GameTrailers has posted some new footage of Halo Wars from CES. Unfortunately, it’s off-screen footage, and portions of the screen are cut off. Still, There’s plenty of interesting things to see if you know where to look. For one, you can see the system that lets you cycle through each individual unit type when you’ve selected a large group of different units — the player uses it at around 0:35 to select the Warthog and ram the enemy.
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Intel’s latest Core i7 range of CPUs offers plenty of performance straight out of the box, never mind about overclocking. However, the one thing they do excel at is being tweaked to run faster than standard without resorting to fancy water-cooling or even more exotic cooling methods.
You may not have heard of Wired2Fire before, but the Dorking, Surrey based system builders have been making some well built and quick PCs since 2004. The i7-powered Hellspawn Xtreme carries on that tradition and, although it comes with an eye-watering price tag (over three grand just for the system box), you do get one of the fastest desktop PCs available anywhere at the time of writing.
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CoolIT Domino A.L.C.CoolIT is a USA based company that started doing their cooling business a couple of years ago and instantly they became a hit. They introduced a very niche TEC (peltier) cooling product unto the market that made many of us scratched behind their ears. Niche often also mean high-end and thus expensive. With the product that they recently launched, that’s just not case anymore.
Introduction
A 101 On Cooling Methodology
Meet The Domino A.L.C.
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The Motorola Motozine ZN5 is a phone that’s very much focused on its photographic capabilities. Featuring a 5-megapixel camera with Kodak Perfect Touch technology, it includes a sliding lens cover on the back of the camera phone that sets the camera into instant operation when it’s slid downwards.
The ZN5 is a pretty large device, measuring 50.5mm x 118mm x 12mm, and unfortunately doesn’t look particularly inspiring or sophisticated. With a flat keypad the phone manages to pull off its large dimensions without looking too chunky and there’s no denying it has a durable, rugged feel about it.
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Dell has just announced its new USB digital TV Tuner made specifically for their Inspiron Mini netbooks. This TV Tuner would allow users to watch broadcast TV on their Inspiron Mini’s screen. The TV Tuner would be available in various models which are specific to the broadcasting standards specific to the regions.
Among the features of the USB TV Tuner includes:
Expected to be released anytime this quarter in Europe, North America, Asia-Pacific and China, the USB Digital TV Tuner will have an SRP of $50.
Aside from the new MSI Wind Netbooks, U115 and U140 which MSI are launching during the CES, the company is also announcing four spanking new MSI Wind NetOn All-in-One PCs - the AE2203, AP1900, AE1901 and AP1902. The AE2203 will have a 22-inch display while the rest each gets a 19-inch displays.
All these NetOn models will have the Intel dual-core Atom processors which makes them energy efficient with power consumption of only 20% of that of normal PCs. Additionally, the AE2203 will support full HD and an advanced AV and entertainment functionality.
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Just a few days after a product teaser for the new version of the HP Mini-Note 1000 appears on HP’s online store, HP is now ready to ship the Mini-Note 1000 Mi Edition at the published price of $329.99.
And like we told you before, for that price tag, you’ll get the following features and specs:
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The Dell Inspiron Mini 9 can now be purchased in two new configurations. The new options allows buyers to order a Mini 9 running Ubuntu with 2GB of RAM or with a 64GB SSD installed.
The cost of the new 2GB option will be an extra $75 on the regular price of a Mini 9 and the 64GB SSD configuration will set you back an 
extra $150. The pricing seems a little high and as Portable Monkey point out, if you are able to do the job yourself, its possible to add the extra RAM for less than $75.
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After the ASUS P6T Deluxe OC Plam left a very good impression because of good performance and overclockability we are now happy to test the ASUS Rampage Extreme II. On this Board you'll find a lot of overclocking features and we also hope good overclockability and performance.
Further you'll find a very solid power supply on this board: 16 phases CPU, 3 phases QPI/DRAM, 3 phases NB and 3 phases memory is much more than you can wish. Even the BIOS is optimized for overclockers and enthusiasts. These and other features we mention later make the Rampage II Extreme interesting to overclockers as well as enthusiasts.
