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Chrome is a security nightmare, indexes your bank accounts

Madshrimps News - Thu, 09/04/2008 - 13:27
To see all of this in action, just open up Chrome and log in to your favorite financial website. Like most important sites, it should be protected with HTTPS/SSL encryption and that should be evident in the address bar of the browser. Do the stuff you would normally do like look at your balances and gawk at your latest transactions and then open up a new tab in Chrome by clicking the “+” symbol.

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[M] Geforce GTX280 & Radeon HD4870X2 AA Scaling with XP & Vista

Madshrimps News - Thu, 09/04/2008 - 12:54
In this in-depth article we take a look at the performance of the NVIDIA Geforce GTX 280 and ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 when anti-aliasing is enabled. We test 8 different games at several different AA levels under Windows XP as well as under Windows Vista. How does performance scale when you go from XP to Vista, how much impact does enabling AA have? Read on to find out!

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Chrome captures 1% market share in just nine hours

Madshrimps News - Thu, 09/04/2008 - 09:33
Google's new browser has zoomed past 1% market share in just ten hours after its release yesterday at 3:02 p.m. EDT and reached almost 1.5% earlier today. Although it is too early to tell which competing browser makers were hit by Google’s new software, the initial numbers numbers indicate that Chrome is off to a good start.

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AMD roadmap reveals no new chipset to surprise us

Madshrimps News - Thu, 09/04/2008 - 09:23
Guess AMD have put all their resources on CPU and GPU development, no time to care chipset, because what we read is they just refurbished old chipsets, make some changes to let those chips support new AM3 CPU an put them on sale. Look, In Enthusiast market the next gen chipset will be RD890, which is a upgraded RD790 we saw on a 790FX mobo. The only improvement of RD890 is AM3 ready and improved

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Thermaltake DuOrb CPU Cooler Review

Madshrimps News - Thu, 09/04/2008 - 09:20
Thermaltake DuOrb CPU cooler dares to violate the general principles: its ideological prototype was a dual-head DuOrb cooler designed for graphics cards. But why not? Let's examine today's original solution and try to determine how justified this unusual concept of Thermaltake engineers is.

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XIGMATEK CPU Coolers Review

Madshrimps News - Thu, 09/04/2008 - 09:20
Today we will have a look at three of the most popular CPU coolers Xigmatek currently offer; the HDT-S1283, the HDT-RS1283 "Red Scorpion" and the HDT-S1284 "Achilles". All three of the coolers are based on the same design and Xigmatek's Heatpipe Direct Touch technology, but each one targets a different user group. We will thoroughly examine all three of them in this review.

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Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Review

Madshrimps News - Thu, 09/04/2008 - 09:19
Unless you've been hiding under a rock, most people know that the Core 2 Duo 45nm dual core processors from Intel are high FSB screamers. Normally, this setup runs Quad core processors and overclocks them quite well. I knew slapping in the E8400 would bring out the higher clock speeds. I was not disappointed. After seeing the high VID this chip had I was a little skeptical about just how high I co

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Antec Signature Series 850W Power Supply Review

Madshrimps News - Thu, 09/04/2008 - 09:19
Antec gained fame originally for its cases, but has recently become just as well-known for its outstanding line of power supplies. Antec impressed ThinkComputers with its TruePower Quattro series of quad 12V rail, modular, and 80% or greater efficiency power supply units. Antec recently introduced a new line of power supply units with even greater efficiency, the Signature series. This series of u

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ZOTAC GeForce 9500 GT ZONE Edition Graphics Card

Madshrimps News - Thu, 09/04/2008 - 09:18
The 9500 GT hasn’t had the best of starts; the Leadtek we looked at offered some pretty poor performance and a price tag that was really too high for what it was. Fortunately, Point of View came in, strapped a HDMI port to the card and made the card stand out a bit more from the pack. We finally began to see a card that we could actually recommend to people.

