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Budget in price, mainstream in aspiration.

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November 1, 2021 | 14:00

Inscryption Review

Welcome challenger. Why not sit down, and play a little game?

October 27, 2021 | 12:05

SilentiumPC Regnum RG6V TG Case Review

Budget in price, mainstream in aspiration.

October 21, 2021 | 09:43

Abit overclocks IN9 32X-MAX to 557MHz FSB

Some of Abit's top engineers have been tweaking the company's latest IN9 32X-MAX motherboard, which is based on NVIDIA's nForce 680i SLI chipset. They managed to get the board up to a pretty lofty 557MHz FSB...

January 4, 2007 | 09:50

Vista available for pre-order in UK

Overclockers UK has started selling Windows Vista on pre-order a few weeks ahead of the official release. OEM versions aren't priced too bad, but retail versions will require an organ donation...

January 3, 2007 | 17:41

OCZ Technology Launches the Highly Anticipated OCZ GeForce 8800 GTX GPU

January 3, 2007 | 16:36

SPARKLE Proudly Announces Calibre P880+/P880 OC Edition GeForce 8800 graphics cards

January 3, 2007 | 16:10

BFGTech 8800 GTX Watercooled Edition

Today, we have a look at BFGTech's watercooled GeForce 8800 GTX - a card that needs almost no introduction. It is the first GeForce 8800-series card to move away from the reference cooler, so let's find out if it's worth the hefty price premium...

January 3, 2007 | 14:18

Seagate says: 300TB drives by the year 2010

A new technology could mean we see data capacity increase 300x in just three years.

January 3, 2007 | 10:50

Wikipedia bans all of Qatar after encyclovandalism

Online encyclopaedia, Wikipedia, accidentally banned an entire nation from using its resources for 12 hours yesterday, after vandals continually edited articles on the US, sex and Muhammad.

January 3, 2007 | 10:46

360 the biggest seller this Christmas

Market analysts are saying that the 360 was the biggest selling console this Christmas, beating off the Wii and the PS3. Does this mean the console war has been won?

January 3, 2007 | 09:45

Music industry set to relax digital restrictions?

2007 could be the year where the DRM wall finally crumbles because a number of major record labels are pushing for the right to sell unprotected digital downloads.

January 2, 2007 | 16:15

Vista activation cracked

Hackers have found a way to prevent the 30-day countdown-to-activation timer from, well, counting down. Microsoft coders groan.

January 2, 2007 | 16:00

Literally a USB stick

One enterprising Dutch manufacturer has come up with a flash drive embedded in random wood bits. Ecofriendly data storage?

January 2, 2007 | 13:51

Mod of the Year - and the winner is...

It's 2007, the entries are all in, and the competition is closed. The winner of the ACRyan / bit-tech Mod of the Year competition is - wait for it...

January 2, 2007 | 12:29

RIAA sues AllOfMP3 for... 1.6 TRILLION dollars!

The American record industry goes to court in New York, seeking damages from the Russian website. Will the Russians turn up? We think not.

January 2, 2007 | 12:25

SiNful delights

The rumoured cancellation of SiN episodes has left a hole in the concept of episodic content that"s wide enough to pilot the Titanic through. The body isn't even cold, but the industry as a whole is already shrugging its shoulders in indifference. Brett Thomas takes a look at what went wrong and why we should care.

December 30, 2006 | 10:50

A new year, new congress, and new laws?

We're only a few days from the new year and a new US Congress. As the House and Senate change hands, could we see some changes in internet policy?

December 29, 2006 | 16:03

The bit-tech Awards 2006

We give you our views on the best hardware and software of 2006. What was the best FPS? Which graphics card wowed us more than any other? And which company deserves recognition for innovation? All these questions and more will be answered. Oh, and there's a podcast too.

December 29, 2006 | 10:55

SEC considers looking into Apple

Months after a shake-up was uncovered with Apple's stock option plans, it looks like the government is finally taking notice. The SEC is looking into investigations of fraud.

December 28, 2006 | 21:13

AllOfMP3 responds to lawsuits

A week after AllOfMP3 was the target of a $1.65 trillion lawsuit, the company's parent retorts.

December 28, 2006 | 19:30

Microsoft says it doesn't want to own RSS

Microsoft has decided to defend its patent claims on RSS technology, stating that it "doesn't want to own it." Which begs the question, why file patents then?

December 28, 2006 | 16:36

HD-DVD copy protection cracked

A YouTube user is said to have cracked the AACS protection on HD-DVDs. Merry Christmas, MPAA!

December 28, 2006 | 15:06

Samsung goes 80nm with mobile DRAM

Samsung has raised the bar on mobile DRAM - the company has announced its new, upcoming 80nm chips for 2Q2007.

December 28, 2006 | 14:23

iTunes swamped for the holidays

It appears Apple has had a wonderful holiday - there were so many people making use of their new iPods and iTunes gift cards that the servers ground to a halt.

December 28, 2006 | 14:04