CORSAIR ANNOUNCES WORLD’S FIRST 1000 WATT POWER SUPPLY CERTIFIED FOR 3-WAY NVIDIA® SLI® TECHNOLOGY AT CEBIT 2008
Fremont, CA, February 28, 2008 – Corsair® http://www.corsair.com, a worldwide leader in high performance computer and flash memory products, today announced the HX1000W power supply unit (PSU), the world’s first 1000 watt PSU to be certified under the newly-created 3-way NVIDIA® SLI® Technology Certification Program from NVIDIA Corporation.  The Corsair HX1000W will be debuted at the CeBIT 2008 show next week in Hanover, Germany on Corsair’s stand (Booth 40, Hall 21).

The HX1000W is the latest addition to Corsair’s award-winning HX-series of modular power supplies for the gaming and enthusiast community.  Featuring a twin-transformer, true dual-rail design, DC-to-DC conversion and high-quality solid state capacitors, the HX1000W delivers the rock-solid performance and stability required for high-end enthusiast gaming systems. Read the full press release here.

AMD Collaborates With Microsoft® on Windows Server® 2008 to Deliver Industry Leading Solution to Customers
— Microsoft’s New Operating System Paired with AMD Processors Provides a Solid Business Foundation with Better Investment Protection, Low Energy Usage and Unmatched Performance —

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- February 27, 2008 --AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced it has worked closely with Microsoft throughout the Windows Server® 2008 development process, to deliver the ultimate server solution. Through their strong partnership, both companies have optimized their respective hardware and software technologies to work together to address the demands of today’s global digital economy and meet the computing requirements of businesses of all sizes.

AMD Opteron™ processors were designed with 64-bit computing in mind and in combination with Windows Server 2008 they deliver a powerful platform for running business solutions that can maximize productivity and profitability. Customers using AMD Opteron processors, including Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors, and Windows Server 2008 can experience unparalleled performance, energy efficiency and investment protection, further pushing virtualization, web serving, and business intelligence capabilities into the mainstream. Read more here.

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Intel Ships New Processors for Embedded, Communications and Storage Markets Based on New Transistors, Manufacturing
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 27, 2008 – Intel Corporation today announced expanded offerings for embedded market segments with new processors with extended, 7-year life cycle support, a new chipset and a carrier-grade server. The processors, based on Intel's revolutionary high-k, metal gate transistor formula and manufactured on the company's 45-nanometer (nm) process, include the Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5400 Series and Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5200 Series. Read more here.

New Microsoft Enterprise Products Bring Big Benefits to IT Professionals and Developers
Largest enterprise launch in company history includes Windows Server 2008, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008; focuses on security, Web, virtualization and better business intelligence.
LOS ANGELES — Feb. 27, 2008 — Kicking off more than 225 events around the world and joined by more than 4,000 customers and partners, Microsoft Corp.’s Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer today showcased the next generation of infrastructure and application platform products, including Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

The launch represents a major milestone to help customers on the road to Dynamic IT, Microsoft’s initiative to help customers optimize their people, processes and technology, and in turn position IT as a strategic asset for their business. These new enterprise products help customers more efficiently and securely manage their entire infrastructure and move to a virtualized environment while also delivering business intelligence and next-generation Web experiences to boost business results. The theme of the events, “Heroes Happen Here,” highlights the outstanding work that IT professionals, developers and partners do every day to create solutions and cutting-edge applications that keep global commerce and industry running. Read the entire press release here.

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AMD Testing Functional Devices Made Using Extreme Ultra-Violet (EUV) Lithography
SAN JOSE, California. -- February 26, 2008 --AMD (NYSE: AMD), working together with its research partner, IBM, announced it has produced a working test chip utilizing Extreme Ultra-Violet (EUV) lithography for the critical first layer of metal connections across the entire chip. Previous projects utilizing EUV to produce working chip components were only “narrow field”, covering just a very small portion of the design. The work of AMD, IBM, and their partners at the UAlbany NanoCollege’s Albany NanoTech Complex, will be presented by Dr. Bruno La Fontaine of AMD at the premier lithography conference in the industry on Tuesday. The paper will show successful integration of “full-field” EUV lithography into the fabrication process across an entire 22 mm x 33 mm AMD 45 nm node test chip. Read the PR here.

Microsoft Unveils Its First Windows Embedded R&D Center in Europe
AACHEN, Germany — Feb. 26, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the launch of its first Microsoft Embedded Systems Development Centre (MESDC) in Aachen, Germany. The MESDC is part of Microsoft’s effort to expand regional development centers in Denmark, France, Ireland, Serbia, the U.K. and other countries across Europe. The center will support global product development and drive smart, connected, service-oriented device development. Located within the European Microsoft Innovation Centre (EMIC) in Aachen, the MESDC is a significant part of the $75 million (U.S.) global R&D investment that the Windows Embedded Business is making in Europe this fiscal year. Read about it here.

