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The the coming months, AMD is planning to launch a series of quad-core and triple-core processors to strengthen the company's hold on the sub-$200, even sub-$150 market segment. Intel is reportedly planning a rival lineup of quad-core processors to counter AMD in the segmet. While the Core 2 Quad Q8000 series from…
Now faced with delays, Intel's upcoming Ibex-Peak platform, a next-generation mainstream implementation of the Nehalem architecture, is an interesting mix of technologies, where Intel seeks to minimise the platform and energy footprints while delivering value and performance through a clever bit of rearrangement of…
Choiix provides simple and practical, yet stylish notebook accessories for the latest notebook specifications. Although recently there have been many advances in heat dissipation technology in notebook computers, this issue has still not been resolved. Having a notebook computer stand can alleviate this problem and…
The ability to drive big displays now comes in a small package with the release of the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420, the industry’s only low profile professional graphics solution designed for maximum display real estate with a small form factor (SFF) computer. Featuring NVIDIA nView display software and support for four…
ModReactor is an innovative bulgarian online media for hardware and modding, focused into reveiling actual hardware reviews, modding components and games. The site offers information for the hardware specialists and modders in Bulgaria and the world. Starting in 2005 with a team of two modders, today ModReactor…
Qualcomm Incorporated and AMD have announced an agreement in which Qualcomm has bought a number of graphics and multimedia technology assets, intellectual property and resources of handheld business from AMD.The deal worth US $65 million, and gives Qualcomm certain multimedia technologies, including graphics cores,…
Acer has had a tremendous success with the 8.9" Aspire One and last year it announced a very aggressive expansion plan. It is aiming to claim 50% of the netbook market and this 10" model that looks to launch in February will be an important part of that. udging from the pictures there are a couple of differences from…
ASUS has launched two new notebooks size large. We have grown accustomed to ASUS' small Eee PC models, but this time the format is considerably bigger. It has namely announced two new notebooks with the sight set on mobile entertainment. ASUS F50 and F70 sports 16" and 17.3" widescreen displays respectively for…
Hungarian Englide Technologies has released new 80mm and 120mm cooling fans. Englide's main strength lies in designing fans and the company, although completely new for many of us, has been on the market for 10 years. Now back to the new fans, they are designed primary for low RPM and low noise operation. Englide…
After the success of their sub-notebook products, the manufacturers have decided that this type of hardware will find place between the desktop users. And with the same enterprise that ASUS and MSI created Eee PC and Wind, they created Eee Box and Wind Nettop. A very interesting decision, after all Nettop is a "small,…
Sapphire looks to continue bringing out new graphics cards based on the Radeon HD 4670, to cater to the sub-$100 segment, this time with the Ultimate Radeon HD 4670. This one is Sapphire's silent-cooled card that takes advantage of the RV730 core and its favourable thermal properties. The card uses a blue PCB that…
Following in the footsteps of the popular new Venga and Desperado models, comes a third new case from Sharkoon: The sturdy new Sharkoon Furious in matte black has room for five optical drives, one external 3.5" device, four hard drives and eight expansion cards.The Sharkoon Furious' stability comes from panels made…
MSI proudly unveils its latest N295GTX and 285GTX graphic card series; the MSI N295GTX-M2D1792 is an SLI capable design with optimized dual-GPUs-in-one-card. MSI N295GTX series consist of two latest 55nm GeForce™ GTX 200 GPUs with a 480 stream processing core and 896-bit memory bandwidth, providing averagely 50%…
MSI introduces its latest HTPC motherboard: MSI Media Live DIVA. Users now no longer need to expand the traditional external audio amplifier. The Media Live Diva supports ATI Avivo™ HD image processing technology and UVD decode engine which provides 1080P HD video output. In combination with the D2Audio™ DAE-3…
The GPS systems have become something very common these days and we at ModReactor are going to have a look at one of them - GoClever Navigator 4384FM, a cheap solution for car GPS system. Review on ModReactor
