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MSI Unveils New AM3 Socket 790FX and 790GX Motherboards

Hardware · Author krisko92 · January 22, 2009 · 3252 reads · ★★★★★ (5 votes)

MSI, the world’s leading motherboard manufacturer, today unveils its AMD AM3 motherboard 790FX-GD70 and 790GX-G65. MSI AM3 motherboard fully supports AMD latest 45nm Phenom II processor and DDR3 memory. In addition, it comes with the AM3 processor which is optimized for the “second-generation DrMOS technology” and…

Lian Li Launches the All New PC-A05N Mid-Tower Chassis

Hardware · Author krisko92 · January 22, 2009 · 2637 reads · ★★★★★ (2 votes)

Lian Li Industrial Co. Ltd has launched the PC-A05N Mini-Tower chassis. The all aluminum design features an innovative front mounted power supply (PSU) bay that enables the unique shorter and smaller profile. This is the ideal chassis for those seeking a conveniently sized unit that can comfortably contain leading…

GT300 A Leap Forward for NVIDIA GPU Architecture

Hardware · Author krisko92 · January 21, 2009 · 2903 reads · ★★★★★ (3 votes)

Every once in a while, comes a GPU by NVIDIA that marks the evolution of GPU architecture for NVIDIA. A good example of this would be the G80, which was a distinct evolution of the GPU architecture for the company. Sources tell Hardware-Infos that the GT300 is on course of being one such GPU that comes with distinct…

Biostar Rolls-Out First AMD 760G Motherboards

Hardware · Author krisko92 · January 21, 2009 · 2690 reads · ★★★★★ (3 votes)

Following the launch of AMD's newest value northbridge, the AMD 760G, and the SB710 southbridge, Biostar prepared its first offerings based on the 760G + SB710 chipset: the TA760G M2+ and A760G M2+. Both motherboards are built in the Micro-ATX form factor, measuring 24.4cm X 20cm. Both models are essentially the same,…

Phenom II X4 In For Price-Cuts?

Hardware · Author krisko92 · January 21, 2009 · 2408 reads · ★★★★★ (3 votes)

Barely a month into its launch, AMD's newest processors, the Phenom II X4 920 and Phenom II X4 940 Black Edition, are already in for global price-cuts, of as much as 20%, in the days to come. Sources close to the company indicate that the price-cuts are in view of the recent announcement by Intel to significantly…

Intel Planning New Budget Quad-Core CPU Lineup

Hardware · Author krisko92 · January 21, 2009 · 2558 reads · ★★★★☆ (3 votes)

The the coming months, AMD is planning to launch a series of quad-core and triple-core processors to strengthen the company's hold on the sub-$200, even sub-$150 market segment. Intel is reportedly planning a rival lineup of quad-core processors to counter AMD in the segmet. While the Core 2 Quad Q8000 series from…

Intel 5-Series Chipset Lineup Detailed

Hardware · Author krisko92 · January 21, 2009 · 2690 reads · ★★★★★ (3 votes)

Now faced with delays, Intel's upcoming Ibex-Peak platform, a next-generation mainstream implementation of the Nehalem architecture, is an interesting mix of technologies, where Intel seeks to minimise the platform and energy footprints while delivering value and performance through a clever bit of rearrangement of…

NVIDIA Intros the Quadro NVS 420 Low-Profile Professional Graphics Card

Hardware · Author krisko92 · January 21, 2009 · 2820 reads · ★★★★★ (2 votes)

The ability to drive big displays now comes in a small package with the release of the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420, the industry’s only low profile professional graphics solution designed for maximum display real estate with a small form factor (SFF) computer. Featuring NVIDIA nView display software and support for four…

Qualcomm buys a piece of AMD

Hardware · Author krisko92 · January 20, 2009 · 2417 reads · ★★★★★ (3 votes)

Qualcomm Incorporated and AMD have announced an agreement in which Qualcomm has bought a number of graphics and multimedia technology assets, intellectual property and resources of handheld business from AMD.The deal worth US $65 million, and gives Qualcomm certain multimedia technologies, including graphics cores,…

First pictures of the coming Aspire One 10" netbook

Hardware · Author krisko92 · January 20, 2009 · 2924 reads · ★★★★★ (4 votes)

Acer has had a tremendous success with the 8.9" Aspire One and last year it announced a very aggressive expansion plan. It is aiming to claim 50% of the netbook market and this 10" model that looks to launch in February will be an important part of that. udging from the pictures there are a couple of differences from…