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B-2 Stealth Bomber Crashes at Anderson AFB
A B-2 Stealth Bomber has crashed at Anderson AFB in Guam early this morning. The Air Force is report that both pilots ejected safely and are in good condition. KUAM News in Guam is reporting that the incident happened at around 10:45am Saturday when the aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff. There is no word on why the aircraft crashed.

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Patriot Memory releases 4GB Viper Series DDR2 PC2-8500 Enhanced Latency Kit
Fremont, California, USA, February 21, 2008 - Patriot Memory, a global provider of premium quality memory module and flash memory solutions, today announced the release of their DDR2 Extreme Performance, 4GB Viper Series PC2-8500 (2 x 2GB) enhanced latency kit. This kit offers PC gamers and enthusiasts the power to take advantage of PC applications and today's DirectX10 games that require more than 2GB of memory. Read the full press release here.

Cooler Master Unleashes the COSMOS S Chassis
Taipei, Taiwan – February 22, 2008 - Since its introduction, Cooler Master's COSMOS PC Chassis has garnering numerous awards and accolades around the world. Today, the best just got better as Cooler Master unleashes the COSMOS S Chassis, featuring a new racing design, a touch-sensitive panel, and a gamut of user-friendly features, the COSMOS S is the evolution of the ultimate PC enclosure.

When laying eyes on the COSMOS S for the first time, one is immediately drawn in by its sleek contours and exhilarating styling. Inspired by the some of the world’s finest race cars, the COSMOS S exudes both speed and sophistication. From the meshed front and side panels to the brushed aluminum finish, the COSMOS S is pure lust, offering an enclosure fit for evolved sensibilities of the discriminating PC enthusiast.

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2/21/2008

SAPPHIRE HD 3870 goes TOXIC! SAPPHIRE Technology has just announced global availability of its exciting new HD 3870 TOXIC edition high performance graphics accelerator. The SAPPHIRE HD 3870 TOXIC version features the award winning - and SAPPHIRE exclusive -Vapor-X single slot cooler, SAPPHIRE’s implementation of Vapour Chamber Technology (VCT). This advanced cooling solution provides more efficient and quieter cooling allowing the TOXIC edition to ship overclocked out of the box, and to allow enthusiasts even more scope for performance tuning. The single slot design allows the use of multiple cards in the latest CrossFireX configurations even where PCI-Express slots are sited closely together. Read the full PR here.

SAPPHIRE HD 3870 goes ATOMIC! Following the launch of its exciting new gaming portal, www.sapphireatomic.com – SAPPHIRE Technology introduces a new limited edition product under the SAPPHIRE ATOMIC brand. The SAPPHIRE HD 3870 ATOMIC version features an exciting new single slot cooler – the first in the world to feature Vapour Chamber Technology (VCT). This advanced cooler provides more efficient and quieter cooling allowing the ATOMIC edition to ship overclocked out of the box, and to allow enthusiasts even more scope for performance tuning. The single slot design allows the use of multiple cards in the latest CrossFire-X configurations even where PCI-Express slots are sited closely together. Read the full PR here.

OCZ Technology Announces New DDR3-1333 Kits in the Award-Winning Reaper HPC Series Sunnyvale, CA—February 21, 2008—OCZ Technology Group, a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance and high reliability memory, today announced two new Reaper HPC solutions for enthusiasts upgrading to next generation of cutting-edge platforms. The PC3-10666 Reaper HPC Series is available in both 2GB and 4GB dual channel kits to meet the specific needs of customized gaming systems or workstations, offering perfect compatibility with the latest platforms and chipsets at a price that will be attractive to upgraders with a specific budget in mind.  With the high frequencies of DDR3 comes added heat that can damage the module’s sensitive ICs. To ensure superior stability and performance over the entire life of the modules, the Reaper HPC Series makes use of an innovative cooling solution to more effectively dissipate heat produced by high-speed memory. The thermo-conductive copper heat pipe conduit is ideal for overclocking where every degree matters, making certain that your cutting-edge investment will maintain its integrity throughout the toughest gaming missions, overclocking, or intense program applications. Read the full press release here.

NVIDIA Reveals One of the Largest Generational Performance Leaps in Company History SANTA CLARA, CA—FEBRUARY 21, 2008—NVIDIA® Corporation, the world leader in visual computing technologies, has unveiled the first graphics processing unit (GPU) of its next-generation GeForce® 9 Series that may offer the largest single-generation performance jump in the Company’s history. Introduced today, the NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT GPU delivers up to 116% more performance than its predecessor at a price below $199. “After going to all the GeForce LANs and seeing the rigs that gamers play on, we wanted to kick off the GeForce 9 with the perfect GPU for gamers,” said Ujesh Desai, general manager of GeForce desktop GPUs at NVIDIA. “The first product to be introduced in the GeForce 9 family gives gamers the horsepower to play cutting-edge DirectX 10 games at a price they will love and can afford.” Read the full NVIDIA press release here!

