Thursday, February 21, 2013
Cooler Master V8 CPU Cooler Review
The newest offering to the cooling community from Cooler Master is simply called V8. With a name like V8 it is almost a given that the cooler would have a style to match the strong name, and looking at the top of the cooler one would think that they are looking down on a car engine. Let’s take a quick look at the specifications for the V8 before we get too far:
Specifications
- CPU Socket
- Intel Socket : LGA775 LGA1366 (With optional mounting hardware)
- AMD Socket : AM2+, AM2, 940
- CPU Support
- Intel : Core i7, Core 2 Extreme, Core 2 Quad, Core 2 Duo, Pentium Extreme Ed., Pentium Dual-Core, Pentium D, Pentium 4 Extreme Ed., Pentium 4 HT, Pentium 4,Celeron Dual-Core, Celeron D
- AMD : Phenom, Athlon 64 X2, Athlon X2, Sempron
- Dimensions: 120 x 128 x 161.1mm
- Weight: 865g Heat Sink
- Dimensions: 120 x 120 x 158mm
- Heat Sink Material: Copper Base / Aluminum Fins / 8 Heat Pipes
- Heat Pipes Dimensions: 6mm
- Fan Dimension (W / H / D): 120 x 120 x 25mm
- Fan Speed: 800 - 1800RPM
- Fan Airflow: 69.69CFM
- Air pressure (mmH2O): 2.94mm
- H2O Bearing Type: Rifle Bearing
- Fan Life Expectancy: 40,000hrs
- Fan Noise Level (dB-A): 17 - 21dBA
- Fan Speed Adjustment: Install on PCI Slot
- Connector: 4-pin
- Fan Control: PWM + VR Controller
- Rated Voltage: 12V
- Start Voltage: 7V
- Operating Voltage: 10.38V - 13.2V
- Rated Current: 0.12A
- Input Power: 1.44W
Packaging
The V8 comes in a simple box with a dramatic posing of the V8 cooler.
Out of the box we can see that the cooler comes held snuggly in place in a plastic clamshell.
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Samsung Galaxy Y (Young) (GT-S5360)
Galaxy Y features Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread OS (currently upgradable to v2.3.6) with Samsung's proprietary TouchWiz user interface, and has integrated social networking apps and multimedia features, including Google Voice Search, and 5.1 channel audio enhancements.It also has a standard 3.5 mm 4-pin audio jack.
The device sports a 832 MHz ARMv6 processor, 180 MB of internal memory and supports up to 32 GB of removable storage through a microSD card. The phone has a 2 MP camera, a screen with a 240x320 resolution and a multitouch interface with the optional SWYPE virtual keyboard. The phone offers connectivity options such as 3G, WiFi,Bluetooth 3.0 and also GPS. It supports 3G HSDPA speeds of up to 7.2 Mbit/s. The device allows tethering with other Wi-Fi enabled devices, which enables users to share the phone's Internet connection.
Hardware
Processor
The Galaxy Y uses a single-core 832 MHz ARMv6 along with Broadcom BCM2763 VideoCore IV.
Memory
The Galaxy Y features 290 MB of RAM and 250 MB of dedicated flash internal storage (158 MB user available).
It has microSDHC slot (up to 32 GB).
Display
The Galaxy Y uses a 76.2-millimetre (3.00 in) QVGA (320x240) TFT LCD capacitive touchscreen which has a Pixel density (PPI) of '133'.
Camera
On the back of the device is a 2 megapixel fixed focus camera without flash that can record videos in up to a maximum QVGA Resolution. Galaxy Y does not have a front facing camera.
Samsung Galaxy Mini
Samsung Galaxy Mini
The Samsung Galaxy Mini is a smartphone manufactured by Samsung that runs the open source Android operating system. It was announced and released by Samsung in the spring of 2011. On some other markets it is known as Samsung Galaxy Next/Pop. It is currently available in four different colors; steel grey, white, lime and orange. The same device is sold in the United States as the Samsung Dart exclusively for T-Mobile. The face buttons were changed to capacitive matching the rest of the Galaxy lineup. The FM radio functionality was removed.
A successor to the phone, the Samsung Galaxy Mini 2, has been released by Samsung featuring major processor improvements from the original.
Features
The Galaxy Mini is a 3.5G smartphone that offers quad-band GSM and was announced with two-band HSDPA (900/2100 MHz) at 7.2 Mbit/s. The display is a 3.14 in (80 mm)-diagonal TFT LCD with a 240×320 pixels QVGA resolution supporting up to 262,000 colors.
The Galaxy Mini is presented as an entry-level smartphone, and is (as of 13 May 2011) one of the cheapest Android phones on the market.
The Galaxy Mini originally ran on Android 2.2 Froyo, but in May 2011, Samsung announced[2] that the Galaxy Mini (along with other Galaxy models) will get an official upgrade to Android 2.3 Gingerbread. An official upgrade to Android 2.3.6 (Gingerbread) was released via Samsung Kies on December 9, 2011 for some mobile operators. Galaxy Mini can also be flashed with custom ROMs such as CyanogenMod releases (although not officially supported by Samsung) where it is codenamed tass. Officially supported version by CyanogenMod on Galaxy Mini as of August 2012 is CyanogenMod 7.2, although unofficial nightly versions of CM 9.x and 10.x can also be installed.
