A Letter to All Dear Expreview Readers |
Dear readers,
In order to celebrate the upcoming Chinese National day and Mid-Autumn Festival, Expreview staff will be on holiday from October 1st to 8th, and during the period of time we aren’t posting any stories. We sincerely hope for your understanding in case any inconvenience is caused.
Galaxy Kicks off Promotion for The Sims 3 |
If you’re crazy about The Sims 3, and happen to be in need of an update for graphics card, you will be excited to read this - Galaxy has just kicked off its latest promotion for the popular game – The Sims 3.
Tuniq Intros Propeller 120 CPU Cooler |
Following the award-winning Tower 120 Extreme, Tuniq has lately added another flagship product to its CPU cooler lineup – Propeller 120.
Asus Takes P7P55 Motherboard to Micro-ATX Form Factor |
Another P55-based Micro-ATX motherboard has been recently leaked to the web, which is designed by Asus.
TSMC to Ramp Capacity at Fab 14 for Intel Atom Production |
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has scheduled a ramp up of monthly capacity at its 300mm (12-inch) wafer fab (Fab 14) to 6,000 wafers by the end of 2009, and to about 35,000 wafers in 2010, Digitimes reports.
Windows 7 Available Early from Small System Builders |
Microsoft has already allowed some small system builders to start selling the new Windows 7 PCs more than a week before the official launch date of October 22, according to PCWorld.
DirectX 11 GPU War Heats up Between AMD and NVIDIA |
We’ll certainly have an interesting fall, as DirectX 11 GPU war is heating up between the two chip giants – AMD and NVIDIA. AMD announced the Radeon HD 5800 series (Cypress) graphics cards on Sep 23rd, and is now busy planning for HD 5700 series (Juniper) aiming at sub $200 mainstream market for October launch. Though NVIDIA is slower to jump the DirectX 11 bandwagon, the company is cooking up GT300 and even more to fight back.
Intel Says Pineview on Schedule for Q4 Launch |
Rumors had it that Intel’s next-generation Atom CPUs had been delayed to Q1 2010, but the company is now saying that it will be launch them in Q4 this year.
SilverStone Grandia GD04 Chassis Hits Stores |
The SilverStone Grandia GD04 which was pictured at ComputeX Taipei 2009 has already reached stores for sale.
Intel Gulftown Processors Coming with Redesigned Heatsinks |
Intel has recently showcased its six-core Gulftown processor at the IDF 2009 in San Francisco, and we notice the stock cooler has been redesigned for more convenience and better durabilities.
Asus Sabertooth 55i Motherboard Poses for the Camera |
Last month we had an early look to Asus’ first TUF motherboard – Sabertooth 55i, and the Taiwan website XFastest has been quick enough to grab the board on hand, and served up more juicy pictures.
Galaxy Delivers the First Single Slot GTX260+ Accelerator |
The graphics card manufacturers have started to pay much attention to the cooler of their high-end cards due to heat dissipation requirements. The GeForce GT200 and above graphics cards usually adopt dual-slot or even triple-slot cooler design. However, Galaxy has recently unveiled the first and only (for now) single slot GTX260+ graphics card.
NVIDIA GeForce 191.03 Beta Released |
NVIDIA has just released the GeForce 191.03 Beta driver for GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, and 200-series desktop GPUs and ION desktop GPUs.
Thermaltake Reveals the Contac 29 CPU Cooler |
Thermaltake has now announced the Contac 29, a budget CPU cooler which supports multi platforms including AMD Socket 754/939/AM2/AM2+/AM3 and Intel LGA 775/1366/1156 processors.
EK’s Fresh Waterblock for Radeon HD 5870 in the Works |
Just three days after the official release of Radeon HD 5870, the European water-cooling solution provider EK Water Blocks has announced that they’re already working on a new baby for the card.
