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MSI Non-Reference R4850-T2D512 Quad Pipe Card

Hardware · Author krisko92 · September 13, 2008 · 1942 reads · ★★★★☆ (2 votes)

MSI today unveils non-reference R4850-T2D512 graphics card with Quad Pipe thermal design. In order to allow the -T2D 512 Quad Pipe graphics card to provide better stability and overclocking performance at full speed, MSI R&D team added a large heatsink in the graphics memory and power module to enhance the cooling…

Gainward Launch Feature-rich Radeon HD 4670

Hardware · Author krisko92 · September 13, 2008 · 2017 reads · ★★★★★ (6 votes)

Gainward has launched a custom design Radeon HD 4670 graphics card featuring the latest GPU from ATI. The card spans across two slots. While cooling might attribute to that, the other reason is that Gainward has provided every kind of display connector that's standard today. The card has a dual-link DVI, an analog…

ASUS Expands ROG Graphics Card Series with GeForce 9800GT MATRIX

Hardware · Author krisko92 · September 8, 2008 · 1938 reads · ★★★★★ (1 votes)

Following the mammoth success of the ROG (Republic of Gamers) EN9600GT MATRIX graphics card, ASUS, world-leading producer of top quality graphic solutions, has today released the new ASUS ROG EN9800GT MATRIX/HTDI/512M. Combining cutting-edge technology and features, this innovative piece of hardware unleashes the true…

WD VelociRaptor comes in reach of 3.5" drive bays

Hardware · Author krisko92 · August 13, 2008 · 2356 reads · ★★★★☆ (2 votes)

Western Digital bringing its fierce VelociRaptor hard drives, backplane and all, to a 3.5" drive bay near you, is the subject of this report from TechConnect Magazine.Breaking speed limits at 10,000 RPM, the VelociRaptor utilises a SATA 3.0 GBps interface and boasts capacities of either 150 or 300 GB. Married up with…

First PowerColor HD 4870 X2 Images Appear

Hardware · Author krisko92 · August 13, 2008 · 2248 reads · ★★★★☆ (3 votes)

Another HD 4870 X2 picture leak comes from an anonymous E-Mail.The pictures show how the PowerColor HD 4870 X2 will look like. Source: techpowerUp!

MSI Tempts with Product Images of their R700 Product

Hardware · Author krisko92 · August 13, 2008 · 1826 reads · ★★★★★ (3 votes)

The good souls at GPU Café provided product images of the Radeon HD 4870 X2 offering from MSI, placed under the product name MSI R4870X2. Being a standard reference design, it is identical to R700 products from any of ATI's partners (AIBs). MSI went a step ahead by providing product images of a suspended-dismantle…

Inno3D Innovates GeForce 9800GT with Pre-fitted Arctic Cooling and ZeroTherm Coolers Inno3D

Hardware · Author krisko92 · August 13, 2008 · 2293 reads · ★★★★★ (1 votes)

Inno3D has come up with two models of the GeForce 9800 GT graphics cards with factory-fitted coolers made by Arctic Cooling and ZeroTherm. These products branded under the iChill banner use the ZeroTherm Hurricane and Arctic Cooling Accelero Twin Turbo coolers and are accordingly named Hurricane and Twin Turbo.Both…

First Product Images of the Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 X2 Emerge

Hardware · Author krisko92 · August 13, 2008 · 1687 reads · ★★★★★ (2 votes)

The first product images of the Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 X2 have been posted at Pro-Clockers. This card is based on the reference ATi design and features a total of 2 GB GDDR5 memory. GPU Café reports online stores to have started listing this product (such as this one) within a 5% price-range of the GeForce GTX 280,…

ASUS Makes 3-way SLI on GeForce 9800 GT a Reality

Hardware · Author krisko92 · August 13, 2008 · 3939 reads · ★★★★★ (1 votes)

Although it was speculated by many that 3-way SLI would be a standard feature with the GeForce 9800 GT graphics cards, reference designs of the card were just a little more than an improvement over the 'previous generation' 8800 GT. 3-way SLI didn't turn out to be a feature standard to all 9800 GT cards, at least not…

Sapphire Non-Reference RV770 PCB Pictured

Hardware · Author krisko92 · August 11, 2008 · 1786 reads · ★★★★★ (1 votes)

The success of the RV770 graphics processor (GPU) meant that partners of ATI could experiment with the design and come up with several products based on the GPU. The likes of Sapphire, HIS, PowerCOlor, Palit, HIS, etc., have already come up with numerrous non-reference designs, though all those designs had a common…