Key features
- Dual-touch (two fingers)
- Quad-Band GSM and dual-band 3G support
- 7.2 Mbit/s HSDPA
- WiFi 802.11 (b/g/n)
- Bluetooth technology v 2.1
- USB 2.0 (High Speed)
- 3.14 in (80 mm) 256K-color QVGA TFT touchscreen
- ARMv6 600 MHz processor, 384 MB RAM (279 MB RAM available)
- Adreno 200 GPU
- Android OS v2.2 (Froyo)[3] with TouchWiz v3.0 UI, upgrade to v2.3.6 (Gingerbread) available in some places.
- 160 MB internal storage, hot-swappable MicroSD slot, 2 GB card included
- 3.15 Mpixel fixed-focus camera with geo-tagging
- GPS receiver with A-GPS
- FM radio with RDS and Radio Text (Not available in "Dart" version.)
- 3.5 mm audio jack
- Document editor
- Accelerometer and proximity sensor
- Swype virtual keyboard
- MicroUSB port (charging and data transfer) and stereo Bluetooth 2.1
- SNS (Social networking service) integration
- Image/Video editor
Video Card
Video Card / Graphics Card
A video card (also called a video adapter, display card, graphics card, graphics board, display adapter or graphics adapter) is an expansion card which generates a feed of output images to a display. Most video cards offer various functions such as accelerated rendering of 3D scenes and 2D graphics, MPEG-2/MPEG-4 decoding, TV output, or the ability to connect multiple monitors (multi-monitor).
Video hardware can be integrated into the motherboard or (as with more recent designs) the CPU, but all modern motherboards (and some from the 1980s) provide expansion ports to which a video card can be connected.[citation needed] In this configuration it is sometimes referred to as a video controller or graphics controller. Modern low-end to mid-range motherboards often include a graphics chipset manufactured by the developer of the northbridge (e.g. an AMD chipset with Radeongraphics or an Intel chipset with Intel graphics) on the motherboard. This graphics chip usually has a small quantity of embedded memory and takes some of the system's main RAM, reducing the total RAM available. This is usually called integrated graphics or on-board graphics, and is usually low in performance and undesirable for those wishing to run 3D applications. A dedicated graphics card on the other hand has its own Random Access Memory or RAM and Processor specifically for processing video images, and thus offloads this work from the CPU and system RAM. Almost all of these motherboards allow (PCI-E) the disabling of the integrated graphics chip in BIOS, and have an AGP, PCI, or PCI Express(PCI-E) slot for adding a higher-performance graphics card in place of the integrated graphics.
Components
A modern video card consists of a printed circuit board on which the components are mounted. These include:
[edit]Graphics Processing Unit
Main article: graphics processing unit
A graphics processing unit (GPU), also occasionally called visual processing unit (VPU), is a specialized electronic circuit designed to rapidly manipulate and alter memory to accelerate the building of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display. A video card is also a computer unto itself.
[edit]Heat Sink
A heat sink is mounted on high performance graphics cards. A heat sink spreads out the heat produced by the graphics processing unit evenly throughout the heat sink and unit itself. The heat sink commonly has a fan mounted as well to cool the heat sink and the graphics processing unit.
[edit]Video BIOS
The video BIOS or firmware contains a minimal program for initial set up and control of the video card. It may contain information on the memory timing, operating speeds and voltages of the graphics processor, RAM, and other details which can sometimes be changed. The usual reason for doing this is to overclock the video card to allow faster video processing speeds, however, this has the potential to irreversibly damage the card with the possibility of cascaded damage to the motherboard.
The modern Video BIOS does NOT support all the functions of the video card, only sufficient to identify and initialize the card to display one of a few frame buffer or text display modes. It does not support, YUV to RGB translation, video scaling, pixel copying, compositing or any of the multitude of other 2D and 3D features of the video card.
Video memory
The memory capacity of most modern video cards ranges from 128 MB to 8 GB.[1][2] Since video memory needs to be accessed by the GPU and the display circuitry, it often uses special high-speed or multi-port memory, such as VRAM, WRAM, SGRAM, etc. Around 2003, the video memory was typically based on DDR technology. During and after that year, manufacturers moved towards DDR2, GDDR3, GDDR4 and GDDR5. The effective memory clock rate in modern cards is generally between 1 GHz and 6.3 GHz .
Video memory may be used for storing other data as well as the screen image, such as the Z-buffer, which manages the depth coordinates in 3D graphics, textures, vertex buffers, and compiled shader programs.
High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI)
An advanced digital audio/video interconnect released in 2003 and is commonly used to connect game consoles and DVD players to a display. HDMI supports copy protection through HDCP.