New ASUS F50 and F70 Series Notebooks

Hardware · Author krisko92 · January 19, 2009 · 2677 reads · ★★★★★ (1 votes)

ASUS has launched two new notebooks size large. We have grown accustomed to ASUS' small Eee PC models, but this time the format is considerably bigger. It has namely announced two new notebooks with the sight set on mobile entertainment. ASUS F50 and F70 sports 16" and 17.3" widescreen displays respectively for…

Sapphire HD 4670 Ultimate Radeon Pictured

Hardware · Author krisko92 · January 18, 2009 · 3267 reads · ★★★★★ (4 votes)

Sapphire looks to continue bringing out new graphics cards based on the Radeon HD 4670, to cater to the sub-$100 segment, this time with the Ultimate Radeon HD 4670. This one is Sapphire's silent-cooled card that takes advantage of the RV730 core and its favourable thermal properties. The card uses a blue PCB that…

Review of Sunbeam Core-Contact Freezer - CPU Cooler @ ModReactor

Hardware · Author krisko92 · January 14, 2009 · 2270 reads · ★★★★★ (1 votes)

As we all know every gaming PC must be very equiped in order to deliver maximum enjoyment. Except that every overcllocking maniac must be ready for the high temperatures . One of the main components is the CPU cooler. Our friend from Sunbeam lended us their new Core-Contact Freezer CPU Cooler. Is this cooler that,…

Shuttle Launches Mini-PC Barebone with Intel P45 Express Chipset

Hardware · Author krisko92 · January 12, 2009 · 2897 reads · ★★★★★ (1 votes)

Shuttle Inc., the market leader in the mini-PC segment and the manufacturer of Multi-Form-Factor solutions, today announced the availability of a new, extra powerful Mini-PC barebone with the Intel P45 Express chipset. The model opens up new vistas for highly demanding users looking for compact PC systems with…

CES 2009: Super Talent

Hardware · Author krisko92 · January 12, 2009 · 2358 reads · ★★★★★ (1 votes)

Super Talent is showing off their Pico series. It now comes in Zinc, Gold and Silver. On top of that they have extended the series with a miniscule unit, which also has a cover on the USB plug side. On top of that the manufacturer is now also offering a "The Godfather" themed line-up. While others offer Disney…

CES 2009: A-Data

Hardware · Author krisko92 · January 11, 2009 · 2536 reads · ★★★★★ (2 votes)

A-DATA has a suite this time around. This seems to be a gerneral trend of many manufacturers, who choose to go with a suite within one of the hotels instead of having a booth at the show floor. They are showing of their XPG series. This includes memory modules, SSD and flash drives. All of them have one feature in…

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 and GeForce GTX 295 Launch Dates Announced

Hardware · Author krisko92 · January 6, 2009 · 2638 reads · ★★★★★ (5 votes)

It's time for some new information, provided by our colleagues over at OCWorkBench. As reported by them NVIDIA is preparing to launch its new GeForce GTX 285 card on January 15th, while the dual-GPU GeForce GTX 295 is planned to debute on January 8th, during the first day of CES 2009. These two video cards will be…

XFX Radeon HD 4850 and Radeon HD 4870 Pictured

Hardware · Author krisko92 · January 6, 2009 · 2960 reads · ★★★★☆ (4 votes)

XFX seems to be ready with its initial lineup of graphics cards. Some European retailers have even begun listing their products and pricing. While there's nothing really interesting about the way XFX is pricing its cards, the way it's cards seem to be certainly interesting. Pictured below are its first two models…

GeForce GTX 285 from Gigabyte Appears in Hong Kong

Hardware · Author krisko92 · January 6, 2009 · 2481 reads · ★★★★★ (1 votes)

Though no official information from NVIDIA has been released on the GeForce GTX 285, through leaks over the past month we know that this is a 55nm version of the GTX280. Although the 55nm GTX 260 has kept its name, it seems that the same cannot be said of the GTX 280. This Gigabyte card is said to use the same…

MSI attack Gigabyte for selling cripled G41, G43 & G45

Hardware · Author Dimitar Dinchev a.k.a. Veseliq · December 30, 2008 · 8055 reads · ★★★★☆ (13 votes)

We are leaking a picture where MSI attack Gigabyte for serious issues with few Gigabyte motherboard models with chipsets G41, G43 and G45, where the PCI-E x16 in reality is masked x4 slot. The problem affects all revisions of Gigabyte EG45M-DS2H, EG43M-SH2H and EG41MF-S2H.Not only that this might limit the VGA's…

