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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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The Swiss low noise cooling solution provider ARCTIC COOLING today announced the launch of the ARCTIC F series case fan series in 80mm, 92mm and 120mm. As the advanced version of the previous AF fan series, these new fans are ideal for users who are looking for a quiet and efficient case ventilation solution. The…
SteelSeries, the leading manufacturer of gaming peripherals and accessories, today introduced the new SteelSeries Siberia v2 Full-size Headset. As the successor to SteelSeries' signature Siberia Headset which launched in 2004, the new Siberia v2 offers gamers and music enthusiast's superior speaker and microphone…
Toshiba Storage Device Division (SDD), a division of Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc. and the pioneer in small form factor hard disk drives (HDDs), today announced a new family of high-performance 7,200 RPM 2.5-inch HDDs, including a top-end half-terabyte capacity. The four-model line-up delivers more than a…
CoolIT has just announced the availability of its WS 240 liquid cooling system for Nehalem-based processors. The WS 240 measures 117×277x125mm, weighs 1.03kg, utilizes a 240mm radiator and two water blocks. Uses can switch between three operation modes by simply pushing a button to satisfy the need for quiet or the…
Intel has reportedly set a shipment goal of one million Lynnfield (Core i5 and i7) CPUs for desktops by the end of 2009. Asus and Gigabyte are expected to each ship 400,000 P55-based motherboards by year-end 2009, and the other motherboard makers including MSI, ECS and AsRock may total around 200,000 units. Joe Hsieh,…
NVIDIA said during a conference for financial analysts that the emergence of next-generation DirectX 11 application programming interface will not drive sales of graphics cards. Instead, the general purpose computing on graphics processing units as well as its proprietary tools and emergence of software taking…
Thermaltake ISGC-V320 which was introduced in early July has recently been found on sale in China. The cooler measures 241×125x63mm, weighs 738g, and features five heatpipes pattern connect with extra large copper base for maximum heat transfer, and dual 120mm silent fans to enhance cooling performance. The…
Among the three main high-end graphics SKUs AMD has in store for this 23rd known so far (namely Radeon HD 5850, HD 5870 1GB, and HD 5870 2GB), is a fourth distinct SKU called the Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity Edition. This is a variant of the Radeon HD 5870 with specially-designed connectivity that makes setting up to six…
There are no official reviews coming out before the NDA is lifted on AMD Radeon HD 5870 by the end of September, so you would be excited to see the first performance figures right now. According to the test of Czechgamer, Radeon HD 5870 is 25% lower or 95% faster than GeForce GTX 295 in different titles, which makes…
Thanks to the mild recovery in PC demand in the second quarter, Intel Corp. managed to expand its lead in the global microprocessor market to levels not seen in nearly four years, according to iSuppli Corp. Intel’s Q2 microprocessor revenue accounted for 80.6% of global microprocessor revenue, up 1.4% from 79.2%…
Intel has begun producing Westmere chips based on the 32nm second-generation high-k metal gate technology, reports PCMAG. The first products will include dual-core processors compatible with the socket LGA1156 platforms, and will be branded as Core i5 600 series, Core i3 500 series, and Pentium dual-core series. The…
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Asus is reportedly working on a new home server model, Asus Home Server TS mini, according to wegotserved. Seen above, the TS mini is slightly higher than two Coke Zero. It measures 245×96x204mm, weighs 2.6kg without the hard disk drive. Equipped with Intel Atom N280 (1.66GHz), 2GB DDR2-800 memory, two 3.5″ SATA I/II…
As we said a couple of days ago, Radeon HD 5870 consumes power of 188W and 27W when loaded and idle respectively, and the fellows at Hardware-infos has revealed that HD 5850 has a better control ability on the power consumption part. Radeon HD 5850 also eats 27 watts when idle, but shows lower power consumption when…
Intel’s Pentium E6500K made a great flutter when it initially popped up in China, but it seems that the new processor has been pretty quiet in the last a few weeks. Why are the people uninterested in buying this CPU with unlocked multiplier? Firstly, the unpopularity of E6500K is due to its pricing - people are quite…
AMD has just released ATI Catalyst 9.9 Display Driver to resolve some existing issues, but the release note doesn’t mention if the new driver has brought gaming performance improvement. Resolved issues for all Windows operating systems: * Catalyst Control Center - Basic now responds properly after exiting Quick Adjust…