Pictures of the RV730 Emerge

Hardware · Author krisko92 · August 11, 2008 · 1954 reads

Pictures of an engineering sample of the RV730 based reference design card that will be branded as the Radeon HD 4760 have come to surface, the pictures show this low-mid range offering from ATI, the sample features 512 MB of GDDR3 memory at 900 MHz that shares a 128-bit wide memory bus to churn out a bandwidth of…

Galaxy Prepares Low-Profile 55nm GeForce 9600 GT Video-card

Hardware · Author krisko92 · August 11, 2008 · 2305 reads · ★★★★★ (1 votes)

Low-profile add-on cards are a boon for builders of PCs with slim form-factor, the kind which takes form of home-theater PC (HTPC) and slim business PCs. Targeting the HTPC consumer segment, Galaxy prepares a low-profile graphics card featuring the 55nm G94 graphics processor (GPU), the new GeForce 9600 GT.From the…

MSI Launches New GX620/GX720 Gaming Notebooks

Hardware · Author krisko92 · August 8, 2008 · 2542 reads · ★★★★☆ (4 votes)

MSI Computer, a leading manufacturer of computer hardware products and solutions, is pleased to announce the release of the new GX620/GX720 Gaming Notebook. Winner of a Best Choice Award at COMPUTEX 2008, the GX620 ‘s Blu-Ray player, MSI’s VIVID Image Enhancement Technology, the NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 3D graphics card…

NVIDIA Partners Unveiled GeForce 9500 GT Cards

Hardware · Author krisko92 · August 5, 2008 · 2462 reads

Walton Chaintech, the world’s renowned graphics card and memory module manufacturer, announces today the GeForce® 9 series GSE9500GT DDR3 512MB graphics card, the officially appointed gaming graphics card for the famous game C.S. On-Line in Taiwan. CHAINTECH GSE9500GT is the mainstream graphics card not only geared by…

Lenovo Enters the Netbook Market With IdeaPad S10

Hardware · Author krisko92 · August 5, 2008 · 2203 reads

Lenovo this morning officially started selling its first netbook, the IdeaPad S10. The ultra-portable system will compete with the latest ASUS Eee PC and MSI Wind models, offering a 10-inch LED backlit LCD screen and Intel's 1.6GHz Atom N270 processor. Two configurations of the 2.4 pound S10 will be available…

PowerColor Radeon HD 4850 2GB tested

Hardware · Author krisko92 · August 4, 2008 · 2401 reads

PowerColor did something few graphics card makers till trump. It took AMD\'s very popular Radeon HD 4850 and quadrupled the memory buffer, going from 512MB to 2GB. Even if there have been some complaints regarding the rather small memory buffer it would seem rather exaggerated to quadruple it. At least with a…

Тhe new era of classic gaming performance - WinFast PX9800 GT 512MB

Hardware · Author krisko92 · August 3, 2008 · 1769 reads

Leadtek Research Inc., the global leading brand for extreme visual graphics technology development, is pleased to announce the launch of new high-end graphics card, WinFast PX9800 GT 512MB. Based on the NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT graphics processing units and unified architecture design, the new graphics card can provide…

ZOTAC Watercools GeForce 9800 GTX+ , Names it ZONE Edition

Hardware · Author krisko92 · August 3, 2008 · 1989 reads

ZOTAC International, an award-winning NVIDIA AIC, today unleashes the latest edition to its ZONE Edition line of quiet graphics cards - the ZOTAC GeForce 9800 GTX+ ZONE Edition. The new ZOTAC GeForce 9800 GTX+ ZONE Edition delivers the power of NVIDIA GeForce 9 series graphics power, PhysX technology and PureVideo HD…

Fujitsu U2010 Atom-based UMPC Announced

Hardware · Author krisko92 · July 29, 2008 · 830 reads

Fujitsu has announced an Intel Atom-based UMPC (Ultra-Mobile PC), not to be confused with ULPC. This ultra-portable will focus on the high-end market with a US $1000 to $1200 price tag. It has a 5.6-inch LCD screen, 3.5G data connectivity and GPS and tips the scales at 610g. Specifications can be summarized as: *…

Mushkin Launches X-Line Range of Memory Modules

Hardware · Author krisko92 · July 29, 2008 · 2065 reads

Mushkin Enhanced, a leading manufacturer of high performance PC - components, announces the immediate availability of the three best-selling 2x 2GB DDR2 memory kits of 2008 announced its PCB used a special feature. Instead of the familiar green PCBs, Mushkin has invented something special. Based on the slogan "Black…

