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PowerColor has gone all the way with its coming Radeon HD 4850 graphics card. One of the few but often heard complaints is the fairly small memory buffer. You get rather far with 512MB, but when you crank up the resolution it gets rather easy to fill that buffer. Since GDDR3 is plentiful, PowerColor decided to…
OCZ Technology Group today announced the latest addition to the award-winning OCZ NVIDIA SLI certified series, the world’s first 4GB PC2-8000 SLI-Ready DDR2 modules. Optimized specifically for the nForce platforms, this series features an ideal combination of reduced latencies and high density to support the ultimate…
A picture of the ATI RV730-based Radeon HD 4650 floated at ChipHell. This picture was edited to protect source. A colour picture of the cooler was already revealed earlier. The Radeon HD 4650 will succeed the HD 3600 series and will come in a variety of memory configurations, covered HERE . It will support up to 1 GB…
MSI unveils the ultimate energy-saving platform – MSI Wind Board, based on energy-saving technology and Intel® Atom™ 230 processor. MSI Wind Board is the ultra-low-power platform designed with a mix of performance and low power usage. This makes the platform suitable for users who leave their computers on 24-hours per…
MSI, the leading mainboard manufacturer, is organizing the first MSI European Overclocking Challenge in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on 22, 23 and 24 of August. The MSI event is powered by OCZ Technology (with OCZ Platinum memory) and Tweakers.net. MSI, known for its mainboards, graphic cards and notebooks (with Turbo…
Sound is inseparable part of any multimedia fun. But for enjoying it to the full, besides a good sound card you need a good sound system too. Today we'll review a 5.1 headphones that claim to be exactly that - Cyber Snipa Sonar 5.1. So let's find out if they have the usual Cyber Snipa high quality (besides the ever so…
Avalon Technology Group (ATG), specialists in biometric data protection, announced the ATG 8GB USB Biometric 256 AES Speedster. This USB flash-drive features two close to fool-proof levels of data security. First, it's the fingerprint sensor that allows access only to one person with the right print. Second, the data…
ASUS today introduces the new generation of Eee PC. The new models include revolutionary features that are designed to enhance efficiency and connectivity. With up to 7.8 hours of battery life, Eee PC users can enjoy portability while work, learn and play on-the-go.The all new Eee PC 901 and 1000 are equipped with…
Tube, just how it sounds? Most people use tubes to storage fuels and liquids. But very few people use them for PC case. We present to you Tube mod by edimen: LINK
Palit Microsystems, leading graphics card manufacturer, today announces Palit GeForce® 9800 GTX+. Armed with NVIDIA PhysX® and NVIDIA CUDA® technology the GeForce® 9800 GTX+ is ready to enable a total new class of physical gaming interaction!The Palit GeForce® 9800 GTX+ features a core speed of 738MHz, a 1836MHz…
OCZ Technology Group, a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance and high reliability memory, today announced the all-new DDR3 SODIMM modules as its next generation notebook memory to support the impending Intel Centrino 2 mobile platform. These latest memory offerings for notebooks help reduce power…
Chinese website Zol.com.cn reports that in China, stocks of the GeForce 9800 GT card can be purchased from a local production company, a product which hasn't even been announced yet. The 9800 GT differs from 8800 GT in having a 55nm fabbed core that should allow higher parameters, though iroically being identical to…
Things are not really as expected over at NVIDIA. The tide has turned and the people have taken the Radeon HD 4800 series to their hearts. Somehow just having the fastest card around didn't pan out. NVIDIA is firm in its belief though and from we've heard it has another card that will dethrone Radeon HD 4870X2 when it…
With the ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2, codenamed R700, inching towards an August launch, ChipHell released fresh pictures of the R700, these are product images of the card in the form in which it will be sold, all built to order.Visually, the R700 can be regarded as a black colored R680 (HD 3870 X2). While early shots of the…
The Swiss cooling solutions provider ARCTIC COOLING today announced the launch of the dual-fan Accelero TWIN TURBO, adding another multicompatible high performance merchandise into their reputable VGA cooler product line.Featuring 4 heat pipes, 30 fins and 2 PWM fans, the Accelero TWIN TURBO optimises airflow to 40…
