World’s Smallest Atom Nettop Reaches Store in Japan |
The Israel-located company CompuLab, who is good at designing miniature PC, has introduced Fit-PC2, the smallest and most power-efficient Intel Atom PC to date. This sweet nettop has actually hit retail in Japan.
NVIDIA’s 40nm Mobile GPU Supports GDDR5? |
As we know, GDDR5 can double the memory bandwidth over the GDDR3, which would bring a nice boost in graphics performance. According to Fudzilla, NVIDIA’s new 40nm mobile GPU is going to support GDDR5 memory.
Asus Matrix GTX 285 Features Exclusive Memory Timing Settings |
NVIDIA’s 40nm GPU on Track for Shipping Next Month |
The rumors said that NVIDIA’s first desktop 40nm GPU had been shipped to big OEMs, but our source have told us that the GT210 will ship to OEMs starting in July, while GT220 will not be shipped to channel until August.
Zalman CNPS10X Extreme Cooler Gets Reviewed |
The French website Caseandcooling.fr has recently posted the first review of Zalman’s CNPS10X Extreme, and compared it with several popular coolers including Thermalright Ultra 120 extreme and Prolimatech’s Megahelems.
Quick Test: Galaxy’s Single & Dual-PCB GTX 295 Quad SLI |
Galaxy’s single-PCB GeForce GTX 295 was spotted at ComputeX Taipei 2009. You might be wondering what if the single-PCB and dual-PCB GeForce GTX 295 are used to build SLI. Since we’ve got the two versions of GTX 295 on hand, then let’s do something interesting.
MSI Gains SLI Support for All Its X58 Motherboards |
MSI has recently announced that all its X58 motherboards now feature support for the NVIDIA SLI technology, including the relatively affordable X58 Pro-E.
Other supported boards include the X58M, X58 Platinum, X58 Eclipse SLI and X58 Eclipse Plus, which already support AMD CrossFireX technology, according to Techreport.
Albatron’s GeForce 9500GT PCIe x1 Card on Sale |
Albatron has recently unveiled a little PCI Express x1 graphics card based on GeForce 9500GT, and started to ship it to Japanese market.
Six-Core Nehalem Coming This Year |
According to Intel’s roadmap leaked earlier this year, the six-core processor will be out next year, but our fellow site bit-tech has revealed that the company will move the release forward later this year.
Windows 7 XP Mode: Any Benefits at All? |
Microsoft released Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) early May, and we believe it’s pretty close to the final edition regarding basic functions. Many of you might have experienced it in person, don’t you?
Antec Launches Unique Open-Air Mini Skeleton-90 Case |
Following the success of the first open-air case Skeleton, Antec has now announced the Mini Skeleton-90 designed exclusively for Mini-ITX motherboards.
Intel’s Microprocessor Share Declines in Q1, While AMD Gains |
Note: iSuppli’s market share comprises all types of microprocessors, including x86, RISC and other types of general-purpose devices.
According to the research company iSuppli, Intel’s global microprocessor market share has declined to 79.1%, down from 81.6% in the four quarter of 2008, which means Intel’s year-long streak of sequential market-share gains has ended. Meanwhile, AMD has managed to expand its share in the first quarter to 12.8%, up from 10.5% in the fourth quarter.
PhotoFast Debuts World’s Smallest SATA SSD |
PhotoFast has recently announced the G-monster Mini, which is said to be the world’s smallest SATA solid state drive.
BFG’s Water Cooled Single-PCB GTX 295 Unveiled |
BFG is now planning a water-cooled single-PCB GeForce GTX 295, and hopefully release it soon. Different from other partners’ reference cooling solution, the BFG has adopted water cooling for this card.
NVIDIA GeForce 186.03 WHQL Driver For Notebooks Released |
NVIDIA has today updated its driver for notebooks to WHQL Version 186.03 which supports GeForce 8M, 9M, 100M and 200M series notebook GPUs.
