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Biostar are now very popular on the Bulgarian market with their cheap but with many features motherboards. Since 4-5 years after they appeard in Bulgarian market, the company continues to make budget products, but now Biostar is oriented into making igh class motherboards like one based on the X58 chipset. We had some…
If you ever had any interest in high performance air cooling solutions, there is no way you haven't heard for Scythe. This is a Japanese company which is now controled by americans, that got famous with its exclusive thermal solutions made especially for computer enthusiasts and overclockers. On their booth at CeBIT…
Sapphire 790GX AM3 Motherboard has reached store at Akiba with price tag of JPY18980 (about $193).Featuring AMD 790GX+SB750 chipset, Sapphire 790GX AM3 Motherboard is designed for AMD Phenom II AM3 quad-core processors. This motherboard offers 6+1 phase power supply and employs four DDR3 DIMM up to 16GB 1333MHz Dual…
Mushkin Memory has just released two new Redline DDR3 kits. The triple channel Mushkin Redline memories, model numbers 998691 and 998692, both consist of three 2 GB modules for a total of 6 GB. They both operate at 1600 MHz with CL6-7-6-18 timings and 1.65 V. Model number 998691 comes with Mushkin's usual heatspreader…
CeBit: Motherboards and Video Cards at Cebit 2009 @ Madshrimps CPUs: AMD Phenom II In-Depth Performance Scaling Analysis @ Madshrimps Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 vs E8600: The battle of the caches! @ Madshrimps Coolers: Arctic Cooling Accelero XTREME GTX 280 @ Hardware Bistro Periphery: iLuv Ultra Portable Stereo Speaker…
Mushkin Enhanced, one of the leading manufacturers for High Performance Computer announces the availability of his first SSD-series called “Europe”. The capacities are 32, 64, 128, 192 and 256GB in a noble aluminium housing and captivating with aggressive pricing. “Once, Zeus felt in love with the beautiful Europe,…
Galaxy unveils its non-reference GTX 260 graphics card equipped with 1792MB memory, which is designed for those demanding gaming players.Galaxy GTX 260 non-reference card is cooled by Galaxy’s self-designed cooler with 5 heatpipes and 3 PWM fans. The airflow passively cools the memory, the 4+1 phase VRM area has a…
G.Skill Pi & Pi-Black series are well known high performance memories on the market. Now they can be bought as a kit with the new memory cooler, which looks like a wristwatch and is unveiled for first time at CeBIT. G.Skill are also known as maker of laptop memories. As well as mainstream, there are also high-end…
The manufacturers of very high class memory in world scale are very few. G.Skill are deffinately one of the leaders and as you may expect their booth was one step beyond the others. Read more HERE
Following DDR2 So-Dimm, the second line of products to undergo DBT process will be DDR2 Gaming Series, which includes Black Dragon and BD EVO ONE. DBT enhanced Gaming Series will provide gamer of all levels superb stability, performance and reliability memory modules for their gaming systems. No more system-hang or…
Asrock's motherboards - M3A790GXH/128M, AOD790GX/128M, broke the world's overclocking records combined with AMD Phenom II X4 805, X3 71 processors. Phenom II X4 805 has managed to reach 3900.05MHz with rated FSB of 1560MHz, and Phenom X3 710 has reached the amazing 4083.02 MHz which brakes all world overclocking…
Zotac has yet another GeForce GTX 285 SKU in the making. This time, it plans to use its own-designed GTX 285 PCB with an Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme GPU cooler. Zotac isn't using the entire kit, as the NVIO2 and VRM heatsinks aren't compatible with this PCB design. Other manufacturers using this cooler for similar…
Following Sapphire's move to create a Radeon HD 4670 SKU with GDDR4 memory, GeCube has one of its own, ready for launch. The RV730-based graphics card has 512 MB of GDDR4 memory, across a 128-bit wide memory interface. It uses a simplistic design for its PCB and cooler. The card draws all its power from the…
CeBit: CPU, VGA and Laptop Coolers At Cebit 2009 @ Madshrimps CeBIT 2009: Girls @ techPowerUp Periphery: OCZ Rally2 32gb USB 2.0 Dual Channel Flash Memory Drive @ TestFreaks Microsoft Sidewinder X8 Wireless Mouse @ DragonSteelMods Thecus N4100 Pro @ techPowerUp OCZ Throttle 16gb eSATA Flash Drive @ TestFreaks OCZ ATV…
