NVIDIA has just announced the release of the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 300 Business Graphics Solution, a graphics processor designed for the enterprise that delivers exceptional visual fidelity across up to eight displays while consuming minimal Continue reading “NVIDIA Announces Quadro NVS 300 Graphics Cards”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Dec. 1, 2010 at 9:28am
BitFenix sent us word that they have released the Colossus Venom and Colossus Window, two new variants of its Colossus enthusiast full tower PC chassis. BitFenix says that these new additions to the Colossus series Continue reading “BitFenix Unleashes New Colossus Cases – Venom and Window”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 30, 2010 at 4:17pm
Silicon Power today announced a brand new 2.5″ SATA solid-state drive (SSD) called the E20. The new E20 challenges SSD limitations with uniquely developed technology to boost read speeds up to 250MB/s and write speeds Continue reading “Silicon Power Announces E20 SSD with up to 230MB/s Write Speeds”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 30, 2010 at 3:48pm
WikiLeaks, the website that published a quarter-million sensitive diplomatic cables on Sunday, is using Amazon.com Inc. servers in the U.S. to help deliver its information. The choice of Amazon, a U.S. company, seems strange given Continue reading “WikiLeaks Using Amazon.com Servers After DoS Attack”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 30, 2010 at 2:35pm
The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a case brought against a Texas teen for illegally acquiring 37 songs through a file-sharing service. Whitney Harper was found guilty of copyright infringement and ordered to pay Continue reading “Court Rejects Appeal For Music Sharing By 16 Year Old – Owes $27,750”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 30, 2010 at 2:05pm
Level 3 Communications, a central partner in the Netflix online movie service, accused Comcast on Monday of charging a new fee that puts Internet video companies at a competitive disadvantage. This is a prime example Continue reading “Comcast Wants Fee From Level 3 For Netflix Traffic”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 30, 2010 at 11:27am
Microsoft today announced that strong demand over the Black Friday weekend has helped boost retail sales of Kinect for Xbox 360 to more than 2.5 million units worldwide since it launched just 26 days ago Continue reading “Microsoft Xbox 360 Kinect Sensor Sales Pass 2.5 Million Units”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 30, 2010 at 10:59am
Corsair today announced the Vengeance series of high performance DDR3 memory modules for enthusiasts and system builders. The new Corsair Vengeance modules are equipped with a brand new aluminum heat spreader design that helps give Continue reading “Corsair Launches Vengeance High-Performance DDR3 Memory Modules”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 30, 2010 at 9:09am
A couple weeks ago we got an e-mail from ASUS that caught us a bit off guard. ASUS wanted to know if we were interested in a second sample of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 graphics card for SLI based testing. Of course we jumped at the opportunity as we would love to see what a pair of NVIDIA flagship video cards has to offer in SLI and we are sure you would love to see the numbers as well. Read on to see how this setup does!
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 30, 2010 at 12:00am
Cooler Master has gotten the seal of approval from NVIDIA to release some limited edition NVIDIA themed cases based on the Cooler Master HAF X and CM 690 II PC cases. The HAF X and Continue reading “Cooler Master Releases HAF X & 690 II Advanced NVIDIA Edition Cases”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 29, 2010 at 6:55pm
Seagate today announced its board of directors terminated discussions with private equity firms regarding a going private transaction, principally because it determined that the indications of the valuation range were not in the best interest Continue reading “Seagate Ends Talks to Go Private, But Approves $2 Billion Share Repurchase”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 29, 2010 at 4:21pm
Mushkin just uploaded a viral video that shows off their recently announced Ridgeback series of DDR3 modules. The video shows that installing memory is so so easy to install, that even a monkey can do Continue reading “Mushkin Chimpanzee Tech – Installing Memory is Easy”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 29, 2010 at 12:29pm
Futuremark recently announced that 3DMark 11, the latest version of the industry standard benchmark for real-time 3D graphics, would be released on November 30. That day is tomorrow, but it looks like Futuremark has a Continue reading “Futuremark 3DMark 11 Delayed – Not Coming Out Tomorrow”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 29, 2010 at 8:45am
Figures from research firm ShopperTrak show that the sales in the US retail channel on Black Friday 2010 only grew 0.3% on year to US$10.69 billion, prompting pessimism among notebook makers about the possibility of Continue reading “Notebook makers pessimistic about rush orders in December”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 29, 2010 at 7:57am
Elpida Memory today announced that it had begun sample shipments of its new 2-gigabit DDR3 SDRAM (product names: EDJ2116DEBG and EDJ2108DEBG) geared for use in consumer electrical appliances like tablet PCs, TVs and set top Continue reading “Elpida Starts Shipping 2-gigabit DDR3 SDRAM”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 29, 2010 at 7:55am