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Low-profile add-on cards are a boon for builders of PCs with slim form-factor, the kind which takes form of home-theater PC (HTPC) and slim business PCs. Targeting the HTPC consumer segment, Galaxy prepares a low-profile graphics card featuring the 55nm G94 graphics processor (GPU), the new GeForce 9600 GT.From the…
MSI Computer, a leading manufacturer of computer hardware products and solutions, is pleased to announce the release of the new GX620/GX720 Gaming Notebook. Winner of a Best Choice Award at COMPUTEX 2008, the GX620 ‘s Blu-Ray player, MSI’s VIVID Image Enhancement Technology, the NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 3D graphics card…
Walton Chaintech, the world’s renowned graphics card and memory module manufacturer, announces today the GeForce® 9 series GSE9500GT DDR3 512MB graphics card, the officially appointed gaming graphics card for the famous game C.S. On-Line in Taiwan. CHAINTECH GSE9500GT is the mainstream graphics card not only geared by…
Lenovo this morning officially started selling its first netbook, the IdeaPad S10. The ultra-portable system will compete with the latest ASUS Eee PC and MSI Wind models, offering a 10-inch LED backlit LCD screen and Intel's 1.6GHz Atom N270 processor. Two configurations of the 2.4 pound S10 will be available…
PowerColor did something few graphics card makers till trump. It took AMD\'s very popular Radeon HD 4850 and quadrupled the memory buffer, going from 512MB to 2GB. Even if there have been some complaints regarding the rather small memory buffer it would seem rather exaggerated to quadruple it. At least with a…
Leadtek Research Inc., the global leading brand for extreme visual graphics technology development, is pleased to announce the launch of new high-end graphics card, WinFast PX9800 GT 512MB. Based on the NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT graphics processing units and unified architecture design, the new graphics card can provide…
ZOTAC International, an award-winning NVIDIA AIC, today unleashes the latest edition to its ZONE Edition line of quiet graphics cards - the ZOTAC GeForce 9800 GTX+ ZONE Edition. The new ZOTAC GeForce 9800 GTX+ ZONE Edition delivers the power of NVIDIA GeForce 9 series graphics power, PhysX technology and PureVideo HD…
Top end videocards in these days are well known for having two high things about them - high price and high temperature. Oh, sure, the manufacturers do provide stock cooler capable of handling the heat from their new and mighty cards, but most often these coolers are not very quiet, nor they meet the expectations of…
Fujitsu has announced an Intel Atom-based UMPC (Ultra-Mobile PC), not to be confused with ULPC. This ultra-portable will focus on the high-end market with a US $1000 to $1200 price tag. It has a 5.6-inch LCD screen, 3.5G data connectivity and GPS and tips the scales at 610g. Specifications can be summarized as: *…
Mushkin Enhanced, a leading manufacturer of high performance PC - components, announces the immediate availability of the three best-selling 2x 2GB DDR2 memory kits of 2008 announced its PCB used a special feature. Instead of the familiar green PCBs, Mushkin has invented something special. Based on the slogan "Black…
Gaming peripherals has a lot of influence on the gaming market. Today we will have a look at a high class headphones. They are amde by Razer, called Pirahna and are named as "gaming communicator". Lets see how "gaming" they are and why are they called "communicator". Link to the review
Gaming peripherals currently tend to grab more and more market share nowadays. Today we're reviewing a sweet pair of headphones that belongs to that above mentioned class. They are manufactured by Razer, called Piranha and bare the ringing description "gaming communicator". Sure, yeah... We'll find out how much of a…
AMD is currently working on getting the last few pieces of the 45nm puzzle in place. The first processor to hit the market should be based on the Deneb quad-core. This processor benchmarked and overclocked was a while back, and engineering samples have been starting to find their way to more and more people with…
Looking beyond the 4870 X2, Nordic Hardware have a few little tidbits of information relating to AMD's plans on its next-gen cards. It was mentioned a short while back that early next year the company hopes to have successfully shrunk things down to 40nm with its mainstream RV740 core, and soon after, its next big bad…
OCZ recently announced a new Solid State Drive family called Core Series with a focus on price and availability. The really great about these drives is that they are also pretty fast, which is usually something that usually doesn't go hand in hand with the term affordable. The SSD technology is advancing fast and over…
