December 31st, 2009 at 02:55pm Under Motorbikes
MCN’s longterm test fleet for 2009 includes the Kawasaki ER-6f. MCN reporter Laura Kennerley has covered thousands of miles on Kawasaki’s capable all-rounder - watch the video for her report on the best and worst things about owning an ER-6f. Find…
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December 31st, 2009 at 02:55pm Under Motorbikes
MCN’s tests have proved that Triumph’s new 1600cc Thunderbird is one of the best cruisers out there – its mixture of lazy parallel twin power and surprisingly sharp handling more than matches rivals such as the Harley-Davidson Super Glide and…
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December 31st, 2009 at 02:55pm Under Cars
Filed under: Aftermarket, Coupe, Performance, Porsche
There aren’t too many places you can cruise at over 200 mph in relative safety, but the Papenburg test track is one of them. The high speed oval located in Northern Germany is a pavement playground for supercars in search of straight line speed, and various manufacturers and tuners regularly use the track to see just how fast their projects can go.
Take, for instance, 9ff. The Porsche super-tuner previously used Papenburg to reach v-max in its GT9 supercar, and they recently brought out a modified 911 Turbo dubbed the TR 1000 for a high speed romp. While not quite as fast as the GT9 (409 km/h), the TR 1000 still reached an impressive 391.7 km/h — just over 243 mph. Fortunately the cameras were rolling, giving us an opportunity to see just how quickly a 1000 horsepower Porsche can triple the legal speed limit. You can watch it for yourself after the jump.
Gallery: 9ff TR 1000
[Source: 9ff, YouTube via WorldCarFans]
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December 31st, 2009 at 01:55pm Under Computers
Just before the year of 2009 really comes to an end, the memory solution provider GeiL has rolled out as many as 30 Black Dragon triple-channel DDR3 memory kits.
The gaming series memory kits will be available for the full range of speed with enhanced performance and stability by GeiL’s DBT (Die-hard Burn-in Technology). Coming available [...]
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December 31st, 2009 at 01:55pm Under Computers
Intel’s 32nm Clarkdale processors are slated for launch in the first week of 2010 in the form of Core i5, Core i3 and Pentium series.
According to the slides that Donanimhaber website got its hands on, the supposedly targeted gaming segments of Intel’s HD graphics will be capable of running most mainstream games including World of [...]
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December 31st, 2009 at 01:55pm Under Computers
The Taiwanese company PQI has unveiled a couple of new portable storage solutions supporting the USB 3.0 standard – S533 and H566.
Coming in 320GB, 500GB and 640GB capacities, the 2.5-inch H566 hard drive is backward compatible with USB 2.0 standard and provides read/write speeds of up to 105MB/99.9MB per second, respectively.
The S553 takes same form [...]
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December 31st, 2009 at 01:55pm Under Computers
Thanks to the overclocker NickShih at Xtremesystems forum, Intel’s 32nm Clarkdale processors have presented their impressive overclocking capabilities before the official launch next week.
CPU-Z validation:
http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=911525
NickShih managed to overclock the Core i5-670 to 6921.8MHz using liquid nitrogen, and saw no cold bugs even under the ultra-low temperature of -185C.
Overclocking system:
Processor: Clarkdale 3.47G
Motherboard: EVGA P55 3X Classified [...]
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December 31st, 2009 at 10:00am Under Racing
He’ll be back next year - but will the controversies retiurn too?
Who does Nico Rosberg blame for poor driving standards in F1? His new team mate:
It is Michael Schumacher who started this, like at Spa, when Mika Hakkinen tried to overtake him and he ran him off the track. When the guy behind has made a decision [to pass] and the guy in front then moves over, it is very dangerous. You cannot do that. That was the first time I remember it being a dangerous issue.
Nico Rosberg
Schumacher’s return to F1 is undoubtedly good news for the sport’s profile but, as Rosberg clearly knows, he tends to bring controversy along with him.
Hakkinen and Schumacher were both doing around 200mph when the McLaren driver tried to pass the Ferrari.
The onboard video above graphically illustrates the speed difference between the two cars as Hakkinen pulled out of Schumacher’s slipstream to pass. But the Ferrari driver squeezed Hakkinen to the far side of the track, forcing him to back off to avoid a huge crash.
Schumacher often stood accused of getting away with dangerous driving. This infamous move drew criticism at the time (in spite of Hakkinen’s successful pass on the next lap). Almost ten years on, do we now view this as a new low in driving standards that other drivers are now mimicking because they know they will get away with it?
Rosberg was talking to reporters in Abu Dhabi at the race earlier this year when he compared recent controversial incidents at Interlagos with Schumacher’s Spa move. Here’s more of what he said:
Barrichello, Webber and Kobayashi did exactly the same thing [at Interlagos]. With Webber, Raikkonen lost his front wing, with Kobayashi, Nakajima had a massive off, which could have been much worse – you can really hurt yourself, marshals and others in that sort of accident. With Barrichello, Lewis ran into the back of his tyre. That was the third time – and it is not allowed to happen.
Nico Rosberg
Rosberg’s comment struck me as surprising at the time because drivers are rarely so candid about this sort of thing. It came on the same weekend that Jarno Trulli vehemently criticised Adrian Sutil over their crash at Interlagos.
While Trulli spent ten years racing against Schumacher, drivers like Sutil are part of the post-Schumacher generation – who watched him at work, seen what he could get away with, and copied it.
It’s true that other drivers before Schumacher were accused of using unacceptable tactics on the race track – Ayrton Senna and Rene Arnoux to name just two. But it seems to me that Schumacher pushed the limits even further – into dangerous territory.
Another dimension to Schumacher’s return is how Mercedes will handle it. We saw at Monaco in 2006 that Ferrari would support Schumacher even when he was caught red-handed in a brazen act of cheating. Will Mercedes be as willing to indulge Schumacher’s ‘win at any cost’ mentality?
That was one of the rare occasions when Schumacher was handed a meaningful punishment for his transgression. More often than not the FIA turned a blind eye to his dubious moves. So should we blame them or Schumacher for some of the questionable driving which goes on in F1 today?
Whichever, I doubt we’ll get to the end of 2010 without this argument coming up again.
Driving standards in F1
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December 31st, 2009 at 12:55am Under Computers
According to Fudzilla, AMD is planning to launch two six-core desktop processors in Q2 next year, and they’re expected to appear slightly later than Intel’s Core i7-980X.
The 45nm based processors codenamed Thuban are coming with 6MB of L3 cache, C-state performance boost and support DDR3 1333MHz. It supports AM3 motherboards so it should work in most existing models.
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December 31st, 2009 at 12:55am Under Computers
A-DATA has now introduced the industry’s first combo flash drive that offers both SATA 3.0Gbps and USB 3.0 interface – N002.
Available in capacities of 64/128/256GB, the N002 features an aluminum shell, and has taken advantage of 8-channel architecture to boost read/write speeds of 200MB/170MB per second respectively.
N002 is expected to enter into mass production next month [...]
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