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GeForce GTX 275 will release in April 6

Hardware · Author Slu4ainik · March 22, 2009 · 2535 reads · ★★★★★ (14 votes)

The last couple of days, pics and 3DMark of AMD Radeon HD 4890′ were leaked and take some attention. The Radeon HD4890 will release in April 6, and NVIDIA will release GeForce GTX275 at the same time, and takes direct aim at HD4890. According to NVIDIA, it will not release any reference cards of GTX275, but the AIC…

CM 690 Dressed in White

Hardware · Author sineoc · March 21, 2009 · 2170 reads · ★★★★★ (7 votes)

Cooler Master's CM 690, one of the most popular mid-tower cases in Europe, has yet another special-edition variant. This time, the company designed a case, that uses white with a dash of chrome as its colour-theme. CM made changes to the side panel of this case, it lacks the fan mount-holes. Also used, are more silent…

Scythe Unveils Kabuto CPU Cooler

Cooling · Author krisko92 · March 19, 2009 · 2165 reads · ★★★★★ (10 votes)

The new Top-Flow CPU Cooler of the Japanese cooling specialist Scythe Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan) is named after the famous Japanese samurai helmet, and has high performance paired with low noise.Slip Stream 120 mm PWM fan mounted Scythe Kabuto on top of the CPU cooler is already known by Mugen 2. Due to its mounting on…

Tul Corporation announced PowerСolor Radeon HD 4890

Affiliates · Author ozmo · March 19, 2009 · 2188 reads · ★★★★★ (11 votes)

Tul Corporation company presented more informal version of the unpresented graphic adapter ATI Radeon HD 4890 from AMD. According to sources, the model PowerSolor Radeon HD 4890 (code name - AX4890 1GBD5-HM) is equipped with 1 GB GDDR5 memory (256-bit interface), which has a carrying capacity 124.8 GB / s, operate at…

ModReactor @ CeBIT 2009 in Hannover - ASRock

ModReactor · Author krisko92 · March 18, 2009 · 2235 reads · ★★★★★ (5 votes)

ASRock are famous in the Bulgarian market with their budget motherboards. Since their arrival at the market, ASRock have proven themselves as innovators and at the same time many of their motherboards have been at the top places at overcloking competitions besides the low price. ASRock offer not only mainboards with…

AMD Phenom II X4 955 CPU Coming on April 20th

Hardware · Author ozmo · March 18, 2009 · 2152 reads · ★★★★★ (5 votes)

AMD was planning to launch 3.1GHz Phenom II X4 950 in Q2 according to our previous source, but Phenom II X4 955 is said to replace it as the fastest AMD CPU. Phenom II X4 955 has employed 45nm processing and Socket AM3. Clocked at 3.2GHz (16*200MHz), it’s coming with 2MB (4*512MB) L2 Cache and 6MB L3 Cache. With 125W…

Spire Introducing M-ATX Chassis, the Tethys

Press Releases · Author krisko92 · March 18, 2009 · 2506 reads · ★★★★★ (5 votes)

Nowadays workspace is constantly getting smaller, which means your pc has to move with the times! The future of Micro ATX cases has arrived, The Tethys.This stylish and innovative case breaks the conforms of the usual. This case has been made to the highest possible quality to provide you with the satisfaction you are…

Early Look: Zotac 9800GT Green Edition

Hardware · Author krisko92 · March 18, 2009 · 2135 reads · ★★★★★ (5 votes)

Zotac plans to launch 9600GT Green Edition this month, and now their 9800GT Green Edition Graphics Card is also unveiled.Known as Zotac GeForce 9800GT Eco, this card is based on 55nm manufacturing process, coming with 112 stream processors. Equipped with Samsung GDDR3 memory to form 512MB/256bit, the core/shader clock…

Logitech presents the Logitech ® Cooling Pad N100 pad for laptops

Cooling · Author ozmo · March 18, 2009 · 540 reads · ★★★★★ (4 votes)

You love your laptop, but it often overheat after prolonged use? Be sure half of us have the same problem, but there is a solution. Logitech today introduced the new accessory for laptop Logitech ® Cooling Pad N100, which continues the successful line of laptop accessories in a comfortable work anywhere at home. When…

AMD Radeon HD 4890 Pictures Leaked

Hardware · Author krisko92 · March 18, 2009 · 2351 reads · ★★★★★ (4 votes)

AMD RV790 is set to be launched on April 6th, but now Radeon HD 4890 based on RV790 has been leaked to the web. The card is marked as ATI Radeon HD 4890, so it seems true that RV790 will be finally named as Radeon HD 4890. Similar to Radeon HD 4870 in appearance, we can see Radeon HD 4890 features a dual-slot cooler,…

