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The SilverStone Grandia GD04 which was pictured at ComputeX Taipei 2009 has already reached stores for sale. Available in colors of black and silver, GD04 measures 440×150x323mm, weighs 5.45kg, has one exposed 5.25″ bay, front-placed USB and audio ports, three 120mm fans working at 1200RPM, and supports Micro ATX…
Microsoft has already allowed some small system builders to start selling the new Windows 7 PCs more than a week before the official launch date of October 22, according to PCWorld. According to Jon Bach, the president of Puget Systems, the company is going to start selling Windows 7 PCs on October 13. “We have a long…
Rumors had it that Intel’s next-generation Atom CPUs had been delayed to Q1 2010, but the company is now saying that it will be launch them in Q4 this year. Intel will ship the new chips to PC makers in late Q4, though the real products will not be ready until 2010. The new-gen Pine Trail-M platform will employ NM10…
At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel CEO Paul Otellini showed off the first working 22nm fabrication process technology chips. The microprocessors, codenamed Ivy Bridge, are due in the second half of 2011. The silicon wafer containing 22nm chips had SRAM memory in 364 million bits and 2.9 billion…
Intel unveiled its fastest Core i7 mobile platform processors on the second day of IDF. The new Intel Core i7 mobile processors are based on the 45nm Nehalem microarchitecture, and will be paired with Intel PM55 Express chipset for a better experience in gaming, digital multimedia experience, business programs and…
Showcased at CeBIT 2009, Corsair’s first chassis - CC800DW has now been found selling in Japan. Constructed out of high-quality aluminum, the huge chassis measures 229×609x609mm, weighs 10.2kg, supporting E-ATX/ATX/Micro-ATX motherboards. There’s space to mount either three 120mm fans or a triple-wide radiator at the…
Serial ATA International Organization (SATA-IO) today announced it’s developing a specification for a mini-SATA (mSATA) interface connector which will enable more effective SATA integration in small form factor applications. mSATA leverages the speed and reliablity of the popular SATA interface to provide a…
SteelSeries, the leading manufacturer of gaming peripherals and accessories, today introduced the new SteelSeries Siberia v2 Full-size Headset. As the successor to SteelSeries' signature Siberia Headset which launched in 2004, the new Siberia v2 offers gamers and music enthusiast's superior speaker and microphone…
Intel has reportedly set a shipment goal of one million Lynnfield (Core i5 and i7) CPUs for desktops by the end of 2009. Asus and Gigabyte are expected to each ship 400,000 P55-based motherboards by year-end 2009, and the other motherboard makers including MSI, ECS and AsRock may total around 200,000 units. Joe Hsieh,…
NVIDIA said during a conference for financial analysts that the emergence of next-generation DirectX 11 application programming interface will not drive sales of graphics cards. Instead, the general purpose computing on graphics processing units as well as its proprietary tools and emergence of software taking…
Thanks to the mild recovery in PC demand in the second quarter, Intel Corp. managed to expand its lead in the global microprocessor market to levels not seen in nearly four years, according to iSuppli Corp. Intel’s Q2 microprocessor revenue accounted for 80.6% of global microprocessor revenue, up 1.4% from 79.2%…
Intel has begun producing Westmere chips based on the 32nm second-generation high-k metal gate technology, reports PCMAG. The first products will include dual-core processors compatible with the socket LGA1156 platforms, and will be branded as Core i5 600 series, Core i3 500 series, and Pentium dual-core series. The…
Asus is reportedly working on a new home server model, Asus Home Server TS mini, according to wegotserved. Seen above, the TS mini is slightly higher than two Coke Zero. It measures 245×96x204mm, weighs 2.6kg without the hard disk drive. Equipped with Intel Atom N280 (1.66GHz), 2GB DDR2-800 memory, two 3.5″ SATA I/II…
As we said a couple of days ago, Radeon HD 5870 consumes power of 188W and 27W when loaded and idle respectively, and the fellows at Hardware-infos has revealed that HD 5850 has a better control ability on the power consumption part. Radeon HD 5850 also eats 27 watts when idle, but shows lower power consumption when…
Acer has a history of designing Ferrari-branded notebooks powered by AMD processors. The newest in the league is the ultraportable Acer Ferrari One. This is one of the first implementations of AMD's Congo notebook platform that makes use of ULV tech friendly AMD Athlon X2 L310 dual-core processor clocked at 1.20 GHz,…
