Jack Cairns posted an article on The PC Report - Mar 19, 2010, 7:40 pm
Ahead of a release next week, more info regarding Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470 cards have been revealed. According to the sources, the GTX 480 will come loaded with 480 shader processors...
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Jack Cairns posted an article on The PC Report - Mar 19, 2010, 12:59 am
Microsoft has released a few bits of info regarding Service Pack 1 for both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows 7 SP1 will apparently be mostly minor updates and bugfixes, a lot of which hav...
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Jack Cairns posted an article on The PC Report - Mar 18, 2010, 5:15 am
That W555 motherboard previewed was pretty awesome, but it has just got better and branded official. Renamed to the EVGA Classified SR-2, the fancy motherboard fits two LGA 1366 CPUs – that coul...
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Jack Cairns posted an article on The PC Report - Mar 18, 2010, 2:07 am
For the week of March 13, 2010, Facebook has surpassed Google as the most visited website in the United States – quite a milestone for the social networking site. According to the stat collectin...
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Jack Cairns posted an article on The PC Report - Mar 15, 2010, 9:45 pm
If you’re a mad overclocker than this latest RAM from Kingston will be very appealing to you. Clocking in at 2400MHz the DDR3 modules are some of the fastest available, and Kingston claims that ...
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Jack Cairns posted an article on The PC Report - Mar 15, 2010, 4:44 am
... ATI card that supports Eyefinity for a superb gaming environment. Some people may plug their laptop into an external ... run. Did I mention battery life? Unplug your gaming laptop from the wa...
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Jack Cairns posted an article on The PC Report - Mar 13, 2010, 12:02 am
After some time in court it appears as though the decision is final – Microsoft will have to pay i4i US$240 million after losing a second appeal. Last year it was found that Microsoft had infrin...
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Jack Cairns posted an article on The PC Report - Mar 11, 2010, 9:43 pm
Surely you all remember the 9.9mm thin Dell Adamo XPS, one of the thinnest laptops you can buy – well it appears to have been discontinued by Dell. The Adamo line of laptops will continue but th...
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Jack Cairns posted an article on The PC Report - Mar 11, 2010, 3:53 am
Intel’s latest and most powerful processor has been popping up in the news over the past few months, but now it has been finally released and reviewed. The Intel Core i7-908X is Intel’s fi...
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Jack Cairns posted an article on The PC Report - Mar 11, 2010, 12:34 am
Today, the PC Gaming Alliance announced the PC gaming software sales have risen by a year-over-year total of 3%, bringing 2009’s sales to US$13.1 billion, despite the NPD group stating that in 2...
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Jack Cairns posted an article on The PC Report - Mar 10, 2010, 1:35 am
According to the latest report from Tech ARP, the first service pack for Windows 7 could be hitting us sometime in Q4 of this year. Originally Microsoft had planned for a 22 month development period f...
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Jack Cairns posted an article on The PC Report - Mar 9, 2010, 5:01 am
Feeling satisfied with your long-running Core i7-920? Well, no more, because Intel has just released an updated version for sale. Like the i7-940 to i7-950 and i7-965 to i7-975 bump, the only thing ne...
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Jack Cairns posted an article on The PC Report - Mar 9, 2010, 12:20 am
If you have poor quality internet you might run into trouble when you attempt to download large files. Almost any time I download a file larger than 50 MB the download will get cut off and tell me the...
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Jack Cairns posted an article on The PC Report - Mar 6, 2010, 11:07 pm
A few days ago Microsoft decided that it would share with the world the current status of Office 2010 on the development scale. They revealed that Office 2010 is on schedule to be released to manufact...
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Jack Cairns posted an article on The PC Report - Mar 5, 2010, 5:29 pm
Remember that iPad that was shown off a month ago? Well now we have confirmation on a release date from Apple: April 3rd 2010. This is the date that the Apple iPad (non-3G version) will go on sale in ...
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Jack Cairns posted an article on The PC Report - Mar 5, 2010, 1:39 am
If you’re eagerly awaiting the new GeForce GTX 480 and 470 from Nvidia (set to be released on March 26), then you’ll be happy to know that people have got hold of PCB shots of the cards. A...
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Jack Cairns posted an article on The PC Report - Mar 4, 2010, 3:45 am
... s_oc(e):true" href=" Computing Language) for all GeForce 8-series and later GPUs. Supports OpenGL 3.2 for GeForce 8-series and later GPUs. Supports CUDA Toolkit 3.0 features and ... " href=...
