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Overclocked Memory Breaks Core i7 CPUs 267

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday October 07, 2008 @04:41PM from the chip-has-potential dept.

arcticstoat writes "Overclockers looking to bolster their new Nehalem CPUs with overclocked memory may be disappointed. Intel is telling motherboard manufacturers not to encourage people to push the voltage of their DIMMs beyond 1.65V, as anything higher could damage the CPU. This will come as a blow to owners of enthusiast memory, such as Corsair's 2.133MHz DDR3 Dominator RAM, which needs 2V to run at its full speed with 9-9-9-24 timings."

Submission + - Sexuality And The Sims (rockpapershotgun.com)

Submitted by

Jim Rossignol

on Wednesday August 29, 2007 @08:24AM

Jim Rossignol writes: "This article discusses how The Sims (mostly the original, but also the sequel) gets used for sexual purposes, and also examines how this kind of response is essential to the appeal of the game. Here's a extract:

"On sites like Simulated, Eight Deadly Sims, Pandora's Sims and Strange Sims we see increasingly bizarre uses of the modding tools. While mainstream sites are for all ages, these have reached such a level of risqué or alternative content that the majority hide behind pay-for-access barriers to ensure that the users at least have a credit card (i.e. aren't minors), and to earn a little cash. Of all the mod cultures online — and virtually every PC game has users making their own additional content either in publisher-supported or unofficial ways — it's only The Sims which has such an obvious number of sites which demand money for access. This is particularly unusual: there's a clause in EA's tool license that they can only be used "on your personal non-commercial website". That Electronic Arts hasn't gone after such a sizeable community is interesting in and of itself.""

Feed The Register: Microsoft accused of ballot stuffing in standards vote (theregister.com) 1

From feed by registerfeed on Wednesday August 29, 2007 @06:13AM

Hot Swedish XML action

Microsoft has been accused of rigging a vote on the ratification of Office Open XML (OOXML) as an international standard at a government body in Sweden.

Comment Re:Here's my 10 Reasons (Score 1) 304

by Pippity on Tuesday March 13, 2007 @05:01PM (#18338493) Attached to: Still A Rough Road Ahead for the PlayStation 3

What I find sad is whoever modded that as "insightful"; my 2 year-old nephew can formulate an opinion better than that. At least he tries to make real sentences.

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