Using Solid-State Drives (SSDs) as boot drives is an economical approach to getting into the SSD hardware realm without spending a ton of money, which is one of the reasons many have been waiting on Continue reading “Kingston 30GB SSDNow V Series Boot Drive Review”.
Intel will release its fastest and highly anticipated eight-core Nehalem-EX server processor later this month, a company executive said last week. The processor will be targeted at four-socket servers, said Shannon Poulin, Xeon platform director Continue reading “Intel to Launch Eight-core Nehalem-EX This Month”.
AMD today announced that, along with partners Pixelux Entertainment and Bullet Physics, it has added significant support to the Open Physics ecosystem by providing game developers with access to the newest version of the Pixelux Continue reading “AMD Open Physics Initiative Expands Ecosystem with Free DMM”.
2K Games announced today that the Sinclair Solutions Tester Pack, the first in a series of single and multiplayer downloadable content for BioShock 2, will be available on March 11, 2010 from both the Xbox Continue reading “BioShock 2 DLC Available March 11 Worldwide”.
Following up to the success of the original DT heat-pipe TherMax series, Spire has introduced the TherMax Eclipse II CPU Cooler. The TherMax Eclipse II has five 8mm Direct Touch U-Shaped sintered powder heat-pipes with Continue reading “Spire TherMax Eclipse II CPU Cooler Announced”.
QNAP Systems today expanded their popular Business Series Turbo NAS lineup with two new 1U rack-mounted, 4-drive models, the TS-459U-RP and TS-459U-SP. These new models, with up to 8TB of storage (using 2TB hard drives), Continue reading “QNAP Launches TS-459U-RP and TS-459U-SP Rack Mounted NAS Servers”.
Active Media Products today released new 32GB and 64GB 1.8-inch PATA ZIF SSDs that support read speeds up to 100MB/sec and, thanks to their DRAM cache, reach write speeds up to 85MB/sec. These new Turbo Continue reading “Active Media Products Releases 1.8-Inch PATA Turbo ZIF SSD”.
NVIDIA has posted up a video on YouTube that shows off their upcoming GeForce GTX 480 graphics card running the Unigine DirectX 11 benchmark and they talk about how their card does better than an Continue reading “NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Unigine and 3D Vision Surround Demo”.
QuakeCon 2010 has been announced and it is scheduled to take place on August 12-15, 2010 at the Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas, Texas. More details about QuakeCon 2010 will be revealed in the coming Continue reading “Quakecon 2010 Dates Announced – August 12-15, 2010”.
We took a quick look at the NVIDIA Community Forums this morning and it appears that consumers are having problems with the Foreceware 196.75 WHQL video card drivers that just came out on Tuesday. It Continue reading “NVIDIA Forceware 196.75 Drivers Killing Video Cards”.
The appearance of Apple’s iPad may create tight supply of NAND flash and delay the transition to solid-state drives (SSD) in PCs, according to sources from hard drive makers. Apple, which has enjoyed success with Continue reading “Apple iPad may delay transition to SSD, say hard drive makers”.
Corsair today announced the Force Series of SSDs, providing outstanding SATA II performance based on innovative SSD Processor technology from SandForce Inc. By utilizing the state-of-the-art SandForce SF-1200 SSD processor combined with MLC flash memory, Continue reading “Corsair Launches Force Series Solid-State Drives – SandForce SF-1200”.
The gang over at Tweakers.net has posted up several pictures of an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 reference designed video card that are worth taking a look at today. With the GPU cooler removed you get Continue reading “NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Video Card Pictures From CeBIT”.
MAINGEAR Computers today unveils the new mX-L 15 multimedia notebook, a sophisticated mobile computing solution based off the Intel Core i5 and i7 processors and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570 graphics card. The base price Continue reading “MAINGEAR Launches New mX-L 15 Multimedia Notebook”.
NVIDIA recently sent us an e-mail tipping me off about a blog post that they did last night about an Optimus demo that is a must-see. With Optimus, when the discrete GPU is not in Continue reading “Cool NVIDIA Optimus Demo – Removing The GPU When Running”.
