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If you’re wondering why the highly-anticipated MSI Big Bang Trinergy motherboard turned out to be using NVIDIA’s nForce 200 SLI chip, with no sign of the Lucid Hydra 200 chip as it promised, the answer is simple - NVIDIA does not like it. Considering the product would impact NVIDIA’s profit coming from SLI fee, the…
DFI has prepared a LanParty Mini-ITX motherboard based on P55 chipset, which will be known as MI P55-T36. The LGA1156 board features 6-phase PWM design, two DDR3 dual-channel memory slots, one PCIe x16 slot, three SATA II ports, Debug LED and Clear CMOS button. Other specs includes two connectors for four USB 2.0,…
DFI has prepared a LanParty Mini-ITX motherboard based on P55 chipset, which will be known as MI P55-T36. The LGA1156 board features 6-phase PWM design, two DDR3 dual-channel memory slots, one PCIe x16 slot, three SATA II ports, Debug LED and Clear CMOS button. Other specs includes two connectors for four USB 2.0,…
The Level 10 chassis made a very impressive debut at CeBIT and ComputeX 2009, not only because it’s designed by Thermaltake in collaboration with the BMW Group, but also because of its revolutionary design. Although hitting China a bit later than we expected, it’s finally here. To make it even more special, Level 10…
As the leading PC benchmark provider, Futuremark’s offerings like 3DMark Vantage has been vastly used by PC enthusiasts all over the world. With the release of Windows 7 operating system and AMD DirectX 11-ready graphics cards, we’re curious that when the company is planning to debut their own DX11 benchmark. Thus,…
Memory manufacturer Kingmax announced the Hercules line of high-end DDR3 PC3-17600 memory modules for overclockers. Available in dual-channel kits for now, the Hercules can operate at 2200 MHz, with CAS latency of 10T, with DRAM voltage in the range of 1.5~1.7V. Optimized for Intel socket LGA-1156 processors, the…
If you’ve been looking forward to the USB 3.0 and SATA 6.0 support on Intel’s new P55 chipset, you’d be very cheerful to read this. Asus has prepared an innovative expansion card - U3S6, which provides two USB 3.0 ports and two SATA 6.0 ports. The card has three primary components: an NEC D720200F1 USB 3.0 controller,…
Thermaltake, leading DIY chassis brand, launches the newest full-tower PC case for demanding gamers and power-users. The Element V offers optimized airflow characteristics with 5 preinstalled heavy-duty fans, while leaving room for another 3 upgrade fans. Two 120 mm front mounted fans are blowing outside air directly…
Kingston has recently announced the release of the SSDNow V Series 40GB Boot Drive, the latest addition to its V family of solid state drives. Available for as low as $84.99 after rebates (U.S. only) at etailer Newegg.com at launch, the 34nm MLC NAND based SSDs deliver sequential write speed of 170MB/s and write speed…
Western Digital has recently reported record revenue of $2.2 billion, record hard drive shipments of 44.1 million units and net income of $288 million, or $1.25 per share, for its first fiscal quarter ended Oct 2nd, 2009. “For the second consecutive quarter, demand for hard drives was stronger than expected as the…
To offer absolute compatibility with common application environments, Thecus is announcing compatibility with Windows 7, Microsoft’s simpler and easier to use interface on the PC platform. In addition to convenient features, Windows 7 also delivers boosted performance on remote file operations with Thecus storage…
Logitech presents new kit accessories for laptops Logitech Notebook Kit MK605 – it makes your work with the laptop a lot more easier and allows you to it according to your own style. In your home or at work the Notebook Kit MK605 guaranties comfort and space arrangement. The kit includes wireless mouse for maximum…
Logitech presents new kit accessories for laptops Logitech Notebook Kit MK605 – it makes your work with the laptop a lot more easier and allows you to it according to your own style. In your home or at work the Notebook Kit MK605 guaranties comfort and space arrangement. The kit includes wireless mouse for maximum…
The new Logitech Gaming Keyboard G110 gives you all that you need to personalize your game, to make your communication more effective and to make more operations lightly. The button’s light has different colors and helps you not to click wrong button in a dark room. In addition you can set up to 36 different button…
Lenovo’s first ION-based netbook IdeaPad S12 is going to make its debut this week, together with the latest Windows 7 operating system, according to TCMagazine. IdeaPad S12 features a 12.1-inch (1280×800) LED backlit display, a full-size keyboard, a 1.6GHz Atom N270 processor, 2GB of RAM, a 250GB hard drive, a 6-cell…
