Sound Blaster Cinema on MSI Motherboards

MSI is looking to take over the title of Best Onboard Motherboard Audio by incorporating Sound Blaster Cinema audio technology into their mother boards.

MSI ‏@msitweets

Coming Soon! The New Audio Standard For Motherboardshttp://fb.me/2CuirUEVU 

For more information the features of the Sound Blaster Cinema audio, please visit MSI at http://emm.msi.com/display.php?List=31&N=2348

PlayStation 4 Specs

During a reveal event Sony gave the official information on the specifications that will make up the PlayStation4 console, which is to be released "Holiday 2013".

The unit will be powered by an 8-core 64-bit x86 AMD "Jaguar" CPU and a Radeon GPU.

Also included, Blu-ray drive, 8 GB of GDDR5 RAM, 802.11n WiFi, USB 3.0, Bluetooh 2.1, optical audio ports, HDMI, and legacy analog AV connections.

There will be an internal HDD for storage, but Sony did not release details on the space.

The unit will be controlled via the new DualShock 4 contorlloer with features a touchpad, headphone jack, and share button.  The controllers will also have built-in Move functionality.

Photo sourced from JoyStiq.com

The system will not be able to play legacy discs, but will stream PS1, PS2, and PS3 games through the PlayStation Cloud.  The Vita will also be able to connect to play PS4 games remotely.

So far the list of games coming to the PS4 are:
Knack
Killzone: Shadow Fall
Driveclub
Infamous: Second Son
The Witness
Watch Dogs
Diablo 3 (also coming to the PS3)
Destiny

Linus Tech Tips Look at NVIDIA GTX Titan

If you are interested in graphics cards at all, you may have heard about the NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan card, which is the fastest single GPU card currently available.

While, I do not quite have the pull with NVIDIA to get ahold of such a card, Linus Tech Tips was able to and posted some videos about the Titan, including an overview, a PC build, LCD monitor overclock guide, and a test bench tour.

Unboxing & Technology Overview of the Titan from Linus Tech Tips

GTX Titan Small Form Factor PC Building from Linus Tech Tips

LCD Monitor Overclocking Guide

GTX Titan Test Bench Tour

Big thanks to Linus for putting this information out there!  Be sure to check out his other videos and LinusTechTips.com to allow him to keep getting us this information.

Why US Internet Access is Slow, Costly, and Unfair

I saw a link about this video on TekSyndicate and after listening to it, it really makes sense.

Check it out and let me know what you think. Do you think we need a change in how America connects to the Internet?  Here is a link: http://vimeo.com/59236702

There is a also a Whitehouse Petition to make Susan Crawford the chair of the FCC.

There was a note that there was recently a spike of 1 star reviews on her books, that were highly detailed that were trying to disprove the material in the book.

Vishera Getting a Second Look

When AMD's Vishera platform was first released, the benchmark tests were fairy underwhelming for a 4.0Ghz 8-core processor (FX-8350) when it was put head-to-head with Intel's best bang for the buck 3.5Ghz quad-core (i5-3570K).

This seems to be swaying toward the favor of AMD now that the new BIOS updates and Windows CPU scheduling hot-fixes are available.  Starting with some gaming benchmark tests with overclocking that were done by Tek Syndicate that showed the Vishera beating the i5-3570K and in cases the i7-3770K, especially when streaming.

FX-8350 vs i5-3570K vs i7-3770k vs i7-3820 with AMD Radeon HD 7870 Benchmarks:
http://teksyndicate.com/videos/amd-fx-8350-vs-intel-3570k-vs-3770k-vs-3820-gaming-and-xsplit-streaming-benchmarks

i5-3570K vs FX-8350 with GTX 670 Benchmarks:
http://teksyndicate.com/videos/amd-fx-8350-oc-vs-i5-3570k-oc-battle-continues