http://www.guru3d.com Our latest headlines Copyright 1997-2009 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:45:48 +1000 We test the Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 Toxic Vapor-X edition graphics card. Armed with a nice vapor chamber heatpipe based cooler and with it's clock frequency locked at a steady 960 MHz this little beast... http://www.guru3d.com/news/sapphire-toxic-hd-4890-vaporx-review/ http://www.guru3d.com/news/sapphire-toxic-hd-4890-vaporx-review/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:51:44 +1000 We have the opportunity to show you a P55 motherboard stripped down butt-nekkid. Now we can't say much more about the chipset neither can we test it with a processor. So this sneak preview is merely... http://www.guru3d.com/news/gigabyte-p55-motherboard-preview-p55ud4p/ http://www.guru3d.com/news/gigabyte-p55-motherboard-preview-p55ud4p/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:33:00 +1000 ThermalTake has introduced a new dual 120mm fan VGA cooler for NVIDIA and ATI graphics cards including the latest GeForce GTX 200 and Radeon HD 4800 models. The ThermalTake ISGC-V320 features five copper... http://www.guru3d.com/news/thermaltake-isgcv320-vga-cooler/ http://www.guru3d.com/news/thermaltake-isgcv320-vga-cooler/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:44:29 +1000 FurMark is a small OpenGL benchmark focused on fur rendering. The rendering algorithm is highly multipass 100 passes and each pass or layer uses a GLSL OpenGL Shading Language vertex / pixel shader... http://www.guru3d.com/news/furmark-v170-released/ http://www.guru3d.com/news/furmark-v170-released/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:42:38 +1000 Heh ... I'm not sure how confortable that really is .. but it sure as heck is cool. Reclaimed from authentic Vietnam-era fighter jets and bombers the ejector seats are freshly padded newly upholstered... http://www.guru3d.com/news/motoart-retro-fighterjet-desk-chair--kinda-cool/ http://www.guru3d.com/news/motoart-retro-fighterjet-desk-chair--kinda-cool/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:53:38 +1000 Okay forgive me the phat marketing lingo this is a copy paste from the press release: The Thermaltake PW880i is a powerful liquid cooling solution for the core of your PC- the CPU. With a 24cm radiator... http://www.guru3d.com/news/thermaltake-pw880i-liquid-cooling-solution-for-the-cpu-/ http://www.guru3d.com/news/thermaltake-pw880i-liquid-cooling-solution-for-the-cpu-/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:50:37 +1000 Jammie Thomas-Rasset plans to appeal the recent court decision ordering her to pay $1.92 million in a case involving the RIAA. The legal battle has followed several twists with the initial filing only... http://www.guru3d.com/news/jammie-thomas-plans-to-appeal-2m-riaa-ruling/ http://www.guru3d.com/news/jammie-thomas-plans-to-appeal-2m-riaa-ruling/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:46:19 +1000 Apple has issued a warning to iPhone customers regarding iPhone 3G and 3GS devices overheating. Sporadic reports have hit internet blogs and gadget sites this week regarding overheating issues with... http://www.guru3d.com/news/apple-warns-of-summer-overheating-for-iphone-3g--3gs-owners/ http://www.guru3d.com/news/apple-warns-of-summer-overheating-for-iphone-3g--3gs-owners/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:42:30 +1000 DiRT 2 illustrating the various off-road tracks including Battersea Croatia Morocco and Utah. Look for DiRT 2 to hit PC PlayStation 3 Xbox 360 Wii Nintendo DS and PSP. Check out the screenshots: http://www.guru3d.com/news/dirt-2-screenshots/ http://www.guru3d.com/news/dirt-2-screenshots/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:40:54 +1000 Arctic Cooling has introduced the Arctic MX-3 thermal compound it's a carbon microparticles compound that ships in 4g tubes. The cooling company claims this new thermal paste performs up to 2.5C better... http://www.guru3d.com/news/arctic-cooling-mx3-thermal-compound/ http://www.guru3d.com/news/arctic-cooling-mx3-thermal-compound/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:43:00 +1000 We showed it to you in our Computex report already but it's now official. eVGA launched their X58 SLI Micro a new Micro-ATX motherboard for high-performance LAN party or HTPC systems. It's available... http://www.guru3d.com/news/evga-x58-sli-micro-motherboard-launched-/ http://www.guru3d.com/news/evga-x58-sli-micro-motherboard-launched-/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:41:06 +1000 The bro's at Smooth Creations wanted to create a new 'CPU ranking' PC so they went all wild on building a new system. Now before we continue let me also mention that we have a new Smooth Creations review... http://www.guru3d.com/news/new-smooth-creations-creation/ http://www.guru3d.com/news/new-smooth-creations-creation/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:37:00 +1000 MSI introduces the 760GTM-P33 professional mainboard. This mainboard is based on the 760G chipset with ATI HD3000 graphics supporting DirectX 10 and Hybrid CrossfireX. Furthermore the 760GTM-P33 is... http://www.guru3d.com/news/msi-msi-760gtmp33-launched/ http://www.guru3d.com/news/msi-msi-760gtmp33-launched/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:26:29 +1000 Alienware launched a new display today thats meant for those that like to watch movies or play video games on their computers. Its called the OptX AW2210 and this display measures in at 21.5-inches. Its... http://www.guru3d.com/news/alienware-optx-aw2210-1080p-lcd-display/ http://www.guru3d.com/news/alienware-optx-aw2210-1080p-lcd-display/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:23:44 +1000 Now that's .. different.Ive never seen a dock quite like the Einstein Sound Master Photon Ball iPod Dock before. The colored ball pulsates and flashes to the beat of the music. It changes colors and... http://www.guru3d.com/news/einstein-sound-master-photon-ball-ipod-dock/ http://www.guru3d.com/news/einstein-sound-master-photon-ball-ipod-dock/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:21:48 +1000 Philips has priced its 56-inch 21:9 aspect ratio Cinema 21:9 HDTV it first introduced just after CES in January. While release dates are still unknown the TV will cost the equivalent of about $7400... http://www.guru3d.com/news/philips-prices-56inch-cinema-219-hdtv/ http://www.guru3d.com/news/philips-prices-56inch-cinema-219-hdtv/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:12:21 +1000 In a bit of an unusual move memory vendor Mushkin is about to launch a complete new line of NVIDIA GeForce-based graphics cards providing end-users with yet another alternative to the crowded market... http://www.guru3d.com/news/mushkin-back-into-the-graphics-card-market/ http://www.guru3d.com/news/mushkin-back-into-the-graphics-card-market/ Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:07:23 +1000 Koolance released their liquid cooling water block for the Single PCB based GeForce GTX 295. The product can be found under product code SKU VID-NX295S. The cooler offers full-durface cooling for... http://www.guru3d.com/news/koolance-geforce-gtx-295-single-pcb-water-block/ http://www.guru3d.com/news/koolance-geforce-gtx-295-single-pcb-water-block/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:19:27 +1000 We already showed tyhis to you in our computex report but Inno3D announced a new mini-ITX motherboard based on NVIDIA's ION platform the iChill motherboard makes use of the reference design and will... http://www.guru3d.com/news/inno3d-unveils-ichill-miniitx-ion-motherboard/ http://www.guru3d.com/news/inno3d-unveils-ichill-miniitx-ion-motherboard/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:14:35 +1000 The Inquirer reports major Taiwanese graphics card makers are fed up with ATI's and NVIDIA's forcing of reference graphics card sales. The companies complain the reference designs offer no opportunities... http://www.guru3d.com/news/graphics-card-maker-fed-up-with-reference-designs/ http://www.guru3d.com/news/graphics-card-maker-fed-up-with-reference-designs/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:12:42 +1000