Windows XP SP3 RC2 v3264 available for public download
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AMD Accelerates Application Development with Inaugural Release of Open Source Performance Library
SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- February 20, 2008 --AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that it has open sourced it’s AMD Performance Library (APL). Now referred to as “Framewave version 1.0,” the goal of this new open source project is to further enable the performance-optimized APL and expand its functionality beyond the existing core media capabilities, ensuring developers have an accelerated conduit to high performance application development. Contributions by partners, customers and the broader open-source software development community will accelerate library optimizations and feature enhancements in-line with their respective needs while AMD software engineers will continue to be dedicated contributors to the Framewave project. With functionality today that spans from simple arithmetic routines to rich domains such as image and signal processing, Framewave provides a quick path to high performance development. It also offers aggressive internal threading features which manage sophisticated threading models to exploit multi-core and multiprocessor systems. With thousands of routines dedicated to image and signal processing, Framewave helps enable faster development of projects such as media players, codecs, image editors, audio applications and media streaming.

“As a long time supporter of open innovation and collaboration, AMD’s release of its APL code to the Framewave open source project represents another milestone contribution to the open source community. We believe that Framewave will quickly become a significant resource for developers, helping them to build faster, highly optimized and multi-threaded applications more efficiently,” said Earl Stahl, vice president of Software Development, AMD. “Developer collaboration is one of the cornerstones of AMD's software vision, so we are excited to see what innovations the community will develop leveraging Framewave."

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Read the full review of the OCZ Solid State Hard Drive, right here at Club Overclocker!

Toshiba Announces Discontinuation of HD DVD Businesses
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Think Big. Go Small. The ASUS Nova P22
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eBay boycott to start Monday ~Scott
Users opposed to eBay's upcoming fee and policy changes are ready for a weeklong boycott starting Monday. The boycott is planned to run February 19th thru the 25th and will overlap eBay's rollout of their significant policy changes. Not only will the new policies cost sellers more money, but the changes also include the removal of buyer feedback. This will obviously leave sellers more vulnerable to scammers and fake bidding. Personally, I've been scammed numerous times by fake bidders and by those who never pay. This not only cost me money and time, but I loose faith in eBay's system a little more each time. With the new rules about to cost us more money as well as making it easier for sellers to get scammed, I believe we may be seeing the beginning of the end for eBay. Stay tuned for details throughout the week...

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US plans to shoot down spy satellite
It's becoming blatantly obvious the Bush administration does not want any chance of this big hunk of space junk falling into the wrong hands. Oh yes, there is that part about some danger to humans in the form of a toxic cloud... Today President Bush asked the Pentagon to come up with a plan to shoot down the malfunctioning satellite. Very little information has been passed down to the public about the satellite, other than the object is "classified" leading many people to believe the object is a spy satellite. Our government wont even tell us exactly where or when the object will come crashing down to earth, instead only saying it will come down "some time early next month". You can read more about this story at the WashingtonPost.com.

Teens Less Likely to Download Illegally When They Know the Laws
REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft Corp. today announced the results of a new survey that found teenagers between seventh and 10th grades are less likely to illegally download content from the Internet when they know the laws for downloading and sharing content online.

About half of those teens, however, said they were not familiar with these laws, and only 11 percent of them clearly understood the current rules for downloading images, literature, music, movies and software. Teens who were familiar with downloading rules credited their parents, TV or stories in magazines and newspapers, and Web sites — more so than their schools — as resources for information about illegal downloading.

“Widespread access to the Internet has amplified the issue of intellectual property rights among children and teens,” said Sherri Erickson, global manager, Genuine Software Initiative for Microsoft. “This survey provides more insight into the disparity between IP awareness and young people today and highlights the opportunity for schools to help prepare their students to be good online citizens.”

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OCZ Technology Group Sponsors eSports Organization Cyber Evolution
Sunnyvale, CA—February 13, 2008—OCZ Technology Group, Inc., a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance and high reliability memory, components, and system builds, today announced its partnership with Cyber Evolution® (CEVO), a premier national online gaming organization that attracts teams from across the country to compete in the hottest PC and console title tournaments. In its ongoing effort to reach out to gaming communities, OCZ Technology is proud to join forces with CEVO in the mutual quest to unite gamers with the high-performance hardware that is specifically tailored for their demands.

CEVO hosts a multitude of gaming competitions throughout the year, with over 75,000 attendants and 2,500 participants each season in the most popular titles, including Counter-Strike, Call of Duty, and Day of Defeat. OCZ Technology products will be featured at these events to make its memory, power supplies, cooling, and peripherals accessible to gamers and expand the opportunity to define itself as the foremost PC hardware choice for enthusiasts.

“I am very excited about OCZ Technology Group’s 2008 sponsorship commitment to CEVO,” said Charlie Plitt, CEO of CEVO. “OCZ Technology Group Inc. is a leader in the industry and this sponsorship further highlights their commitment to eSports and the importance of the competitive gaming space. Likewise we are very excited to be able to provide the members of CEVO’s community the opportunity to experience OCZ products first hand.”

Read the entire press release here.

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