Friday Shortbread |
Graphics Card:
E-mail evidence fetches out five years conspiracy of ATI and NVIDIA |
The class action against AMD and NVIDIA has lasted for half year since Nov. 8th last year. Now a piece of e-mail pushes it forward again.
U.S. District Judge William Alsup of the Northern District of California received a piece of e-mail that contains correspondence between Nvidia senior vice president of marketing, Dan Vivoli and ATI’s president and chief operating officer, Dave Orton. Vivoli wrote, “I really think we should work harder together on the marketing front. As you and I have talked about, even though we are competitors, we have the common goal of making our category a well positioned, respected playing field. $5 and $8 stocks are a result of no respect.” “That’s not good for the defense,” said Alsup after reading the e-mail aloud in the courtroom. “A jury would like to see this,” he said.
Survival time of PC without patch: 4 minutes |
Internet Strom Center shows a rather interesting fact: an PC with a new OS installed with out any patch can not survive for 5 minute averagely.
liquid metal inside heatpipe: Danamic LM-10 CPU cooler |
Danamic have annunced their CPU cooler LM10. It looks like a normal tower cooler with heatpipe, but inside “heatpipe” it is liquid metal…
Infra-red photo shows which part of your HD 4870 is hot |
German Radeon user Tiesie have posted some Infra-red photo of his/her HD 4870 with Arctic Cooling Accelero S1. The sticker part is hotm and keeping the reference red cooler base is no help for cooling. All these shots have been taken after 10~20min of FurMark.
The end of the card(VRM part), only 77.6C
