Unigine Delivers First DirectX 11 Benchmark |
Unigine has lately announced release of the first DirectX 11 benchmark “Heaven” that is based on its proprietary Unigine engine.
Toshiba Increases Market Share After Acquisition of Fujitsu HDDs |
Earlier this year Toshiba expressed its intention to acquire Fujitsu’s hard disk drive business, and in early October the company finally finished the transaction, which has proved to be a wise decision, as Toshiba’s share of the global HDD market has increased a lot to 13.2% after the purchase.
AMD Readies Dual-GPU Hemlock for November Launch? |
AMD is going to release its dual-GPU DX11 graphics cards – Radeon HD 5900 series codenamed Hemlock in late November, according to a recent post at Fudzilla.
Zotac GTX260 Extreme Breaks 3DMark Vantage World Record of GTX260+! |
Last month Gigabyte announced the global GPU overclocking competition – Beat Me If You Dare to invite overclockers all over the world to challenge Gigabyte’s GPU record of 15297. The contest didn’t give hardware limitation, which means the contestants are allowed to use any brand of GeForce GTX260 graphics card.
Team China, a well-known overclocking team has just broken the record with Zotac’s 15-phase GTX260 Extreme by overclocking it to 1100/2400/2600MHz (Core/Shader/Memory), and hitting a whopping 3DMark Vantage score of P17845.
EVGA Releases Fresh SLI Enhancement Patch |
EVGA has just released the version 18 of its SLI Enhancement Patch based on NVIDIA 191.07 driver, and you may download it from here.
Windows 7 is Officially Here for Grabs |
Microsoft has finally announced the worldwide availability of its high-anticipated Windows 7 operating system. Claimed to make a PC user’s life easier, the latest operating system comes with a streamlined interface, faster startup, resuming and shut down times, enhanced power management, higher performance and many others.
ViewSonic VOT132 ION-Powered Mini PC Packs Windows 7 |
After Acer showed off its updated AspireRevo nettop, ViewSonic has just started to list their ION-based mini PC with Windows 7 Home Premium operating system.
NZXT Gamma Mid-tower Case Listed Online |
NZXT has just expanded its budget chassis family with a new gamer-oriented mid-tower chassis -Gamma, which is painted black both inside and out.
AMD Delivers Catalyst 9.10 WHQL Driver |
AMD has just released its Catalyst 9.10 WHQL driver to bring official support for the company’s newest ATI Radeon HD 5800 series graphics cards, and add features that enhance usability under Windows 7, along with some bug fixes as always.
Core i5-650 Reaches 4.7GHz on Air-Cooling |
Someone lucky at Lab501 forum has managed to get the Core i5-650 engineering sample which is schduled for Q1 launch next year, and shown us its overclocking potential using air-cooling.
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Apple’s Magic Mouse Offers Multi-Touch Tech for $69 |
Apple has lately introduced the world’s first Multi-Touch mouse – Magic Mouse, which features smooth, seamless top-shell design.
Nexus Offers Updated Version of LOW-7000 CPU Cooler |
Nexus has just unveiled a new version of the low-profile LOW-7000 CPU cooler which includes support for AM2/AM3 and LGA1156.
EVGA and NVIDIA to Launch a Dual-GPU Card on Halloween |
After AMD announced the industry’s first DirectX 11 graphics card, NVIDIA seems to be a bit worried. Since the next-generation Fermi is not finalized yet, NVIDIA decides to give their fans more confidence to keeping waiting until next year. The company is planning for Halloween launch of a new graphics card which appears to be materious and interesting enough.
Galaxy GeForce 210 and GT220: 40nm and DirectX 10.1 Under $80 |
Introduction
AMD launched the first 40nm desktop graphics card – Radeon HD 4770 back in April, but the low yield of TSMC’s 40nm chips made the product hardly available on the market.
On contrary to AMD’s “quick” strategy, NVIDIA decided to wait until last week to debut its 40nm GeForce 210 and GT220, though the company had started to bring them to OEM market in July.
AMP Unveils the 2.5-inch Predator X7 SSD Family |
Active Media Product (AMP) has recently unveiled a new line of 2.5″ Predator X7 solid state drives built with the new Jmicron JM612 controller.
