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  1. Rob Williams

    Eight People Purchased Useless "I Am Rich" iPhone Application

    Heh, this story is hilarious. On one hand, I'd be surprised if we was able to keep the cash, but on the other, he didn't seem to break any rules, and people did willingly purchase it, regardless of how foolish that fact is. Talk about a quick $5,600!
  2. Rob Williams

    Antec P190 + 1200 Mid-Tower

    Planning a new build and don't know which chassis to choose? Does the idea of having a feature-packed mid-tower intrigue you? Well, the P190 is just that, with its intuitive design and two pre-installed power supplies, offering you a total of 1,200W of overkill pleasure. Is the case a true...
  3. Rob Williams

    Building an Affordable "Skulltrail" System

    Well, the overall wattage doesn't matter as much as the volts the rail can handle. Still, it doesn't matter much... goof around and see what you can accomplish. I for one am very interested in seeing how far you can push things. Definitely post pictures also... I love em.
  4. Rob Williams

    Still No Demand for Blu-ray?

    What about it would make you happy about it? I love BMW's, but wouldn't be happier than a pig if Mercedez-Benz failed! (poor example, since I like M-B also, but whatever) I hope Blu-ray succeeds, because there is clearly no other competitor out there, except for downloadable content.
  5. Rob Williams

    NVIDIA's PhysX: Performance and Status Report - Part 2

    Because of the time-constraints on this article (the entire article was completed in ~13 hours), I was only able to tackle so much. I didn't have an SLI-capable motherboard hooked up in order to conduct that kind of testing, but there will be such testing in the third article, without question.
  6. Rob Williams

    Aurora Concept Browser Brings Internet Use to New Level

    Of course, but the idea behind Aurora is to piece everything together, to make your computing experience a streamlined one. It does look complicated, I admit, but anything would be at first. It might very-well be easier after a while. What would drive me bonkers are the stupid sound effects for...
  7. Rob Williams

    Project: Deuce

    Wow, I missed a lot of updates here. Am I blind, or did I miss how you did that cool blue flame paint-job on the chassis door? It looks sharp as hell. Nice hack-job on the PSU as well, haha. You really do seem to have patience, that's for sure! It's too bad the acrylic hassle you went through...
  8. Rob Williams

    Still No Demand for Blu-ray?

    This is true, but to me, history doesn't have to repeat itself. We have far more resources than we did back then, and I have little doubt that the media itself is dirt-cheap for them to produce. Not to the extent of a DVD of course, but it still shouldn't cause a $10 - $15 premium. To me, even...
  9. Rob Williams

    Fake CNN.com 'Daily Top 10' E-mails Link to Malware

    From our front-page news: I'm confident that most visitors of our site are net-savvy enough to know spam when they see it, but the latest round of CNN daily roundups is so real, even I thought it was legit at quick glance. I don't subscribe to their newsletter, but when I saw it, I just threw it...
  10. Rob Williams

    Ubisoft Sues Disc Manufacturing Company Over Leaking Assassin's Creed

    From our front-page news: There are few PC developers who haven't felt the effects of piracy, and it's becoming a bigger issue each and every day. It's even gone so far that Crytek, creators of Crysis, said that particular title would be their last exclusive on the PC, simply due to the vast...
  11. Rob Williams

    Aurora Concept Browser Brings Internet Use to New Level

    From our front-page news:Let's face it, as perfect as the web browser seems to be right now, it hasn't changed that much since the first browsers of the mid-90s. What does our current browsers lack? Well, a high-tech interface and extremely-refined collaboration tools, of course, two things that...
  12. Rob Williams

    AMD's 790GX Chipset Offers Best Integrated Graphics Available

    From our front-page news: AMD might not have had the smoothest two years in the company's history, but they've managed to release a few select products that haven't only impressed, but have astounded. One recent launch to come to mind would be their ATI Radeon HD 4850 and HD 4870 cards, and I'm...
  13. Rob Williams

    OCZ Releases 16GB 'P45 Special' Memory Kit

    What impresses me about this kit, besides the obvious, is the price. At around $450... it's around the same price as a 'nice' 2GB DDR2 kit was just 16 - 20 months ago. Truly incredible. 16 GB is undoubtedly overkill, but the fact that you can get so much now for so little money (well...
  14. Rob Williams

    OCZ Releases 16GB 'P45 Special' Memory Kit

    From our front-page news: When Techgage first launched three years ago, the common standard for a new PC build was the inclusion of 1GB of RAM. Most people at that time were still running a hearty 512MB. Later that year, it suddenly became the new standard to have 2GB in your rig, and it was...
  15. Rob Williams

    Still No Demand for Blu-ray?

    One in five seems a little exaggerated. I am not going to refute the claims, but that seems awful high. I don't even know a single person around here (even those with a PS3) who buy Blu-ray movies, nor does anyone I regularly talk to online own them. Regardless, if that's the case, then great...
  16. Rob Williams

    Building an Affordable "Skulltrail" System

    You won't know unless you try. If you have a beefy PSU, it might be just fine. Just be sure to perform a lot of stability testing to assure that the overclock is good to keep. Those CPUs wouldn't use THAT much less power then the QX9775, but again, it probably won't matter. Give it a go.. it...
  17. Rob Williams

    Five Applications that Don't Suck to Replace Ones that Do

    Not sure if you noticed Merlin, but Window's built-in zip-handling is obscenely slow... so useless.
  18. Rob Williams

    AMD Enhances Support for GPGPU Software Development

    From our front-page news: In case you haven't been paying attention, this week has been a good one where GPU computation is concerned. We posted our semi-in-depth look at Intel's Larrabee earlier this week, and shortly afterward, followed-up with responses by NVIDIA regarding their CUDA...
  19. Rob Williams

    First Nehalem Machine Built

    From our front-page news: Maximum PC was lucky enough to get the opportunity to head into a secret Intel lab which we can only guess was housed 20 floors below sea-level. In their feature, they attempt to build a rig using an unreleased Intel D58XSO motherboard and showcase the ease and...
  20. Rob Williams

    Brazilian Hackers Turn to Twitter

    From our front-page news: This may not seem like surprising news, considering hackers tend to hang out where they are sure to get the most eyeballs, but the issue itself is of enough concern to warrant forewarning. Dmitry Bestuzhev of Kaspersky Labs has done some research and uncovered a Twitter...
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