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Cooling specialist Xigmatek announced its latest CPU cooler, the Balder SD1283. The Balder maintains a design similar to most other tower coolers. The design consists of a base from which three heat pipes of 8 mm diameter making direct contact with the CPU, convey heat to a dense array of aluminum alloy fins. The CPU…
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!
Keeping up closely with its recent release of the Balder SD1213 CPU cooler, Xigmatek also introduced the Bifrost VD1065 VGA cooler. The Bifrost is a twin-fan aluminum fins based GPU cooler, that makes use of the company's popular Heat-pipe Direct Touch feature. The fairly-simple construction of this cooler includes a…
Ah, here we are with yet another (dare we hope) interesting article from a line of tests measuring performance scaling of one of the most successful cards in the low-mid gaming segment this year - AMD HD 4770 512MB GDDR5. Today were going to measure a two cards against three in CrossFireX mode. But that's not all…
Nexus released a new version of its NX-5000 500W power supply. The new non-modular NX-5000 R3 offers 530W of continuous power, with newer sleeved cables. With a rated efficiency of 82 percent, the PSU qualifies for the 80 Plus Bronze rating. The 12V circuit comprises of a single 41A +12V rail, and active PFC is…
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…
Here is what four AMD Cypress GPUs can achieve with some careful overclocking, without needing any third-party cooling. Renowned overclocker Kinc sent us details of his latest achievement using four ASUS Radeon HD 5870 1 GB cards installed in a 4-way CrossFireX setup, all overclocked, and cooled by AMD's reference…
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…
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…
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Tuniq introduced its newest CPU cooler, the Tuniq Propeller 120. This release follows the launch of the Tower 120 Extreme. Measuring 128(L) × 127.5(W) × 145(H) mm, and weighing at 590 g without the 120 mm fan, The cooler sports an unconventional design. From the CPU base pass four 8 mm nickel-plated copper heat-pipes…
Constantly innovating new graphics cards designs, Galaxy pushed the limits of engineering by coming up with the first GeForce GTX 260 with a single-slot air cooler. To achieve this, the company designed its own long cooler based on the Vapor Chamber (VC) technology. A VC plate sits on top of the GPU and the aluminum…
Slovenian water-cooling components specialist EK Water Blocks is readying one of the first water blocks for the AMD Radeon HD 5870 accelerator. Called EK FCS5870, it is a full-coverage water block from the looks of it, cooling all essential components on the PCB, including the GPU, memory, and VRM. The first picture…
Buffalo Japan is ready with its first external hard drive that uses the new USB 3.0 interface to eliminate the bandwidth bottleneck posed by the older generation of the interface. The Buffalo DriveStation HD-HXU3, with its USB 3.0 SuperSpeed interface comes in capacities of 1 TB, 1.5 TB and 2 TB. The drive offers…
Behold AMD's, and soon aimed to be the industry's most powerful graphics accelerator: Radeon HD 5870 X2 "Hemlock". Armed with two "Cypress" Radeon HD 5870 graphics processors, this dual-GPU monstrosity packs twice the shader compute power. From the looks of it, the card is slightly longer than its single-GPU sibling…
With the Radeon HD 5800 series unleashed, many manufacturers have rolled out with their own HD 5870 and HD 5850 graphics cards, but all we see are based on ATI reference design. To make itself stand out, Sapphire has designed the first ever non-reference HD 5870 - HD 5870 Vapor-X. As the name suggests, the HD 5870…
AMD has just lifted the curtain on its latest generation of desktop graphics cards, being the first DirectX 11 supporting cards to hit the market. The first two models are Radeon HD 5850 and top-end single GPU offering, the HD 5870, and in the near future we’ll see others added to the lineup with the most anticipated…
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…
Though Intel’s six-core processor Gulftown will not be officially launched until next year, the review of its engineering sample has been leaked ahead of time, and the chip has just been overclocked to the very limit. With the help of liquid nitrogen, the overclocker Shamino set the core voltage at 2.02V, and…
Here are the fist pictures of Sapphire's Radeon HD 5800 series offerings: Radeon HD 5870 1GB and Radeon HD 5850. The cards sport the usual sticker design of a CGI girl in a reddish background. With these cards having the cosmetic "red-streak" cleaving the cooler shroud in the center, the so is the sticker. This is…
Last year Danamics introduced its LM-10 CPU cooler with liquid metal inside, but the benchmarks proved that its performance was just even to Ultra 120 Extreme. Considering its whopping price of ?350, it didn’t become popular at all. The company just doesn’t want to give up - they’re working on a new and improved…
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…
Zotac has lately unveiled a new limited edition GeForce GTX 285: Batman Edition graphics card featuring artwork of Gotham City’s caped crusader, Batman: Arkham Asylum, which is a coupon for a full copy of Batman: Arkham Asylum, which gamers can redeem at NVIDIA’s nZone. With only 900 units available worldwide, the new…
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…
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