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A Refreshed Look at 3 Series Crossfire 06-29-2008

With the 3870s and the 4850s so closely matching in price, suddenly buying a second 3870 doesn’t seem like such a good idea. You can buy a 3870 for under $140.00 and have two 3870s in Crossfire (or a 3870 and a 3850 in CrossfireX depending on what you did back in the day). Alternatively, you can sell your 3870 and probably pull in a solid $90, and then buy a 4850, netting $100 and saving yourself the electricity bill of having two cards at the same time. Naturally, we have a problem with using just one card when we could so easily have two, but it really is the performance that counts.

AMD K10 - Phenom Overclocking Guide 06-18-2008

Although Intel's Core Duo and Quad processors have pretty much taken over the top performance rung from rival manufacturer AMD, fans of the underdog company have reason to rejoice... Phenom is here. With a new 9x50 numbering scheme to represent the latest stepping, and no longer plagued by the TLB errata, AMD re-released the Phenom X4 chips to retail suppliers with 2.2, 2.4 and 2.5 Ghz operating frequencies. So if you're finally thinking about taking the K10 plunge, or you are looking to get a little more out of your Phenom processor, this guide was written with you in mind.

2008 CES Coverage: Tycrid 01-23-2008

GPU computing is something we were not familiar with, but as Chris explained, the key behind GPU computing is utilizing the stream processors on NVIDIA graphics cards. These stream processors can provide anywhere from 10x to 100x speedups in your algorithms over conventional CPU cores. According to Tycrid, a single Titan workstation can replace over 50 dual quad-core workstations!

2008 CES Coverage: The Cars 01-23-2008

The North Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center is home to mobile audio, navigation and other vehicle accessories, and is a great place to see some really cool rides. But, being the car enthusiasts that we are, we took things a few steps further and also visited the Imperial Palace Auto Collection AND Exotic Cars at Caesars Palace. Odds are, you won't find all of these cars in any other CES coverage. So, sit back, and enjoy the ride - we sure did!

2008 CES Coverage: Jook 01-23-2008

Jook, a subsidiary of Razer, is a wireless technology standard that allows any portable music player to act like a personal radio station. Basically, Jook wirelessly broadcasts songs to people in the immediate vicinity. Think of Jook as "social networking meets music". With the success of social networking sites like Myspace and Facebook, it only makes sense to expand on this growing market.

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OCIA.net June Contest

As many of you know, we just launched a new feature on the site / forum, our Member Photo Gallery. We have several categories where you can share photos of your computer, hardware, tech toys, cars, anything you want really (within reason, of course). To help celebrate the opening of our photo gallery and stir up some excitement, we have teamed up with Tagan to give away one of their CS-Monolize Super Tower Cases!

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