OCZ Technology Group, a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance and high reliability memory, today announced the expansion of its Intel® Extreme Memory modules lineup, the latest memory solution that implements a high-performance specification optimized and predefined for the Intel X38 and X48 chipsets.…
NVIDIA is preparing an addition to its GeForce 9 series, the GeForce 9500, slated for a July 29, 2008 launch. This product is positioned at an entry-mid range level, consists of two variants, the GeForce 9500 GDDR3, and a DDR2 model. Early tests prove this graphics processor (GPU) to be close to three times faster…
Our friends at Madshrimps posted a review of the Corsair Voyager GT 16Gb and Voyager 4Gb USB Stick. Briefly: "The Voyager GT is the high speed cousin of the well known Corsair Voyager USB stick. In this review we compare its performance to several other USB drives as well as the none-GT Voyager." Read the full review…
Our friends at Rbmods posted a review of the Thermaltake XaserVI Mx Case. Briefly: "Today its time for another case review, Thermaltake was kind enough to send us a sample of their XaserVI Mx case for review. This seems to be a nice looking medium tower case if we take a quick overview of it but the question is how…
Our friends at Madshrimps posted a review of the Intel Core 2 Extreme CPU Cooler. Briefly: "Intel Core 2 Extreme CPU got a special treatment from the Intel thermal management department; a fancy large CPU cooler with 110cm LED fan and copper heat column. How does it compare to the other Intel reference coolers? Is it…
Our friends at techPowerUp posted a review of the AXP 2.5/3.5" SATA to eSATA & USB Dock. Briefly: "AXP is now offering the very popular external hard drive docking station for SATA drives. The unit can take a 2.5 or 3.5 inch drives and offers eSATA on top of the usual USB 2.0 connectivity." Read the full review HERE .…
Our friends at techPowerUp posted a review of the Diamond HD 4870 512 MB GDDR5. Briefly: "AMD's new Radeon HD 4870 is the first graphics card to feature GDDR5 memory. GDDR5 offers twice the memory bandwidth over previous GDDR generations which helps the HD 4870 gain a nice performance advantage over the HD 4850." Read…
Our friends at techPowerUp posted a review of the Yuin PK1 Ear Buds. Briefly: "Yuin's PK1 earbuds were all the rage when they first hit the market quite a while ago. Since then Yuin has further upped the stakes by introducing the new and improved OK-series earphones. Today we take a look at the PK1s to see if the…
Our friends at Madshrimps posted a review of the Intel 45nm Overclocking: How to reach a high OC. Briefly: "Bought yourself a brand new Intel 45nm CPU? Those Wolfdale CPUs are the ideal candidate for some overclocking action. In this article we help you extract the most from it by selecting the correct motherboard.…
Our friends at Rbmods posted a review of the n-Tegrity - Fingerprint protected Personal Data Manager. Briefly: "Today we are taking a look at a USB memory stick from N-trance. They have sent is their latest fingerprint protected USB memory stick which also has software that allows you to backup the information you…
Scythe has now introduced Kama Panel 2 - a new 5.25-inch multi-functional controller for PCs. Available in black (SCKMPN-2000-BK) and white (SCKMPN-2000-SL) the Kama Panel 2 measures 148 x 42 x 90mm (WxHxD) and features an integrated memory card reader, six fan controlling knobs (4 of them are detachable), two USB 2.0…
If anyone out there is missing the original Eee PC design which had a dinky 7" panel flanked by two black plastic borders, you may be happy to hear ASUS is planning to recreate the look with two new models, the Eee PC 904 and 905.Both models will combine the larger 10" chassis currently available in the Eee PC 1000 (…
Gainward, the world’s highest quality graphics company, first time officially announced Latest products of ATI chipsets – Gainward HD4870 and Gainward HD4850 graphics cards to the market. From performance point of view, the new ATI® RADEON® HD4870 (RV770 XT) graphics chip is designed with 512MB high speed DDR5 memory…
AMD, Austin have managed a benchmark score of X12515 in the 3DMark Vantage benchmark using two Radeon HD4870 X2 cards in CrossfireX, a feat that takes three GeForce GTX 280 cards in 3-way SLI to achieve. The R700 boards were clocked at 778 MHz core, while the GDDR5 memory was clocked at 980 MHz QDR (effectively 3.92…
AMD seems to have regained the consumers' support after the launch of the Radeon HD 4850 and 4870. The cards are performing well, especially in scenarios with antialiasing and anisotropic filtering, and even though they cost half ($199, $319) as much as NVIDIA's new high-end beasts ($399, $649) they are not far behind…