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Diamond HD 4670 1024MB

Hardware · Author krisko92 · October 7, 2008 · 1567 reads · ★★★★★ (2 votes)

Diamond has announced a new card in its 4600 series, the Diamond HD 4670 1024MB. Diamond decided to double the fun with 1024MB of GDDR3 memory which unfortunately works at a slightly lower clock than the reference version.The new card will work at 750MHz for the GPU and will feature 1024MB of GDDR3 memory working at…

MSI Eclipse X58 Motherboard Pictured

Hardware · Author krisko92 · October 7, 2008 · 1982 reads · ★★★★★ (2 votes)

The release version of the upcoming enthusiast-grade motherboard by MSI, based on the Intel X58 chipset for the upcoming Core i7 series processors, has been pictured at Coolaler. The close-up snaps show the motherboard to be packing quite some booty. It also shows that MSI hasn't used exorbitant cooling for the…

MSI Eclipse X58 board listed

Hardware · Author krisko92 · October 6, 2008 · 1654 reads · ★★★★★ (1 votes)

The top of the range Eclipse board ends up priced just over ?300. We like high-end hardware, and the board looks impressive, but ?300 is still ?300. The Platinum at ?225 looks like a budget board in comparison, although it's still no bargain.So, apart from new DDR3 memory and a pricey CPU, you'll have to cough up…

MSI has three X58 boards

Hardware · Author krisko92 · October 6, 2008 · 1638 reads · ★★★★★ (1 votes)

MSI plans to reveal three X58 motherboards and the cheaper one with the least features will be known as Platinum. Platinum comes with two PCIe 16X slots and it supports Crossfire and SLI. The board comes with DR Mos Vrams and active phase switching, but it won’t come with Hi-C capacitors as it wouldn’t be able to hit…

Biostar T-Power X58 Mainboard Spotted

Hardware · Author krisko92 · October 6, 2008 · 1544 reads · ★★★★★ (1 votes)

During the final weeks before Intel's Nehalem release date, we have covered almost any motherboard that will be simultaneously available as the platform launches. Today we'll accentuate on Biostar's T-Power X58, yet another LGA1366 mainboard that will help Core i7 buyers. The board is pretty much standard, it has a…

Sapphire Unveiled Cheap HD 4550 & 4350 Cards

Hardware · Author krisko92 · October 4, 2008 · 1787 reads · ★★★★★ (3 votes)

SAPPHIRE is introducing two new graphics families aimed at mainstream users. The new SAPPHIRE HD 4550 has 80 stream processors, core clock speeds of 600MHz and 512MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 900MHz (1.8GHz effective). The SAPPHIRE HD 4350 has a similar architecture, and has the same 80 stream processors and 600MHz…

Xigmatek Readying Dark Knight HDT S1283 Cooler

Hardware · Author krisko92 · October 4, 2008 · 1847 reads · ★★★★★ (3 votes)

The brand name "Dark Knight" seems to be quite a fashion these days. Xigmatek is preparing a new CPU cooler, the Dark Knight HDT for global launch. The cooler is compatible with Intel LGA-775 and AMD sockets 754, 939, 940, AM2(+). It measures 120x50x159 mm, and weighs 660 g.The cooling mechanism consists of three…

Foxconn Renaissance X58 Pictured

Hardware · Author krisko92 · October 3, 2008 · 4149 reads · ★★★★☆ (4 votes)

The final version of the Foxconn Renaissance X58 motherboard has been pictured by an XtremeSystems forum member, complete with release-grade cooling. Foxconn gives Renaissance the "Digital Life" branding. Foxconn has diversified its premium motherboard lineup into Digital Life and Quantum Force, the former for premium…

Review of Alone In The Dark

Reviews · Author krisko92 · October 3, 2008 · 1456 reads · ★★★☆☆ (3 votes)

Very complicated title for description - simultaneously very good and very bad game, which tries to be a serial movie. The game even gives you the option not to play it. You can skip whole parts of it. And after all, besides the bad controls and bugs and many other problems, the game is very innovative. In the same…

WesternDigital Launches New Eco-friendly WD Caviar Green Hard Drives

Hardware · Author krisko92 · October 2, 2008 · 1481 reads · ★★★☆☆ (4 votes)

WD today announced the second-generation of its highly popular and environmentally friendly WD Caviar Green desktop hard drives, which feature the company's GreenPower technology to significantly reduce power consumption, compared with standard hard drives. The new platform is based on WD's 333 GB/platter technology…