How to add a popular post widget to your blog
Adding popular post widget to your blog
"Popular Post Widget" or "Most commented Posts" forBlogger as is very great widget to show of your posts,which your readers most liked and expressed their love in comments.It gives your visitors a reason to stay on your blog. This widget is very easy to install just have to add small bit of javascript codes to your blog sidebar.
Follow these steps to add the recent comments widget in your Blogger (Blogspot) blog.
Step 1 :
Log into Blogger. Go to your Blogger Dashboard > Design/Layout > Page Element> Add a Gadget > HTML/JavaScript
Step 2 :
Copy and paste the code below:
<script language='JavaScript'> |
Step 3 :
Change
YOUR-BLOG-URL with your blog url. Step 4 :
Save the template.
Customization :
How to customize popular posts widget for blogger:
1. numposts is the number of posts you got.
2. maxshowresult is the maximum result that will be shown.
Change this accordingly.
Dota 2
Dota 2
Have you played dota before? Have u played all the heroes and mastered it all? Now it's your chance to play dota with better graphics and ......... COSMETICS and even CUSTOM COURIERS!!!!
Some screenshots for you guys
Dota 2 is an upcoming multiplayer online battle arena video game being developed by Valve Corporation and the stand-alone sequel to the popular Defense of the Ancients mod for Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos and its expansion pack, The Frozen Throne. Formally announced on October 13, 2010, via Game Informer,[2]the game is currently available for early test access purchase, with a free-to-play business model when released.[3] Dota 2 will be released via download by Valve's content delivery platform Steam, on which the game has been developed to run exclusively for both release and update delivery.[4] Dota 2 will run onMicrosoft Windows and Mac OS X.[2]
Dota 2 consists of session-based online multiplayer activity, with the primary objective of each match being for teams to destroy their opposing team's fortified stronghold. Each player controls a player character called a "hero", who is given the responsibility of participating in team combat, which generally takes place along a series of lanes that connect their opposing bases, lined with defensive towers. The gameplay elements are largely incorporated from Defense of the Ancients, with the game's lead designer, IceFrog, being the longest-serving and current developer of the Warcraft III mod
Gameplay
The overall objective of each match is to battle through the opposing force's defenses, in order to arrive at and destroy the opponents' Ancient. BecauseDota 2 is highly team-oriented, players must coordinate with their teams in order to achieve victory. The towers and stronghold defenses are invulnerable to attacks so long as the towers nearest to the enemy side still stand.Dota 2 combines the real-time strategy element of traditional top-down perspective, while also incorporating leveling and itemization functions of a role-playing video game. Players are pitted against each other as two distinct factions called the Radiant and the Dire. The Radiant is a faction based at the southwest corner of the map, while the Dire is a faction based at the northeast corner. Players assume the role of one of ninety-eight "heroes"[5] – strategically powerful units with special abilities, who, through combat experience, may progress to a maximum level of twenty-five. The heroes' methods of combat are heavily influenced by their primary property, which can be physical strength, agility, or intelligence.[6] The basic setup of Dota 2 places two strongholds containing critical structures called "Ancients" at opposing ends of a geographically balanced map. These bases are connected by three main paths (referred to as "lanes"), which are guarded by defensive towers and groups of weaker units commonly referred to as "creeps" periodically spawned, which traverse their lanes, attacking enemy units and structures upon sight. Players are split into two teams, each consisting of up to five players, to compete as the primary defenders for each Ancient.[7]
The currency of the game is gold, which is granted periodically, but typically accumulates at a more practical level by killing enemy units, which grants a distributed amount of gold to the killer's team, with the greater portion being retained by the killer themselves. A common technique utilized to prevent the opposing faction from accumulating gold from a kill is "denying", which constitutes killing an allied unit or destroying an allied structure and can be employed when said unit or structure is close to death or destruction. Players also gain experience, which accumulates to gain higher levels. The greatest portion of gold and experience originates from destroying higher priority forces, such as enemy heroes and towers.[8]
Featured along the Dire side of the river is a "boss" called "Roshan". Typically, multiple team members are required for killing Roshan, who drops powerful items. Following his death, Roshan respawns after the completion of a cooldown timer.
Free-to-play
As part of a plan to create a social network based around Dota 2, Gabe Newell announced in April of 2012 that the game would be free-to-play, with an accentuation on player contributions to the community.[24] On June 1, 2012, the Dota development team at Valve formally confirmed that the game would be free-to-play with no added cost for having the full roster of heroes and item inventory readily available.[25] Income for Dota 2 would be maintained, however, through the exclusively cosmetic Dota Store, where players could purchase in-game items.[26] Until the game's release, players may still purchase an early access bundle, which includes the game, along with several in-game cosmetic items.[3] The Dota Store is composed of custom creations developed by Valve, as well as products from theSteam Workshop, which is a system in which users may submit creations for review by Valve and if successful, would be permanently incorporated into Dota 2. The market model was fashioned after Team Fortress 2, which became successful in June 2011 and had reimbursed cosmetic designers with $3.5 million of income as of the free-to-play announcement
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