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NVIDIA GeForce LAN 6 October 14-16 2011 Coverage @ Hi Tech Legion
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 DIA resurrected their GeForce LAN event recently to much success. With hundreds of gamers gathered aboard the USS Hornet, NVIDIA as well as some of other major players in the hardware industry organized a 3-days of fun and hard core gaming. DICE was also on deck to show off the biggest game title release this year: Battlefield 3. Lucky players not only got to play the game, but also participate in a LAN tournament as well for some sweet, sweet prizes. Attending the event, is our very own Editor-in-Chief Paul Marini Jr. who, armed with an HD camera, covered all things that were important: games, hardware and of course...booth babes!"
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2011 Holiday Buying Guide @ Hardware Secrets
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Are you planning to buy new PC hardware parts during this holiday season to build a new computer or upgrade your current system? Let`s recap some of the products with the best cost/benefit ratios that we reviewed in 2011."
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BlizzCon 2011 Roundup @ HardwareHeaven.com
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BlizzCon 2011 Roundup @ HardwareHeaven.com BlizzCon 2011 has wrapped up in Anaheim California and its safe to say that this year, unlike BlizzCon 2010, Blizzard had plenty to talk about. With a big announcement on the next World of Warcraft expansion, lots of talk about the next StarCraft 2 expansion and the finishing touches being put on Diablo 3."
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Futurelooks Was Your Wing Man at NVIDIA?s GeForce LAN 2011
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Futurelooks reports back on their GeForce LAN 2011 experience ... *Futurelooks Was Your Wing Man at NVIDIA?s GeForce LAN 2011* Pavel Chekov once found the ?Nuclear Wessels? here in Star Trek IV ? The Voyage Home. But this past weekend (October 14 ? 16, 2011) in ALAMEDA, CA, nVidia resurrected their GeForceLAN event after a long absence. So it was no surprise that 2011`s event, the first since 2007 and the sixth in history, sold out in just two hours. Any of the 650+ BYOC attendees or countless hundreds of spectators certainly knew why they just had to be there ? who wouldn?t want to play this year?s hottest FPS title weeks before release, in all places but a World War II aircraft carrier hangar bay? * * *"
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News: A tour of Zotacs Dongguan factory
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Unlike some graphics card and motherboard makers Zotac has its own production capacity. We tour the Zotac factory in Dongguan China to see where the company`s GeForce cards and Mini-ITX mobos are born."
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COMPUTEX 2011 Video Coverage - NZXT and BitFenix
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Futurelooks continues its extensive and comprehensive video COMPUTEX 2011 coverage with a look at NZXT and BitFenix ... *COMPUTEX 2011 Video Coverage ? NZXT?s Pink Phantom is Real Plus the Return of the Tempest and More!* NZXT has been extremely busy lately. That?s what happens when you build one of the most sought after computer enclosures of 2010. While the Phantom was a true star of the stable, the follow up product, the H2, was met with a bit of controversy. However, the expectations of some reviews weren?t really realistic because the case was clearly aimed at a substantially lower price point. Still, this hasn?t stopped NZXT from forging ahead as they have always done and their new line up of cases and accessories fills in the gaps and make the 2011 more complete. Below is a quick list of what you?ll see in the video above? *"
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AMD [H]ardOCP Texas GamExperience
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AMD and HardOCP got together this past weekend in Dallas to put together an event that was focused on giving back to the enthusiast computer hardware community that has given so much to us.
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Walk along the roof edge of the CN Tower, 356m up in the air?
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Come to Toronto, visit the CN tower, walk around the outside of its windy roof on a narrow platform, 356m (1,168ft) above the ground, with NO railing... then lean back with nothing to hold onto!! That is Toronto's newest attraction - CN Tower EdgeWalk Whoever thought it up is a mad genius!!
The best bit, the disclaimer on the website which reads "Must be 107cm (3'6") tall to ride." Do you have the guts to do this? Let PCSTATS know!
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University of Toronto Computer Science Undergraduates Show Off
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The Department of Computer Science is hosting a poster/demo showcase to
highlight approximately a dozen undergraduate summer research projects.
Projects include work in Climate Modelling, Financial Communications
Analysis, an automatic Music Generator using Neural Networks, and the
development of a Facebook Privacy App.
The Undergraduate Summer Research Poster Session is being held on Friday,
August 12 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., in the Bahen Centre for Information
Technology (40 St. George Street), Room 3200. The event is organized in a
drop-in, open house format.