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Jack Cairns posted an article on The PC Report - Mar 4, 2010, 2:12 am
While Facebook has never publicly shared how much they make from their site, estimates are always coming. Inside Facebook is reporting that Facebook may earn up to US$1.1 billion from ads and other de...
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Jack Cairns posted an article on The PC Report - Mar 3, 2010, 1:54 am
Today Nvidia launched officially their next-gen ION chips. The ION 2 graphics chips are 10 times more powerful than integrated graphics and allows playback of 1080p videos. They are also more power ef...
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Jack Cairns posted an article on The PC Report - Mar 2, 2010, 4:48 pm
Opera Software has just announced that their latest version of their browser is ready for consumption. Opera 10.50 now touts itself as Windows’ fastest web browser, and some of the performance b...
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Jack Cairns posted an article on The PC Report - Mar 2, 2010, 8:30 am
It doesn’t feel like it’s been that long since we saw an epic shooter (read: Modern Warfare 2) and now, just two months into 2010, we’re seeing another one. While I haven’t played any of the...
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Jack Cairns posted an article on The PC Report - Mar 2, 2010, 3:50 am
Have you heard people talking about Linux but had no idea what it was? Are you a full time Windows XP, Vista, or 7 user and can’t understand why anyone would want to use anything besides Windows...
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Jack Cairns posted an article on The PC Report - Mar 2, 2010, 12:13 am
If you’re still running the Release Candidate (RC) version of Windows 7 then your machine will begin shutting down every 2 hours. This is an intentional annoyance placed by Microsoft to encourag...
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Jack Cairns posted an article on The PC Report - Feb 28, 2010, 2:43 pm
I was personally sick of my huge right-click context menu that has been getting larger and larger with every program I install. So I endeavoured to clear out all the crap from my right-click menu by...
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Jack Cairns posted an article on The PC Report - Feb 27, 2010, 11:57 pm
The Shuttle Barebone XS35 is a new slimline nettop/HTPC from Shuttle that’s just 3.3cm thick – perfect for chucking behind your TV as a media PC. It will come loaded with a 1.66GHz Intel A...
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Jack Cairns posted an article on The PC Report - Feb 26, 2010, 9:00 pm
Microsoft has finally decided when it will be dropping support for old and outdated operating systems. First and foremost, if you’re using Windows 2000 (a ten year old operating system) support ...
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Jack Cairns posted an article on The PC Report - Feb 26, 2010, 7:42 pm
A new rumour surrounding AMD’s latest six-core processors has leaked out of AMD HQ. Their “Thuban” six-core CPUs will apparently be showcased at CeBIT 2010 in Germany, followed by a ...
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Jack Cairns posted an article on The PC Report - Feb 1, 2010, 12:29 am
I find myself using this really simple add-on for Firefox all the time. Basically what it does is when you highlight text in a passage/title/link/whatever, then drag and drop it anywhere, it will sear...
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Jack Cairns posted an article on The PC Report - Jan 30, 2010, 9:16 pm
Intel-Micron Flash Technologies (IMFT; a joint venture between Intel and Micron), responsible for a huge chunk of advances in SSDs and flash technology, has announced that they are sampling 2-bits-per...
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Jack Cairns posted an article on The PC Report - Jan 29, 2010, 8:00 pm
New reports are coming through about when both AMD and Intel will release their new six-core processors into their ranges. According to Taiwanese motherboard manufacturers the Intel six-core “Gu...
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Jack Cairns posted an article on The PC Report - Jan 29, 2010, 4:31 am
Another Windows 8 related rumour has hit the streets today via a roadmap from past Microsoft employee Chris Green. While a previous roadmap put Windows 8 in 2012, this new, and very detailed roadmap p...
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Jack Cairns posted an article on The PC Report - Jan 28, 2010, 6:58 pm
This is a badass motherboard if you ask me. The EVGA W555, which was shown off at CES 2010, is a dual-processor motherboard that is designed for overclocking unlike most workstation motherboards. The ...
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Jack Cairns posted an article on The PC Report - Jan 28, 2010, 5:55 am
If you have an ATI graphics card then now is the time to update your drivers to 10.1 – the first batch of the year. Not much has been improved upon this time around except for the usual bug fixe...