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GIGABYTE Technologies INC., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards today is pleased to introduce their revolutionary Ultra Durable 3 Classic technology, featuring ounces of copper for both the Power and Ground layers to a dramatically lower system temperature, improved energy efficiency and enhanced stability for overclocking on a wide range of current AMD motherboards.
GIGABYTE once again leads the motherboard industry for the highest quality, most innovative motherboard design with the launch of their latest Ultra Durable 3 Classic technology. Equipped on the latest GIGABYTE AMD chipset-based solutions including the AMD 790GX, 790X, 780G and 770, GIGABYTE Ultra Durable 3 Classic motherboards feature double the amount of copper for the Power and Ground layers of the PCB. Most traditional motherboard designs utilize a single ounce of copper for each layer, whereas GIGABYTE’s ultra Durable 3 motherboards feature 2 ounces per layer.
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The Palm Pre was one of the stars of CES last week, and it seems Palm wants to keep the momentum going. The latest rumours are we’ll see more phones running its WebOS immediately after the Pre is release, including an all new Palm Centro 2.
The original Centro did well for Palm in the US, but failed to make as much impact in the UK. It makes sense for it to be blessed with the whizzy new WebOS too, since it would put the new interface infront of more customers, and build a sturdy base for developers to release WebOS apps. But launching it immediately after the Pre seems self destructive to us.
Citing “a seemingly reliable firsthand source,” Palm Infocenter is claiming the Centro 2 will launch this autumn, looking similar to its predecessor and being sold exclusively on Sprint in the US.
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After Dell finally launched its netbook, the Mini 9, there was still one major manufacturer’s netbook that some people were waiting to get their hands on: the one promised from Lenovo.
Well, the wait is over, as it’s finally made its appearance in the form of the IdeaPad S10e, a well designed netbook with a decent feature set and a competitive price tag, the only downside being the battery life from the 3-cell battery.
You can tell straight away which family of notebooks it’s related to, as the squared-off design,
measuring 25 x 18.3 x 2.8cm, makes it look and feel like a ThinkPad that’s been shrunk in the wash, which to many people makes it a winner from the start. But being a netbook it’s not only available in the familiar black, it comes in red and white as well.
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Today we present you the aquafrax GTX295 watercooler just in time with the release of the GTX 295 graphics card. The cooler is built sandwich style to cool both of the cards. The intermediate level is made of Delrin, the cooling blocks of 99,9% electrolyte copper. As special feature one will be able to choose if water runs paralell or in series through the blocks. So you can choose between high flow and low restriction or better cooling with high flow velocity. In parallel mode you need an additional T-Connector.
GPU´s are cooled with high efficient microstructure. Focus was also on low restriction. The threads are G 1/4 and coooler will be available as of next week. Materials are copper and delrin.
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Nexus has sent us a couple of coolers in this category of compact cooling solutions before, namely the Nexus XiR 3500 copper and the XiR 2300 aluminum coolers. Nexus is based off the concept that there is a real need to lower the ambient noise of a PC to make it more enjoyable to be around. This philosophy stands to serve them well as more users are putting HTPC’s in rooms where noise just isn’t wanted, let alone the idea of giving the ears of everyday users a break.
Page 1 - Introduction
Page 2 - Specifications, Availability And Pricing
Page 3 - Packaging
Page 4 - The Nexus FLC-3000
Page 5 - Accessories And Documentation
Page 6 - Testing Results
Page 7 - Final Thoughts
As fun as overclocking is, it does manage to take up a fair bit of time. But every once and a while a product will come along that we feel really deserves a good amount of time put into it to find those perfect clock speeds.
Last year it was the Q6600; we wanted to get it to 4GHz and we did. We also had that lovely new i7 CPU known as the 920 which overclocks so well. This year we’re getting into it early, though, thanks to NVIDIA. The GTX 295 is to date the fastest single graphics card you can purchase. We found this out when reviewing the Gainward card earlier today.
