Archive for March 18th, 2010

Thursday, March 18th, 2010 | Author:
Extreme!!

So ASUS just released the news on their latest 1366 board (that’s for i7 CPUs, while i5/i3/few i7 are on 1156), and it has one of the nicest heatsink design I’ve ever seen.

Of course, it goes way (way!) beyond a fancy colour theme. It has 4 PCI-Express slots (so… a Crossfire’s Crossfire? or 3-SLI plus a PhysX card? LOL), X58 chipsets (enough PCI-X lane to accomodate multi-multi-graphic adapters), 6 triple-channel RAM slots, USB 3.0 slots (brand new and way faster than the current USB 2.0), 7 4-pin fan connectors, and ability to remotely control your board on the hardware level (overclocking through BIOS, fan speed, monitor temps, power on-off, etc.) through another computer (network) or (if that’s not cool enough for you)… Bluetooth.
Yup. That pretty much means you can overclock your PC from your smartphone. Insane.
More in-depth preview by Hardware Canucks: ASUS ROG Rampage Preview
Original Gizmodo article: ASUS Rampage III Extreme
Category: Technology
Thursday, March 18th, 2010 | Author:

After testing a few more AV at work, I decided to share some of my results. The following are 2 brand of antivirus I’ve rarely heard, which both handily handed AVG-Free’s butt in a silver platter; ie. it scans more thoroughly and removes more effectivesly.

Avira Anti-Virus
Free version is very robust. Paid version has numerous version, tailored neatly to your requirements. Fileserver? Mailserver? even Proxyserver-specific AV? No problem. Decent price too.

MalwareBytes
Ok, so not exactly an anti-virus, but an anti-malware. Yes, there is a small difference (Microsoft Security Essential is an anti-malware). Though for most home users, the difference shouldn’t be obvious, and either would work fine.
Malware Bytes is a small company, and the free version doesn’t have real-time scanning, but at what it does – removing nasty high-level malwares – it does it extremely well. Not to mention speedy scanning time.

That’s all for now, but I’ll probably update this list more later in the future.

Update:
Avast Antivirus
This one is pretty nifty to block and maintain a healthy system. I’ve used the business version back then and it was very comprehensive and customizable, yet not exactly towards the lite end of the resource meter.
Their free version however, are quite capable of cleaning and securing most home users.

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