Almost three years after introducing its first branded graphics cards back in 2006, Foxconn has now decided to give up own-brand graphics card business. Digitimes reports that Foxconn plans to rearrange its Channel Service Division (CSD) shifting the majority of the 9,000 employees, mainly related to production, to…
AMD is adding to its value dual-core processor lineup with a new high-speed part. The Athlon II X2 255 (PIB model: ADX255OCK23GQ) is based on the 45 nm Regor die, and packs a clock speed of 3.10 GHz (15.5 x 200 MHz). Each core has a dedicated L2 cache of 1 MB (2 MB total cache), and the TDP is rated at 65W. Based on…
Ahead of a formal launch, pricing of socket LGA-1156 processors, an untimely leak from Newegg.com that was updating its site, spilled pricing details of a broad range of socket LGA-1156 processors and motherboards. These prices give us an indication of what prices will finally look like, in the US market, and more or…
With nearly forty years experience in CPU manufacturing, Intel is still holding a whopping 80% of the global CPU market to date. But a recent post at Engadget indicates that several Japanese chipmakers have teamed up to challenge Intel’s domination. Seven chipmakers including Hitachi, Toshiba, Fujitsu, NEC, Renesas,…
NZXT has just unveiled the newest addition to its PC enclosure lineup, the Lexa S. The new mid-tower chassis features a meshed front panel and five fans for enhanced airflow, and comes with a 5.25″ stealth bay, turned HDD cage, and pre-drilled water cooling holes at the back. The Lexa S will go on sale later this…
Gigabyte today announces a new addition to its product lineup: the Super Overclock Series which claims to deliver outstanding performance with cherry-picked GPUs. According to the company, all of the GPUs in this new range of high-end graphics cards have been cherry-picked for top performance, efficiency and…
Lian Li has recently launched the PC-B25F Midi tower chassis which is based on the “Blue Ring” design conception. The new aluminum case measures 210×495x490mm, and features three exposed 5.25-inch bays, removable side, front and top panels, and a top I/O panel with one eSATA, two audio and two USB 2.0 connectors. The…
It looks like that NVIDIA doesn’t want to see a smooth launch of AMD Evergreen family of DirectX 11 GPUs, so the green camp is planning to demo its GT300 graphics processor to their partners and press in late September, according to Brightsideofnews. AMD is launching the Evergreen at the historical Hornet Aircraft…
Going against the trend, Cooler Master has come up with two new variants of the CM Elite RC-310 mid-tower ATX case. The two come dressed in white with a dash of either blue or pink, with a glossy-white front bezel. Made of SECC/Steel and ABS plastic, the RC-310 measures (W) 191 x (H) 437 x (D) 468 mm, and weighs 5.8…
The PCI-Express 3.0 specification, which was initially expected to be ready by the end of this year, has been delayed to next year, says tcmagazine. According to PCI-SIG (PCI Special Internet Group) who is in charge of the development and management of PCI bus, although PCIe 3.0 is almost finished, they need some more…
Following the success of Beta chassis, has announced another mid-tower case for budget users, Beta EVO. The all black case has four external 5.25″ drives and 5 internal 3.5″ HDD racks, with support for up to six 120mm fans with dual 140mm fan at the top. It also features two drilled holes at the back for watercooling…
Today, Logitech introduced a convenient and clutter-free way for you to connect wireless keyboards and mice to your laptop - the Logitech Unifying receiver. So small that it can stay in the laptop when you're moving around, a single Logitech Unifying receiver can be paired with multiple Unifying-compatible Logitech…
Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, today announced it is preparing production quantities of HyperX DDR3 dual-channel 1.65-volt memory kits, and has successfully achieved 2133 MHz speed at CL8 latencies. In September, Kingston will ship a complete line of HyperX DDR3…
Intel on Tuesday announced its next-generation X25-M drives with improved performance and lower price. Forced by this, OCZ has started to adjust its pricing strategy according to Anandtech. The pricing of OCZ Vertex series 64/128/256GB has been reduced to $190/290/600, and that of Agility series 64/128GB drops to…
Auzentech, Inc announced today that a small quantity of white R-4 Bulldozer PC Cases are available to customers in North America. Every bit as striking as the more common black R-4, the white edition gives custom PC builders a rare opportunity to build a system that is distinct from any other at the LAN Party, with no…