ECS Hydra GeForce GTS 250 SLI With Water Cooling

Hardware · Author krisko92 · March 18, 2009 · 3922 reads · ★★★★★ (3 votes)

ECS is best known for its OEM products and it hasn't really made much of a break for the retail and enthusiast market. Stories have been going around that this will change soon though and lack of ideas is certainly not an issue. A new graphics card package from ECS shows that it is keeping up with the trends, the…

EVGA Silently Launches the GeForce GTX 295 Red Edition

Hardware · Author krisko92 · March 18, 2009 · 1858 reads · ★★★★★ (2 votes)

With no official press release, a new version of EVGA's GTX 295 has appeared on their website. Dubbed the GTX 295 Red Edition, the card is clocked at the stock speeds of 576 MHz on the core, 1242 MHz on the shaders, and a 1998 MHz memory clock, using a reference cooler, which appears to have simply been painted red.…

ATI Radeon HD 4890 1 GB GDDR5 in Pretty Pixels

Hardware · Author ozmo · March 17, 2009 · 3856 reads · ★★★★☆ (3 votes)

Here's something fresh from Asia, with love. Popular Chinese site Coolaler is once more first to show pics from an yet unreleased product - the next generation ATI Radeon HD 4890 video card. The card below is equipped with single RV790 GPU clocked at 850 MHz and 1 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 3900 MHz. It has full…

Water Cooling - Theory and Practice @ ModReactor

Tutorials · Author krisko92 · March 17, 2009 · 2534 reads · ★★★★☆ (6 votes)

Maybe many of you have asked themselves about water cooling. With water cooling you can cool every single one of your computer components - processor, memory, video card, chipset, hard drive. Water cooling can make your computer silent and at the same time the components maintain low temperatures suitable for…

ModReactor @ CeBIT 2009 in Hannover - Transcend

ModReactor · Author krisko92 · March 17, 2009 · 1818 reads · ★★★★★ (6 votes)

Transcend appeard on the market 4 years ago mostly with budget oriented flash and RAM module solutions and later on with media players. Their RAM memories are known in the overclocking society with the AXE-RAM series modules. At CeBIT 2009 Transcend unveiled all their products but hte accent was falling on their DDR,…

ModReactor @ CeBIT 2009 in Hannover - Biostar: motherboards and video cards

ModReactor · Author krisko92 · March 17, 2009 · 2048 reads · ★★★★★ (4 votes)

Biostar are now very popular on the Bulgarian market with their cheap but with many features motherboards. Since 4-5 years after they appeard in Bulgarian market, the company continues to make budget products, but now Biostar is oriented into making igh class motherboards like one based on the X58 chipset. We had some…

ModReactor @ CeBIT 2009 in Hannover - Scythe

ModReactor · Author krisko92 · March 16, 2009 · 1923 reads · ★★★★★ (3 votes)

If you ever had any interest in high performance air cooling solutions, there is no way you haven't heard for Scythe. This is a Japanese company which is now controled by americans, that got famous with its exclusive thermal solutions made especially for computer enthusiasts and overclockers. On their booth at CeBIT…

Sapphire 790GX AM3 Motherboard Reaches Store

Hardware · Author krisko92 · March 16, 2009 · 1994 reads · ★★★★★ (4 votes)

Sapphire 790GX AM3 Motherboard has reached store at Akiba with price tag of JPY18980 (about $193).Featuring AMD 790GX+SB750 chipset, Sapphire 790GX AM3 Motherboard is designed for AMD Phenom II AM3 quad-core processors. This motherboard offers 6+1 phase power supply and employs four DDR3 DIMM up to 16GB 1333MHz Dual…

Mushkin Launches New Redline Triple-Channel DDR3 Memory Kits

Hardware · Author krisko92 · March 16, 2009 · 2610 reads · ★★★★★ (3 votes)

Mushkin Memory has just released two new Redline DDR3 kits. The triple channel Mushkin Redline memories, model numbers 998691 and 998692, both consist of three 2 GB modules for a total of 6 GB. They both operate at 1600 MHz with CL6-7-6-18 timings and 1.65 V. Model number 998691 comes with Mushkin's usual heatspreader…

Web Reviews Today [16-03-2009]

Affiliates · Author Stuyo · March 16, 2009 · 1968 reads · ★★★★★ (3 votes)

CeBit: Motherboards and Video Cards at Cebit 2009 @ Madshrimps CPUs: AMD Phenom II In-Depth Performance Scaling Analysis @ Madshrimps Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 vs E8600: The battle of the caches! @ Madshrimps Coolers: Arctic Cooling Accelero XTREME GTX 280 @ Hardware Bistro Periphery: iLuv Ultra Portable Stereo Speaker…