GeIL is proud to announce the establishment of distribution in the Bulgarian market through one of Bulgaria’s top distributors – Argus Computers. Argus Computers established in 1996, has been providing the Bulgarian market with professional service and named brand products. The wide range of PC components and…
Acer has designed a refreshed version of AspireRevo which is pre-loaded with the upcoming Windows 7 Home Premium operating system. AspireRevo R3610-U9012 features NVIDIA ION platform, 1.6GHz Atom 330 processor, 2GB of DDR2 memory, 160GB hard drive, built-in 802.11n Wi-Fi, HDMI/eSATA/VGA/USB 2.0 connectivities, card…
AMD has just reported its third quarter results. The company made a net loss of $128 million, and its revenues amounted to $1.396 biilion, showing a 18% sequential increase, while falling by 22% compared to the same period of 2008. “Strong demand for our product and platform offerings combined with disciplined…
Samsung has just confirmed reports that there are tight supplies of DDR3, and warned that the shortages would last until the first quarter of next year, according to EETimes. Keich Lee, manager of memory marketing for Samsung said that shortages of “DDR2 are more severe than DDR3″, and “DDR2 prices surpassed DDR3 at…
The launch of Radeon 5800 series and subsequent launch of Radeon HD 5700 has been greeted by immense number of positive reviews, but NVIDIA appears to be weaker in this part. According to Fudzilla, its Fermi will not be available until Q1 2010. Fermi will initially become available as a performance card, and we’ll…
Intel Corporation has just reported third-quarter revenue of $9.4 billion. The company reported operating income of $2.6 billion, net income of 1.856 billion and earnings per share of 33 cents. The gross margin reached 58%, up 7 points sequentially. According to the company, Atom processors contributed a revenue of…
There is news that several NVIDIA partners have decided to cancel GeForce GTX285 and GTX275 due to lack of supply. The rumor does not seem to make much sense, as NVIDIA’s next-gen GPU Fermi will not be ready until next year. We’re not sure yet if this is just NVIDIA’s marketing strategy to keep the market hungry for…
Many analysts believe Windows 7 is going to significantly stimulate the PC sales, but Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s CEO just doesn’t think so. “There will be a surge of PCs but it will probably not be huge,” Ballmer said at a press conference in Munich. He also suggested that the tech sector would take some time to…
At the CEATEC Japan 2009 which was held from Oct 6th to Oct 10th, Sony showed off its 3D Full HD TVs. You’ll need to wear special 3D glasses, and you’ll be impressed with the lifelike 3D visual effects. 3D visual experience has become more and more popular. Many manufacturers have seen their opportunities and start to…
NVIDIA’s head of chipset development has recently confirmed that we can expect the Ion 2 chipset this year, but he didn’t lock down a specific month or quarter. Ion 2 will support different Pentium 4 compatible processors including VIA’s Nano, Intel’s Atom and some ultra-low voltage processors. But it lacks support…
We don’t really have many details on hand about the NVIDIA GeForce GT240, but our fellow site IT168 has just published some early benchmarks of the GPU. Based on 40nm GT215, GT240 boasts 96 stream processors like we said. It’s shipping with 1GB SDDR3 or 512MB GDDR5 memory, 128bit memory interface and…
A-DATA Technology Co., Ltd., the worldwide leader in DRAM memory and Flash application products, unveiled today the industry's first ever waterproof and shock resistant portable HDD SH93, a super strong hard disk drive designed specifically for students, road warriors, and sports enthusiasts. Incorporating…
The Dutch techsite tweakers.net set a new world record for 3Dmark03. While the old record (180,349) was set using four 4890s the new record uses only three 5870s and a Xeon W3540 clocked at 5231 MHz. The 5870s ran at 1200 MHz with only slightly overclocked memory at 4900 MHz. Source: techPowerUp!
We’ll certainly have an interesting fall, as DirectX 11 GPU war is heating up between the two chip giants - AMD and NVIDIA. AMD announced the Radeon HD 5800 series (Cypress) graphics cards on Sep 23rd, and is now busy planning for HD 5700 series (Juniper) aiming at sub $200 mainstream market for October launch. Though…
Unveiled at the footnote of the GPU Technology Conference 2009, by none other than NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, NVIDIA's Fermi architecture looks promising, at least in the field of GPGPU, which was extensively discussed upon in his address. The first reference board based on NVIDIA's newest 'GT300' GPU is a Tesla HPC…