The Winter Warz are over.
Congrats to OC Forums for winning the Overall for the 2nd straight year. The Highest scorer was Deanzo from OCF.
Sponsors are Geil USA, ABIT, No Fear Computers & Xtreme CPU. Final Scores are posted here....
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GEIL USA Closes Tech Support Forums GEIL USA Tech support forums got the plug yanked in May and apparently discontinued the US portion of their Memory sales, disappointing most of their loyal customers and forum staffers. Not to worry, Most of the staff resides at The Raptor Pit forums and are offered unofficial tech support to the multitudes of people who have purchased GEIL Memory.
Read more at TRP Forums.....Here
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ATI/AMD Radeon passes Nvidia Finally With the eventual release of the HD 4870 X2, ATI is poised to take full control of the PC enthusiest market share. Nvidia has released the 280GTX... a power hungry card with a die the size of a half dollar that can cook dinner for you too, if you can get the pan on top of it. The decision to release the GX2 version hasn't been made yet. When it does, if it does...it will be mucho expensive and ONLY run on their chipset... Bummer! |
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Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 to Arrive on August 31stIt has been said that Intel is preparing to launch its latest Core 2 Quad processor, the Q8200 on August 31st. The forthcoming processor features four 45nm Penryn cores, 2.33GHz core clock, 4MB of shared L2 cache, a 1333MHz front-side bus, and a suggested price tag of just $203 |
Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 TOXIC 512MB
In this particular instance probably the most common complaint surrounding the reference Radeon HD 4850 is regarding its cooling solution. In short, the RV770 core which powers these boards gets hot. Very hot, even at idle. |
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G.Skill F2-8800 Pi Series CL5 4GB Kit
The G.Skill Pi Series goes a completely different route, than other high-end memory today. Instead of pushing the envelope on voltage, it gives you some crazy performance at default or close to default DDR2 voltage. |
ASUS Rampage Extreme motherboard It's been quite a while now since ASUS launched their first enthusiast-level Intel X48-based part, the Rampage Formula - An offering which put together the company's usual performance and overclocking-centric Republic of Gamers philosophy while still offering support for DDR2 memory. |