course Apple without hearing about how medieval and out dated their concepts of fair usage is. I have talked about this kind of corporate control for years as well. It I oppressive, stifles the market and Hurst consumers. However, there is one type of control that is good for the consumer. This is the type of control that Kingston is holding over their ValueRAM Server Premier memory. What Kingston has done is take their already great server memory and add an extra level of quality control to ensure maximum performance and stability. They have done this by controlling every part that goes into this product right down to the revision of chip die. Let’s take a quick look at how this works and what it means to the consumer and enterprise.