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AMD to Launch its Fastest CPU Ever on August 13th, 2009

Hardware · Author HaSLeS · August 6, 2009 · 1917 reads · ★★★★★ (2 votes)

AMD will release the 3.4GHz Phenom II 965 Black Edition in only ten days, according to fBrightsideofnews . As the fastest model in consumer desktop processors, Phenom II X4 965BE is coming with 6MB L3 cache, integrated DDR2/DDR3 memory controller and a TDP of 125W. Actually, this CPU was listed online with price tag…

BFG Unveils Watercooled GeForce GTX 285 and GTX 295

Hardware · Author HaSLeS · August 6, 2009 · 2493 reads · ★★★★★ (2 votes)

BFG has lately announced two water-cooled graphics cards: the GeForce GTX 285 H2O+ and GeForce GTX 295 H2OC with ThermoIntelligence Advanced Cooling Solutions. BFG GeForce GTX 285 H2O+ features 240 stream processors, 1024MB GDDR3, 512-bit memory interface, and core/memory/shader clock of 691/2592/1566MHz, supporting…

EVGA Intros Two Overclocked GeForce GTX295 CO-OP Models

Hardware · Author HaSLeS · August 6, 2009 · 1892 reads · ★★★★☆ (4 votes)

EVGA has unveiled two new single-PCB GeForce GTX 295 graphics cards, which feature higher clocks and not much else. The GeForce GTX 295 CO-OP FTW and Superclocked Edition models each come with 480 stream processors, a 896-bit memory interface, 1792MB of GDDR3 memory, DirectX 10 and Quad SLI support, PhysX and CUDA…

Inno3D Readies GeForce GTX 295 iChill Black Series, Ready for Water-Cooling

Hardware · Author Slu4ainik · August 5, 2009 · 2182 reads · ★★★★★ (5 votes)

Inno3D has its latest offering to the high-end consumer market ready, with the water-block pre-installed GeForce GTX 295 iChill Black Series. This single PCB GeForce GTX 295 accelerator comes with a full coverage single slot water-block that is factory installed. This accelerator packs 1792 MB of GDDR3 memory, 480…

Core i9 ''Gulftown'' Comes to Life

Hardware · Author Slu4ainik · August 4, 2009 · 2409 reads · ★★★★★ (8 votes)

Intel's posterboy processor for the 32 nm Westmere architecture, the six-core Gulftown is now living, breathing silicon. The company seems to have already dispatched samples of the chip. Gulftown is based on the LGA-1366 socket. Featuring 6 cores and 12 threads with HyperThreading enabled, it holds 12 MB of L3 cache…

Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD4 Micro-ATX Motherboard Detailed

Hardware · Author Slu4ainik · July 30, 2009 · 2184 reads · ★★★★★ (8 votes)

One of Gigabyte's first LGA-1156 motherboards in the micro-ATX form-factor, the GA-P55M-UD4 was previewed by CPU3D.com, revealing an upper-mainstream motherboard sporting all the essentials and a little more. The CPU socket is powered by a lavish 14-phase circuit, cooled by independent VRM heatsinks. The CPU is wired…

AMD Silently Intros 95W Phenom II X4 945

Hardware · Author HaSLeS · July 24, 2009 · 2312 reads · ★★★★★ (3 votes)

AMD quietly decked up shelves with a new processor, this time, a low TDP variant of the Phenom II X4 945 quad-core processor. Carrying the model identifier "HDX945WFK4DGI", the Phenom II X4 945 95W comes with a significantly lower TDP rating compared to its 125W predecessor. It first surfaced on a CPU-support list by…

Razer Launches Orochi Mobile Gaming Mouse and Kabuto Mouse MatRazer Launches Orochi Mobile Gaming Mouse and Kabuto Mouse Mat

Hardware · Author HaSLeS · July 24, 2009 · 1700 reads · ★★★★★ (4 votes)

Razer, the world's leading manufacturer of high-end precision gaming and lifestyle peripherals, has unveiled two new on the go products to add to your arsenal, the Razer Orochi and the Razer Kabuto; a Bluetooth Laser gaming mouse and a sleek ultra-thin microfiber gaming mouse mat. "We live in a mobile society of…

AMD Athlon Neo joins in the battle for the nettop segment

Hardware · Author HaSLeS · July 23, 2009 · 1598 reads · ★★★★★ (2 votes)

The "green" manufacturer, is planing to begin the shipping of the new CPUs Athlon Neo for nettops - inexpensive desktop systems to target the home users, seeking base functionality. The nettops in general, as the name of the product indicates, intended primarily for the Internet. As the company says, some…

GeIL launches world first \

Hardware · Author HaSLeS · July 22, 2009 · 1938 reads · ★★★★★ (1 votes)

