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ASRock Readying Affordable X58 Extreme Motherboard

Hardware · Author HaSLeS · June 21, 2009 · 1650 reads · ★★★★★ (5 votes)

ASRock has yet another socket LGA-1366 motherboard up its ranks: the X58 Extreme. This model is distinct from the X58 SuperComputer and X58 Deluxe, which shared the same PCB. It has three PCI-E 2.0 x16 slots, from which only two are routed to the X58 northbridge. The CPU is powered by an 8-phase circuit, similar to…

ECS Readying GeForce GTS 250 with Highest Core Clock Speed

Hardware · Author HaSLeS · June 19, 2009 · 3385 reads · ★★★★★ (8 votes)

ECS is readying new custom-designed graphics accelerators based on the GeForce GTS 250 GPU, with the highest factory overclocked settings. There are 2 GB and 1 GB variants of the ECS GTS 250 Black Edition, which features a core clock speed of 815 MHz, and memory running at 2200 MHz (1100 MHz actual). While the shader…

Stealth Computer Releases a Rugged Waterproof Fanless PC

Hardware · Author HaSLeS · June 18, 2009 · 2274 reads · ★★★★★ (8 votes)

Stealth Computer, a leading ISO 9001 manufacturer of industrial rugged computers and peripherals has released the new Model WPC-500F, a waterproof rugged, small footprint, fanless computer for environments where ordinary computer hardware won't survive. The new Stealth WPC-500F is a rugged PC that is completely…

AMD Preparing Phenom II TWKR for Overclock Enthusiast Market

Hardware · Author Dimitar Dinchev a.k.a. Veseliq · June 15, 2009 · 1769 reads · ★★★★★ (4 votes)

AMD tasted a bit of success with its Phenom II series of processors, which reflected in recent market share figures, where the company's share grew by around 5 percent, despite a fall in sales throughout the PC processor industry. Leading its pack currently, is the Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition, which holds a…

Patriot Adds Futuremark Bundles to Viper II Tri-Channel Memory Kits

Hardware · Author Slu4ainik · June 12, 2009 · 1765 reads · ★★★★★ (5 votes)

Patriot Memory, a global pioneer in high-performance memory, NAND flash and computer technology, today announced the release of their Tri-Channel Viper II Series bundle packs with Futuremark 3DMark Vantage software. Patriot Memory and Futuremark have teamed up once again to offer PC enthusiasts and overclockers the…

XFX Radeon HD 4770 and New PSU Pictured

Hardware · Author Slu4ainik · June 11, 2009 · 2528 reads · ★★★★★ (6 votes)

We had a chance to drop by the XFX suite during the Computex. They are showing off their Radeon HD 4770. It comes with the dual slot reference cooler, which was actually not intended for retail and the power supply has a very unique design along with a cable management system. The PSU is rated for 850W and features a…

Mechanical Memory Key stores your data with the precision of an Antide Janvier timepiece

Hardware · Author Stuyo · June 10, 2009 · 5429 reads · ★★★★★ (3 votes)

Listen up, steampunkers: Have you been having a hard time finding an appropriate USB thumb drive to wear on a gold chain next to your pocket watch? Artype's 16GB Mechanical Memory Key is a handcrafted beaut, with materials that include Purpleheart for the case and twenty-six rubies. When this device is drawing USB…

Fatal1ty teams with Fusion-io to launch 80GB ioXtreme PCI Express SSD

Hardware · Author Stuyo · June 9, 2009 · 3749 reads · ★★★★★ (2 votes)

Up until now, Fusion-io's glorious creations have largely been priced out of consideration for general consumers. During E3, however, the storage gurus teamed up with Johnathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel in order to debut a consumer-level PCI Express SSD card. Engineered to provide wicked fast transfer rates within…

Peregrine wires you into a keyboard, we go hands-in

Hardware · Author Stuyo · June 8, 2009 · 1604 reads · ★★★★★ (2 votes)

Got a game with a lot of commands, but are sick of supporting the Big Keyboard industry? Meet your rebel input replacement, the Peregrine. Demonstrated to us at E3, the Peregrine is basically an elastic glove with some wires sewn into it at various points. Connecting one of those points to conductive patches on the…

Video: hands-on with ASUS' Eee Keyboard at Computex

Hardware · Author Stuyo · June 8, 2009 · 810 reads · ★★★★★ (4 votes)

We first caught sight of ASUS' totally weird Eee Keyboard -- a full PC with an Intel Atom N270 CPU built in -- way back at CES in January. Well, our friends at Engadget Chinese have laid hands on it at Computex, and it's looking a bit different than what we expected... and a whole lot more awesome. The 5-inch, 800 x…

