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Well this morning I started work to find an email off Pixmania saying my Zotac GeForce 8800 GT had been dispatched. Rather annoyingly they said my new 24" BenQ G2400W was waiting to be delivered. It was in stock when I ordered it so I am a bit annoyed!

Anyway UPS have just delivered the 8800GT so I will be happy for a little while. I can’t say I have really heard much of Zotac before, however DriverHeaven.Net gave it a good review and it is an overclocked 8800GT running at 660MHz Core,1800 MHz Memory Clock and 1600 MHz Shader.

In comparison the Nvidia reference cards run at 600, 1800MHz and 1500MHz. So there should be a bit of a performance tweak over the reference cards.

In fact Bit Tech just reviews the BFGTech GeForce 8800 GT OC 512MB which uses 625MHz core and 1,566MHz Shader. So a tad slower than the Zotec. There opinion was

We still continue to be impressed by Nvidia’s GeForce 8800 GT and in the grand scheme of things, and BFGTech’s overclocked card continues that trend.

On the whole, BFGTech’s GeForce 8800 GT OC card delivers and it earns a recommendation from us.

Hopefully I won’t be disappointed!!!

I think this is a brilliant move by Foxconn. They are asking overclockers to sign up to their scholarship program in order to overclock some of their hardware

Basically if you get accepted you will receive a full range of hardware (including CPU, memory, graphics, motherboard) AND cash sponsorship for LN2 or other extreme cooling techniques.

Not only will you receive all these free items but you will get chance to try out pre-release hardware with aims of setting new overclocking records.

As much as I would love to sign up for this program I don’t think my overclocking skills are quite up to it!

If you think you may be good enough apply now here.

Well I have actually been using a no nofollow plugin from SemiLogic for a while now but I have not actually advertised it. So there you go, you comment on my posts and you get a little link juice. Play fair or I will manually edit them.

The 3rd Addition to the Touch lineup from HTC is the Touch Cruise. Shockingly the Touch means the device will incorporate the TouchFLO interface, and the Cruise indicates it is GPS enabled. This phone will include HSDPA, WiFi, Bluetooth, a 3 megapixel camera, microSD expansion, and a 2.8-inch touch-screen lying on top of a Windows Mobile 6 foundation. The phone will apparently have TomTom navigator 6 preloaded onto it.

It should be available in Europe later this month however no word on pricing just yet. It is also quad-band GSM so it will work stateside.

So the first images and videos of the Software Development Kit(SDK) for Googles new Android OS have been released.

From the looks of it is appears quite impressive so far. Especially if you consider it was only announced a few days ago.

After the jump we have some Images and Videos, though you should note these are all on a hardware reference model so you wont be buying an Android based phone anytime soon.

Some of the our of box support includes:

• Touchscreen
• 3G
• Webkit-based browser
• Threaded text messaging
• MPEG-4, h.264, MP3, and AAC file formats
• Accelerated 3D graphics

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I think it was only the other week when ASDA screwed up and had bottles of beer available for 1p. This time is the turn of Tesco, they have been accidentally offering Xbox 360 consoles online for just £33.24.

The pricing slip-up would have meant a giant saving for customers, as the Xbox package was meant to cost ten times as much.

Sharp-eyed shoppers were quick to spot the bargain on the supermarket giant’s website. At least one customer ordered 39 of the knock-down consoles online and had the payment accepted - but they have not been delivered.

The deal offered the Xbox 360, the Forza Motorsport 2 and Viva Pinata games plus a wireless control pad.

According to Trading standard it is illegal to raise the price of a product if the customer has already had their offer accepted. However the Tesco website says if they make a mistake with the price, they are not obliged to stick to it. It is not clear if Tesco will honour the order however the Asda mistake mentioned above was apparently not honoured.

BenQ are setting their targets straight at the gamers with this monitor. Being a 24″ LCD monitor is can handle 1920×1600 resolutions for your PC, which also means it can handle full 1080p resolution if you want to plug your PS3/Blue Ray in. The unit comes with D-sub / DVI-D / HDMI inputs so you can have your PC through the DVI-D, PS3 through HDMI and 360 or Wii through the D-sub.

Apparently this has been slapped with a $605 RRP, however I have actually just ordered one myself from Pixmania for a shockingly low price of £283 inc Vat. It has not arrived yet so I will report back on how good it is when it arrives.

Personally I am not expecting it to be amazing but at that price I just cant say no. I have been looking around at monitors for a few weeks and I know that 22″ are the sweet spot for pricing at the moment with some available for around £150, but I cant help think that 1680×1050 wont feel much bigger than 1280×1024(my current res). I think at 1920×1600 it will feel like I will have a massive amount of extra real estate.

I have also had to treat myself to a nice new 8800 GT to ensure my computer can handle that res. Though I do realise that the GTs start struggle a little compared to the GTX at this res however I cant really justify the £300+ needed for a GTX.

Ok so it does not look like Google are going to directly compete with Apple’s iPhone but they are collaborating with 34 Phone related companies to produce an open source operating system for mobiles. The collaboration is called the Open Handset Alliance and they will be developing Android™ a complete mobile phone software stack.

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