Techgage's 5th Birthday Contest - Win a Gaming PC! @ Techgage.com

Techgage has just turned five, so what better reason to celebrate? To help kill two birds with one stone, we're looking to YOU for input on what we're doing right, and what you want to see more of (or improve). As a thanks for taking our site survey, you'll be entered to have a chance at winning our custom-built gaming PC, valued at $4,200!

Techgage's 5th Birthday Contest - Win a Gaming PC! @ Techgage.com

A Futurelooks News Flash - A Guide to the Technology of the Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Winter Games

If you thought that the technology at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games was impressive, you’ll be absolutely amazed at the role that technology has at the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games. The regular Olympics might get the lion’s share of the media attention, but that doesn’t mean that the Paralympics should be ignored. These fine folks are athletes too and, like their Olympic counterparts, they’re looking for any technological advantage that they can over the competition.

A Futurelooks News Flash - A Guide to the Technology of the Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Winter Games

Best CPU Cooler Heatsink Performance @ Benchmark Reviews

Overclockers demand only the best performance from their computer hardware, which is why the aftermarket heatsink industry is thriving with competition. Using both the overclocked 140W AMD Phenom-II X4-965 BE and six-core Gulftown Intel Core i7-980X Extreme Edition processors, Benchmark Reviews tests several new thermal solutions for our Best CPU Cooler Performance Intel/AMD Q1-2010 article. Notable entries include the ProlimaTech Armageddon, Cogage Arrow, Noctua NH-D14, Thermalright Venomous-X, and Zalman CNPS10X-Performa.

Best CPU Cooler Heatsink Performance @ Benchmark Reviews

Thermaltake Element Q ITX Case Review - BCCHardware

There are not a lot of choices when it comes to ITX cases that offer room for system expansion.  Many ITX cases focus on super small size and therefore cannot utilize full-sized Optical Drives, card readers or multiple hard drives.  The Element Q from Thermaltake allows you to install your favorite Blu-Ray burner, a pair of 3.5" hard drives and more. . .

Thermaltake Element Q ITX Case Review - BCCHardware

PowerColor HD 5750 Go Green @ techPowerUp

PowerColor has engineered a unique HD 5750. Their Go! Green Edition is completely fanless using a big passive heatsink, it also works without additional PCI-Express power connector, a configuration which limits the card to 75W maximum power draw. Considering that the AMD reference design requires 92W, PowerColor had quite a way to go. Did they succeed?

PowerColor HD 5750 Go Green @ techPowerUp

Noctua NF-P14 FLX 140mm Fan @ Rbmods

Noctua, being well known for their quiet, but very effective CPU coolers, knows how to build quiet and effective fans. Continuing the trend to larger and larger fans, Noctua’s latest fan is of 140mm dimension. The nice thing about this fan is that it has mounting holes for both 140mm and 120mm, so it is backwards compatible.

Noctua NF-P14 FLX 140mm Fan @ Rbmods

CoolerMaster 690 II Advanced vs. CoolerMaster 690 @ Ninjalane

CoolerMaster has realized the desires of their customers and has reworked one of the most popular CM cases on the market today. We touched on many of the major highlights of the CM690II but when compared to the original CM690 you quickly realize that many of the subtle changes will go unnoticed.

CoolerMaster 690 II Advanced vs. CoolerMaster 690 @ Ninjalane

Radeon HD5830 DirectX-11 Gaming Performance @ Benchmark Reviews

Most of the discussion surrounding the Radeon HD5830 video card has been about its performance relative to its two nearest neighbors in the ATI lineup. People are falling over backwards trying to get a fix on its which side of the fence the 5830 belongs: closer to the HD5770, or nearer to the HD5850. In Benchmark Reviews' recent evaluation of the HD5830, we compared it to a wide variety of video cards, including several that are not compatible with Microsoft's DirectX-11. Our DirectX-10 testing provided a level playing field for all the video cards, so we could make a fair comparison with older graphics cards that readers may currently be using, and the current models from NVIDIA that are limited to DX10. Still, gamers are itching to see how the new crop of cards would fare with DX11 enabled. So then, let's find out, shall we?

Radeon HD5830 DirectX-11 Gaming Performance @ Benchmark Reviews

MSI Donates Computers to Help Virginia Tech Students Form the First Ever Linux Laptop Orchestra

CITY OF INDUSTRY, CA – March 11, 2010 – MSI Computer, recently donated a number of MSI Wind U100 Netbooks to the Virginia Tech Music Department to help create the first ever Linux-based laptop orchestra.  The diverse group is made up of theater arts, political science, engineering, biology and math majors and called the L2Ork, in honor of the open source software used by the group.Each member of the orchestra follows directional cues and observes their “scores” on the Wind screens and plays virtual instruments with Wiimotes and nunchucks.  The students can control their instrument’s loudness, pitch, sound color, and about any other direction given by the composer.  The orchestra members are also all networked together so each member knows exactly what every other member is doing.  “We place a great value on education and understand the important role computers play in the classroom,” said Andy Tung , Director of Sales for MSI North America.  ”It was an honor to have the opportunity to help the students at Virginia Tech create their orchestra.”  The affordability of the MSI Wind netbooks and the free operating system makes laptop orchestras an affordable extracurricular activity for school age children.  This spring Virginia Tech will partner with Music Lab at the Jefferson Center in Roanoke VA to create a five-station orchestra.   Initially the new program will be open to fifth graders from local Girls’ and Boy’s clubs. MSI’s Educational Reseller Program allows schools to purchase MSI computers at a discounted price from local resellers.  MSI even offer’s a 30 day free trial period for the school to test the new notebooks and touch screen desktops to make sure the systems are a good fit with their students.

OCZ Technology Makes Solid State Storage Affordable with Introduction of Onyx Series SSD

New SSD Delivers Both Performance and Exceptional Value to Consumers
SAN JOSE, CA—March 10, 2010—OCZ Technology Group, Inc. (OTCBB:OCZT), a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance and high reliability memory and flash-based storage as an alternative to hard disk drives (HDDs), today unveiled the OCZ Onyx SATA II 2.5” Solid State Drive (SSD) Series, an ultra-affordable Multi Level Cell (MLC)-based solid state storage solution designed for consumers looking to take advantage of flash-based storage technology. Offering a faster and more durable alternative to traditional hard drives in a cost-efficient SSD, the Onyx delivers reliable performance without the high price normally associated with SSD drives.

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