Albatron has announced the 9600GT-512X, a new Performance VGA card that is already making waves. At more than 80% faster than any 8600 class card, this card will be coming in at prices close to Continue reading “Albatron has announced the 9600GT-512X – GeForce 9600 GT Video Card”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Feb. 21, 2008 at 6:53am
The NVIDIA GeForce 9 series of graphics cards has finally arrived! Today, NVIDIA is announcing the GeForce 9600 GT video card and while it may not be as anticipated as previous generations, it still marks a significant turning point. Usually, a new series is kicked off by the fastest card in the bunch, but this time around NVIDIA is launching the GeForce series at the heart of the discrete graphics market, the $169-189 price range.
By Nathan Kirsch •
Feb. 21, 2008 at 12:00am
Dell Inc., the world’s second-biggest maker of personal computers, said sales in India may climb to almost $1 billion in the year ending February 2009, helping Asian growth offset effects of an expected slowdown in Continue reading “Dell Says India Sales to Reach $1 Billion by February Next Year”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Feb. 20, 2008 at 7:51am
Games maker Nintendo Co is planning to launch a new physical fitness product called Wii Fit for U.S. shipping in May, according to the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday. The Wii Fit will come with Continue reading “Nintendo rolls out fitness product for Wii – Wii Fit”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Feb. 20, 2008 at 7:46am
With the launch of Nvidia’s first next-generation GPU, the GeForce 9600 GT, less than a day away (February 21), AMD has sent out a pre-emptive strike against the new competition, pointing out that AMD has, Continue reading “AMD not fazed by impending Nvidia GeForce 9600 GT launch tomorrow”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Feb. 20, 2008 at 7:44am
Scientists at IBM are conducting research into arranging carbon nanotubes–strands of carbon atoms that can conduct electricity–into arrays with DNA molecules. Once the nanotube array is meticulously constructed, the laboratory-generated DNA molecules could be removed, Continue reading “IBM experimenting with DNA to build chips – carbon nanotubes”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Feb. 20, 2008 at 7:40am
Go ahead, Mark Hurd. Rip off those studious glasses and unbutton that blue Oxford shirt. We know there’s a Superman costume lurking under the Clark Kent facade. Mark “the Cutter” Hurd’s HP may well have Continue reading “Fat cat HP cashes in on PCs, servers and printers in Q1”. …more
By Legit Staff •
Feb. 20, 2008 at 2:43am
Sanmina-SCI, the US electronics contract manufacturing company, has sold its PC business to Foxconn, a major Taiwanese competitor, for between $80m-$90m. It is also selling its Mexican PC plant to Lenovo, for an undisclosed sum. Continue reading “Giant PC outsourcer throws in the towel”. …more
By Legit Staff •
Feb. 20, 2008 at 2:29am
In the last 2-3 years ASUS has pretty much dominated the enthusiast market! With some real competition can it hold on to “Top Spot” TURN BACK time to three years ago, and try to put Continue reading “Foxconn lines up against Asus as high-end mainboard battle looms”. …more
By Legit Staff •
Feb. 20, 2008 at 2:15am
Corsair announced today that new record-breaking speeds have been achieved within the Corsair DDR2 and DDR3 lines of DRAM memory. Available by the end of February, two new Corsair 4GB DDR2 module speed grades are Continue reading “Corsair Memory Launches DDR3 2000MHz Memory Kits!”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Feb. 19, 2008 at 5:27pm
For those who crave more performance than what four processing cores and a single graphics card can deliver today, Intel Corporation has introduced the Intel Dual Socket Extreme Desktop Platform. Formerly codenamed Skulltrail, this is Continue reading “Intel Releases Skulltrail Systems – Enthusiast Computing Monster”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Feb. 19, 2008 at 10:38am
Appletoday announced that its iPod shuffle is now even more affordably priced at $49 and that they are introducing a new 2GB model of the iPod shuffle for $69. The popular iPod shuffle is just Continue reading “Apple iPod Shuffle 1GB Model Now $49, New 2GB Model Released”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Feb. 19, 2008 at 10:28am
wiss cooling solutions provider ARCTIC COOLING today announced the launch of the Accelero Xtreme series, which is specially designed for ATI HD 2900XT/Pro and nVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra/GTX/GT graphic cards as stock cooler replacement. The Continue reading “Arctic Cooling Announces Accelero Xtreme 2900 / 8800 GPU Coolers”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Feb. 19, 2008 at 10:12am
To better integrate with various room types in the modern digital home, ASUS, has released a new desktop PC the Nova P22. The space-saving Nova features an Intel Core 2 Duo Desktop Processor, WiFi 802.11n Continue reading “ASUS Announces mini-Desktop PC Series – Nova P22 and P20”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Feb. 19, 2008 at 8:35am
Japan’s Toshiba waved the white flag in the high-definition home movie war on Tuesday, giving up on its HD DVD format after losing the support of key studios and retailers to the Blu-ray technology backed Continue reading “Toshiba to quit HD DVD production – Blu-Ray technology wins”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Feb. 19, 2008 at 7:53am