Friday, March 11, 2011

Strategy game for PC: Starcraft 2: Blizzard releases Demo Version

"Starcraft 2" admitted in July 2010 from tidy 1.5 million copies of the strategy hit Blizzard sold in the first 48 hours after launch. This is a new record for PC titles. So far, three went million copies on the counter. Apparently there are still masses of gamers who do not play "Starcraft 2". The Blizzard now wants to convert the demo.

The trial version contains the first three missions of the campaign and offers you the opportunity to play with no limit as Terran against the computer opponent. You download them. You must provide your name and email address.

Racing game for PS3: Gran Turismo 5: Patch fixes bug

A small mistake on the course Special Course Route 7 made it possible to collect resourceful "Gran Turismo 5" players in the online mode in a short time a lot of money and experience. This has now is over: By 1:08 Polyphony Digital includes the leak and prevent the career boost in the A-Spec mode. The nearly 1.7 patch contains no other major changes and installed automatically when you connect after starting the game with the Playstation Network.

Polaris 120, Swiftech back to air cooling

Swiftech, California-based company specializing in the production of liquid cooling systems for Personal Computers, returns after a long period to propose a heat sink to air. Polaris 120 is the name chosen for this new product will position itself among the fierce air-cooling solutions for high-end competition.

The property is of type tower and provides an extensive range of shaped aluminum fins (to increase the surface area of \u200b\u200bdissipation) crossed by 5 copper heatpipes diameter of 8mm. The heatpipes are developed from the basis of contact with the IHS of the CPU using the technology in direct HD T and end in the radiator with a special provision that ensures a fair distribution of heat.

EVGA GTX 460 2Win: 2 GF104 GPU to beat the GTX 580

In January we saw at CES in Las Vagas a mysterious dual-GPU video card "Fermi" developed by EVGA. That card is now officially made by the producers of Bree as the GeForce GTX 460 2Win. The EVGA proposal is presented as a project owner, even if developed with external support from nVidia and is characterized by the use of two GPUs GF104 (GTX 460) on a single PCB.

The two GPUs operate at 700 MHz (1400MHz for SPs) and are coupled to each of an allocation of video memory to 1GB of GDDR5 with a 256-bit bus and frequency of 3600MHz (effective). In total, the shaders are 672 and the VRAM is 2GB. The cooling system is a dual-slot solution with radiator, fan and three heatpipes.

Acer HN274HL: a 27 "3D IR receiver

The manufacturer Acer has just unveiled the HN274HL, an LCD 27-inch diagonal enjoying a refresh rate of 120 Hz and therefore compatible with 3D Vision NVIDIA. The HN274HL is also supplied with a pair of 3D glasses compatible with the screen synchronized via an integrated IR receiver. Boasting a Full HD resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels, this monitor features an LED backlight, a response time of 2ms, a brightness of 300 cd / m² and a contrast ratio dynamic 100 000 000: 1 (sic).

PNY GTX 560 pushes the Ti at 900 MHz

The manufacturer PNY has announced the launch of its GeForce GTX 560 OC2 Ti, a graphics card receiving overlocking factory. Indeed, if the GTX 560 reference board an Ti GPU clocked at 822 MHz (1645 MHz for the shaders) and memory running at 1002 MHz, the XLR8 GTX 560 Ti Enthusiast Edition uses a graphics chipset running at 900 MHz (1800 MHz for the 384 CUDA cores) and 1 GB of GDDR5 memory at 1053 MHz.

Corsair announces the upgrade to USB 3.0 in its series of boxes Obsidian

Corsair has announced the availability of an upgrade kit for USB 3.0 front panel of their boxes Obsidian Series 800D and 700D. This kit is designed for users who bought a box of Obsidian supertorres series and have upgraded your license plates with USB 3.0. The kit consists of a replacement front panel, which includes USB 3.0 connectors, and a network of cables to connect to the USB 3.0 ports on the motherboard.