Spire today launched the BlackMoon PSU Series. Aimed squarely at the gaming community the BlackMoon series of power supplies are a great selection for extreme power demand. Fashioned in neat black steel enclosures and equipped with the signature Spire 120mm Silent Blue LED fan, keeping air flowing and your system…
As every selfrespecting media that has visited CeBIT, we tried to photograph as many chicks we could possible see. Unnfortunately for us we missed the best tiem for that - the weekend but we still have some very cool babes to show you. Chicks photos HERE Even more chicks :D HERE
Now its time to have a look at the strange and not very strange things we spotted on our trip to Germany and at the CeBIT exhibition itself. Read more HERE
One of the most interesting halls in this years's CeBIT was Game Hall 22 - Intel Extreme Masters. It was dedicated extremely into gaming and offered a lot ot entertainment. Read more about it HERE
Maybe for the most of you Nanya and Elixir are an unknown brands, despite they are leader in memory manufacturing. Nanya are making retail products with the name Elixir and they are also taking part in the OEM market with the brand Nanya. Read more HERE
Modern times impose modern ways. Cutting edge technology ensures we have bigger and bigger date storage capabilities whispering ever so gently - "worry not about the megabytes". Well, you know what? They're right. That's why external hard drive enclosure cases are something common nowadays. So today we choose to…
Arctic Cooling is a Swiss company which is very known on the market with its silent and overclocking friendly products. The company makes all sorts of air coolings - fro processors, video cards, memories, also makes PSus, fans, laptop coolers, PC cases and etc. The booth of Arctic Cooling was one of the most prepared…
Besides all the hardware that was shown on ASUS's booth, from ASUS offered us their new models of PC cases in which to put our hardware in. You can read more in the link below. HERE
ASUS also unveiled a lot of CPU coolers. Many of them were named on different knights and they were all with very interesting design. Of course, there we also many laptops shown and a lot of accessories. Some of them were very expenssive and unnecessary, but the Eee Stick was very interesting. Read more HERE
On ASUS booth there were many of the company's new products, thats why we'll look at them in parts. First will look at the motherboards. There were many of ASUS's models unveiled there, but one particular model grabed our attention: Marine Cool. It includes many innovations like reserved memory, metal palte behind the…
It is very possible some of you might heard of the brand famous with its headphones - Skull Candy, which is making it's way on the Bulgarian market. Skull Candy make products which are especially for the young people who practice extreme sports. In both of their booths there were big screen TVs, which played the…
Patriot is a U.S. based company manufacturing high quality memory modules for 23 years. Patriot are famous with their products for enthusiasts and with the high quality of the components used in the modules. Before Patriot's product reach customers, they have to pass a series of tests, which proves the quality of the…
Nova Gaming are turned out to be on the market for mouse pads for over 10 years. Despite we've never heard for them, we've seen some very interesting and innovative products on their booth. You can read more HERE
Right next to DFI was the booth of Jetway. They are well known on the Bulgarian market with their budget motherboards. A part of their mainstream motherboards, there are some very interesting ITX and Pico-ITX models. Read more HERE
Directly from the Press Center, we continue with our tour and we start with the well known manufacturer DFI. Many of you might know that DFI have products for the ordinary users and also some enterprise solutions which are very expensive and aren't interesting for us. The DFi booth shows only their DFI LanParty…
Cougar is a power supply manufacturer we have spoted from a long time, but we didn't manage to have contact with them. They offer power supplies in the range of 300-1200W, modular and not modular. Most of them have gold, silver or bronze certificate for efficiency over 80% which means they are hard stuff. Read more…