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Jack Cairns posted an article on The PC Report - Jan 27, 2010, 8:06 pm
We finally have closure on one of the biggest rumours of the past couple of years – the Apple iPad is finally released. To summarise what it looks like, it’s basically a huge iPod Touch. I...
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Jack Cairns posted an article on The PC Report - Jan 27, 2010, 1:37 am
8199.5 MHz. That’s pretty bloody fast for a single core processor to pushed up to. A guy buy the name of TiN from XtremeLabs has achieved such a feat by pushing an old single-core Intel Celeron ...
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Jack Cairns posted an article on The PC Report - Jan 26, 2010, 6:14 am
AMD has released 5 new processors into the Athlon II and Phenom II line-up to fill out the lower-end of the scale, and also to compete with the recently released Intel Clarkdale processors. In this se...
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Jack Cairns posted an article on The PC Report - Jan 25, 2010, 7:44 pm
Of course, not much fresh news here for those who are already using Google Chrome 4.0 via the beta channel, but Chrome 4.0 for Windows has finally gone stable; sorry Linux users, you’re stuck wi...
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Jack Cairns posted an article on The PC Report - Jan 25, 2010, 3:57 am
Sun’s VirtualBox is an extremely handy (and free) tool to use for virtualising operating systems inside your current OS. It is one of the best free virtualisation tools available, making it a grea...
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Jack Cairns posted an article on The PC Report - Jan 23, 2010, 10:27 pm
Feel like something light, portable but a good amount of power and an optical drive? MSI’s new X-Xlim X620 fits that description perfectly. The 15.6 laptop comes with an Intel ULV (Ultra-Low Vol...
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Jack Cairns posted an article on The PC Report - Jan 7, 2010, 7:34 pm
Microsoft is continuing to bask in the glory of their latest (and greatest) operating system, Windows 7, with new claims that suggest that it is the fastest selling operating system in history. While ...
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Jack Cairns posted an article on The PC Report - Jan 7, 2010, 3:08 am
Sliding into your hands by Spring 2010 is the new range of Cyborg R.A.T. gaming mice from Mad Catz. The mice are designed to look like something a gamer should have, with many, many programmable butto...
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Jack Cairns posted an article on The PC Report - Jan 6, 2010, 2:40 am
OCZ has released some quality SSDs in the past, and their going to be adding to their line-up this CES. First up are the brand new ultrathin USB 3.0 external solid state drives which will support tran...
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Jack Cairns posted an article on The PC Report - Jan 5, 2010, 10:41 pm
Microsoft Office 2010, the next big revision of the Office line-up that in recent times we’ve been able to test thanks to the beta, has finally got it’s pricing information released. There...
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Jack Cairns posted an article on The PC Report - Jan 5, 2010, 2:54 am
Don’t you just love it when someone discovers thing such as God Mode for your every day operating system? God Mode for Windows 7 is actually pretty useful; it’s a folder than when opened, ...
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Jack Cairns posted an article on The PC Report - Jan 4, 2010, 7:21 am
Only a few weeks after Intel announced their Pine Trail platform we are seeing the new 32nm Intel Arrandale and Clarkdale processors for the latest generation of computers. Like the new Pine Trail Ato...
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Jack Cairns posted an article on The PC Report - Jan 4, 2010, 1:42 am
Are your ISPs DNS servers too slow or unreliable? There is finally an easy fix: namebench. Namebench hunts down the fastest DNS servers available for your computer to use. namebench runs a fair and ...
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Jack Cairns posted an article on The PC Report - Jan 3, 2010, 11:01 pm
Unfortunately the monitor I use does not have height adjustment, and it was too low for my liking so I searched around for a simple and effective method to raise the height of the monitor. I discovere...
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Jack Cairns posted an article on The PC Report - Jan 3, 2010, 8:23 pm
It’s heading up to CES 2010 so it’s just about the right time for huge amounts of new machines to start flooding in for users to enjoy. Heading off the pack is the Lenovo line-up refresh, ...
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Jack Cairns posted an article on The PC Report - Jan 2, 2010, 7:44 pm
Chrome lovers rejoice! Google’s Chrome web browser has managed to shove Apple’s Safari away from the prized third spot in browser market share and claim it with a total market share of 4.6...
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Jack Cairns posted an article on The PC Report - Jan 2, 2010, 6:30 am
It looks like that us here at The PC Report have come into the possession of a 30-day Rapidshare Premium account, which we are going to give away to the readers of the site. You can use the Rapidshare...
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