TUL creates a new ATI graphics card brand: VTX

Hardware · Author Slu4ainik · June 5, 2009 · 2128 reads · ★★★★★ (3 votes)

TUL Corporation who are best known for their VGA card brand Powercolor, have started a new company called "VTX". Like Powercolor it will sell ATI based graphics cards, but initially focuses on markets like Russia and Turkey. The cards will be priced extremely competitive and based on custom PCB designs which will help…

EVGA Releases X58 SLI LE Motherboard

Hardware · Author Stuyo · June 4, 2009 · 2412 reads · ★★★★★ (3 votes)

EVGA expanded its motherboard lineup with the LGA-1366 based X58 SLI LE (141-BL-E757-TR). This ATX motherboard supports the most common standards of EVGA motherboards in the sub-series, at a price-point lower than that of its 3X-SLI series. It is priced at US $239. Making use of only the X58+ICH10R chipset, with no…

LaCie debuts LaCinema Black PLAY and RECORD HD media players

Hardware · Author Stuyo · June 4, 2009 · 2017 reads · ★★★★☆ (3 votes)

LaCie's LaCinema Black MAX is but a few months old, and already the aforesaid company is expanding the family. The newest two are the LaCinema Black PLAY and RECORD, both of which enable users to stream HD media over their network, house content internally with up to 1TB of space and connect sans wires via WiFi. As…

Computex 2009: Hardware Preview

Hardware · Author Stuyo · June 3, 2009 · 1933 reads · ★★★★★ (3 votes)

Everyone seems to have hit the city of Taipei in Taiwan this week for a scoot around to see some of the latest and greatest to expect from this year's Computex trade show. As usual bit-tech has the exclusive first looks you will certainly want to see! Source: http://www.bit-tech.net

GETAC's ultra-rugged V100 gets upgrades for performance, not looks

Hardware · Author Stuyo · June 3, 2009 · 1636 reads · ★★★★☆ (3 votes)

For those of you in need of a PC capable of operating in extreme conditions (anyone reading this from a mine shaft or a bunker, for instance). Getac's battle-tested and war-weary V100 convertible tablet PC has received several key upgrades, including a bump in processing power to a 1.4 GHz Intel Penryn, a front side…

SilverPac SilverFrame packs Windows SideShow, FrameIt -- but is it still a photo frame?

Hardware · Author Stuyo · June 3, 2009 · 3325 reads · ★★★★☆ (2 votes)

Digital photo frames may have once been among the more predictable gadgets out there, but they're fast becoming something else entirely, as evidenced by SilverPac's new SilverFrame now on display at Computex. While it'll apparently function just fine as a regular 10.1-inch photo frame, the Windows Embedded 6.0-based…

WowWee Cinemin Swivel gets UK launch, pricing info

Hardware · Author Stuyo · June 2, 2009 · 1650 reads · ★★★★☆ (4 votes)

We first spotted WowWee's Cinemin Swivel pico projector back at CES, when it was announced along with the Stick and Station models. If you forgot, the little DLP guy boasts 480 x 360 resolution, an adjustable 90-degree hinge (so that you can easily project onto the ceiling), and a three-hour battery life. It's just…

NVIDIA strikes gold with Ion: 21 new products at Computex

Hardware · Author Stuyo · June 2, 2009 · 1775 reads · ★★★★☆ (3 votes)

We had a hunch that Computex would be a massive show for NVIDIA, and while we already caught a glimpse of what the GPU manufacturer had in store, we had no idea it'd come out with guns this big a-blazin'. Showing absolutely no mercy for those other integrated graphics sets of the world, NV's today unveiled 21 new…

Brando's latest HDD dock adds HDMI into the mix

Hardware · Author Stuyo · June 2, 2009 · 3275 reads · ★★★★★ (3 votes)

There are apparently an awful, awful lot of people out there with shoe boxes full of spare SATA drives. Somebody is buying all these new HDD docks, and while most surpass the previous editions by adding support for another obscure format of memory card, Brando's latest seems like an actually useful update, adding HDMI…

OCZ intros 17-inch DIY laptop, Ion-based HTPC / Neutrino netbook

Hardware · Author Stuyo · June 2, 2009 · 3041 reads · ★★★★★ (3 votes)

Just as it did with the Z-Drive at CeBIT, OCZ Technology has delivered a few surprises across the way at Computex. Kicking things off the 17-inch DIY gaming laptop, which takes a note from the DIY-styled Neutrino, but gets a much bigger form factor. It's one of the few laptops that actually arrive sans a CPU, hard…

NVIDIA GPU resurrected after 10 minutes at 425°F

Hardware · Author Stuyo · June 1, 2009 · 1874 reads · ★★★★★ (4 votes)