EVGA Upgrades 790i SLI FTW with Digital PWM

Hardware · Author krisko92 · October 2, 2008 · 1662 reads · ★★★☆☆ (2 votes)

EVGA is one of the elite NVIDIA partners that sells NVIDIA-designed motherboards based on the nForce chipsets, apart from being a leading graphics card vendor. EVGA for one, added innovation to the NVIDIA designs with its own level of enhancements, such as improved capacitors, more number of CPU power phases than…

Albatron Released 780G Mini-ITX Board

Press Releases · Author sineoc · October 2, 2008 · 2727 reads · ★★★☆☆ (2 votes)

Albatron has announced the KI780G Mini-ITX mainboard featuring the AMD 780G chipse. This Mini-ITX board supports AM2+ socket, 4-core/3-core AMD Phenom™ processorsa PCIe X16 slot, 128MB side-port DDR2” memory, 8-channel audio and up to 10 USB 2.0 channels. Source: VR-Zone

HIS Readies Radeon HD 4850 Fan

Hardware · Author krisko92 · October 2, 2008 · 1750 reads · ★★★☆☆ (2 votes)

HIS is counted amongst the leading ATI add in board partners. They already have a vast lineup of products based on the Radeon HD 4800. Like every other board partner, HIS sells reference design design cards, as well as, its own IceQ4 series Radeon HD 4850 cards. HIS decided to make a simplistic design, this time…

Evercool Buffalo review @ ModReactor

Reviews · Author sineoc · October 1, 2008 · 1904 reads · ★★★★☆ (2 votes)

In ModReactors latest article we take a look at Evercool Buffalo. The review will be translated in English in few days and will be available for our international readers on this link HERE

Four New HD4600 Series Cards From Palit

Hardware · Author krisko92 · September 30, 2008 · 4322 reads · ★★★★☆ (5 votes)

Palit Microsystems, leading graphics card manufacturer, today unveils a series of new Radeon™ 4600 series graphics cards. The new Radeon™ 4670 GPU and Radeon™ 4650 GPU are not only designed for redefining the HD gaming experience but also designed for breaking-through efficiency. For the Radeon HD 4600 series, Palit…

MSI Silently Introduces its Custom-design 9800 GTX+ OC

Hardware · Author krisko92 · September 30, 2008 · 1909 reads · ★★★☆☆ (2 votes)

There has been an influx of non-reference graphics cards based on the GeForce 9800 GTX+ graphics processor, over the last few weeks. MSI made its addition, with the N9800GTX PLUS-T2D512-OC. Like every other manufacturer making news for releasing such products, MSI designed its own PCB. The cooler chosen has featured…

Radeon HD 4830 Gaming Performance vs GeForce 9800 GT

Hardware · Author krisko92 · September 29, 2008 · 3905 reads · ★★★★☆ (5 votes)

AMD has prepared a slide on the Radeon HD 4830 performance vs the GeForce 9800 GT with 6 games benchmarks. No words on the system configuration or drivers used for these tests. AMD is banking heavily on this card to outperform and to outsell the GeForce 9800 GT at the same price point. In another slide, it stated that…

Transcend Launches new SSDs

Hardware · Author krisko92 · September 29, 2008 · 1779 reads · ★★★★★ (3 votes)

The market for solid-state drives is growing steadily. Transcend put in its newest offerings, 2.5 inch SSDs with double the read/write speeds over its predecessors. The company equipped these drives with new controllers that add to its performance and energy efficiency. The drives come in capacities of up to 64 GB, in…

Dell Silently Intros the 23-inch 16:9 S2309W Widescreen LCD Monitor

Hardware · Author krisko92 · September 29, 2008 · 2016 reads · ★★★★☆ (7 votes)

Dell has silently launched one more slave up its LCD monitor line-up, the 23-inch Dell S2309W. Base specs of this 23-incher reveal a 1920x1080 wide resolution, making it Dell's second 16:9 full HD display after S2409W. Response time is measured to be 5ms, brightness is 300 cd/m2, and contrast ratio is 1,000:1. The…

Toshiba Starts Sampling 256GB Solid State Drives

Hardware · Author krisko92 · September 29, 2008 · 1489 reads · ★★★★★ (3 votes)