So now that the 9500 GT is beginning

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ASUS Rampage Extreme Motherboard & Extreme Overclocking Review

Madshrimps News - Thu, 09/04/2008 - 09:18
The frenzied forum discussions, results threads, and outright hooliganism this motherboard has already achieved has not been seen in a long time. ASUS has not only designed a top drawer competitor in the ultra high-end segment of the mainboard market, they have also done a fantastic job creating excitement around this product. Putting this motherboard in the capable hands of some of the best overc

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Xigmatek HDT-S1284EE Heatsink Review

Madshrimps News - Thu, 09/04/2008 - 09:18
The Xigmatek HDT-S1284EE heatsink is an extension of the Achilles model, built on the same great frame but with a new fan that offers identical performance and just about the same noise values. At full tilt the HDT-1284EE barely purrs at 44.2dBA, while the Achilles hums away at 42.7dBA. The Xigmatek HDT-S1284EE heatsink features an "exposed heatpipe base" that stacks up very well in the competitiv

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15 years in 3D: NVIDIA cofounder Chris Malachowsky speaks

Madshrimps News - Wed, 09/03/2008 - 22:26
When we came out with our first product, which was released with Windows 95, and right after it came out, our customer, which was Diamond Multimedia, came over to NVIDIA and threw us a party and there was cake and all that, and at that time on their radar there were 35 companies trying to do 3D graphics for the PC, and today there are two of us.

And of those 35, ATI was probably one of them, Ma

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ATI FireStream 9250

Madshrimps News - Wed, 09/03/2008 - 22:12
RV770 has been a run away success story for AMD, in form of a class leading performance product (4870X2) as well as offering a very good performance/price ratios (4850/4870). Now AMD brings the same price/performance approach to its stream computing class of products; the AMD FireStream 9250.

Based on the RV770 GPU; FireStream 9250 packs in 800 Shader processors coupled with 1GB of 256-bit GDD

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Bug in Google's Chrome Crashes All Tabs

Madshrimps News - Wed, 09/03/2008 - 21:34
An issue exists in how chrome behaves with undefined-handlers in chrome.dll version 0.2.149.27. A crash can result without user interaction. When a user is made to visit a malicious link, which has an undefined handler followed by a 'special' character, the chrome crashes with a Google Chrome message window "Whoa! Google Chrome has crashed. Restart now?". It crashes on "int 3" at 0x01002FF3 as an

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Intel Launches Core 2 Duo E5200, Core 2 Quad Q8200 Chips

Madshrimps News - Wed, 09/03/2008 - 21:17
Intel Corp. this week quietly added two new relatively affordable microprocessors into the lineup. The quad-core processor is likely to eventually substitute previous-generation chips with four cores, whereas the new dual-core product brings the Core 2 Duo brand to the territory of the Pentium dual-core processors, which may mean that in several months time the company will further expand the Core

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NVIDIA BIOS Editor (NiBiTor) v4.5a Program Released

Madshrimps News - Wed, 09/03/2008 - 21:03
MVKTech has just released a new version of NVIDIA BIOS Editor (NiBiTor) software. NiBiTor is the original and defenitive BIOS tweaker that supports the latest NVIDIA graphics cards. NiBiTor allows graphics card enthusiasts to have full control over advanced features and functionality found on firmware on supporting cards. This to gain some extra performance, enable hidden features and extra stabil

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ZOTAC GeForce 9800 GTX+ Zone Edition Video Card Review

Madshrimps News - Wed, 09/03/2008 - 21:02
It used to be that if you wanted to overclock your hardware, you ran the risk of voiding a warranty. Supposing that you dared to accept that risk, your options were still limited by the cooling equipment available to you. So it stands to reason that ZOTAC is making huge strides with their ZONE series, which combines a silent liquid-cooled system to a 55nm GeForce video card. The AMP! Series is alr

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Foxconn 9500GT-256FR3 Video Card Review

Madshrimps News - Wed, 09/03/2008 - 21:02
Since the GTX 200 series’ launch, NVIDIA has revamped their whole current line-up of graphic cards. They have shifted to 9000 series and GTX 200 series, with the GTX 200s sitting on the top of the performance bracket and the 9000 series occupying the mainstream and budget market. Their new budget card is the GeForce 9500 GT. This card will initially be manufactured with 65 nm fabrication process b

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MSI launches Wind U90 Ultra Lightweight Portable

Madshrimps News - Wed, 09/03/2008 - 21:01
MSI launches Wind U90 Ultra Lightweight Portable

MSI proudly introduces MSI U90 WIND. After the successful release of the MSI U100 WIND, the MSI U90 WIND is the latest model of the ultra mobile notebook series. The special designed MSI U90 WIND is a convenient light 8.9” netbook that weights approximately 1 kilogram.

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