Maybe for the most of you, Silver Power is a new name. This is the daughter company of MaxPoint - a giant in the industry of computer power supplies and owns some of the well known brands. The most famous are Tagan - power supplies for enthusiasts and gamers and Seasonic - the highest clas PSU's. Now lets have a look…
As we all know every gaming PC must be very equiped in order to deliver maximum enjoyment. Except that every overcllocking maniac must be ready for the high temperatures . One of the main components is the CPU cooler. Our friend from Sunbeam lended us their new Core-Contact Freezer CPU Cooler. Is this cooler that,…
When we talk about Hi-End computer we mean configuration with the latest motherboard, multi-core rppocessor, fast RAM memory, video cards in SLI or CrossFire. But we didn't mention the power supply - the "skeleton" of the entire system. The whole system depends on it in order to work properly. Today at ModReactor we…
External HDD cases are not something new on the market, but no matter that today we at ModReactor will have a look at one product from our friend from Vizo. The special about him is that it allows using both PATA and SATA drives - something very rare on the market. Now lets have a look at the Vizo Luxon Advanced…
Shuttle Inc., the market leader in the mini-PC segment and the manufacturer of Multi-Form-Factor solutions, today announced the availability of a new, extra powerful Mini-PC barebone with the Intel P45 Express chipset. The model opens up new vistas for highly demanding users looking for compact PC systems with…
Super Talent is showing off their Pico series. It now comes in Zinc, Gold and Silver. On top of that they have extended the series with a miniscule unit, which also has a cover on the USB plug side. On top of that the manufacturer is now also offering a "The Godfather" themed line-up. While others offer Disney…
A-DATA has a suite this time around. This seems to be a gerneral trend of many manufacturers, who choose to go with a suite within one of the hotels instead of having a booth at the show floor. They are showing of their XPG series. This includes memory modules, SSD and flash drives. All of them have one feature in…
With great pleasure we present today's review of AMD Phenom II X4 940 (Deneb): "Ladies and gentlemen - behold the first 45nm quad core AMD processor with Deneb core, part of the Phenom II family." The complete review can be found HEREa>
It's time for some new information, provided by our colleagues over at OCWorkBench. As reported by them NVIDIA is preparing to launch its new GeForce GTX 285 card on January 15th, while the dual-GPU GeForce GTX 295 is planned to debute on January 8th, during the first day of CES 2009. These two video cards will be…
XFX seems to be ready with its initial lineup of graphics cards. Some European retailers have even begun listing their products and pricing. While there's nothing really interesting about the way XFX is pricing its cards, the way it's cards seem to be certainly interesting. Pictured below are its first two models…
Though no official information from NVIDIA has been released on the GeForce GTX 285, through leaks over the past month we know that this is a 55nm version of the GTX280. Although the 55nm GTX 260 has kept its name, it seems that the same cannot be said of the GTX 280. This Gigabyte card is said to use the same…
We are leaking a picture where MSI attack Gigabyte for serious issues with few Gigabyte motherboard models with chipsets G41, G43 and G45, where the PCI-E x16 in reality is masked x4 slot. The problem affects all revisions of Gigabyte EG45M-DS2H, EG43M-SH2H and EG41MF-S2H.Not only that this might limit the VGA's…
EVGA today made its 55nm GeForce GTX 260 graphics cards lineup official. The company also introduced a premium Super-Superclocked (SSC) variant of the said card. While having identical reference clock speeds to those of the 65nm GeForce GTX 260 Core-216 lineup, the new lineup offers higher energy efficiency and…
Mushkin today announced a new DDR2 800 MHz, 2x 2GB dual-channel memory kit, the XP2 series model 996580X2. The product targeted at the mainstream thru value segments. Mushkin adopted a simplistic product design which includes two modules without heatspreaders. The modules operate at voltages between 2 and 2.1V and…
The latest results were posted by Vietnamese overclocker Kaka that has managed to push his Phenom II X4 processor, with a beefy air cooler and great dose of voltage, to 4GHz SuperPi stable and over 4.2GHz suicide run. Not too bad for a not yet launched processor operating at 3.0GHz stock.But where Phenom II X4 looks…