An Early Look at Asus USB 3.0 and SATA 6.0 Expansion Card

 

If you’ve been looking forward to the USB 3.0 and SATA 6.0 support on Intel’s new P55 chipset, you’d be very cheerful to read this.

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Micro-ATX X58 Motherboards Roundup Review

 

As the only chipset working with Intel’s Nehalem-based processors Core i7, the X58 has been made extensive use by a group of motherboard makers, and even packed into the small Micro-ATX form factor to impress the users who want a cute board for their compact PC. The MicroATX motherboard measures 244×244mm, which is 61mm shorter than the standard ATX motherboard at 305mmx244mm.

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TSMC Having 40nm Yield Issues, Again

 

Earlier this year TSMC claimed the 40nm yield rates had improved from 30% to 60%, but good times don’t last long – a recent post at Digitimes suggests that the company is having another problem with the technology, with the yield rate dropping to 40%.

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China Successfully Developed “Milky Way One” Supercomputer

 

China’s National University of Defense Technology has lately unveiled the “Milky Way One” supercomputer, which is capable of one quadrillion calculations per second at its peak speed, which means China has become the world’s second nation after the United States can develop a petaflop supercomputer.

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Artic RC PRO Keeps Your RAM Cool

 

Arctic Cooling has just revealed the Arctic RC PRO, its newest RAM cooler which is compatible with both DDR2 and DDR3 memory modules.

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Radeon HD 5970 Seen in All Its Might

 

AMD did make quite a splash by launching the first ever DirectX 11-ready Radeon HD 5800 series GPUs, and the Radeon HD 5870 has also helped the company to retrieve the performance crown of single-GPU graphics card by beating NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285. Apparently, the dual-GPU Radeon HD 5970 is something which deserves even higher expectations.

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PowerColor’s First Watercooled Radeon HD 5870 Looks Pretty

 

Earlier this month PowerColor announced partnership with EK to design a watercooled HD 5870, and the card has finally emerged online.

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NVIDIA Scientist Promises ExaScale Machine in 2017

 

NVIDIA has been trying to make everyone believe the combination of CPU and GPU computing will deliver the maximum computing ability. Bill Dally, NVIDIA’s Chief Scientist has recently revealed that the company’s working on something powerful called “NVIDIA ExaScale Machine” which is scheduled to release in 2017.

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Noctua Serves up the 140mm NF-P14 FLX Fan

 

Noctua has just announced its first 140mm fan – NF-P14 FLX which promises more airflow and better cooling performance.

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GeForce 300M Lineup Spotted at NVIDIA Driver Page

 

We’ve just stumbled on five GeForce 3xxM-series products listed at NVIDIA’s driver download page, and they look like to be mobile parts based on Fermi architecture judging by the naming.

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Intel Core i7-920 Replacement Arriving in Q1 2010

 

Intel is planning to discontinue its excellent Core i7-920 (2.66GHz) processor within the next few months, and release its replacement in Q1 2010, Core i7-930.

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iSuppli: The Semiconductor Industry is Starting to Recover

 

The global semiconductor industry has started to recover, but it would take another year or two before the revenue reaches pre-recession level, according to iSuppli.

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Kingston Intros Affordable 40GB SSDs for Desktop Users

 

Kingston has recently announced the release of the SSDNow V Series 40GB Boot Drive, the latest addition to its V family of solid state drives.

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Specs and Pictures of Sapphire HD 5870 Vapor-X Surface

 

First seen a month ago on the release day of Radeon HD 5800 series graphics cards, Sapphire HD 5870 Vapor-X model is finally ready to debut.

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MSI Big Bang TRINERGY Motherboard Pixellized

 

MSI’s Big Bang P55 motherboard has made quite a splash with the Lucid Hydra 200 chip to enable multi-GPU computing without any SLI/CrossFire software. This revolutionary board is expected to make an official debut on Oct 29th, but the site Donanimhaber cannot wait to share the pictures of the final design.

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