"This event showcases some of the excellent work carried out by our
undergraduate students on research projects or for course credit,"
comments event organizer Francois Pitt (Undergraduate Liaison and Senior
Lecturer). "The projects reflect the breadth of areas within our
department."
An event poster, with a current list of projects being presented on
Friday, is attached to this message.
The Crystal Ball (Facebook Privacy App) Presented by: Haneef Ghanim
(Supervisor: Yashar Ganjali)
The Software Architecture of Climate Models
Presented by: Kaitlin
Alexander (Supervisor: Steve Easterbrook)
AutoDict, A Tool for Automated Dictionary
Discovery Presented by: Eric
Zhu (Supervisor: Renée Miller)
Variance Reduction of Monte Carlo Sampling in
Computing Portfolio Risk
Presented by: Anton Braverman, et al. (Supervisor: Ken Jackson)
Disjunctive Modal Transition System Analyser
(DMTSA) Presented by:
Winnie Lam (Supervisor: Marsha Chechik)
Generating Music with Recurrent Neural
Networks Presented by:
Christopher Maddison (Supervisor: Geoff Hinton)
Threads and Processes in PyGraphics Presented by: Devin Jeanpierre
(Supervisor: Paul Gries)
OpenOME: A Requirements Engineering
Tool Presented by: Denys Pavlov,
et al. (Supervisors: Eric Yu)
Sentiment Analysis in Financial
Communications Presented by: Shunan
Zhao and Siavesh Kazemian (Supervisor: Gerald Penn)
An Incremental Interpreter for Datalog
Implemented with Bddbddbs
Presented by: Maria Rafaela Tsimpoukelli (Supervisor: Azadeh
Farzan)
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ZOTAC Factory Tour in Dongguan
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In the previous years, Bjorn3D has been lucky enough to take part of several factory tours, including a Kingston factory tour in Hsinchu, Taiwan. Bjorn3D managed to take part of an even larger factory tour this year in Dongguan, China, at the PC Partner facility. PC Partner was established in 1997 and is one of the main providers of electronic manufacturing services (EMS), motherboards, graphics cards and other consumer electronics. With their ISO 9001 certification, PC Partner is committed to delivering products to the table with the quality required to meet international standards. ZOTAC, one of the leading innovators in mini-ITX motherboards and channel manufacturer is a proud subsidiary of PC Partner, one of the five giant contractors of the PC business. Though ZOTAC is not the only subsidiary of PC Partner, in this article, we'll solely focus on how ZOTAC's products are put together from the exposed Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) to the finished working and packaged product.
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Quakecon 2011 today at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas, Texas
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When questioned about his interest in voxel based engines,
John surprised a few of us with his answer. Apparently he has written
several voxel based engines over the years, often right after some of
their major gaming releases. The infinite detail that voxels can
address is obviously of great interest, but he feels that even with
current (and fast) hardware it is still inferior in many ways to
current polygon/raster based rendering."
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GIGABYTE - A75 OC Challenge - on HWBOT
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 GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co., Ltd, a leading manufacturer of motherboards,
graphics cards and other computing hardware solutions today announced a new
overclocking competition in conjunction with HWBOT.org called the “A75 OC
Challenge” during the month of August.
Since the recent launch of the world’s first APU (Accelerated Processing
Unit) from AMD, there has been a lot of benching going on to see if AMD really
has created an onboard graphics solution that can compete head-to-head with the
lower end discrete market. But many are asking the age-old question, “will it
blend”? No, wait a second...we really don’t suggest trying that. The real
question is will it overclock? During the month of August, GIGABYTE would like
you guys to answer that for us. So, using any GIGABYTE A75 motherboard (learn
all about them HERE), submit your best scores for each of the 5 stages using
only the APU graphics…ie., no discrete graphics cards allowed. Since HWBOT is
hosting, HWBOT rules apply. The first place winner gets a 990FXA-UD5 and second
and third place each get a E350N-USB3. Good luck everyone!
Stage 1: 3Dmark 11 P (Preset)
Stage 2: 3Dmark Vantage P (Preset)
Stage
3: PCMARK 7
Stage 4: Unique Heaven DX11
Stage 5: UCBench2011
For complete contest details and rules, please visit: http://hwbot.org/competition/gigabyte_apu_contest
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Computex 2011 Coverage
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Want too know what Computex is like? Want to know what Taiwan is like? Check out our 2000+ photos with 39 total pages of content. You will everything from the show, National Park, High Speed Train, Beach, Taipei 101, Mall and of course the girls. There is a few videos as well to view and did I mention the girls we have 8 pages worth."
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