We've seen some pretty weird stuff in our years on this planet -- heck, we've revived our own drenched Sony DAP by burying it in rice for 48 hours -- but this is easily one of the most bizarre gizmo resurrections we've ever come across. As the tale goes, one valiant NVIDIA GPU owner apparently bit on a myth which…

ASUS to introduce O!Play media player at Computex

Hardware · Author Stuyo · June 1, 2009 · 1991 reads · ★★★★★ (2 votes)

Wait, what's this? ASUS diving head first into the HD media streamer game? Based on images and details acquired by Hardware, we'd say chances are looking pretty good. Reportedly, the aforementioned outfit will showcase its very own media player at Computex next week in Taiwan, and our expectations are already fairly…

Alienware's 'Allpowerful' m17x Obliterates Crysis With Dual 1GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 280M Graphics Cards

Hardware · Author Stuyo · May 30, 2009 · 2378 reads · ★★★★★ (4 votes)

The mystery of the Alienware 'allpowerful' has been pierced a few days before E3—a brand new m17x stuffed with so much power it might just cause cancer: Dual 1GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 280M graphics cards and a Intel Core 2 Extreme Quad-Core CPU for starters. You can also stuff it with up to 8GB of DDR3-1333 RAM, 1TB HDD…

Single-PCB GeForce GTX 295 Pictured

Hardware · Author Slu4ainik · May 29, 2009 · 1917 reads · ★★★★★ (5 votes)

Zol.com.cn has managed to take some pictures of the upcoming single-PCB GeForce GTX 295. Expected to arrive within a month, the single-PCB GTX 295 features the same specs as the dual-PCB model - 2x448bit memory interface, 480 Processing Cores and 1792MB of GDDR3 memory, and GPU/shader/memory clocks of 576/1242/1998…

Kingston Technology First to Release 12GB Triple-Channel DDR3 HyperX 1600MHz

Hardware · Author Slu4ainik · May 28, 2009 · 1566 reads · ★★★★★ (2 votes)

Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, today announced it is first to market with DDR3 1600MHz 12GB triple-channel memory kits. The HyperX kit of three 4GB modules allows enthusiasts to get the most out of their Intel Core i7 and X58 platforms. "Kingston was first to…

ASUS P7P55 Pro Motherboard in Pretty Pixels

Hardware · Author Slu4ainik · May 26, 2009 · 1603 reads · ★★★★★ (7 votes)

One of the first mid-range motherboards by ASUS, the P7P55 Pro smiled for the camera at XFastest. The motherboard comes across as yet another shining example of how simple Intel has made the motherboard by relocating the northbridge to the CPU package. The LGA-1156 socket CPU is powered by an 8+2 phase power circuit.…

XFX to Enter Power Supply Market with 850 W Black Edition

Hardware · Author Dimitar Dinchev a.k.a. Veseliq · May 26, 2009 · 1608 reads · ★★★★★ (8 votes)

Manufacturers branching out in to different segments seems to be the in thing to do at the moment and XFX is no exception as leaked slides on the forums of Legit Reviews, reveal that XFX are getting ready to announce their first power supply line at Computex Taipei 2009 next month. The first of which has been dubbed…

Intel Core i5 Lynnfield 2.66 GHz Tested

Hardware · Author Dimitar Dinchev a.k.a. Veseliq · May 25, 2009 · 2171 reads · ★★★★★ (6 votes)

Intel's quad-core Core i5 2.66 GHz processor based on the Lynnfield core, was tested on an Intel reference-design P55 motherboard (DIBX_CRB) by forum members of XFastest. The processor accompanies 2.80 GHz and 2.93 GHz variants higher up in the series, and is expected to be priced at US $196. The test bed was put…

XFX HD 4890 Black Edition Pictured

Hardware · Author Slu4ainik · May 18, 2009 · 2154 reads · ★★★★★ (8 votes)

Following the trend of other manufacturers, after AMD officially announced 1 GHz variants of their HD 4890, it looks as though XFX will be releasing a Black Edition HD 4890 with the famed 1 GHz GPU clock speed. It would appear that XFX are using a black PCB and a change to red DVI ports as seen on some of their other…

Corsair Readying 16 GB 4-piece DDR2 Memory Kit

Hardware · Author Slu4ainik · May 17, 2009 · 1795 reads · ★★★★★ (4 votes)

Memory (and power supply) specialist Corsair is dressing up a new 4-module DDR2-800 kit, consisting of four 4 GB modules (16 GB in all). Carrying the model number QUAD2X16GB-6400, this kit uses a new heatspreader design Corsair has been using lately. The modules are screened for high-reliability. At 800 MHz, this kit…