Editor's Note

It's that time of the week again - time for your regularly scheduled shot in the arm of tech, gaming and geek news.

This week we're still very dirty with graphics giant NVIDIA. For the last little while we've been very skeptical of the company's upcoming effort to rename old card models, while at the same time it's being very... choosy about who it allows to review its hardware.

Well, we've seen some press material that pretty much confirms our fears for the renaming, and we've found more evidence that NVIDIA is playing some nasty tricks with some of the biggest hardware sites on the web. Check out our Top Stories for more details.

In other news, we attended the latest GIGABYTE Open Overclocking Championship event on the weekend. It was hosted at a Sydney gaming cafe and was a helluva night - and we've got the photos to prove it! Check out our huge gallery, again, in the Top Stories below.

And that's it for this week. In the meantime, in the immortal words of Buckaroo Banzai, remember... no matter where you go... there you are.

- David Hollingworth, Editor

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News

Apple refreshes desktop range

by Staff writers | March 4, 2009

As with all Apple product refreshes, there is the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly...

Empire: Total War launch trailer

by David Hollingworth | March 4, 2009

Video: The new Total War launches, and we've got the trailer to get you all excited and ready for battle!

AMD to push forward 32nm CPUs

by Justin Robinson | March 4, 2009

Moving into the next process of tech sooner than expected - will it be soon enough?

Halo hits a billion, Master Chief not forgotten by David Hollingworth \| March 4, 2009 Halo3 passes a huge milestone, as word surfaces that the Chief will be seen again.		LGA-1156 socket to have a short life by Justin Robinson \| March 4, 2009 Intel's newest socket may only get a year in the spotlight.
ASUS Lamborghini Laptop is more than over the top by Justin Robinson \| March 4, 2009 More tech inside this lappy than your average gaming rig!		NVIDIA blacklisting update - Anandtech affected by Justin Robinson \| March 4, 2009 Essential Linkage: Seems that there was some truth to the issue after all.
Thermaltake re-invents the PC case by The Inquirer \| March 4, 2009 Cebit 09: Thermaltake takes the best in show award, with a stunning work of case design.		DFI takes X58 to micro-ATX form-factor by The Inquirer \| March 4, 2009 CeBit 09: Lots of enthusiast grade gear from DFI.
What do you want in Modern Warfare 2? by David Hollingworth \| March 3, 2009 Infinity Ward wants your feedback on new features for the next Call of Duty.		More NVIDIA renaming blues by The Inquirer \| March 3, 2009 New slide notes reveal further sneaky shenanigans from NVIDIA.
P55 boards ahoy! by The Inquirer \| March 3, 2009 Cebit 09: A new Intel chipset for a new CPU.		Garrys Mod Comp Over by Justin Robinson \| March 2, 2009 Winner announced, runners up, prize shown!
GIGABYTE GoOC 2009 Australian Event by Justin Robinson \| March 2, 2009 A beer and LN2-fuelled night of overclocking and gaming.		New Dragon Age: Origins trailer by David Hollingworth \| March 2, 2009 Video: Bioware's new fantasy RPG is epic. And covered in a LOT of blood.
A polygon-free approach to 3D by David Hollingworth \| March 2, 2009 Essential linkage: A new forensics games features photo-realistic settings thanks to a new 3D technology.		Hacking is good for your career by The Inquirer \| March 2, 2009 Robbing a bank was just the ticket for one Romanian hacker.

Reviews

Gigabyte 4870 1GB

by Justin Robinson | March 3, 2009

Doesn't quite need 1.21 Gigawatts of electricity.

MSI 790FX-GD70

by Justin Robinson | March 3, 2009

Comes with an onboard...overclocking dial?

XFX 9300 Motherboard

by Justin Robinson | March 2, 2009

We're just plain not sure about what this board's trying to be.

ASUS M4A79T Deluxe

by Justin Robinson | March 2, 2009

ASUS have an AM3 board for (y)our perusal - is it any good?

Features

Top 10 lesbian vampire movies

by David Hollingworth , Holger Hasse | March 3, 2009

Taste the deadly passion of the blood-nymphs as we explore the Sapphic side of vampire movies...

Principles of compression

by Ashton Mills | March 2, 2009

We take it for granted, this everyday innovation. Yet it's one of the building blocks of most everything we do with technology.

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