Mushkin Introduces its first SSD Series called Europe

Hardware · Author HaSLeS · March 16, 2009 · 1811 reads · ★★★★★ (4 votes)

Mushkin Enhanced, one of the leading manufacturers for High Performance Computer announces the availability of his first SSD-series called “Europe”. The capacities are 32, 64, 128, 192 and 256GB in a noble aluminium housing and captivating with aggressive pricing. “Once, Zeus felt in love with the beautiful Europe,…

Galaxy Non-reference GTX260 VGA Card With 1792MB Memory

Hardware · Author krisko92 · March 14, 2009 · 1757 reads · ★★★★★ (2 votes)

Galaxy unveils its non-reference GTX 260 graphics card equipped with 1792MB memory, which is designed for those demanding gaming players.Galaxy GTX 260 non-reference card is cooled by Galaxy’s self-designed cooler with 5 heatpipes and 3 PWM fans. The airflow passively cools the memory, the 4+1 phase VRM area has a…

ModReactor @ CeBIT 2009 in Hannover - G.Skill (Pi Series, laptop memory and SSD drives)

ModReactor · Author krisko92 · March 14, 2009 · 1840 reads · ★★★★★ (3 votes)

G.Skill Pi & Pi-Black series are well known high performance memories on the market. Now they can be bought as a kit with the new memory cooler, which looks like a wristwatch and is unveiled for first time at CeBIT. G.Skill are also known as maker of laptop memories. As well as mainstream, there are also high-end…

GeIL unveiled Die-hard Burn-in technology for DDR2 Gaming Series Memory

Affiliates · Author Dimitar Dinchev a.k.a. Veseliq · March 13, 2009 · 2003 reads · ★★★★★ (4 votes)

Following DDR2 So-Dimm, the second line of products to undergo DBT process will be DDR2 Gaming Series, which includes Black Dragon and BD EVO ONE. DBT enhanced Gaming Series will provide gamer of all levels superb stability, performance and reliability memory modules for their gaming systems. No more system-hang or…

ASRock AMD 790GX and AMD Phenom Brake World Records

Press Releases · Author krisko92 · March 13, 2009 · 2735 reads · ★★★★★ (7 votes)

Asrock's motherboards - M3A790GXH/128M, AOD790GX/128M, broke the world's overclocking records combined with AMD Phenom II X4 805, X3 71 processors. Phenom II X4 805 has managed to reach 3900.05MHz with rated FSB of 1560MHz, and Phenom X3 710 has reached the amazing 4083.02 MHz which brakes all world overclocking…

Zotac Expands its GTX 285 Lineup, Uses Accelero Xtreme Cooler

Hardware · Author krisko92 · March 13, 2009 · 1603 reads · ★★★★★ (3 votes)

Zotac has yet another GeForce GTX 285 SKU in the making. This time, it plans to use its own-designed GTX 285 PCB with an Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme GPU cooler. Zotac isn't using the entire kit, as the NVIO2 and VRM heatsinks aren't compatible with this PCB design. Other manufacturers using this cooler for similar…

GeCube Pairs Radeon HD 4670 with GDDR4 Memory

Hardware · Author krisko92 · March 13, 2009 · 2025 reads · ★★★★★ (3 votes)

Following Sapphire's move to create a Radeon HD 4670 SKU with GDDR4 memory, GeCube has one of its own, ready for launch. The RV730-based graphics card has 512 MB of GDDR4 memory, across a 128-bit wide memory interface. It uses a simplistic design for its PCB and cooler. The card draws all its power from the…

Web Reviews Today [13-03-2009]

Affiliates · Author Stuyo · March 13, 2009 · 2258 reads · ★★★★★ (1 votes)

CeBit: CPU, VGA and Laptop Coolers At Cebit 2009 @ Madshrimps CeBIT 2009: Girls @ techPowerUp Periphery: OCZ Rally2 32gb USB 2.0 Dual Channel Flash Memory Drive @ TestFreaks Microsoft Sidewinder X8 Wireless Mouse @ DragonSteelMods Thecus N4100 Pro @ techPowerUp OCZ Throttle 16gb eSATA Flash Drive @ TestFreaks OCZ ATV…

Spire Introduces BlackMoon Power Supplies Series

Press Releases · Author sineoc · March 13, 2009 · 1719 reads · ★★★★★ (3 votes)

Spire today launched the BlackMoon PSU Series. Aimed squarely at the gaming community the BlackMoon series of power supplies are a great selection for extreme power demand. Fashioned in neat black steel enclosures and equipped with the signature Spire 120mm Silent Blue LED fan, keeping air flowing and your system…