Using a surge protector voids PS3 warranty?!

335w ago - According to Danjak on the official PS boards: So I woke up yesterday morning and saw that my PS3 was not on. You know that little light letting you know it's getting power? That morning, no light. This happened once before, but I was able to unplug it and plug it back in to get power, and then it worked. I tried that yesterday morning, but nada. Nothing would work... it was completely dead and not getting power.

So I call Sony and let them know that my less-than 4 month old PS3 was now a brick. I tried to tell the guy that the trouble started when I first tried to play Call of Duty 3 a while back - it would just completely shut off the system and the only way to get it back on was to unplug it and replug it back in. (an issue that's been well-documented now in threads such as these.)

The service representative didn't care about any of that. Instead, he starts asking me a bunch of questions to try and void my warranty. Things like, "I want you to check the sticker above the hard drive and tell me if it looks damaged." I'm like, "no, no, no" to everything he's asking. Then he asks me if I had a power surge recently. Again, I tell him no, that I have all my electronics protected with a high quality power surge protector. He then says "okay, great, Sony can fix it right up for you for $150." ...

Elves Are Out, Aliens In

335w ago - Where have all the elves gone?

That's the question gamers and the people who love them are bound to ask this fall as they take in the latest crop of big-budget video games. Since the 1970s, dragons, orcs, wizards and dwarfs have been staples of interactive entertainment, yet this holiday season there are hardly any top new games in the traditional fantasy mode.

Instead 2007 has been dominated by perhaps the deepest lineup of science fiction games ever.

Playstation 3 XDR Memory Architecture video

335w ago - The Rambus XDR™ memory architecture is a total memory system solution that achieves an order of magnitude higher performance than today's standard memories while utilizing the fewest ICs. Perfect for compute and consumer electronics applications, a single, 2-byte wide, 4.0 GHz XDR DRAM component provides 8.0 GB/s of peak memory bandwidth.

Video can be seen here. Key components enabling the breakthrough performance of the XDR memory architecture are:

XDR DRAM is a high-speed memory IC that turbo-charges standard CMOS DRAM cores with a high-speed interface capable of 4.0 GHz data rates providing up to 8 GB/s of bandwidth with a single device.

XIO controller IO cell provides the same high-speed signaling capability found on the DRAM, but adds additional enhancements like FlexPhase™ technology that eliminates the need for trace length matching.

XMC memory controller is a fully synthesizable logical memory controller that is optimized to take advantage of innovations like Dynamic Point-to-Point which provides for capacity expansion while delivering the signal integrity benefits of point-to-point signaling.

XCG clock generator provides the system clocks with four programmable outputs and is guaranteed to...

New PlayStation 3 SKUs boost sales 178 per cent

335w ago - Third highest week of sales since launch





European Sales Charts

335w ago - The latest Euro sales charts are in and here they are for your PS3News viewing pleasure:


1. FIFA 2008
2. Project Gotham Racing 4
3. Halo 3
4. Ratatouille
5. MySims
6. PGA Tour 08
7. Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights
8. Resistance Fall of Man
9. Wii Play
10. Dr Kawashima's Brain Training

*note: British sales charts combine all-format sales


1. FIFA 08 (PS2)
2. Settlers of Catan (PC)
3. FIFA 08 (PC)
4. Halo 3
5. FIFA 08 (360)
6. More Brain Training
7. World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade
8. The Sims 2: Bon Voyage
9. Brain Training
10. Pokemond Diamond


1. FIFA 08 (PS2)
2. FIFA 08 (PS3)
3. My Sims (DS)
4. Halo 3
5. FIFA 08 (PSP)
6. WWE Smackdown! vs. RAW 2007 (PS2)
7. FIFA 08 (PC)
8. Heavenly Sword
9. More Brain Training
10. Sims 2: Bon Voyage

[charts courtesy of GfK & ChartTrack]
