The carpet and first row of seats are in, all of the speakers are hooked up and we took it for a test drive with Kill Bill: Volume 1.
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other
We take a quick look at one of the least expensive 7-port USB hubs around and discover that more power is better....
A few years ago it was fashionable to bash Intel's Pentium 4 as a braindead architecture. The fact that the Pentium 4 Northwood (533 MHz FSB) was the best performing processor from mid 2002 until late 2003 in many applications, and that the Pentium 4 Northwood remained competitive until early 2004 was conveniently forgotten: nuances do not make good...
Over the years I've shared bits and pieces of my life with you all, and today I'm going to share quite possible the biggest and most important one.
When I was younger, my mom and I had the typical mom/son relationship. I wanted to sit around and play video games and she wanted me to read books. I wanted toys, she wanted me to do something useful...
other
What lies in store for the remainder of 2008? In a word, plenty! We put together a list of sixteen titles we're looking forward to seeing this year. Let's just hope delays are kept to a minimum…....
casecoolingpsus
Antec just launched their new Signature series of power supplies, designed to provide a top-quality experience. Does it succeed or does this signature besmirch their name?...
cpuchipsets
We provide our first look at NVIDIA’s latest chipset that provides integrated graphics functionality free, well almost; you do need to buy the motherboard. ...
digitalcameras
Are 12MP, two flavors of Live View, and an Image Stabilized kit lens enough to keep Canon in front in the fiercely competitive entry DSLR market?...
storage
We provide a quick update on the WD VR150 series after receiving a new drive from Western Digital that proves this dinosaur is serious about ruling the storage world....
displays
We have five new 24" LCDs plus results from previous LCDs. We also have some new tests to unveil. Can we crown a clear victor for the WUXGA throne?...
gadgets
I've been building a theater now for several months, but more recently I've been focusing on building a HTPC to drive the whole thing. Follow me on my journey for the perfect HTPC......
mb
Our 780G boards from Jetway, ASRock, and Gigabyte all survived unharmed after coming face to face with the 9850BE (disclaimer - read fine print on cooling requirements). ...
Cellshock recently sent us 4GB of their latest high-end performance DDR3 memory kit that we will be reviewing shortly. In the meantime, the press release is listed below along with some of our initial comments.
"This is the top of
the line CellShock memory and is targeted at enthusiasts and high end gamers.
These memory Kits are based on very best...
The theater has been progressing well, especially over the past couple of weeks. First off we had to put up all of the treatments on the walls:
The theater also finally has power. Some of the lighting fixtures have already been installed, although I'm waiting on getting the cloth panels up on the walls before putting the sconces on the walls.
Lighting...
IBM has launched a very interesting product lately: the JS22 blade. The IBM JS22 blade server has two dual-core Power6 CPUs, clocked at an impressive 4 GHz. Even more interesting is the honesty of the IBM marketing team about the Sun x4450 server. IBM took the Peak SpecInt2006 of several servers published on spec.org and made a...
The carpet and first row of seats are in, all of the speakers are hooked up and we took it for a test drive with Kill Bill: Volume 1.
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Our recent NVIDIA 780a launch article generated a lot of reader responses, especially in the email category. As of today, we have received a few 780a/750a samples for analysis and will go into specific details such as SLI scaling, power management, and overclocking in the individual board reviews. In the meantime, we...
A few years ago it was fashionable to bash Intel's Pentium 4 as a braindead architecture. The fact that the Pentium 4 Northwood (533 MHz FSB) was the best performing processor from mid 2002 until late 2003 in many applications, and that the Pentium 4 Northwood remained competitive until early 2004 was conveniently forgotten: nuances do not make good...
Over the years I've shared bits and pieces of my life with you all, and today I'm going to share quite possible the biggest and most important one.
When I was younger, my mom and I had the typical mom/son relationship. I wanted to sit around and play video games and she wanted me to read books. I wanted toys, she wanted me to do something useful...
This weekend, my mom (the true talent in the family) helped to get the screen fabric on the frame we built months earlier. The fabric was actually one of the first things I ordered last year; I snagged 154" x 65" of Da-Lite's Cinema Vision material from AV-Outlet, back then I expected the screen to be 144" wide and I ordered an extra 10" to make sure I had enough...
Oh we're getting close.
With doors hung and all of the drywall work done in the rest of the basement (and thus no chance for even more dust to get in the theater), we put in the call for the carpeting people to bring the theater carpet by. Ryan Kramer (the designer of the theater) suggested 'Wavelength' from Masland Carpet and he updated the render to include...
After over a month of waiting, the Omaura TF11 has finally arrived. The unboxing follows.
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Cellshock recently sent us 4GB of their latest high-end performance DDR3 memory kit that we will be reviewing shortly. In the meantime, the press release is listed below along with some of our initial comments.
"This is the top of
the line CellShock memory and is targeted at enthusiasts and high end gamers.
These memory Kits are based on very best...
The theater has been progressing well, especially over the past couple of weeks. First off we had to put up all of the treatments on the walls:
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We used two types of materials: OC703 (2" thick, covered with FSK along the rear wall) and Bonded Acoustical Cotton (2" thick). Bryan Pape, the audio guru, listed their roles as follows:
OC703 is...
IBM has launched a very interesting product lately: the JS22 blade. The IBM JS22 blade server has two dual-core Power6 CPUs, clocked at an impressive 4 GHz. Even more interesting is the honesty of the IBM marketing team about the Sun x4450 server. IBM took the Peak SpecInt2006 of several servers published on spec.org and made a...
Western Digital is finally launching a successor to the
Raptor EL150 family of drives that has been around since 2003. This
enterprise designed drive series is one that quickly made its home on just
about every enthusiast desktop. Capacities started at 36GB, soon grew to
76GB, and then topped out at 150GB for what seemed like an...