Sunday, December 4, 2011

EGC All Servers Event

Starting December 19th, EVGA will host a all server game event until January 1st! Play on any of our game servers at any time during this period and you are eligible to win. Signup is free and easy for any who wish to participate. Official gaming will begin on December 19th at 4PM Pacific and continue until January 1st, 11:59 PM PST. Anyone who signs up and plays any length of time during this time frame will be eligible to win a prize.

This is not a competition or tournament, just a chance for any gamer to come out, frag and hopefully win some great gaming gear!

To qualify for this event, you just need to signup here with your Steam ID or BF3 Soldier Name, after that log in and start gaming starting December 19th 4PM Pacific, it's that easy! We hope you have fun and continue to make our gaming community as great as it has always been. Please visit the official EVGA Gaming site right before the event starts to see the full list of servers!

This is a global promotion and all are welcome to participate

Prizes:


More info at: http://www.evga.com/articles/00658/

'Win Your Dream Custom PC' Competition 2012



HardwareHeaven and Cryo PC are offering an amazing opportunity for any budding designers, enthusiasts or have-a-go users. The chance to have your own custom computer case design professionally CAD drafted and fabricated by professionals... then have the latest PC components installed and delivered to a spec of your choice by Cryo PC.

Entrants should not feel restricted by current design conventions. Cryo PC are not looking for another beige box; rather something exciting, practical and popular with all types of consumers is more likely to win the day.

Prize offered
Cryo PC will minimise build time as much as possible by delivering the winner a PC in the standard chassis within three weeks of the winning entry being announced. Ultimate delivery time of the winning entrants own chassis will be dependent on its complexity and materials chosen. Cryo will get the winning design professionally CAD drafted, verify component fit and feasibility, make practical modifications, create a prototype, make any necessary modifications to the prototype to accommodate revisions, and finally complete build and testing. Typically this process takes 2-3 months, but can take up to 6 months.

1. First prize - will be a custom PC as designed by the overall winning entrant with a component value of up to £2,500 and a total value likely well in excess of £5000 (including case work, design and fabrication & finishing).

2. Second prize - will be an Gigabyte AMD Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD5, AMD 990FX motherboard, AMD CPU FX Series 8120 Black Edition 8 Core Processor Bulldozer CPU.

3. Third prize - will be a Gigabyte AMD HD6970 Radeon graphics card.

4. Fourth prize - will be a Cyborg RAT5 mouse, Cyborg V5 Keyboard and Cyborg V1 gaming surface.

5. Ten runners up prizes - will be Cryo 2GB USB drives and mouse mats.

Scoring Methodology
The competition should be scored out of 100 on a number of scales:

- Aesthetics
- Ergonomics
- Performance
- Flexibility
- Size
- Cost
- Innovation
- Simplicity to Manufacture

More detailed info look at: http://www.hardwareheaven.com/competitions.php?competitionid=76





Rooney Best goal of the season v City





Like a panther. You probably won't see a better goal this season.

Saturday, December 3, 2011

Battlefield 3 - Back to Karkand Trailer (с русскими субтитрами)


Тизер первого загружаемого дополнения для Battlefield 3. Что нового принесет Back to Karkand — узнаете из этого ролика.

Battlefield 3 TV Launch Trailer

Is it real? 

Google Chrome вышел на 2-е место среди популярных веб-браузеров, в Украине лидирует Opera

В ноябре произошло то, чего так опасались фанаты «огненной лисы»: Mozilla Firefox уступил почетное второе место в списке часто используемых веб-браузеров недавнему новичку Google Chrome, который, вполне вероятно, через пару лет свергнет с трона Internet Explorer.
Общемировая статистика

По данным StatCounter, сейчас стандартный IE используют около 40,6% пользователей, на долю Chrome приходится 25,7%, а Firefox замыкает тройку с результатом 25,2%. В пятерку самых популярных браузеров также вошли Safari (~6%) и Opera (~2%). Отметим, что исследование StatCounter охватывает не только персональные компьютеры, но и планшеты и смартфоны.
Статистика по Украине

Перейдя по вышеприведенной ссылке, можно узнать довольно любопытную статистику по отдельным странам и континентам. Например, в США Internet Explorer сейчас переживает вторую молодость: всего за месяц он отвоевал у конкурентов почти 5% рынка. В Антарктиде, где работают около трех десятков научных станций до сих пор в почете Mozilla Firefox. Украинские пользователи предпочитают Opera и Firefox, к которым постепенно подтягивается Google Chrome.


NZXT Unveils Phantom 410 Midi-Tower Chassis


Category: Cases
Posted: December 3, 2011 20:52PM




NZXT today unveiled its latest chassis named the Phantom 410. The Phantom 410 is based on the original Phantom chassis by NZXT, but is more compact, and also includes a side panel window. The new chassis supports ATX, microATX and mini-ITX motherboards, along with three hidden 5.25" drive bays and six 3.5" drive bays. A removable hard drive cage enables the Phantom 410 chassis to house video cards up to 40cm in length (or up to 30.5cm long video cards with hard drive cage). Cooling is provided by three pre-installed fans, although up to five additional fans can also be installed, including a unique tilting fan on the hard drive cage. The I/O panel features two USB 3.0 ports and standard audio ports, while the top of the chassis has a fan speed controller. Support is included for 240mm or 280mm radiators in the roof of the case. The NZXT Phantom 410 chassis measures 215x520x532mm (WxHxD) and will be available on December 9 for around US$135 (€99.90) from caseking.de. The Phantom 410 will come in red, black and white variants. variants.