ASUS has announced what it claims to be the world slimmest 22" widescreen monitor, the LS221H. This monitor caters to the needs of the digital home user through several noticeable features. The touted thinness is a mere 45mm and thanks to the seamless transition between the 9H hardness-rated monitor gloss to the…
WD announced today the WD VelociRaptor 10,000 RPM enterprise SATA hard drives in an enterprise-class 2.5-inch form factor for blade servers and 1U and 2U rack servers. The newest WD VelociRaptor hard drive is built for business-critical applications with enterprise-class mechanics and packs up to 300 GB of capacity…
BFG Technologies, Inc., the leading North American and European supplier of advanced NVIDIA-based 3D graphics cards, power supplies and other PC enthusiast products, announced today the BFG NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ OC 512MB PCI Express 2.0 graphics card.Backed by free 24/7/365 world-class tech support and the best…
These days the volume of information is increasing fast. In the same time the prices of magnetic drives get lower and lower. Now a 500GB hard drive is something normal. But here we encounter one serious problem - when we run out of space for new hard drives. But don't worry - we have help from the external hard drive…
Nowadays the volume of information we're using is constantly increasing. At the same time the prices of disk drives are dropping. A 500GB drive is becoming something quite common. Yet at a certain point we all face a major problem – sooner or later we all run out of place to put disk drives in. And right here running…
Aeneon by Qimonda, the channel and retail brand of Qimonda, announced its new DDR3 SO-DIMMs (Small Outline Dual Inline Memory Modules) which provide power saving and high performance to the industry's first DDR3 notebooks based on the Intel(r) Centrino(r) 2 processor technology. Aeneon is among the first retail memory…
MSI has launched the GX620 a Centrino 2-based notebook with the company's exclusive Turbo Drive Engine technology to enhance the speed of CPU. The GX620 includes the new ECO Engine power saving technology to extend battery running time. The ECO quick launch touch sensor allows consumers to switch among five different…
The board is extreme in almost every way imaginable and the target consumer is the truly extreme users. ASUS was close to canceling the board simply because it wouldn't return the R&D costs. Even though it has decided to keep developing the board we seriously doubt that it will get all of its money back.ASUS engineers…
Following the introduction of the highly acclaimed HD 4800 series, SAPPHIRE Technology, the leading manufacturer and worldwide supplier of AMD/ATI based graphics solutions is now shipping two new models of HD 4850 providing a further choice of price:performance points for the enthusiast. The new SAPPHIRE HD 4850 1GB…
Gaming mice. As we have stated before, they are one of the main tools of the self-respecting PC gamer. All of you that had played with a high-end mouse are surely aware of the benefits from such a product. Today we're reviewing a high-class gaming mouse, namely – The Cyber Snipa Stinger. Link to the review
Radeon HD 4870 is currently the fastest card AMD/ATI has to offer. Even though it may not be able to keep up with the fastest cards from NVIDIA, it's cheaper and in range for a lot more buyers. The prices of NVIDIA's fastest cards have been dropping fast due to the impressive speed of the performance segment cards…
The ATI Radeon HD 4850 has been a success so far and Sapphire decides to expand their product range with Sapphire Radeon HD4850 1GB. Chinese website ITOCP released fresh pictures of this new card. It looks promising. This follows the release of pictures of the Toxic Radeon HD4850 covered HERE .The pictures show the…
Gaming mice. As we have stated before, they are one of the main tools of the self-respecting PC gamer. All of you that had played with a high-end mouse are surely aware of the benefits from such a product. Today we're reviewing a high-class gaming mouse, namely – The Cyber Snipa Stinger. Our friends from Cyber Snipa…
The sound is inseparable part ot the multimedia expreience. But if you want to take full pleasure of it, you not only gotta have a good sound card, but you also need a good sound system. Today we will look at the Cyber Snipa Sonar 5.1 headphones and see if we have quality with the low price: Link to the review
Albatron has launched two new graphics cards using the PCI interface. That's right, PCI, not PCI Express or even AGP, but PCI. PCI8600GT-256X sports a GeForce 8600GT GPU, while PCI8500GT-256X and the PCI8400GS-256 are built on the GeForce 8500GT and 8400GS GPU's. All cards are low-profile to emphasize the multiple…