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G.SKILL Ripjaws-X F3-17000CL9D-8GBXLD 2x4GB Review (Page 1 of 10)

Just a quick glance at the calendar on my right, I noticed it was Valentine's Day when I wrote this introductory paragraph for this review. (Before you ask, yes I did write this paragraph a whole month and a half ahead of publication -- I ran into some problems during this review, causing such a massive delay.) How convenient. So allow me make a confession at this point: I love Sandy Bridge. No, it is not a girl named Sandy with...

Noctua NH-C14 Review

I once heard a very intriguing quote that went something like, "A wise old owl sat on an oak. The more he saw, the less he spoke. The less he spoke, the more he heard. Why aren't we like the wise old bird?" Let's pull up some of our good old high school English Language Arts skills, and answer the following question: What does an owl symbolize in this day and age? In fact, what does owls have anything to do with technology...

RIM to allow Android apps on PlayBook

From InfoWorld: Research In Motion announced on Thursday that users of its PlayBook tablet will be able to run Android and Java applications.

The capability will address one criticism often lodged against the PlayBook: an expected lack of applications.

The PlayBook, which becomes...

Asustek to Hold Netbook Shipments Flat as Tablet Sales Grow

From PC World: Asustek Computer will hold production of netbooks at last year's levels as sales of tablets eat into the market for portable PCs, a company product specialist said on Friday.

The Taiwanese manufacturer, the first to come out with a netbook PC, aims to ship 6 million...

Intel smartphones are on the way--again

From CNET News.com: Intel is getting ready to make a long-belated entry into the smartphone market with a new-and-improved chip. But the usual questions linger.

The most obvious ones are: Will it appear in a phone that is groundbreaking enough to entice buyers? And will this finally...

Google Refuses to Release Android Honeycomb Source For Now

From DailyTech: Google's Android operating system has been tremendously successful. It's become the top selling phone platform in the world and its app store is stocked with close to 200,000 apps. But for all that success, a perpetual criticism is a perception that Android's...

AMD: Game Developers Not Exactly Interested in Hardware-Accelerated Physics

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices does not expect a large number of video games due out this year to use GPU-accelerated open-source OpenCL-based Bullet Physics engine. Apparently, game developers are not really interested in high-quality compute-intensive physics effects due...

OCZ Celebrates Shipment of Its One Millionth SSD

From X-bit Labs: OCZ Technology Group, a leading supplier of solid-state drives (SSDs), on Thursday announced that it has shipped its one millionth solid state drive. Since starting to offer SSDs roughly three years ago, solid-state drives became OCZ's major product line and the...

Java updates for Windows also install McAfee security scanner

From InfoWorld: Windows users who install the latest Java security patches may end up with a little more security than they bargained for, at least that's the risk they take if they don't pay close attention to the installation process.

Starting last month, Oracle began bundling a...

Netflix gives 3 percent credit for outage

From CNET News.com: Netflix has apologized for Tuesday's outage of its streaming service.

"We're sorry you may have had trouble watching instantly," an e-mail sent last night to Netflix subscribers reads. The company went on to explain that the outage was "due to technical issues."...