EVGA Makes its 55nm GeForce GTX 260 Lineup Official, Intros SSC Variant

Hardware · Author krisko92 · December 30, 2008 · 2739 reads · ★★★★☆ (2 votes)

EVGA today made its 55nm GeForce GTX 260 graphics cards lineup official. The company also introduced a premium Super-Superclocked (SSC) variant of the said card. While having identical reference clock speeds to those of the 65nm GeForce GTX 260 Core-216 lineup, the new lineup offers higher energy efficiency and…

Mushkin Releases 996580X2 DDR2 Memory

Hardware · Author krisko92 · December 30, 2008 · 2443 reads · ★★★★★ (2 votes)

Mushkin today announced a new DDR2 800 MHz, 2x 2GB dual-channel memory kit, the XP2 series model 996580X2. The product targeted at the mainstream thru value segments. Mushkin adopted a simplistic product design which includes two modules without heatspreaders. The modules operate at voltages between 2 and 2.1V and…

Phenom II X4 hits 4.2GHz on air

Hardware · Author krisko92 · December 24, 2008 · 2795 reads · ★★★★☆ (10 votes)

The latest results were posted by Vietnamese overclocker Kaka that has managed to push his Phenom II X4 processor, with a beefy air cooler and great dose of voltage, to 4GHz SuperPi stable and over 4.2GHz suicide run. Not too bad for a not yet launched processor operating at 3.0GHz stock.But where Phenom II X4 looks…

Sapphire HD 4870 1GB Toxic Soon to be Released

Hardware · Author krisko92 · December 23, 2008 · 3404 reads · ★★★★★ (3 votes)

TechConnect have got hold of what appears to be official imagery of a new 1GB variant of the Sapphire HD 4870 Toxic. It shows the card will feature a dual-slot, 3 heatpipe, Vapor-X Cooler, presumably using the same Vapor Chamber Technology (VCT), though one would hope that the heatpipes will not be in the way of the…

DirectX11 cards to come in late 2009

Hardware · Author krisko92 · December 22, 2008 · 2862 reads · ★★★★★ (2 votes)

DirectX 11 is the next big thing in graphics. It comes with Windows 7 and the first graphics cards to support it should be available by the end of the 2009.The launch should probably take place in last two quarters of 2009 and the competition between Nvidia and ATI who might be the first one is on. Nvidia needs…

EVGA 55nm GeForce GTX 260 Ready for Launch

Hardware · Author krisko92 · December 22, 2008 · 2550 reads · ★★★★☆ (3 votes)

With NVIDIA being ready with variants of the G200 graphics processors based on the 55nm manufacturing process, a fleet of new graphics cards are in the line for launches. The range starts with a sub-$300 offering, the GeForce GTX 260 55nm. You now have three SKUs that share the name "GeForce GTX 260". The GeForce GTX…

Toshiba unveils monster SSD with 43nm technology

Hardware · Author krisko92 · December 20, 2008 · 2400 reads · ★★★★★ (1 votes)

The Solid State Drive market looks to break significant ground in 2009 and the first 256GB models with decent specifications are starting to appear. Now that Toshiba has unveiled its coming family of SSDs it has no real problem matching and surpassing other companies thanks to its new 43nm MLC NAND flash chips. The…

HIS Releases Radeon HD 4870 IceQ4+

Hardware · Author krisko92 · December 13, 2008 · 2182 reads · ★★★★☆ (2 votes)

Amidst lot of speculation concerning its possibility, HIS indeed has an IceQ4+ model graphics card based on the ATI Radeon HD 4870. It uses the iconic IceQ4+ cooler, and 1 GB of GDDR5 memory. The card is overclocked out of the box, with the core clocked at 770 MHz, and memory at 1000 MHz (effectively 2 GHz DDR or 4000…

OCZ Released Throttle - eSATA Flash Drive

Hardware · Author krisko92 · December 8, 2008 · 2302 reads · ★★★★★ (1 votes)

OCZ Technology Group, Inc., a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance and high reliability memory, today introduced the Throttle eSATA drive, which offers performance and versatility for enthusiasts that demand the best hardware.A sophisticated alternative to conventional USB drives, the OCZ Throttle’s…

SilverStone Intros Sugo SG05 PC Chassis

Hardware · Author krisko92 · December 6, 2008 · 3735 reads · ★★★★★ (2 votes)

SilverStone Technology introduced today SG05, a new member of the Sugo family of barebone computer cases. Measuring just 218mm x 276mm x 175mm, this is without a doubt a small form factor PC case that fits a mini-ITX or mini-DTX motherboard with two PCI slots, and single graphics that's up to 230mm in length. The case…