Planet Earth , the home of all mankind has been under tremendous stress of pollution causing problems such as global warming in the past decades. GeIL, as part of the citizens on this planet and pioneer of the industry, has been active in researching and developing \"green\" technology and products. Besides RoHS…

AMD Preps First AM3-based Sempron Processors

Hardware · Author HaSLeS · July 21, 2009 · 1603 reads · ★★★★★ (3 votes)

AMD is preparing its first set of Sempron processors based on the DDR3 supportive AM3 package. The first one, codenamed "Sargas" is a single-core chip that comes across as a single-core variant of the Athlon II X2 "Regor". It features a broad 3.6 GT/s HyperTransport 3.0 system interface, 128 KB of L1 and 1 MB of L2…

Gateway Introduces Intel Atom N270-equipped LT2000 Netbook

Hardware · Author HaSLeS · July 21, 2009 · 1752 reads · ★★★★★ (2 votes)

Gateway Inc. today introduces the Gateway LT2000, a new sleek and compact netbook with a 10.1-inch TFT LED-backlit display that will let mobile customers maximize their time on the go to stay connected and productive. At the core of the Gateway netbook line is excellent mobility and wireless communications, so…

Zotac Beefs-Up GeForce GTX 200 with 15 Phase VRM Design

Hardware · Author HaSLeS · July 19, 2009 · 2054 reads · ★★★★★ (2 votes)

Armed with a creative engineering department, Zotac is in the news for innovating a new graphics card PCB design every now and then. For NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 200 series alone, the firm developed several performance and value oriented PCB designs. It decided to up the ante with a new single-GPU PCB design that is…

MSI N260GTX Lightning Strikes 1.1 GHz Core Clock Speed Mark

Hardware · Author HaSLeS · July 18, 2009 · 1602 reads · ★★★★★ (3 votes)

It looks like MSI's beating the drums about military-grade superiority of its N260GTX Lightning over its competitors has finally come to bear some fruit. Renowned enthusiast hipro5 from Greece set a new GPU core clock-speed record for the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260, with a stress-stable 1100 MHz, with its shader domain…

HANNSG HH251HP 25-inch LCD Display Announced

Hardware · Author HaSLeS · July 11, 2009 · 2189 reads · ★★★★☆ (5 votes)

Top 5 monitor manufacturer, HANNSG, has today unveiled a new line of cutting edge monitors. The new HH series of widescreen TFT LCD monitors, which will include a comprehensive selection of display sizes from 18.5" up to 28", perfectly demonstrates HANNSGs development and manufacturing capabilities, combining style,…

BFG Intros GeForce GTX 295 H2OC and GeForce GTX 285 OCFU Video Cards

Hardware · Author HaSLeS · July 9, 2009 · 2227 reads · ★★★★★ (8 votes)

BFG Technologies, the leading North American and European supplier of advanced NVIDIA-based 3D graphics cards, power supplies, and the Phobos High-Performance Gaming/Home Theater System, announced today the launch of two new additions to BFG's GeForce family, the BFG GeForce GTX 295 H2OC with ThermoIntelligence Water…

BIOSTAR Introduces its G41 Chipset Family Motherboards

Hardware · Author HaSLeS · July 9, 2009 · 1879 reads · ★★★★★ (7 votes)

BIOSTAR, a professional manufacturer of motherboards introducing Intel G41 chipset motherboards, the "T41 HD", "G41D3G", "G41 DVI", "G41-M7". The Intel G41 Express Chipset, with the next-generation Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X4500 (Intel GMA X4500), includes built-in support for smooth high-definition video…

Sapphire HD 4890 Vapor-X Gets 2 GB Variant

Hardware · Author HaSLeS · July 4, 2009 · 2304 reads · ★★★★★ (5 votes)

Major ATI partner Sapphire is releasing a variant of the HD 4890 Vapor-X accelerator, with double the amount of memory: 2 GB. Being a variant, it retains the rest of the feature-set, with a blue non-reference PCB, Sapphire Vapor-X GPU cooler, and separate heatsinks over the VRM and memory areas. The card comes with…

ASUS P7P55 EVO Detailed

Hardware · Author HaSLeS · July 3, 2009 · 4208 reads · ★★★★★ (3 votes)

ASUS' P7P55 series includes the company's mainstream-thru-premium motherboards based on Intel P55 chipset, supporting LGA-1156 socket processors. Following the recent exposé of its little sibling the P7P55 Pro, XFastest took the higher-end P7P55 EVO for a photo-shoot. This motherboard retains its lesser sibling's…

EVGA Intros X58 SLI Micro Motherboard

Hardware · Author HaSLeS · July 3, 2009 · 2146 reads · ★★★★☆ (4 votes)

EVGA today introduced the compact X58 SLI Micro motherboard (model number: 121-BL-E756-TR), supporting the Micro-ATX form factor. Don't be fooled by the small size, in performance figures this motherboard is a match for all standard ATX Intel X58 equipped motherboards, it supports all LGA1366 Core i7 processors to…

