With the latest computer hardware being shown off at Computex 2007, it’s been a busy week in Taiwan trying to see everything that is coming out. Today we take a look at what ECS, HIS, MSI, Kingston, CoolIT, Enermax and Thermalright are up to and talk about their latest and greatest products. This is a must read for all those that love new hardware!
Further advancing the availability of energy-efficient platforms, at Computex today AMD announced the finalization of the DTX specification, an open standard initiated by AMD to enable the development of small form factor PCs. AMD also Continue reading “AMD Announces DTX and New Energy-Efficient Processors”.…more
Western Digital Corp. today announced it is shipping in volume high-capacity 750 GB Serial ATA (SATA) WD CaviarSE16 desktop-class hard drives. Ideal for data-intensive applications, high-performance computing and multimedia systems, the WD Caviar SE16 750 Continue reading “Western Digital Launches 750GB Hard Drive”.…more
Yesterday, Corsair Memory showed off the world’s fastest production DDR3 memory rated at a blazing-fast 1,600MHz (PC3-12,800) and had a preview of the Corsair DOMINATOR memory kit running at 2,000MHz (PC3-16,000). LR just happened to be in the same building as Corsair when they sent out their press release, so we headed up to their suite here at Computex and show you the 2GHz memory kit Corsair has running!
This past week THQ Inc. released a patch adding Microsoft DirectX 10 support to PC game title Company of Heroes. This makes Company of Heroes is the first commercially available DirectX 10 Windows PC game and we have been busy benchmarking it over the last couple days to bring you some performance numbers on the latest and greatest DX10 video cards from both ATI and NVIDIA.
Nvidia is heading toward the handheld market with its AP (application processor) and handheld GPU (graphics processor unit) technologies, revealed Michael Rayfield, general manager of handheld GPU, Nvidia in an interview with Digitimes. He believes Continue reading “Nvidia hits handheld market with AP and GPU”.…more
Toshiba will launch three laptops in its Satellite range in North America based on AMD’s Turion 64 X2 dual-core chip and M690 chipset, AMD said on Wednesday. Toshiba, which confirmed plans on Tuesday for AMD Continue reading “Toshiba details its AMD laptops”.…more
Sony Corp. says it will introduce its first HD Radio products in July, joining the growing group of companies seeking to make the next-generation digital radio technology a standard feature in audio products over the Continue reading “Sony to debut HD radio products”.…more
oshiba, the world’s fourth-largest laptop PC maker, said Tuesday it expects to put AMD processors in about 20 percent of the notebooks it sells in the United States and Europe. The move follows an announcement Continue reading “Toshiba to use AMD chip in laptop PCs”.…more