No taint of ill repute could deter the worldwide rush for “Grand Theft Auto IV,” a notoriously violent video game that racked up a record $500 million in estimated retail sales globally in its first Continue reading “Grand Theft Auto IV steals record for first-week sales: $500 million”.
One of the industry’s most scalable virtualization servers is now available from Dell and based on the Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor, AMD today announced. Enterprise customers interested in consolidating server infrastructure may turn to two Continue reading “Dell Virtualization Servers Feature Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processors”.
Have you heard about NVIDIA Hybrid SLI and HybridPower over the past several few months? Having the ability to turn off a graphics card and run integrated graphics in order to save power and reduce noise sounds great in theory, but does it work? That is exactly what we have been working on here on the test bench and bring you our findings after spending countless hours with the ASUS M3N-HT Deluxe motherboard and the XFX GeForce 9800 GTX graphics card.
Mushkin just announced the launch of a new high performance line of memory modules aimed at the power gamer market. Called Ascent, the new line raises the bar on its Redline and XP premium memory Continue reading “Mushkin Announces Ascent Memory Modules With eVCI Cooling”.
Intel Corporation, Samsung Electronics and TSMC today announced they have reached agreement on the need for industry-wide collaboration to target a transition to larger, 450mm-sized wafers starting in 2012. The transition to larger wafers will Continue reading “Intel & Samsung Agree on 450mm Wafer Manufacturing”.
More than five months ago, NVIDIA announced the industry’s first hybrid technology for PC platforms during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. During this time, they also showed off the nForce 780a SLI motherboards that were due out in Q1 2008. It seems things got pushed back as NVIDIA is officially announcing the nForce 7 series today in Q2 2008.
OCZ Technology just announced the world’s first 4GB DDR3 memory kit that operates at 2GHz. The PC3-16000 4GB (2x2048MB) DDR3 dual channel kits and are backed by an industry-leading lifetime warranty that overclockers have come Continue reading “OCZ Technology Announces First 4GB DDR3 Memory Kit at 2GHz”.
Noctua just announced its new premium class CPU cooler, the NH-C12P. Being equipped with 6 heat pipes and the award-winning NF-P12 120mm fan, the NH-C12P achieves excellent performance and outstanding quietness of operation. The down-facing Continue reading “Noctua announces the NH-C12P 6 heat pipe CPU cooler”.
The GeForce 8800 GT 256MB card has been around since November 2007 and now, six months later some very interesting versions of this card are appearing on the market. The ECS N8800GT-256MX is one of these cards! It appears that ECS has placed 512MB of GDDR3 memory on the N8800GT-256MX, but only enabled 256MB of the graphics memory through the BIOS. Once a quick BIOS flash is performed on the card it turned into a GeForce 8800 GT 512MB graphics card for the price of a 256MB card!
Microsoft Corp walked away from its bid to buy Yahoo Inc on Saturday after the Internet company turned down its offer to raise the price by $5 billion to $47.5 billion. Microsoft’s offer was for Continue reading “Microsoft withdraws offer to buy Yahoo Inc.”.
The high volume of Atom processor orders from PC vendors has, according to industry reports, left Intel unable to meet demand. Asustek Computer president Jerry Shen recently said he expects the shortages will persist until Continue reading “Intel Atom CPU shortage to persist until September, says Asustek president”.
The NZXT Tempest features breakthrough features in every category satisfying the high performance demands of PC Enthusiasts and Gamers worldwide. Tempest stakes its claim as Airflow King with 6 fans including dual intake(120mm), dual exhaust(140mm) with additional side and rear fans(120mm) all of which are included.LR takes a look at the Tempest to see what the ‘king of cooling’ is all about. Retailing for under $99 this might be one of the most popular gaming cases for 2008.
After the success of Armor+ Series engineers at Thermaltake has worked around the clock to improve and innovate another and better chassis. Armor+ Series was launched at Computex 2007 a super tower allowing consumer to Continue reading “Thermaltake Announces The Armor+ MX Case Is Ready For Purchase”.
Kingston Technology today announced the release of high-performance, low-latency 800MHz DDR2 fully-buffered dual-inline memory modules (FB-DIMMs). Designed for system builders creating high-end workstations, servers and extreme gaming systems, the new Kingston HyperX PC2-6400 FB-DIMMs are Continue reading “Kingston Technology Releases High-Performance 800MHz HyperX FB-DIMMS”.
It took about 40 years to find it, but scientists at Hewlett-Packard said on Wednesday they discovered a fourth basic type of electrical circuit that could lead to a computer you never have to boot Continue reading “Scientists develop new type of memory circuit”.
