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MSI is said to be readying a custom graphics card called the N260GTX Lightning, based on NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 260 GPU. There is currently no word on clock speeds but one would expect this card to come factory overclocked. The graphics card has a custom red PCB, featuring 8+2 phase power, 5000 hour capacitors, 1792 MB…
Inno3D today announced the launch of their i-Chill GTX 260 with Accelero XXX, a factory overclocked NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260, featuring Arctic Cooling's Accelero XTREME GTX 280. Dubbed by Inno3D as the Accelero XXX for, Xtreme Performance (30°C lower), Xtreme Architecture (3 x 90 mm fans + 5 heatpipes over 110 fins) and…
Recently NVIDIA released their new core named GT200 and the GeForce GTX 260 and GeFroce GTX 280 cards based on it. The core is manufactured by the 65nm process unlike AMD ones that are for quite a while now made by the 55nm process. Now NVIDIA released GT200b, or in other words the old GT200 core only with smaller…
Galaxy finally pushed its self-designed GeForce GTX 260+ graphics card to retail. The card surfaced earlier this month, in a pre-release appearance with a completely different GPU cooler. The pre-release iteration featured PC-Cooler HP4-1226. As we found out during the course of the discussion, the said cooler was too…
Come March 3, and NVIDIA will have officially renamed the GeForce 9800 GTX+ to GeForce GTS 250. NVIDIA partners will have announced new SKUs based on the GPU throughout March. XFX on its part, seems to have made its GTS 250 accelerator ready, and it looks familiar. Chinese website IT168 caught an early glimpse of the…
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In the past we didn't took too much attention at the power supply unit. But nowadays the hardware becomes much more powerful and hardware enthusiasts take more attention about their power supply because the stability of the whole system depends on it. Today at ModReactor we will have a look at the NOX Apex 700W - a…
New day, new cooler. In front of us is the next heat pipe cooler with strange design. This time with 100mm fan, and the radiator is at angle over the block for the processor. The product is made by GELID Solutions and its called Silent Spirit. Its a light heat pipe cooler with a very silent fan. Its price is 23 EURO…
Today's SATA Solid State Drives sports read and write speeds of up to 250MB/s, which is indeed impressive. Toshiba has announced a new kind of non-volatile RAM that like flash memory keeps the data when the power is cut and at the same time FeRAM (Ferroelectric Random Access Memory) has characteristics that puts…
Lian Li likes to design unique computer cases and when most develop a mini-ITX system for desktops it's to fit with the Media Center trend.Instead, Lian Li PC-Q07 has been given a cubic shape that with black brushed aluminum exterior gives a pretty cool first impression. Standing at 193mm x 280mm x 208mm (W,H,D), the…
The guys over at Fudzilla have got hold of a photo showing a watercooled variant of EVGA's GTX 285. The card is said to clock in at 720 MHz on the core, 2.77 GHz effective memory clock and a shader clock of 1,620 MHz. These are the same factory overclocked speeds as the recently released FTW edition of the GTX 285…
Based on the new inexpensive P897 PCB, the Freezer X2 DHT series GeForce GTX 260 will be the first graphics card by the company based on a non-reference GTX 200 series design. The card was first pictured with only its green PCB exposed, possibly because the cooler design was being finalized or embargoed. By the looks…
Where invention pauses, innovation takes over. This seems to be the case with NVIDIA's initiative to release "Green Edition" products of some of its popular GPUs, which brandishes energy-efficiency. NVIDIA's move to release revisions of the G92 and G94 GPUs built on the newer 55 nm process, coupled with clock-speed…
Heat pipe coolers with direct contact with the processor aren't anything new and we see more and more products using that tehnology. Today at ModReactor we will have a look at the Xigmatek HDT S1284 CPU cooler which is a fine example of that technology. Review on ModReactor
Between 2006 and 2008 NVIDIA had two years of ruling the video card market and always have been one step ahead of AMD. The promises from AMD were big, but at the end there was nothing powerful enough to remove NVIDIA from the leading place. After AMD took the leading place in the middle class with perfect balance…
