Gigabyte GA-Z87X-OC Gaming Motherboard
21/10/2013. Category: Gadgets. Topic: computers.
Your father thinks you are overclocked in your head. Your mother is convinced you have gaming pareidolia. Your social networks consist of MMOGs, MMORPGs and LANs. When you did the Rorschach test, the only thing you saw was the GA-Z87X-OC.
You are not the only greedy gamer smitten by this gaming motherboard by Gigabyte. It was Tom’s Hardware’s choice of Best of Computex Award, received the Computex 2013 Design and Innovation award, the Gold Award from GameZoom, and was best overclocker for Reviewnet and a host of other geeks. Read more…
10MB HDD Way Back Then
24/07/2013. Category: Gadgets. Topic: computers.
Ran across an ad from July 1980 for a 10MB hard drive. Price: $3,495! Wow! An internal 250gig HDD now costs $35 and a 4 Terabyte HDD about $200.
It is interesting to see how the price of some things have gone up crazily but dropped significantly for other stuff. The old adage that “Everything goes up, only the rain comes down” is not quite true. Traditionally, the price of a motorcar has been the equivalent of a year’s average income.
Fortunately, the prices of electronic goods such as television sets, cell phones and computer items have come down as demand increased and the cost of manufacturing dropped (relatively). Read more…
E3 Expo 2013 highlights
12/06/2013. Category: Gadgets. Topic: computers.
It was the battle of the boxes at the 2013 E3 expo. Microsoft kicked off with the introduction to their new Xbox One and Sony kicked back with PlayStation 4. Sony stole the show by announcing there will be no used game restrictions or 24-hour check-in requirements with the PS4.
Nintendo introduced new games for their Wii U and 3DS. Microsoft announced that there will be 13 games exclusively for the Xbox One. EA broke the news on 11 new-generation games for both the Xbox One and PS4. Read more…
Cody Wilson’s 3D plastic gun
06/05/2013. Category: Gadgets. Topic: computers.
When Cody Wilson produced the world’s first 3D gun, the wisdom of Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC) probably played a part: “Law is mind without reason.”
The 25-year-old law student seemed to have thrown out all the rules and achieved what many had dreamt of and what some did not dare dream about. In the process, he has, for better or for worse, created a new global industry. Read more…
Samsung Galaxy S4 specs and reviews
26/04/2013. Category: Gadgets. Topic: phones.
30% larger and 17% heavier than the iPhone 5, the Samsung Galaxy S4 is the heavyweight in the smartphone market. It’s 5-inch 1080p Super AMOLED screen, fast quad-core 1.9GHz Snapdragon 600 processor, 2GB RAM, LTE, NFC and 13MP camera puts it in superphone category.
The features are impressive. “Smart Screen” pauses a video if you look away. “Air Gesture” allows you to answer a phone call, change songs in playlist, swap browser tabs or activate other functions just by waving your hand over the screen. “Air View” lets you hover over an item (social, email, calendar, etc.) to display a preview of what is inside. Read more…
AMD Radeon HD 7990 UltraHD graphics card
24/04/2013. Category: Gadgets. Topic: computers.
“The AMD Radeon HD 7990 is the world’s fastest graphics card.” That is AMD’s bold claim. The specs make it easy to believe: 6GB of GDDR5 on a 384-bit bus, running at 6.0Gbps for 576GB/s of memory bandwidth. The PCI Express 3.0 PLX bridge connects the dual ASICs in an internal AMD CrossFire technology configuration to provide 48 lanes with 96GB/s inter-GPU bandwidth.
At the heart of this desirable gaming gadget are two fully equipped Tahiti XT2 GPUs, each core with 4.3 billion transistors. So, that gives you 8.6 billion transistors, with 4096 Stream processors, delivering 8.2 terraflops of processing power. Read more…
Antec Eleven Hundred computer chassis
22/04/2013. Category: Gadgets. Topic: computers.
Most of the major computer manufacturers produce computer chassis and most of them are targeted at the home or office PC market. These chassis usually are compact, affordable and fairly durable. Gaming chassis, on the other hand, are large, strong and in most cases somewhat pricey.
Ardent gamers are big spenders. They want the latest, fastest CPU and GPU and enough memory and hard drive space to fight a war with. Which is exactly what happens once they move in behind the keyboard. Read more…
LG EA93 UltraWide 29-inch screen
18/04/2013. Category: Gadgets. Topic: computers.
Research done by Nielsen Norman Group shows that big monitors contribute to work efficiency. Big is better, in this case. But enough about work; let’s think game play.
LG’s EA93 screen is ultra wide: 29 inches. The screen resolution is 2560 x 1080, the contrast ratio 5,000,000:1 and it allows horizontal and vertical viewing angles of 178°. It’s the perfect wide screen gaming monitor. Read more…
Best mouse in the house
11/04/2013. Category: Gadgets. Topic: computers.
After dogs, the mouse is man’s best friend. More people spend more time with their mouse than with their dog. It is no wonder, then, that a mouse owner will argue until the end of the earth that his/her mouse is the best. Especially gamers.
Computer mouses, like dogs, come in all shapes and sizes, some with long tails, some without, some with short snouts and some with long snouts. And the mouse experts will have you believe that each have their own “personality.” Read more…
Updated spell checker
25/03/2013. Category: Gadgets. Topic: computers, lol.
I have a spelling checker,
It came with my PC.
It plane lee marks four my revue
Miss steaks aye can knot sea.
Eye ran this poem threw it,
Your sure reel glad two no.
Its vary polished in it’s weigh.
My checker tolled me sew.
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