GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co., Ltd, a leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards and other computing hardware solutions today proudly announced Taiwanese overclocker, Nick Shih as the winner of the GIGABYTE H55 Mini-ITX contest hosted by HWBOT. Nick scored a total of 13 points using a GIGABYTE GA-H55N-USB3 motherboard. The GIGABYTE H55 Mini-ITX contest set a new milestone in the overclocking community as the first Mini-ITX motherboard only online overclocking contest. In addition, this ground-breaking competition was held for the love of overclocking and not for the love of prizes, so there is no prize for the winner. Instead, the winner will have the honor of being the world’s first Mini-ITX overclocking champion. The contest was split into 2 categories running the Super Pi 32m benchmark: Stage 1 had a CPU speed limit of 4,000 MHz, and Stage 2 had no CPU speed limit. At the end of August, Nick Shih led the competition with a blazing CPU speed of 6.4GHz reaching 6min 18sec 469ms in the Stage 2 category. A fantastic achievement! Comments

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GIGABYTE H55 Mini-ITX Overclocking Contest Winners Announced

Today, phones are getting smarter and apps are exploding in growth. There are even plans for 3-D holographic screen interfaces. But what might the future home phone look like do for us? What kind of software or apps do you think it should have? Submit ideas here: facebook.com/IntelIdeas. The winner will be invited to Intel’s AZ campus to serve as an honorary VP of R&D, receive a new notebook and development software, and have the opportunity to develop their idea with Intel engineers. Comments

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Intel Wants Your Future Home Phone Ideas

Chiphell has posted what they claim are pictures of an AMD HD 6870 engineering sample. Real? Who knows but it is always fun to speculate on stuff like this. Comments

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AMD Caicos HD 6870 Pictures Leaked?

It looks like the rumors we were hearing over the weekend are true, Mark Hurd has joined Oracle as co-president. Hurd has also been named to the company’s board of directors. “Mark did a brilliant job at HP and I expect he’ll do even better at Oracle,” said Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. “There is no executive in the IT world with more relevant experience than Mark. Oracle’s future is engineering complete and integrated hardware and software systems for the enterprise. Mark pioneered the integration of hardware with software when Teradata was a part of NCR.” Comments

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Oracle Hires Mark Hurd as President

And now for the next installment from the chronicles of confusingly awesome geekery: Yes, that is an Ewok driving the DeLorean. Comments

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Two Danes had hoped to prove that you could have a space program without an expensive budget. The prototype was 30ft tall and only cost 50,000 Euros ($63,400 US). Unfortunately the launch was a failure due to a problem with the ignition system. Bummer! The duo hope to send a person into space within three or four years, which would make Denmark only the fourth nation to do so. Comments

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Homemade Danish Rocket

Earlier this week in what was described by Facebook as a clever spammer, exploited a bug in the code and went on a wall posting spree. To say Facebook has had its share of bugs and glitches this year would be a mild understatement. Most of the messages promised “Free iPhones,” a common spam message on Facebook these days. The free iPhone and iPad messages generally take users to websites where they are instructed to fill out marketing surveys or sign up for product subscriptions. Victims have reported having their phone numbers inundated with calls after filling out these surveys. Comments

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From a website that is not known for its philanthropic nature,this is in itself news. The back story is pretty amazing also, so we send Kudos to 4chan for having a heart. We would like to join in wishing WWII vet William J. Lashua a very happy and memorable 90th birthday. Today, someone at 4chan decided that the Internet should get together and wish 90-year-old WWII veteran William J. Lashua a happy birthday, and by lunchtime, his local branch of the American Legion said that they had heard from people as far away as Sweden. Comments

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4chan Decides to Do Something Nice For a Change

Having ten percent of your servers go down isn’t so bad, right? Wrong. When that 10% means that the total number of servers offline is over 480, cutting off service to two dozen state agencies (including the DMV) for a week, someone’s head is going to roll…. unless you have a $2.3 billion ten year contract that is. The computer shutdown is the latest hiccup for the 10-year, $2.3 billion VITA-Northrop Grumman contract, which went into effect in 2005. Earlier this week Virginia Secretary of Technology Jim Duffey called the storage area network malfunction “unprecedented,” citing uptime data on the model of EMC server that was involved in the outage. Comments

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State Reviewing Massive Computer Meltdown

Having ten percent of your servers go down isn’t so bad, right? Wrong. When that 10% means that the total number of servers offline is over 480, cutting off service to two dozen state agencies (including the DMV) for a week, someone’s head is going to roll…. unless you have a $2.3 billion ten year contract that is. The computer shutdown is the latest hiccup for the 10-year, $2.3 billion VITA-Northrop Grumman contract, which went into effect in 2005. Earlier this week Virginia Secretary of Technology Jim Duffey called the storage area network malfunction “unprecedented,” citing uptime data on the model of EMC server that was involved in the outage. Comments

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