AMD extended the value and lifespan of its heralded Dragon platform technology today with five new additions to its AMD Phenom™ II processor family, including the industry’s only 45nm triple-core processors and three new AMD Phenom II quad-core processors. These AMD Phenom II processors deliver choice and lay the…
In the past not too much attention was payed to the computer's PSU, but nowadays hardware is much more powerful and so parameters such as efficiency are more and more accented on. Today we're reviewing another representative of these products, one praising itself with 80+ efficiency. The name of this patient is NOX…
NVIDIA has launched a new BETA driver for its mobile GeForce graphics processors. The new drivers are numbered 179.48 and in theory they support all GeForce Go 7-series, GeForce 8M and GeForce 9M series notebook GPUs. The whole 7-series GeForce Go support is new to this driver, so be prepared for eventual problems.…
Antec, the global leader in computer components and accessories for the gaming, PC upgrade and Do-It-Yourself markets, today announced the CP-850, a high-performance power supply featuring an entirely new form factor. Part of Antec's upcoming CP Series, the CP-850 breaks away from the standard-size PS/2 form factor --…
NVIDIA has come up with a new inexpensive reference PCB design for the GeForce GTX 260 (55nm) codenamed P897. The new PCB does away with the numerous redundant and rudimentary connections, excessive PCB layers and some components. The new PCB design is expected to reduce manufacturing costs by as much as $15.Inno3D…
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced memory technology and the leading producer of high-end graphics memory, announced today that it has begun mass producing GDDR5 graphics memory using 50-nanometer class process technology. "Our early 2009 introduction of GDDR5 chips will help us to meet the…
ZOTAC International, an award-winning manufacturer of graphics cards and motherboards, today expands its product lineup with two new entry-level graphics cards – the new ZOTAC GeForce 9400GT Synergy Edition and GeForce 9400GT DDR2 1GB. Powered by a high-speed GeForce 9400GT graphics processor, the new ZOTAC GeForce…
NVIDIA today also released new BETA GeForce driver version 182.05 for both Windows Vista and Windows XP. Some games will run a bit faster with this driver compared to the latest official version 181.22: * Up to 9% performance increase in Half-Life 2 at high resolution with AA. * Up to 11% performance increase in Left…
Influenced by the release of NEC's 24x SOC chip, optical drive maker Lite-On announced the upcoming release of three faster internal DVD writers. Capable of recording compatible blank DVD±R media at up to 24x speeds, the new models will be offered in both PATA/SATA interfaces, and with all of Lite-On's latest…
NEC Electronics Corporation today announced that it has developed a System-on-a-Chip (SoC) product integrating all the functionalities needed for DVD writing and reading on a single chip. The new product named SCOMBO 8 is a SoC for supporting DVD Drives equipped in PCs and home write/read appliances and has following…
Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini today announced the company would spend $7 billion over the next two years to build advanced manufacturing facilities in the United States. The investment funds deployment of Intel's industry-leading 32 nanometer (nm) manufacturing technology that will be used to build faster,…
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EVGA today made its GPU Voltage Tuner (GVT) software utility official. The utility allows end-users to control the voltage of the graphics processor, a significant factor when it comes to overclocking, as within safe limits, increasing the GPU voltage facilitates higher maximum GPU core and shader clock speeds. The…
Vi-ON external hard drive enclosure is the world’s first external enclosure with embedded hard drive suspension system and Active Smart Cooling System. It utilizes a temperature sensing fan that reacts to hard drive temperature and changes fan speed in real-time for utmost efficiency and silence. While most users do…
Pictures of the one of the first indigenously designed PCB for the GeForce GTX 260 by Galaxy has been pictured by Chinese website PCPop.com, that show a distinct blue PCB and cooling system. Galaxy chooses to call this accelerator the GTX 260+, perhaps to indicate that it is the newest version (55nm, 216 SP), which…