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Powerful and Silent at the Same Time, Blacknoise's BlackSilentPro

German developer of advanced cooling solutions Blacknoise has finally presented the result of its so-called 'collaboration' with the members of the HardwareLuxx forum, who focused on discussing the product's detailed characteristics, such as the autorestart function, controllability, cable length or op...

20 November 2009
10:14 GMT

Installing MacBook Pro SMC Firmware Update 1.3

Apple has recently released new updates for Mac users, including Server Admin Tools 10.5.7, iWork 09 9.0.2 and a certain MacBook Pro SMC Firmware Update 1.3, which should help MacBook Pros use their cooling systems at optimum efficiency. Apple has posted a Support document outlining the particularities, as well as pr...

29 May 2009
08:39 GMT

MacBook Pro SMC Firmware Update 1.3 Available

Apple has released a new firmware update for MacBook Pro (15-inch and 17-inch) users, in an attempt to fix heating issues by adjusting the systems' fan behavior. Apparently, users have been experiencing problems when doing intensive tasks. The update is free to download and install for systems running Mac OS ver...

29 May 2009
03:48 GMT

Fans Throw Underwear on Stage at Tom Jones Concert

Tom Jones might have put his wild, womanizing days behind him, but that is not to say that he’s still not a ladies’ man, as an occurrence at his recent concert in Florida clearly shows. One fan, for instance, got so carried away during the performance that she threw her knickers on stage, right at the sin...

23 April 2009
09:33 GMT

MacBook / Air USB-Powered Add-On Cooler

So, they say this Zefyr is a high efficiency MacBook cooler huh? Well, does the fact that it drains its power from the MacBook Air's single USB port count as a plus? Luckily, moshi's add-on is also suitable for MacBook (not Air) users, so I guess we know who's buying."A MacBook under continuous demandi...

13 May 2008
18:36 GMT

Arctic Cooling Brings the Breeze in Low-Profile Computer Cases

Cooling specialist Arctic Cooling has just released its Freezer 7 series of low-profile processor cooling solutions. Due to its minimal height, the Freezer 7 is especially suitable for low-profile computer cases used in media center setups. The cooler is built on Arctic Cooling's revolutionary heatsink design, w...

8 May 2008
09:25 GMT

How Power Supplies Work

What do you do when your computer starts acting up? You blame the power supply of course! Not surprisingly, the reaction is both natural and justified because the power supply is in fact one of the most important components of a personal computer and the first one to be verified in case your machine fails. Power supp...

11 April 2008
09:05 GMT

Laptop Microfans Go Solid State

The newly developed solid-state device has no moving parts thus it is silent, ultra-thin, requires low power to run and, best of all, needs roughly no maintenance, which pretty much makes it ideal for the next generation of microprocessor cooling system for laptops and other electronic devices. The solid-state microf...

19 March 2008
08:02 GMT

See the Pain: The World's First PS3 Tattoo

If the consoles war should be ever decided by the number of people tattooed with things inspired from the two consoles (yes, we're only talking about Xbox 360 and PS3), the PlayStation faction would win with.... 1-0. The one that scored in the final seconds of the game is a guy that calls himself Mobiletone and ...

10 March 2008
03:30 GMT

Noctua to Release New 92-Millimeter Fan

Austrian cooling expert Noctua has announced the availability of yet another professional 92-millimeter cooler that follows the successful introduction of the NF-P12 120-millimeter unit in November. The new 92-millimeter fan complements the 80 and 120-millimeter fan series, and is the company's first retail fan....

6 February 2008
11:54 GMT

Sound Waves Keep Your Computer Cool!

Prepare to throw you cooling fans and heat sinks out the window! Scientists say they won't be powerful enough to cool your future computer processors anyway, and liquid cooling techniques will be implied in just a few months or years. However, cooling computer chips with liquids are not as efficient as they migh...

24 January 2008
08:54 GMT

Halo 3 Fan Attacks His Mother and an Officer

We all know that there are a couple of games out there that can pull out the violent side in us... However, some people's violent side comes out when they're banned from playing a certain title. This was also the case of a Halo 3 fanboy, who punched his mother and a sheriff's deputy because he wasn�...

1 November 2007
09:25 GMT

Americans Get Hacking Lessons!

Can hackers shut down the power in a whole area? Apparently they can, as a US government video shows. They've released a proof of concept that shows how a hacker attack could seriously "wack" electrical equipment. A hacker could have exploited a vulnerability in the security systems to make a turbine spin so fas...

27 September 2007
04:15 GMT

Universal CPU Cooling Solution from Cooler Master

Most central processing units nowadays are coming equipped with active cooling solutions from the factory and while these default coolers are good enough for the mainstream computer user, they kind of fall flat when it comes to supporting the latest and greatest processors under heavy workloads and high overclocking....

26 September 2007
03:36 GMT

How Does the World's Largest Hurricane Simulator Work?

Wind tunnels are research tools developed to assist with studying the effects of air moving over or around solid objects. The fastest wind tunnels are called hypersonic wind tunnels and are designed to generate a hypersonic flow field in the working section. The speed of these tunnels vary from Mach 5 to 15.The worl...

31 May 2007
11:18 GMT

Xbox 360 Killed By PS3. No Joke

I never thought that I'd see a title saying that PS3 is killing the Xbox 360, having sales figures and criticism in mind. But scrolling down through John Davison's story posted on 1UP quite some time ago, I found out that it was an isolated case, not the kind I was having in mind. To get to the point, ...

6 May 2007
05:21 GMT


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