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A quick update

Yay Classes, boo lack of time. I’ve been slammed for the last couple of days but just thought I’d drop a line here. BioShock is an amazing game, played the demo and now I’m waiting for 2K games to fix all the small issues such as the Field of View issue and the Securom issues. [...]

Sub-Zero Ambient Overclocking

Today I received in the mail my Scythe Ninja heatsink and the weather has been cooperating and has brought down the ambient temperature to ~0 celsius, in fact at 10pm tonight it will be -4 celsius outside with a dew point of -13 celsius. I don’t know about you guys, but to me that spells [...]

Robot Code and Ethics

You may have noticed that I haven’t written anything substantial in the last two days or so. This is mainly due to the fact that it is practically finals week at Georgia Tech and I am being slammed with a huge project and two finals. I would love to write a large and indepth report [...]

AMD and ATI Merge

About two weeks ago rumors of ATI and AMD merging spread like wildfire across the Internet. These rumors were quickly squashed with people wondering why AMD would pick up ATI and alienate Nvidia. Last night once again rumors began popping up that a combined cash and stock deal would occur for AMD to acquire ATI. [...]

Despite Conroe, Intel profits fall

It looks like Q2 will be chalked up as a transition quarter in Intel’s camp. Despite the release in June of the 51xx series Woodcrest Xeons and the anticipated launch of Conroe and Merom Intel’s Q2 profits are down by 57% from Q2 2005. With the desktop business slowing and the tight margins of the [...]

OCZ and Wal-Mart Ink a Deal

Earlier in the week OCZ, maker of high performance RAM modules, signed a deal with Wal-Mart. This deal will make OCZ products available online at walmart.com. Besides the exposure that OCZ will gain from joining up with Wal-Mart I don’t know what they will gain. Wal-Mart has never been a good venue to purchase electronics [...]