Today at the Pacific Palms Resort in California you will be able to find the thirteen overclockers that will be facing off in the North American Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championship. Read on to see what this event is all about and to see if you are missing out.

Need a beefy power supply for your next DIY rig? No, we mean seriously beefy. If you’re still adamant that you’re fine with blasting your energy bill sky high for the sake of high frame rates, have a look at Asus’ latest PSUs. The G Series lineup, which is currently comprised of a 1000-watt and 850-watt version, is obviously aimed at power-hungry machines that are utilizing multiple GPUs, a number of hard drives and possibly even a whole gaggle of fans. The G-1000HA (1000W) and G-850HA (850W) both sport 80 PLUS

Tired of cards with serious cooling being reserved for the “hardcore crowd” willing to pay extra? If so, this tie-up should make your day. TUL Corporation (or PowerColor, as it were) has just landed a deal with Arctic Coling to bring the latter’s heralded cooling solutions to the former’s AMD-based graphics cards. Specifically, it’s 92mm cooling will soon become an integral part of the Professional Cool Solution (PCS) product line, which will increase air flow at a lower fan speed to dissipate heat from an optimized

Weeks after being dismissed as a false alarm, the Conficker virus is slowly being activated. Conficker, also known as Downadup or Kido, is quietly turning thousands of personal computers into email spam servers and installing spyware. It does this by installing a second virus known as Waledac that can send out email spam without the PC owner’s knowledge. The Waledac virus recruits the PCs into a second botnet that specializes in distributing email spam. Conficker also carries a third virus that prompts PC owners

While most of the buzz surrounding AMD of late has focused on its all new Phenom II X4 955 processor and its plans for 12- and 16-core processors in 2011, the company celebrated Earth Day earlier this week with a less notable, less energy-intensive option. The newly introduced AMD Opteron EE processor includes the company’s lowest x86 quad-core server power band, offering 13$ power savings in platform-level power consumption compared to previous generation )the quad-core Opteron HE).The 40-watt chip is engineered

Huge diameter, extra-large memory, and cooling to match MSI unveils N285GTX SuperPipe 2G graphics card Leader in graphics card cooling technology, MSI International is always inventing new, better thermal designs to give our customers the most efficient products. Launched today, the N285GTX SuperPipe 2G is not only powered by one of the most powerful GPU in the market – the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 – but also adds an amazing 2GB GDDR3 RAM, and utilizes MSI’s exclusive SuperPipe and Twin Frozr thermal design. This

Love TV? Love being on the road? Regardless of whether or not your answer to that second inquiry is “yes” or “no,” Asus is looking to help avid travelers stay connected to their favorite over-the-air dramas with its all new Express TV Stick. This minuscule USB TV tuner enables notebooks and desktops alike to tune into any local OTA station (usually the ABCs, CBS, FOXs and CBSs of the world) and use their computer’s hard drive as a PVR. The USB 2.0 device installs itself automatically on PCs when inserted, and

With the increased focus on managing energy costs and reducing human impact on the environment in the form of carbon emissions, we’re being encouraged now more than ever to turn our PCs off or let them sleep when they are not in use. The problem is, our digital lives are increasingly dependent on maintaining active network connections for communications, information dissemination, file sharing, and other similar activities that are not possible when a system is off or asleep. As a result, many leave their computers

Judges are expected to recuse themselves in the event of a conflict of interest, and this is the basis of attorney Peter Althin’s filing for a new trial. Althin represents one of The Pirate Bay founders, Peter Sunde. Althin told the Swedish daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter: “In my appeal, I will urge that the verdict of the district court will be obviated due to conflict of interest.”What’s up in the case? It turns out that Tomas Norstrom, the Stockholm District Court Judge who found the popular BitTorrent tracking

XFX GeForce GTS250 Video Card Review @ motherboards.org and other reviews from around the web can be found by visiting our forums!

The XFX GeForce GTS 250 Core Edition video card is available online for $129.99 off Newegg. For a limited time, you can purchase the card and get Call of Duty World at War as a bonus. The inclusion of a free game makes the purchase price more affordable. At the moment the competition for the GTS 250 is the Radeon HD 4850, making it a decent choice of whether you want PhysX support or DirectX 10.1 support. A lot has been said about rebranding of the GeForce 9800GTX+ to the GTS 250, but you get good performance for a good price and that is the bottom line when considering a new video card. The latest games play well on the card with only small sacrifices in terms of anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering to achieve playable frame rates throughout.