MSI Intros 760GTM-P33 Motherboard

Hardware · Author HaSLeS · July 3, 2009 · 1782 reads · ★★★★★ (2 votes)

MSI launched a new AMD AM2+ socket micro-ATX motherboard targeting the value and SME markets. The 760GTM-P33 is based on the AMD 760G + SB710 chipset, and supports DDR2 memory from two DIMM slots. It extends compatibility to AM3-socket processors along the way. The CPU is powered by a 4+1 phase circuit, with support…

Report: Intel Launching Cheaper 34 nm SSDs in Two Weeks Time

Hardware · Author Dimitar Dinchev a.k.a. Veseliq · June 30, 2009 · 1840 reads · ★★★★☆ (4 votes)

Rumor has it that chip giant Intel will be launching new solid-state drives based on the company's 34 nm NAND chips in just a few weeks time. The report claims that these new SSDs will be faster and most importantly cheaper than what we're used to pay for a solid-state drive. Intel will manufacture the 34 nm drives in…

Intel 32 nm Clarkdale Chip Brought Forward to Q4 2009

Hardware · Author Dimitar Dinchev a.k.a. Veseliq · June 30, 2009 · 1683 reads · ★★★★★ (3 votes)

While the bulk of Intel's upcoming Nehalem and Westmere derived products include quad-core processors, the company hasn't left out dual-core processors just as yet. The dual-core Core i5 desktop processor will be based on the new Clarkdale core, built on the 32 nm Westmere architecture. Originally slated for a Q1 2010…

Nexus Announces RX-1K 1000 W Modular PSU

Hardware · Author Slu4ainik · June 28, 2009 · 2045 reads · ★★★★★ (5 votes)

Dutch PC casing, cooling, and power specialist Nexus announced the RX-1K modular PSU. This 1000 W PSU caters to the high-end PC market, at a relatively affordable price point. Its semi-modular connector desin makes sure the most important connectors are fixed, while additional ones are modular. Under the hood, it uses…

Hard Rectangular Drive Could be the Hard Disk Answer to SSDs

Hardware · Author HaSLeS · June 27, 2009 · 1840 reads · ★★★★★ (6 votes)

A company called DataSlide has decided its not time for mechanical disk drives also known as hard disk drives (HDD) to roll over and die with SSDs beating them in just about every aspect other than price. The key aspect of the new technology is that it does not require the data platter to be spun like conventional…

Corsair Launches New 128GB and 64GB Performance Series Solid State Drives

Hardware · Author HaSLeS · June 26, 2009 · 1824 reads · ★★★★☆ (5 votes)

Corsair, a worldwide leader in high-performance computer memory, power supplies and flash memory products, including solid-state drives, today announced two new products in its Performance Series SSD family: the P128 and P64 high-performance solid-state drives. Building on the success of the award-winning P256 SSD,…

Corsair HX750W and HX850W Bag Elusive 80 Plus Gold Efficiency Rating

Hardware · Author Slu4ainik · June 25, 2009 · 2182 reads · ★★★★★ (9 votes)

Corsair's recently announced HX750W and HX850W modular power supply units have bagged the elusive 80 Plus Gold efficiency rating, a title enjoyed only by a few high-end enterprise-grade PSUs. To qualify for this rating, a PSU must provide an output efficiency of at least 87% at 20% load, 90% at 50% load, and 87% at…

Buffalo Packs 16 GB in Pint-Sized USB Drive

Hardware · Author HaSLeS · June 25, 2009 · 1973 reads · ★★★★★ (4 votes)

Buffalo announced a new USB flash drive that pushes the limits of how small these drives can get, giving similarly sized flash-storage cards a challenge. The Buffalo RUF2-PS packs up to 16 GB of data in 18 (W) x 18 (H) x 8 (D) mm, and comes in variants of 2, 4, 8, and 16 GB. It is truly feather-weight at 3 g. The…

Zotac Announces GeForce GTX 275 1792 MB

Hardware · Author HaSLeS · June 24, 2009 · 1855 reads · ★★★★★ (4 votes)

ZOTAC International, a leading manufacturer of graphics cards and motherboards, today unleashes the latest addition to it’s award-winning GeForce GTX 275 graphics card lineup – the ZOTAC GeForce GTX 275 1792MB -- ushering in a new era of high-resolution gaming with its high-performance graphics processor and large…

OCZ Announces Availability of the Affordable Sabre OLED Multimedia Keyboard

Hardware · Author HaSLeS · June 24, 2009 · 1712 reads · ★★★★★ (5 votes)

OCZ Technology Group, a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance and high reliability memory and components, today announced the highly-anticipated Sabre OLED multimedia keyboard for advanced gaming and customization complete with intelligent management software. The Sabre’s unique combination of…