Remember the father who sold his pot-smoking son’s Guitar Hero III game on eBay as punishment? The father netted $9K in that auction. The mom here won’t get that much, but at least she’s teaching her kid a lesson.A 13-year-old kid in Virginia has backtalked to his mom for the last time. When he was told to do his chores instead of play Xbox 360, he went and intentionally broke the vacuum cleaner to get out of it. What’d his mom do? Well, she’s selling his Xbox and all his games on eBay. And that was before she

We just received some photos of a slick, liquid-cooling system for the recently released GeForce 9800 GTX that we thought you’d all like to see.  The shots come by way of Berlin-based Aqua Computer.  Aqua Computer manufactures a number of custom liquid-cooling kits and accessories for everything from processors to hard drives, but their GPU water blocks are particularly trick.         Click For Hi-Res Photos The aquagrafx 9800 GTX cooling system you see pictured here should

Introducing the First 1 Gigabyte HD 3870 Graphics Card CHATSWORTH, CA — April 15, 2008 — Diamond Multimedia (www.diamondmm.com), a leading manufacturer of PC graphics cards, sound cards and communications products, introduced today the 1 gigabyte, overclocked version of the ATI Radeon HD 3870 graphics card.  This card offers maximum speed and power at an incredible value.  Utilizing 55nm technology, this card runs cool and quiet. Diamond was the first AIB for AMD to launch a consumer based 1GB card

Just in case you missed the fresh link at the top of the page, we’re popping into the news to let you all know that we’ve just posted a new article here at HotHardware in which we evaluate Diamond Multimedia’s Viper Radeon HD 3850 512MB Overclocked Ruby Edition graphics card – perhaps one of the longest names for a single product that we’ve come across.  As its name suggests, the Viper Radeon HD 3850 512MB Overclocked Ruby Edition’s frame buffer has been doubled from the reference card’s 256MB to 512MB. 

With the 0dB ASUS EN9600GT SILENT, “Noiseless Gaming” Never Sounded So Good – With ASUS’ New V-Cool Heatsink, the ASUS EN9600GT SILENT series boasts GPUs that run 10ºC cooler – FREMONT, CA (April 15, 2008) – ASUS, worldwide leader in component and notebook design and manufacturing, today released the ASUS EN9600GT SILENT/HTDI/512M graphics card. Incorporating our latest thermal solution – the V-Cool Heatsink, which features the V-Engine concept and Intercooler technology, the EN9600GT SILENT is the perfect

Nintendo filled in the last bit of information for the Wii Fit game on Tuesday, announcing that when it launches in the U.S. on May 19th it will cost $89.99 (MSRP). $90 for a game? Well, it’s more than a game; it includes the new Wii Balance Board controller, and anyway, let’s not forget that Guitar Hero III for the Wii is the same price.When Wii Fit hits stores on May 19, expect to see an unsurprising $90 price tag slapped on the front of the box.The aforementioned box, which includes both the Wii Fit software

Apple has almost always had a reputation for not pushing new hardware on ‘old’ platforms, but to be fair, they’ve never really had the opportunity to update platforms quite as frequently as they have under their present partnership with Intel.   As a result, the company is starting to offer new hardware products such as the 8800GT video cards for older machines, such as the original Mac Pros.The 8800GT available on current models ships with a 64-bit EFI which isn’t compatible with the ‘older’ Mac Pros.  Here’s

The distinctly different manufacturing expertise needed for success in the mechanical and the solid state storage markets means that few companies are prepared to play both sides of the fence.  As faster and cheaper SSDs loom, it isn’t surprising that major players are doing everything they can to stop or stall the march of progress long enough to give them time to catch up.Enter Seagate’s CEO Bill Watkins who made good on his promise to sue SSD manufacturers if it looked like they were going to become a threat.

We recently reported on the company Psystar who is selling machines with an option to load OS X 10.5, a.k.a. Leopard, and how threats of litigation from Apple was all but imminent.  That has now come to pass, and apparently Psystar is firing back:Speaking to InformationWeek, a Psystar employee identified only as Robert said his company sees Apple’s end-user license agreement, which prohibits third-party installations of Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware, as a violation of antitrust laws.??”What if Microsoft said

Anybody who has e-mail knows all about phishing scams. As spam filters and firewalls become more potent, and users become more sophisticated and informed about responding to online deceptions, the spammers have had to become more sophisticated in their approach too. One approach spammers now use is to avoid mass e-mailing and tailor their message to a few high-profile targets. They call this approach “whaling.” Thousands of high-ranking executives across the country have been receiving e-mail messages this week