OCZ Core series vs. VelociRaptor

Hardware · Author krisko92 · July 25, 2008 · 2325 reads · ★★★★★ (1 votes)

OCZ recently announced a new Solid State Drive family called Core Series with a focus on price and availability. The really great about these drives is that they are also pretty fast, which is usually something that usually doesn't go hand in hand with the term affordable. The SSD technology is advancing fast and over…

ASUS launches world's slimmest 22-inch monitor - LS221H

Hardware · Author krisko92 · July 25, 2008 · 2138 reads

ASUS has announced what it claims to be the world slimmest 22" widescreen monitor, the LS221H. This monitor caters to the needs of the digital home user through several noticeable features. The touted thinness is a mere 45mm and thanks to the seamless transition between the 9H hardness-rated monitor gloss to the…

WD Announces 2.5-inch 10k RPM VelociRaptor HDD for Blade Servers

Hardware · Author krisko92 · July 24, 2008 · 1895 reads

WD announced today the WD VelociRaptor 10,000 RPM enterprise SATA hard drives in an enterprise-class 2.5-inch form factor for blade servers and 1U and 2U rack servers. The newest WD VelociRaptor hard drive is built for business-critical applications with enterprise-class mechanics and packs up to 300 GB of capacity…

BFG Technologies Announces NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ OC

Hardware · Author krisko92 · July 24, 2008 · 1821 reads · ★★★★☆ (1 votes)

BFG Technologies, Inc., the leading North American and European supplier of advanced NVIDIA-based 3D graphics cards, power supplies and other PC enthusiast products, announced today the BFG NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ OC 512MB PCI Express 2.0 graphics card.Backed by free 24/7/365 world-class tech support and the best…

Aeneon by Qimonda introduces DDR3 SO-DIMMs High Performance Memory for notebooks

Hardware · Author krisko92 · July 23, 2008 · 1802 reads · ★★★★★ (1 votes)

Aeneon by Qimonda, the channel and retail brand of Qimonda, announced its new DDR3 SO-DIMMs (Small Outline Dual Inline Memory Modules) which provide power saving and high performance to the industry's first DDR3 notebooks based on the Intel(r) Centrino(r) 2 processor technology. Aeneon is among the first retail memory…

MSI Launches Montevina-based GX620 Notebook

Hardware · Author krisko92 · July 23, 2008 · 2250 reads · ★★★★★ (2 votes)

MSI has launched the GX620 a Centrino 2-based notebook with the company's exclusive Turbo Drive Engine technology to enhance the speed of CPU. The GX620 includes the new ECO Engine power saving technology to extend battery running time. The ECO quick launch touch sensor allows consumers to switch among five different…

ASUS R.O.G. Rampage Extreme reaches 710MHz FSB and 2516MHz memory frequency

Hardware · Author krisko92 · July 19, 2008 · 2205 reads · ★★★★★ (2 votes)

The board is extreme in almost every way imaginable and the target consumer is the truly extreme users. ASUS was close to canceling the board simply because it wouldn't return the R&D costs. Even though it has decided to keep developing the board we seriously doubt that it will get all of its money back.ASUS engineers…

Sapphire Intros Toxic Radeon HD4850 and Radeon HD4850

Hardware · Author krisko92 · July 19, 2008 · 2303 reads · ★★★★★ (1 votes)

Following the introduction of the highly acclaimed HD 4800 series, SAPPHIRE Technology, the leading manufacturer and worldwide supplier of AMD/ATI based graphics solutions is now shipping two new models of HD 4850 providing a further choice of price:performance points for the enthusiast. The new SAPPHIRE HD 4850 1GB…

ASUS EAH4870 TOP caught in action

Hardware · Author krisko92 · July 15, 2008 · 2546 reads · ★★★★★ (1 votes)

Radeon HD 4870 is currently the fastest card AMD/ATI has to offer. Even though it may not be able to keep up with the fastest cards from NVIDIA, it's cheaper and in range for a lot more buyers. The prices of NVIDIA's fastest cards have been dropping fast due to the impressive speed of the performance segment cards…

First Pictures of Sapphire HD 4850 1GB Presented

Hardware · Author krisko92 · July 13, 2008 · 2248 reads · ★★★★★ (1 votes)

The ATI Radeon HD 4850 has been a success so far and Sapphire decides to expand their product range with Sapphire Radeon HD4850 1GB. Chinese website ITOCP released fresh pictures of this new card. It looks promising. This follows the release of pictures of the Toxic Radeon HD4850 covered HERE .The pictures show the…