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Our colleagues at techPowerUp! posted a review of the Diamond HD 3650 1024 MB DDR2 video controller. Briefly: "Diamond's latest HD 3650 card features a huge video memory of 1 GB, but uses only slow DDR2. For media PC systems an extra HDMI output has been added which natively supports HDCP and audio. We run this card…
BFG Technologies announced today the BFG NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX OC, OC2, and OCX 512MB PCI Express 2.0 graphics cards. BFG GeForce 9800 GTX OC, OC2, and OCX graphics cards offer customers a choice of three different levels of factory overclocked Graphics Processing Units which are all thoroughly tested and backed by…
abit today announced its latest AMD platform motherboard, the A-S78H, supporting ATI Hybrid CrossFireX Technology for advanced 3D graphics performance. The A-S78H is based on the AMD 780G chipset with ATI Radeon HD3200 Graphics and the SB700. It supports AMD AM2+/AM2 processors running HT3.0 up to 5200MT/s. Four…
Seagate Technology today also introduced a new breed of hard drive, the Cheetah 15K.6 FDE (Full Disk Encryption) disc drive family, the world's first self-encrypting hard drives for mission-critical servers and storage arrays. As part of the award-winning Cheetah family, the industry-standard in performance and…
Seagate Technology today also introduced a new breed of hard drive, the Cheetah 15K.6 FDE (Full Disk Encryption) disc drive family, the world’s first self-encrypting hard drives for mission-critical servers and storage arrays. As part of the award-winning Cheetah family, the industry-standard in performance and…
After long and tiresome work, the second part of the thematical case mod, based on the Fallout franchise, is completed! Expect very soon the third part of the Fallout case mod, which is about its watercooling system, and until then enjoy the finished worklogs. The full worklog can be found HERE .
For a complete gaming satisfaction, it's mandatory to have good machine, good monitor and quality controllers, but no less important is to have a comfy table to put them all on. Our market is flooded with computer tables, but most look as if there were made from people that have never seen a computer in their life.…
Our colleagues at Virtual-Hideout posted a review of the Zalman FPSGun FG1000 Gaming Mouse. Briefly: "Looking at the FPSGun might give you the initial impression that it is some sort of Light Gun that you point at the screen. It is not. Instead, it regular mouse that somewhat resembles an inverted handgun. Thus, you…
Our colleagues at Rbmods posted a review of the NesteQ ASM 620W PSU. Briefly: "Power supplies can be the largest source of noise in a computer build, especially with today’s supplies that distribute more power than ever before, thus producing more heat. But is it possible to have a high output PSU to have a silent…
Seagate today announced it has begun worldwide shipment of its 1 terabyte (TB) enterprise-class Barracuda ES.2 hard drives with a Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface. Applications addressing rich media content and collaborative applications like email can benefit from the average 135% performance boost over…
OCZ Technology Group yesterday unveiled the EliteXStream power supply family for high-powered gaming systems and workstations. Designed to offer the consumer market an enthusiast-grade computer power supply with a state-of-the-art architecture, the EliteXStream is the ultimate power solution for those users that…
Overclockers Kinc and Elmor from NordicHardware, have managed to break the 3DMark06 world record this weekend using two of ATI's latest dual GPU video cards. With Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 (C1 stepping) @ 5.719GHz (439.9x13), ASUS P5E64 WS Pro motherboard, 2x ASUS EAH3870X2 TOP overclocked to 990MHz/1125MHz…
ASUS' Windows XP preinstalled Eee PC has now become available on Best Buy , two days before the previous April 9th shipping date. Dubbed EEEPC4G-BK010X, and coming with two color options - Black or White (available only online), the Windows XP Eee PC have a price tag of $399.99, identical to that of the Linux Eee 4G…
Our friends at Rbmods posted a review of the Xigmatek Red Scorpion S1283 CPU Cooler. Briefly: "Today we take a look at a cooler from the fairly new company named Xigmatek. This new cooler focuses on peformance and silence which actually can be quite hard to combine together so it is going to be very interesting to see…
With the continuous recommendation around the world, Thermaltake XaserVI has once again written down another successful story among PC enthusiasts. To fulfill middle tower demands, Thermaltake has released XaserVI’s twin brother, XaserVI Mx. XaserVI Mx is the minification of XaserVI, Smaller sized but still with great…