After announcing its quarter terabyte 1.8-inch mobile hard drives yesterday, Toshiba is now pleased to inform that it has begun sampling 256-gigabyte (GB) SSDs and new small-sized Flash Modules for netbook computers and ultra-mobile PCs (UMPCs). Working samples of both SSDs are available now, but mass production is…

OCZ Technology Introduces HydroFlow CPU Waterblock

Press Releases · Author sineoc · September 28, 2008 · 2520 reads · ★★★★★ (4 votes)

OCZ Technology Group, Inc. a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance and high reliability memory and computer components, today unveiled the “HydroFlow” HF-MK1 Waterblock for superior CPU watercooling. Designed with the highest possible exchange rate between the block and coolant, the HydroFlow can be…

Noctua Releases New CPU Coolers for Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron

Press Releases · Author sineoc · September 28, 2008 · 2133 reads · ★★★★★ (3 votes)

Noctua today released four new CPU coolers for Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron processors. Optimized for use in dual socket systems, the new DX (Dual Xeon) and DO (Dual Opteron) versions of Noctua's highly successful NH-U12 and NH-U9 series introduce the premium quality quiet cooling performance that has become synonymous…

Zotac 9800 GTX+ Accelero Twin Turbo Model Spotted

Hardware · Author sineoc · September 28, 2008 · 1530 reads · ★★★★★ (2 votes)

Here's the third GeForce 9800 GTX+ non-reference model in the works. Zotac has prepared a graphics card based on the GeForce 9800 GTX+ GPU with its own PCB design. As for cooling, they've employed the expertise of Arctic Cooling, with an Accelero Twin Turbo cooler for the GPU. Zotac may have worked on aspects related…

Cooler Master Hyper Z600 Review

Reviews · Author Dimitar Dinchev a.k.a. Veseliq · September 26, 2008 · 2151 reads · ★★★★★ (7 votes)

In ModReactors latest article we take a look at Cooler Master Hyper Z600. The review will be translated in English in few days and will be available for our international readers on this link HERE .

QPAD|CT and QPAD|CT Grin L.E. gaming mouse pads review

Reviews · Author Dimitar Dinchev a.k.a. Veseliq · September 26, 2008 · 1007 reads · ★★★★★ (6 votes)

We got our hands on few more products labeled as "gaming". This time its QPAD|CT - hybrid mouse pads that we are about to put on testing. The review will be published in English in matter of days, so check it out on this link soon .

Patriot Releases 4GB DDR3 PC3-16000 Viper Kit

Hardware · Author krisko92 · September 23, 2008 · 1848 reads · ★★★★★ (2 votes)

Patriot Memory, a global provider of premium quality memory module and flash memory solutions, today unveiled their 4GB DDR3 2000MHz low latency Viper series memory kit. The newest addition to Patriot's Viper series, the 2000MHz kit boasts both high-density and high-frequency, enhancing overclocking capabilities for…

Gigabyte Intros GeForce GTX 260 OC with 216 Shaders

Hardware · Author krisko92 · September 23, 2008 · 2377 reads · ★★★★★ (3 votes)

GIGABYTE UNITED INC., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, today launched their next generation graphic accelerators, the GIGABYTE GV-N26OC-896H-B, equipped with NVIDIA's latest GeForce GTX 260 OC graphics processor. Delivering a 5-10% performance boost over the previous GeForce GTX 260, the…

Core i7 965 XE Unboxed, Stock Cooler and Processor Exposed

Hardware · Author krisko92 · September 23, 2008 · 2238 reads · ★★★☆☆ (1 votes)

Intel would be rolling out an elite fleet of desktop processors based on the new Nehalem architecture soon. The first derivative, the Bloomfield core, is supposed to be the architecture's flagship for the desktop PC market. And for it, Core i7 Extreme 965 is supposed to be the leading processor. Priced at US $999, the…

ZOTAC Launches GeForce 9600GT and GeForce 9800GT Synergy Edition

Hardware · Author krisko92 · September 22, 2008 · 2242 reads · ★★★★★ (1 votes)

ZOTAC International, a leading manufacturer of NVIDIA-based graphics cards, today unleashes its new GeForce Synergy Edition graphics card lineup. The new ZOTAC GeForce Synergy Editions deliver the phenomenal gaming experience of NVIDIA's GeForce 9 graphics processors to budget-minded gamers and enthusiasts. Two new…