iBUYPOWER just announced a their first gaming system based on the new AMD Socket AM3 Platform – Gamer Fire 600. The Gamer Fire 600 is equipped with AMDs Phenom II X4 810 Quad-Core CPU, the Gigabyte GA-MA790XT-UD4P AMD 790X CrossFire Chipset Motherboard, 4 GB DDR3-1333 Memory, and the ATI Radeon HD 4830 512MB PCI-Express x16 Video Card all for $799.

We take pride in our ability to always be among the first system builders to incorporate new technology in our machines, said Darren Su, Vice President of iBUYPOWER. Its that agility that is allowing us to already be offering systems featuring the AM3 platform, and sharing its unparalleled 3D graphics capabilities with gamers everywhere.

Kingston Technology today announced its 1333MHz DDR3 server memory modules were validated by Intel for use on its Xeon processor-based motherboards. Kingston's registered ECC server ValueRAM DIMMs are optimized to take advantage of the triple-channel architecture for Intel's newest server platforms using the new Nehalem-based Xeon processors.

If you’re thinking that this one sounds familiar, it’s because it is. Other World Computing just announced last October that it would be selling a quad interface external Blu-ray drive, and while its 4x BD-R burn speed was fine for most, those with time that’s extraordinarily precious may long for something quicker. Now, there’s the 8x version of the same drive, designed to cut those Blu-ray Disc burn times down by half while burning blank DVDs at up to 16x and blank CDs at up to 32x. This drive can write to

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A NASA satellite crashed back to Earth about three minutes after launch early Tuesday, officials said. “We could not make orbit,” NASA program manager John Brunschwyler said. “Initial indications are the vehicle did not have enough [force] to reach orbit and landed just short of Antarctica in the ocean.” The $273 million satellite, called the Orbiting Carbon Observatory, would have collected global measurements of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Earth's atmosphere to help better forecast changes in carbon-dioxide levels and their effect on the Earth's climate.

The satellite, which would have monitored greenhouse gases to study how they affect the Earth's climate, was launched on a Taurus XL rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 1:55 a.m. PT (4:55 a.m. ET). But the payload fairing — a clamshell-shaped structure that allows the satellite to travel through space — failed to separate from the rocket, NASA officials said.

At a time when many advertisers are cutting spending, Yahoo is making changes to its core revenue engine in order to make it more powerful and hopefully keep the attention of advertisers. The new ad targeting features announced today could mean you’ll be seeing more and more advertisements based around your searches at Yahoo in the future. One of the new technologies behind these changes is called search retargeting. Search retargeting lets marketers target people with tailored display ads based upon the search

We can’t say we saw this coming. After hearing that Sony’s only dedicated PlayStation Store in America would be closing up this year, the company has come forward with a barrage of new material for its PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable consoles. From new software to new hardware, Sony’s doing it all today.At its annual retail and publisher conference Destination PlayStation, Sony Computer Entertainment America has proudly announced a new lineup for its PSP that is said to “extend the PSP market to young

ASRock X58 SuperComputer Motherboard @ TweakTown and other reviews from around the web can be found by visiting our forums!

“ASRock has been known to us here at TweakTown as producing a more rounded board aimed at the mainstream and value end of the spectrum. Never would we consider putting this motherboard maker into the hardcore and overclocking segments that ASUS, MSI and GIGABYTE has managed to push into, yet ASRock for all their trying are aiming for the top. And why not!

Todays motherboard market is cut throat. To survive you need to either have a unique product or to produce a mainstream product at the cheapest price. ASRock hasnt produced anything unique, but they are able to keep prices down. The ASRock X58 SuperComputer aimed towards the mainstream and extreme users comes to us at a price of $294.99 USD from Newegg and at this price its one of the cheapest X58 boards out there. But how does it perform compared to the likes of ASUS and MSI? Lets find out.”

Micron Technology is cutting as many as 2,000 more jobs because of slumping demand for its products, as the shakeout in the memory chip business continues. The largest U.S. maker of memory chips said Monday afternoon that decreased demand for specialty DRAM products has “created additional challenges” for its Boise, Idaho, manufacturing operations. As a result, Micron said it will phase out 200 millimeter (mm) wafer manufacturing operations at the company's Boise facility.

“This action will reduce employment at Micron's Idaho sites by approximately 500 employees in the near term and as many as 2,000 positions by the end of the company's fiscal year,” the company said in a statement. Its fiscal year ends in August. Micron added that it has sufficient manufacturing capacity remaining and “does not expect any disruption in product supply required for customer needs.”

Microsoft Corp has dropped an attempt to recoup some severance money from 25 recently fired workers it mistakenly overpaid. We wrote and laughed about the situation yesterday and are glad that it has been resolved and that the people get to keep the money.

The Redmond, Washington-based company, which announced a plan to cut up to 5,000 jobs in January, acknowledged on Sunday that it had tried to get the overpaid workers to return the extra money. But late on Monday, it reversed course. “This was a mistake on our part,” said a Microsoft spokesman in an e-mailed statement. “We should have handled this situation in a more thoughtful manner.” Microsoft is “reaching out to those impacted to relay that we will not seek any payment from those individuals,” according to the statement.