Page 1 - Introduction
Page 2 - Test System Setup And 3DMark Vantage
Page 3 - Benchmarks – PT Boats: Knights Of The Sea
Page 4 - Benchmarks – CINEBENCH R10
Page 5 - Benchmarks - World In Conflict
Page 6 - Benchmarks – Crysis Warhead
Page 7 - Benchmarks – Far Cry 2
Page 8 - Benchmarks – S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Clear Sky
Page 9 - Benchmarks – Left 4 Dead
Page 10 - Benchmarks - High Quality AA And AF
Page 11 - Final Thoughts
We’ve been hearing an awful lot about NVIDIA’s Ion platform, but up until now, we haven’t seen an awful lot. HotHardware and PC Perspective were both able to swing by NVIDIA’s booth at CES and get an up close look at the diminutive system. On hand was a half-liter PC that utilized a 1.6GHz Atom 330 CPU and NVIDIA’s GeForce 9400M GPU, and it was reportedly being used to push some pretty stellar video on the monitors behind it.
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Intel’s P45 Express chipset has become incredibly popular with both system builders and regular computer users. Based on the P35 Express chipset that came shortly before it, but with official support for 1600MHz FSB 45nm processors, the P45 is said to be Intel’s last core logic for legacy socket 775 CPUs. Now due to the sheer proliferation of P45 Express-based motherboards on the market, picking up a motherboard can be… well, quite challenging. Gigabyte is betting that connectivity will be the edge that propels its GA-EP45-DQ6 motherboard to the forefront, along with some innovative power saving technologies.
Page 1 : Gigabyte GA-EP45-DQ6 Intel P45 Express Motherboard Review
Page 2 : Gigabyte Dynamic Energy Saver Advance - Energy Efficiency
Page 3 : Total System Power Draw Comparisons
Page 4 : Gigabyte EP45-DQ6 Hands On Impressions
Page 5 : Gigabyte EP45-DQ6 Highlights Gallery
Page 6 : Intel P45 Express and ICH10 Chipsets
Page 7 : Overclocking Test Report & Test System Specs
Page 8 : Motherboard Benchmarks: Sysmark 2007
Page 9 : Motherboard Benchmarks: Sandra XII 2008 Processor
Page 10 : Motherboard Benchmarks: Sandra XII 2008 Memory
Page 11 : Motherboard Benchmarks: PCMark Vantage
Page 12 : Motherboard Benchmarks: 3DMark Vantage, 3DMark06, Super PI
Page 13 : Is the Feature Bonanza Worth it?
CES 2009: AMD has announced the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4000 series graphics cards for notebooks this morning at CES. They bring everything that was great about the Radeon HD 4000 series to notebooks in all shapes and sizes.
The ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4800 series cards pack 800 stream processors like their desktop siblings and deliver up to one teraFLOPS of compute power. They also support CrossFireX technology, GDDR5 memory and DirectX 10.1 amongst other things as well.
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At nearly two feet tall and weighing in at just under 30 pounds, the Cooler Master HAF 932 High Air Flow Chassis is an imposing full tower ATX case, marketed towards gamers and overclockers with an array of fans, cooling options, and lots of space for large components.
Page 1 : Cooler Master HAF 932 Full Tower Case Review
Page 2 : Head on - Big Boxy Fan Friendly
Page 3 : Internal Case Features: Opening ‘er up
Page 4 : Internal Case Features: Fans Fans Fans!
Page 5 : Motherboard And Peripheral Installation
Page 6 : Installing the HAF 932 Chassis
Page 7 : Conclusions: High Airflow Really Worth the Dust?
iPhone or iPod touch only: The already-good Pandora music recommendation engine app for the iPhone has gotten better with version 2.0, which adds Cover Flow view, artist and song info, and bookmark previews.Take a look at some screenshots. You’ll need to sign into your free Pandora account to get started and see your stations. Make a new recommendation-driven station based on an artist; check out the suggest-as-you-tap search drop-down.
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