ASUS, producer of top quality graphic solutions, today unveiled the latest generation of NVIDIA GPUs - the GeForce 9800 GTX, in the form of the ASUS EN9800GTX/HTDP/512M graphics card. Showcasing the most powerful single GeForce 9800 GPU, the ASUS EN9800GTX is able to deliver full-throttle gaming experiences at extreme…
Scythe today announced a new all-aluminum hard disk cooler called “Himuro”. The product name “Himuro” comes from the old time preservation storage for snow and ice. Hard disks are often neglected for cooling compared to other components inside the computer system, yet it is also important to cool the data storage to…
For users who require extreme graphical support and robust performance, ASUS is launching the new ASUS Crosshair II Formula Motherboard. This powerful motherboard includes innovative technologies like CPU Level Up, Hybrid SLI and 3-Way SLI for the best performance and graphical support. It is also ready for AMD Socket…
After the release of Opera Mini for mobile phones two days ago, the Opera Software team today released Opera 9.27 for desktop PCs. Version 9.27 is a recommended security and stability upgrade for all Opera users. Changes in the web browser since Opera 9.26 include fixed BitTorrent transfer stability issue, solved…
Our friends from Virtual-Hideout posted a review of the Kingwin Heat-Pipe Direct Touch CPU Coolers. Briefly: "The overall designs for the H.D.T. coolers are great. The install on the RVT-12025D model was easier than the RVT-12025. This was due to a tight clearance issue with my fingers pushing down on the pins for the…
With the success of the previous Armor+ full tower, Thermaltake has created the middle tower version of Armor+, the Armor+ MX. The aluminum Armor+ MX is now compact, lightweight, cool, quiet, user-friendly, yet still stylish - an ideal concept for the modern users. Thermaltake has included tool-free and cable…
Our colleagues at techPowerUp! posted a review of the OrigenAE C10 Low Profile CPU Cooler. Briefly: "Most HTPC users will find that there are only a limited number of CPU coolers available to use in most HTPC cases because of their smaller size. OrigenAE created the C10 to help fill that void. The C10 has three…
With the ever more spreading digital photography, a new class of products is gathering popularity – digital picture frames. In this review we'll look on two Sapphire products, which vary only in form and respectively resolution of their TFT screens, namely the DPF-080 and the DPF-081. The full review can be found HERE…
Our colleagues at Rbmods posted a review of the Noctua NF-B9 92mm Case Fan. Briefly: "Case fans come in a wide variety of sizes, with the most popular ones being 80mm and 120mm. But a somewhat less common size is 92mm, which is in-between the two. Today we’ll take a look at Noctua’s latest fan offering, the Noctua…
Our colleagues at techPowerUp! posted a review of the Head-Direct RE2 headphones. Briefly: "Head-Direct RE2 is the name of a completely new entry level pair of earphone. Head-Direct was until recently just a headphone and amplifier reseller, but that has changed with the arrival of the RE2s. their new earphones are…
Club3D is going to launch their 9600GT Overclock Edition fitted with cooler from Arctic Cooling next week. The price is about 139 euros. Specifications: GPU: NVIDIA G94 GPU speed: 700 MHz Shaders: 64 Stream Memory Size: 512 MB Memory Type: GDDR3 Memory Speed: 1900 MHz Memory Bandwidth: 256 BIT Source: VR-Zone
Following the official release of GeForce 9800 GTX, NVIDIA has updated the ForceWare driver package to version 174.74. This driver adds support for GeForce 9800 GTX and enables 3-way SLI with GeForce 9800 GTX. Please read the release notes for more information on product support, features, driver fixes and known…
The software giant has built a new touchscreen computer—a coffee table that will change the world. Go inside its top-secret development with PopularMechanics.com, then forget the keyboard and mouse: The next generation of computer interfaces will be hands-on. For the complete material and videos, look HERE . Source:…
MSI proudly introduces the MSI N9800GTX-T2D512 graphics card. The new graphic card is based on the Nvidia 9800GTX chipset and supports HybridPower technology, 3-way SLI, PCI-e generation 2.0 and NVIDIA® PureVideoTM HD technology. The MSI N9800GTX-T2D512-OC is equipped with 128 stream processors that each run at a new…
Our friends at Virtual-Hideout posted an interesting article about InfernaLAN . Briefly: “Now, a little bit on the motherboards using the processors. The two latest motherboards to support Penryn are the Bone Trail and Skull Trail. The BT is a single socket platform, while the ST is a dual socket. The motherboards get…