Noctua today announced a new special edition of its popular NH-U9B premium cooler, which is renowned for providing excellent quiet cooling performance in a compact package that lends itself to use in HTPCs or smaller Continue reading “Noctua Announces NH-U9B Special Edition CPU Cooler”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 9, 2009 at 8:40am
Nvidia’s decision to push back the launch of its next-generation flagship GT300 (Fermi) GPU to the first quarter of fiscal 2011 (January 26-April 26, 2010) is unlikely to affect the company’s performance for the remaining Continue reading “NVIDIA GT300 ‘Fermi’ Graphics Card Delayed till April 2010”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 9, 2009 at 6:30am
China’s Ministry of Health has banned the use of physical punishment to wean teens off the net, months after a boy was beaten to death at an Internet boot camp. Chinese parents have turned to Continue reading “China bans physical punishment for Internet addicts”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 8, 2009 at 10:47am
Asus has delayed the launch of its Eee Keyboard, which the company originally said would be launched in the US and Europe in October of 2009 because the device has not yet passed wireless regulation Continue reading “Asus delays Eee Keyboard launch”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 7, 2009 at 6:27am
Last spring Dell set the computing industry abuzz with the introduction of its Adamo brand, and along with it the worlds thinnest laptop PC. Today, the world meets a new champion of thin: The Dell Continue reading “Dell Announces Adamo XPS Laptop – Just 9.9mm Thick!”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 6, 2009 at 10:08pm
Have you looked into purchasing an ATI Radeon HD 5870 or 5850 graphics card lately? If you do a search at popular online retailers like Newegg you’ll quickly find that not a single Radeon HD Continue reading “Where Are The ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series Video Cards?”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 6, 2009 at 5:54pm
ASUS and Gigabyte recently introduced a number of motherboards to the market that support SATA 6Gb/s technology. Both ASUS and Gigabyte use Marcell SATA 6G controllers, but differ in the way they are being tied Continue reading “Gigabyte P55A Motherboards SATA 6G Support Said To Be Rock Solid”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 6, 2009 at 5:41pm
Dragon Age: Origins PC players should stop for a second and download the 13MB Patch 1.01 that came out today. As well as fixing several bugs, the patch–which has already been deployed to Steam players–tweaks Continue reading “Patch 1.01 Released for PC Video Game Dragon Age: Origins”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 6, 2009 at 5:18pm
The worlds first Smartphone powered by Android 2.0 is now available from Verizon Wireless! DROID features high-speed Web browsing, voice-activated search, customizable large screen, access to thousands of Android applications and hundreds of widgets that Continue reading “The DROID Smartphone by Motorola Has Finally Arrived”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 6, 2009 at 5:09pm
The Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB hard drive is the industry’s first drive to support the new SATA 3.0 specification, which supports speeds up to 6Gb/s. We also have the SATA 6Gb/s ready, ASUS P7P55D-E Premium motherboard for benchmarking. Read on to see LR’s first look at SATA 6Gb/s to see what it is all about!
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 6, 2009 at 12:00am
ASRock introduced their 2nd-gen ION-based nettop this week, the ION 330HT series. The ION 330HT series is a full-feature home theater solution based on the NVIDIA ION graphics architecture. And it is equipped with Intel Continue reading “ASRock launches 2nd Generation ION-based Nettops – ION 330HT”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 5, 2009 at 10:57am
Verizon Wireless and Research In Motion (RIM) today introduced the BlackBerry Curve 8530 smartphone, an exciting new addition to the BlackBerry Curve series of smartphones. The slim BlackBerry Curve 8530 smartphone gives customers access to Continue reading “Verizon Wireless Will Launch The BlackBerry Curve 8530 Smartphone On Nov 20th”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 5, 2009 at 8:21am
More than 100,000 apps are now available for download from Apple’s App Store, making it the largest such retailer in the world. The App Store launched in July 2008 with just 500 applications. The store Continue reading “Apple reaches 100,000 apps, 2 billion downloads since July 2008”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 5, 2009 at 7:46am
Spire just sent word over that they introduced the CoolNess SP312, a new laptop cooler designed for notebooks ranging from 10″ to 17″ this morning. The cooler is made out of plastic and features a Continue reading “Spire Launches CoolNess Laptop Cooing Fan Unit – 200mm Fan”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 5, 2009 at 7:41am
Tight supply of AMD GPUs has caused several PC vendors to delay their mass shipment schedules by about two months to the first quarter of 2010, according to sources at the companies. In addition to Continue reading “AMD GPU shortage causing PC vendors to delay products to 1Q10”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 5, 2009 at 7:30am