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Dirt 2 PC Demo Brings DirectX 11 Graphics

Posted on the December 3rd, 2009 under Games, Stuff, video by admin

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Those with fancy video cards be proud!

Got your shiny DirectX 11-enabled Radeon HD 5800 series and you’re itching to stretch its legs? Well then, the newly released demo of Dirt 2 is your best option. While Dirt 2 was released for consoles a few months ago, the wait continues for this still-unreleased PC version. The delay to the PC version was for the sake of graphical enhancements, and if you have a DX11 card, you’ll be able to enjoy some of the new features.

Check out this video from Codemasters that runs through all the little enhancements afforded by this new generation of software and hardware:

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Grab the 1.3GB demo right here.

We’ll be including Dirt 2 as part of our regular testing suite once the full version releases, but if you want to know how the demo benches, check out tests from TweakTown and Bit-tech.

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10 reasons why PCs crash U must Know(part 3)

Posted on the December 1st, 2009 under Hardware by admin

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Fatal error: the system has become unstable or is busy,” it says. “Enter to return to Windows or press Control-Alt-Delete to restart your computer. If you do this you will lose any unsaved information in all open applications.”

You have just been struck by the Blue Screen of Death. Anyone who uses Mcft Windows will be familiar with this. What can you do? More importantly, how can you prevent it happening?

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10 reasons why PCs crash U must Know(part 2)

Posted on the November 30th, 2009 under Hardware by admin

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Fatal error: the system has become unstable or is busy,” it says. “Enter to return to Windows or press Control-Alt-Delete to restart your computer. If you do this you will lose any unsaved information in all open applications.”

You have just been struck by the Blue Screen of Death. Anyone who uses Mcft Windows will be familiar with this. What can you do? More importantly, how can you prevent it happening?

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10 great add-ons for Internet Explorer(part 2)

Posted on the November 26th, 2009 under Software by admin

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  1. Cooliris-Web www.cooliris.com . Perhaps one of the most impressive plug-ins available for any browser, Cooliris takes images and video from your favourite sites and displays them for you in an interactive three dimensional environment . Once installed, all you have to do is hover your mouse over a picture or clip and click on the arrow icon that appears. Within Cooliris you can then find further categorised content, search within selected sites and email media to friends. Get a glimpse of what tomorrow’s interface will look like today for free.
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10 reasons why PCs crash U must Know(part 1)

Posted on the November 24th, 2009 under Hardware, Tutorial by admin

Fatal error: the system has become unstable or is busy,” it says. “Enter to return to Windows or press Control-Alt-Delete to restart your computer. If you do this you will lose any unsaved information in all open applications.”

You have just been struck by the Blue Screen of Death. Anyone who uses Mcft Windows will be familiar with this. What can you do? More importantly, how can you prevent it happening?

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10 great add-ons for Internet Explorer(part 1)

Posted on the November 22nd, 2009 under Software by admin

Bring fantastic new features to Internet Explorer with add-ons- programs that extend your browser’s capabilities. We scoured the internet for the best.

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7 Things Microsoft Got Right

Posted on the November 21st, 2009 under Facts by admin

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  1. Mainstreaming The Pc-PC’s used to be expensive and hard to use. Thanks to Window’s least-common-dominator approach, we now have ubiquitous , inexpensive computers.
  2. The “Mostly Open Platform”-It’s not open source, but Window’s  well-documented API’s foster application
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AMD’s Dual GPU Radeon HD 5970 is Fastest Ever

Posted on the November 20th, 2009 under Article, Hardware by admin

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AMD today announced the ATI Radeon HD 5970, which it calls the fastest card ever created thanks to pairing two HD 5870 GPUs together. The ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics card delivers nearly 5 TeraFLOPS of compute power. Grab two of them together in CrossFireX and you’re looking at nearly 10 TeraFLOPS.

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Pearl Jam Ten Game

Posted on the November 18th, 2009 under Games by admin

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Pearl Jam emerged from the furtive Seattle Grunge rock sense in the early Nineties, although fans seemed to be divided between Eddie Vedder’s outfit and neighboring pioneers Nirvana. However the band’s debut album , for many deemed their opus, was given the reissue treatment in March with a superlative package with remastered tracks, and replicas of collectable rarities.

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Hackers Makes Modern Warfare 2 Ded. Server?

Posted on the November 17th, 2009 under Article, Games by admin

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When news came that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 would come without dedicated servers for the PC version, gamers were upset and disappointed at the removal of one of the advantages of the PC platform.

Some PC gamers even decided to boycott the game. Of course, that didn’t seem to hurt sales too much as Modern Warfare 2 went on to become the fastest selling game in history. Clearly Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 gamers weren’t fazed by what was happening on the PC front.

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