Serious overclockers have been clamoring for this kind of monster board for years, and ASUS listened. With Rampage III Extreme (R3E) the company puts forth a record-setting piece of hardware replete with highlights that meet the needs of dye in the wool tuners

Devolo dLAN 200 AVeasy powerline kit tested

In this article I wanted to take a look at Ethernet over your power line. This technology has been here for years and is as simple as it can be, you utilize the power sockets in your house to transport a data signal carrying a network signal. All you need are two or more homeplug adapters, also known as Powerline Ethernet adapters. Devolo is the one company that caught my attention. They offer 200 Mbit/sec adapters.

You plug them in, connect one to your PC and another one to say your internet router and you are good to go.

You can check out the review right here.

Scythe launched its new high-end CPU cooler, named

Chipzilla Intel is still working another Core i5 dual-core processor. The new model tagged as the Core i5-680 will have a core speed of 3.6GHz.

Despite the higher clocks the TDP will remain at 73W. Being a Clarkdale processor the processor will come with an IGP (integrated graphics core) at a frequency of 733MHz. The CPU will support dual channel DDR3 1333. Pricing wise it is going to be expensive though. Reports claim a 240 Euro price tag (nearly 300 USD). Personally I'd rather purchase a quad-core Core i7 930 or Core i5 750 for that money, but that's just silly old me of course.

AMD's most high-end (and upcoming) six-core thuban based processor will sell for only 300 USD. AMD will launch an entire family of chips, including a pair of lower-clock versions, as well as a high-end model with frequencies to match the Gulftown. More recent rumors suggest that AMD's high-end offer, which will also have a great overclocking potential, will be the Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition.

AMDs

Forensic researchers discovered that computer users' hands leave a distinct bacterial print on keyboards and mice, and that it is possible to identify a piece of hardware's primary user simply by swabbing the peripheral for bacteria. The technique isn't as accurate as fingerprints, but it may someday prove useful for fighting crime.
Our skin houses large bacterial ecosystems and, even after washing your hands, the bacterial community is restored within a matter of hours. Scientists have suspected for some time that we might leave "trails" of this skin bacteria on things we touch during the course of a day, and more importantly, that the bacteria might be traceable to individuals. It's not that each person has a unique bacterial species, but that their ecosystems contain different mixes of species, each present at different frequencies.

It wasn't obvious this would work, though. Scientists weren't sure if the range of bacteria we leave on surfaces would be complete enough representation of what's on the skin to narrow its source down to single individual. The bacteria might also change too much during the time they spend on the surface, obscuring their origins.

A new PSU brand awakens. You'll be hearing more and more from them as their products now slowly are spreading and getting reach into Europe. Cougar is a new retail brand for Power Supplies originating from HEC/Compucase. Started in 1979 HEC/Compucase is one of the few real manufacturers and developer of power supplies.

Their latest PSUs are now available in the Benelux as well. Cougars power supplies are known for the high-quality inside but also for their unique design

The guys over EA will never stop releasing games for the Need for Speed Franchise, this time around, they will launch a new one, that will focus on Online Gaming, a "Massive Online Racing Game" called Need for Speed World.

Here is what they have to say about the game:

Exclusive to PC, Need for Speed World is the first massively-multiplayer racing game in the Need for Speed series. Race with your friends online or compete against them and thousands of other racers in the enormous NFS universe, built specifically for World.It seems they will need to change the abreviation, because "Massive Multiplayer Online Racing Game" could lead to some confusion this time, if you know what I mean.

Go ahead and take a look at their site, because they are offering a Closed BETA and you can apply for it, so go ahead and register as soon as you can if you want to be one of the few to try it for free.

   

This is the first Catalyst external profile update. This is fresh off the press and below is a list of what will improve when a user installs the profile.

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NVIDIA's developer site is serving new drivers. The main feature is that it is supplying support for openGL 3.3 , within a week of the opengl 3.3 announcement. This set seems to work great as regular driver and does not have fan issues as the previous version had.

The new features in OpenGL 3 require G80, or newer hardware. Thus OpenGL 3.0/3.1/3.2/3.3 is not supported on NV3x, NV4x nor G7x hardware. This means you need one of the following NVIDIA graphics accelerators to use OpenGL 3:

Desktop

• Quadro FX 370, 570, 1700, 3700, 4600, 4700x2, 4800, 5600, 5800, Quadro VX200, Quadro CX
• GeForce 8000 series or higher; Geforce G100, GT120, 130, 220, GTS 150, GTS 250, GT310, 320, 330, 340, GeForce GTX 260 and higher, any ION based products.

Notebook

• Quadro FX 360M, 370M, 570M, 770M, 1600M, 1700M, 2700M, 2800M, 3600M, 3700M, 3800M
• GeForce 8000 series or higher

We have a discussion thread open on these drivers right here.

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The guys at Square-Enix , reponsables for the Final Fantasy Saga really are hitting all the good spots with their last couple of games,  the new one in their lists is "Order of War", a massive RTS-Like game in which you manage hundreads of troops, tanks, airplanes in a massive WWII scenery, check out the Screenshots and try the Demo that was recently released in Single Player and MultiPlayer formats, just what I like.

  

A guy over the benheck forums created a Total Conversion MOD for an XBOX360, the MOD is so beyond anything that I've ever saw for a XBOX360! where he managed to create a Laptop from it, even more so, the conversion is so clean that you really have to behold this for yourself, take a look at the pictures and materials he used for building an ultimate Laptop from a XBOX360, he even managed to put inside a WebCam, totally out of this world job!.

Hey everybody, allow me to introduce myselft, I'm Alex Vojacek alias "EagleDM", I live in Argentina and I'm FAN of Guru3D since the Voodoo Days, I will be joining Guru 3D Staff as a News Publisher. I do hope I can bring more news to you guys and assist Hillbert in any way I can, I hope to have a pleasant stay here at this wonderful website and get to know you guys, I will be joining the forums also. My special skills are Hardware related and Software (also Linux) so If I can help in any way, please let me know.

Thank you Hillbert for trusting in me and I really hope to not let you down.

More Pictures of the already famous Geforce GTX480 had been leaked from chineese site

It seems NVIDIA is headlines all around the world right now up until the end of March

So, enjoy the pictures for the time being. 

CyberLink released CyberLink PowerDVD 10, PowerDVD 10 now has integrated 2D-3D conversion and will support the playback of the upcoming Blu-ray 3D movies. As such they can now support their player with NVIDIA 3D-Vision glasses.

New is Enabling Full HD and 3D Blu-ray playback, CyberLink PowerDVD 10 features TrueTheater 3D technology, upgrading the movie experience with 3D movie playback for DVD discs and video files. Meanwhile, the improved version of TrueTheater HD, optimized for the latest CPU/GPU acceleration technologies, enables the upscaling of both DVD movies and video files to HD. With the initial release of PowerDVD 10, consumers will enjoy Full HD Blu-ray movies, plus the new media-enhancing features of CyberLink