Archive for June, 2008

Update: Gigabyte US Overclocking Competition

I apologize for the lapse in posting for the last week, I had been preparing and then benching at the regional qualifier for Gigabyte in Los Angeles. I flew out of Atlanta on Friday morning and I just landed 2 hours ago, safe and sound in Atlanta. Here’s a quick breakdown of the competition, I [...]

MTRON Unveils Next Generation SSD Controller

MTRON, undoubtedly one of the highest quality SSD manufacturers, has unveiled a new SSD controller that nearly doubles performance of current performance SSDs. Solid state drives may be out of reach for normal consumers in normal applications but the rate at which innovations are occurring in the field will soon make high capacity high speed [...]

Yahoo! Goofs and Loses Execs

Today has not been a good day for Yahoo. Slowly but surely the Yahoo! boardroom is jumping ship while smart decisions about the companies future are not being made. The talks between Yahoo! and Microsoft over a Redmond acquisition fell through again, leading to a 10% drop in Yahoo! stocks. Four months ago Microsoft was [...]

The Unpublished Articles

I would say for every two articles that I publish, one article never sees the light of day. I don’t often speak with other writers about their topic development and writing habits but I imagine all individuals have their own little rituals. My topics typically spawn from those moments when I blank out, absentmindedly staring [...]

AMD’s XGP eXternal Graphics Platform

A little over 1.5 years ago I wrote about Asus launching an external graphics card for laptop consumers. Remotely locating the hot and power hungry GPU to a desktop located platform would bring laptops up to speed with desktops in the one department they are seriously lacking. Current performance GPUs easily chew through 75 to [...]

Camoflaged Computer is Camoflaged

Since I’m now living in a fraternity house for the summer, I had to find a place to stash a computer for my daily activities. After investigating for a few hours I found a rather empty and unused office room. Grabbing what was available around me, I quickly setup shop so I could continue to [...]