While LED’s are popular option for case-illumination, the laborious wiring process pushes many modders towards cold-cathode lighting. NZXT, known for their innovative gaming products, recently offered a notable solution. Their sleeved LED kit provides a string of high-intensity LEDs, pre-assembled and ready for use. Here are the specs: 12 or 24 High-Intensity LEDs Offered in [...]
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Review: NZXT Sleeved LED Kit
While LED’s are popular option for case-illumination, the laborious wiring process pushes many modders towards cold-cathode lighting. NZXT, known for their innovative gaming products, recently offered a notable solution. Their sleeved LED kit provides a string of high-intensity LEDs, pre-assembled and ready for use. Here are the specs: 12 or 24 High-Intensity LEDs Offered in [...]
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Review: Corsair Dominator 12GB (6 x 2GB) Kit
Corsair memory has a reputation among PC enthusiasts for producing top-notch RAM. Founded in 2001, they quickly became known for both impeccable quality and high performance. We recently got our hands on a triple channel Dominator kit, designed for Core i7 systems. This kit is massive–a whopping 12 GB–and fast, featuring 6 DDR3 1600 modules. [...]
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Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3
Box Cover Game Info: Category: Real-time Strategy (RTS) Developer: Electronic Arts Inc. Publisher: Electronic Arts Inc. Released: October 28 2008 Retail Price: $80 Official Site: http://www.commandandconquer.com/por…te/cnc/cncra3/ Recommended System Requirements: OS – Windows XP / Vista (32-Bit) Processor – XP: 2.0 GHz (Intel Pentium 4; AMD Athlon 2000+; Multiple Cores) / Vista: 2.2 GHz (Intel [...]
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Bejeweled Twist
Box Cover Game Info: Category: Casual Developer: PopCap Publisher: Popcap Released: October 2008 Retail Price: $30 Aus. Official Site: http://www.popcap.com/games/bejewele…ist|2792353004 Recommended System Requirements: Windows XP/Vista Memory: 256 (minimum); 512+ (recommended) MB RAM Processor: 1.2GHz MHz or faster DirectX: 8 (minimum); 9.0c+ (recommended) Internet: Internet connection is required to register both the download and CD-ROM [...]
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Rocket Mania Deluxe
Game Info Category: Casual Arcade Puzzler Developer: PopCap games Publisher: PopCap games Released: August 2003 Retail Price: $30 Official Site: http://www.popcap.com/games/rocketmania Recommended System Requirements: – Windows 98/ME/2000/XP – 350MHz or faster Processor – 64MB RAM – DirectX 7.0 or better INTRO: It is not often that a game gets a new rendition that [...]
From Techpowerup: “Today, AMD launched its Radeon HD 6800 series graphics processors, with all its AIB partners bringing out their designs. If you haven’t read our review of the Radeon HD 6870 already, please do so, to understand what the card is worth in its single GPU form, it may also clear some lingering misunderstandings [...]
Hello there, My name is Paul aka *Harbinja*. I have been with Appetite For Tech for some years now, Starting out as a mod and rising through the ranks to Pat’s Vice Admin. The site was bought from Smoked1 by a small team that had banded together on VW – Voided Warranty * A4T in [...]
Corsair memory has a reputation among PC enthusiasts for producing top-notch RAM. Founded in 2001, they quickly became known for both impeccable quality and high performance. We recently got our hands on a triple channel Dominator kit, designed for Core i7 systems. This kit is massive–a whopping 12 GB–and fast, featuring 6 DDR3 1600 modules. [...]
This is a recent research project (currently headed for publication) that began in my graduate computer vision class. Using an new GPU-accelerated tracking algorithm and a tiny camera, we track moving targets with remarkable speed, agility, and stability. The project has been posted on Make Magazine, NVIDIA’s CUDA Zone (which earned me a free NVIDIA [...]
From techpowerup.com: “Xigmatek is ready with its newest PC case, the Pantheon. This ATX mid-tower comes in four variants: Pantheon Black (all-black, with an extra intake instead of a side window), Pantheon Black W (all-black, with a side window), Pantheon Silver (has two chrome lines running down the front), and Pantheon Silver W (the same, [...]
Frequently, while at the office or out of town, I find (to my dismay) that I need to access files on my desktop computer at home. The inevitable results are special trips and wasted time. While I could leave my desktop on indefinitely and access files remotely as, the inordinate amount of electricity that it [...]
Highlights of the ATI Catalyst 10.9 for Microsoft Windows: Performance improvements: STALKER: Call of Pripyat Benchmark – depending on the model, screen resolution, anti-aliasing and whether you are using ATI CrossfireX™ technology, here’s an example of some performance improvements we’ve noted in our labs: up to 20% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 graphics up to [...]
XtremeComputing has posted a review for the Thermaltake Evo Blue ( W0307 ) 650W PSU. Snippet: “For this review I will be looking at another product from our friends at Thermaltake. The product this time is one of their power supply units and is the Evo Blue Series 650watt. As usual coming from Thermaltake I [...]
APH Networks has posted their thoughts on the Noctua NF-S12B FLX and NF-S12B ULN Cooling Fans. Snippet: “In the past, we have written three separate articles on five different Noctua products: The Noctua NF-S12-800, NF-S12-1200, NF-R8 review, the Noctua NF-P12 review, and the Noctua NH-U12P review. Now, let’s name one Noctua article that I wrote [...]