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Nvidia Benchmarks GTX 480 Against Radeon 5870

Published on 2010-03-10 08:22 AM

Source: Toms Hardware, Nvidia shows its tessellation muscle against ATI's Radeon HD 5870. Interestingly enough, the ATI part hangs on fairly well until Fermi pulls ahead with its hardware tessellation. Nvidia's GF100/Fermi GPUs, the GTX 470 and GTX 480, will be officially launched later this month on March 26. Until then, we're being teased by unofficial board shots and unverified benchmarks. Today, however, we bring to you something completely official: a benchmark demo straight from Nvidia that compares the upcoming GeForce GTX 480 and the ATI Radeon 5870. ...

1024-bit RSA encryption cracked by carefully starving CPU of electricity

Pollynator

Published on 2010-03-09 01:48 PM

Since 1977, RSA public-key encryption has protected privacy and verified authenticity when using computers, gadgets and web browsers around the globe, with only the most brutish of brute force efforts (and 1,500 years of processing time) felling its 768-bit variety earlier this year. Now, three eggheads (or Wolverines, as it were) at the University of Michigan claim they can break it simply by tweaking a device's power supply. By fluctuating the voltage to the CPU such that it generated a single hardware error per clock cycle, they found that they could cause the server to flip single bits of the private key at a time, allowing them to slowly piece together the password. ...

Why Ad Blocking is devastating to the sites you love

IonFlux

Published on 2010-03-07 11:14 PM

Did you know that blocking ads truly hurts the websites you visit? We recently learned that many of our readers did not know this, so I'm going to explain why. There is an oft-stated misconception that if a user never clicks on ads, then blocking them won't hurt a site financially. This is wrong. Most sites, at least sites the size of ours, are paid on a per view basis. If you have an ad blocker running, and you load 10 pages on the site, you consume resources from us (bandwidth being only one of them), but provide us with no revenue. ...

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PCBG March 2010 Competition

TitanKing

Published on 2010-03-06 06:27 PM

Pcbuyersguide will be offering a prize give away each month, from the latest games to cool hardware gadgets. Some of the competitions, like this one might involve a certain mission before you are entered into the draw. This months price is a very nifty unit (to be reviewed soon) that fits in the palm of your hand, it allows you to plug it into any external hdd, flash disk or memory card and play movies in any file format. It even comes with a remote. ...

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Core i5-750S: What Does The S Stand For?

TitanKing

Published on 2010-03-06 11:01 AM

The Core i5-750S is a low-power version of a CPU we often recommend as a solid value for the gamer on a budget: the popular Core i5-750 quad-core, based on Intel's Lynnfield design and widely regarded as a potent overclocker. The S-suffix that represented low-power models is now being used on a processor that, as expected, drops power from the i5's standard 95W TDP. However, it only does so at decreased performance. Is Intel starting to taper off performance in order to hit its lower power consumption figures? ...

Portal 2 due out this Christmas

IonFlux

Published on 2010-03-06 11:01 AM

Update: Valve's Doug Lombardi has told Eurogamer that the game's due for PC and Xbox 360. Original story: Valve has officially announced Portal 2. The game is due out this "holiday season" ("Christmas" in old money) according to the developer. Platforms were not mentioned. The first Portal came out on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 as part of The Orange Box, and then came to Xbox Live Arcade in the form of Portal: Still Alive. ...

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Prophecy Shop introduces services!

Firestar

Published on 2010-03-06 10:37 AM

After a long time of not doing any of this, we've decided that it's time we offer some services for the less technically inclined people. Please feel free to refer your mothers, uncles, and other less technical people to our services section for anything and everything to do with installation, upgrading, fault finding, lightning assessments and the like. We also offer game patch and game install file download services. So, please have a look over here, for that next WoW patch, or new game installation downloads! Also let me know if there is a service that you would like us to add, if you see anything missing! ...

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