OCZ Technology Introduces High-Speed SATA II Solid State Drive to their High-Performance Mobile SolutionsSave battery life, shed excess weight from your laptop, and experience superior read/write speeds with OCZ Technology’s Solid State Drives.Sunnyvale, CA—March 12, 2008—OCZ Technology Group, Inc., a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance and high reliability memory and computer components, today unveiled ultra-fast OCZ SATA II 2.5” Solid State Drives, a lightweight and efficient alternative

They say that beggars can’t be choosers, but apparently consumers can be.  The choice that consumers are likely to be faced with in the near future is not whether to go down the SSD route, but which type of SSD do they want.“Faster drives and a falling cost-per-gigabyte should help bring drive costs down from the stratosphere and into a price bracket more consumers can afford, but the focus in the manufacturing world right now is on boosting storage capacities and performance, not reducing costs. It’s very

After numerous delays the Phenom finally shipped late last year, but suffered an immediate set back due to the TLB errata issue.  This certainly didn’t help AMD pull off a stellar launch, but the issue has been fixed in the new B3 series K10 CPUs.“In addition to fixing the TLB race condition, AMD will finally increase the core frequency of the Opteron series on the B3 stepping.  After the initial OEM orders are filled, channel vendors like Newegg and TigerDirect will carry the new Opterons in frequencies

One of our favorite uses for all this hardware, gaming, is starting to generate titles large enough to effect other parts of the entertainment industry.  No longer are A-list games only competing with each other for sales, but now it seems that the latest movie releases are being factored into the equation.  Of course, whatever effects the studios also has an impact on their bottom line:”We anticipate the video game release of GTA IV on April 29 could dampen the potential from Iron Man’s theatrical

A report, to be presented at a California computer-security conference in May, suggests that pacemakers and defibrillators may be targets for hacking.Millions of Americans have pacemakers, which keeps hearts beating regularly, or an implanted defibrillator, which can restart stopped hearts with an electric jolt. After implanting a defibrillator under a patient’s skin, a doctor uses a special device, about the size of a breadbox, to tell the defibrillator what to do — for example, to instruct it to keep the

Just in case you didn’t notice the new featured article at the top of the page, we’re writing to let everyone know that we have just posted a new article here at HotHardware in which we evaluate the features, overclockability, and performance of the ASUS Striker II Formula nForce 780i SLI-based motherboard for Intel processors.  The Striker II Formula is a member of ASUS’ high-end Republic of Gamers, or ROG, series of motherboards.  As such, the board is loaded with features and integrated peripherals

And we’re not talking about “hot sales” either.Japan is investigating a possible defect in Apple Inc.’s iPod after one of the popular digital music players reportedly shot out sparks while recharging, a government official said Wednesday.An official at the trade and economy ministry, which oversees product problems, said a defect is suspected in the lithium-ion battery in the iPod Nano, model number MA099J/A. He spoke on customary condition of anonymity, saying he is reiterating a ministry position.The problem

It seems like yesterday that I was down in Dallas for the Winter CPL back in 2004, but that was back when things were going good in the gaming industry. I guess I'll have to look at old pictures of past CPL events as the CPL is no longer hosting events. Remember back in 2006 the canceled the CPL World Tour, but things turned around for them. Then again back in 2006 I wrote a little editorial about how LAN gaming was headed in the wrong direction and they two groups I highlighted (WSVG and CPL) are both gone now. Makes you think for a second…

Effective immediately, the Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL) will cease operations. Therefore, all CPL events currently scheduled for 2008 are hereby canceled. The CPL was launched in June 1997 with the pioneering mission of promoting and sanctioning video game competitions as a professional sport. For ten years the CPL events experienced increased growth – commencing with a small LAN event in Dallas, Texas, and culminating in world-class competitions across five continents.

CoolIT Systems announces its new NVIDIA VGA MTEC Coldplate. This newest addition to CoolITs line of MTEC coolers is perfect for PC Enthusiasts who already have a custom liquid cooling system along with NVIDIAs 8800 GTX/Ultra series graphics cards. The MTEC Coldplate is available now from CoolIT Systems.com for $109.99.

''PC Enthusiasts can take their cooling setup to the next level by replacing their traditional water blocks with the MTEC Coldplate'' said Geoff Lyon, CEO of CoolIT Systems.'' The NVIDIA 8800 series is an extreme graphics card that requires extreme cooling performance to reach its full potential. Thats what the NVIDIA VGA MTEC Coldplate delivers.''

The Legit Reviews Folding team has reached a new milestone today as Team 38296 has broken the 17 million point mark! The team has completed over 48,745 work units since it was created and has had over 150 people contribute work units over the years. Currently the team has 41 active members and a total of 201 CPU's folding thanks to these members. The team is currently looking for more members, so if you are interested in folding please feel free to look into it and join our active team. The Legit Reviews folding team is free to join and always welcomes new members! If you are interested in the team check out the folding forums here or our various articles on folding here, here and here.

The goal of F@H and Stanford is to apply this new technology to dramatically advance the capabilities of the project, applying their simulations to further study of protein folding and related diseases, including Alzheimer's Disease, Huntington's Disease, and certain forms of cancer. With these computational advances, coupled with new simulation methodologies to harness the new techniques, Stanford believes they will be able to address questions previously considered impossible to tackle computationally, and make even greater impacts on our knowledge of folding and folding related diseases.