VIDEO: 6GHz plus: Overclocking the E8600 with liquid nitrogen

Posted at: 2nd September 2008 by Antony Leather

CustomPC and BenchTec overclocked the Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 as far as it could...

Almost real, almost here: A Quick Guide to 3D Displays

Posted at: 28th August 2008 by Mark Mackay

Long overlooked by gaming, 3D images with depth are back - at Nvision 2008, manufacturers of 3D displays were out in force. We take a look at how depth is...

Western Digital Caviar Blue (640GB)

Review Date: 8th September 2008

Despite a generous 640GB capacity, the Western Digital Caviar Blue has only two data platters. This equates to 320GB per platter, which is close to the highest areal density of hard disks at the moment. Greater areal... Read more

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Spore and Big Bad DRM

Big_Adam

Posted at: 10:35am 8th September 2008

After one hell of a wait Spore has finally seen fit to pull itself into a physical form and come forth onto our pitiful plain of existence. Then it craps itself inside out with very “Bioshock” style DRM policies.For the few who are currently going “WTF do mushrooms have to do with DRM?” let me explain. Spore is the latest game from the guy...

xfxscorpio911

Posted at: 10:16pm 14th July 2008

Hi All I've been annoyed for some time that my 8800 GTS 320 was not powerful enough to run my 22" screen, it would regularly lag in games like Crysis, Dirt and Grid, and would pause for several seconds in games like TDU and again Crysis (due to lack of Ram) So i have decided against my wallets better judgement to get myself a new toy an...

Carpet3

Posted at: 3:01pm 7th September 2008

The two things I never liked about my case were the original buttons (already replaced) and the horrible horrible case feet. They're plastic and look really tacky imo. Eurgh. Tacky, tacky, Tacky. I can see why they used them at the time, but they really don't suit the rest of the case. So, I've changed them :) I couldn't...

Far Cry 2 release date revealed

Posted at: 5th September 2008

Despite losing the Crytek development team to EA, Ubisoft has still ploughed on with the official sequel to Far Cry, and the developer has now revealed... Read more