MSI Trots out Radeon HD 5770 HAWK Graphics Card

 

MSI has just unveiled its custom-cooled Radeon HD 5770 HAWK graphics card, which looks exactly the same as the HAWX card that we reported earlier.

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AMD Phenom II X6 Processors to Get Dynamic Speed Boost Technology

 

According to the sources close to AMD revealed to Xbitlabs, AMD will implements a dymanic performance boost technology into its upcoming six-core processors known as Phenom II X6 “Thuban”.

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Catalyst 10.1 Hotfix Takes Care of Grey Screen Issues on Radeon HD 5800

 

Radeon HD 5000 series graphics cards were reported with gray screen and vertical line corruptions issue, and AMD gave a quick response earlier this week saying they’re working on a fix.

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LGA775 Processors Account for 77% of Intel Sales

 

In spite of the consistent update of CPU socket type, the LGA775 still reigns supreme, according to Fudzilla.

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Radeon HD 5830 Delayed Again

 

Radeon HD 5830, which was postponed to February 5th (i.e. today) due to circuit issues, is said to be further delayed.

With the approaching of Chinese Spring Festival (Feb 13th – 28th), the factories here in China are closed. Therefore, Radeon HD 5830 should be start shipping after February 20th and you can expect to see them widely available in March.

EVGA SLI Enhancement Patch Version 23 Released

 

EVGA has just updated its SLI Enhancement Patch to version 23 which is based on NVIDIA 196.21 driver.

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ATI DirectX 11 Ready Radeon HD 5450 Debuts for $49

 

AMD has just released the entry-level Radeon HD 5450 to bring DirectX 11 functionality to more budget users, aiming to replacing Radeon HD 4350 which currently retails for $35-$50.

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Sandy Bridge to Replace Core i7-930 in Early 2011

 

According to the details recently leaked around the web, Intel’s Core i7-930 processors should be arriving later in this quarter. The 2.8GHz quad-core CPU is believed to deliver the best performance among Intel’s mainstream processors.

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NVIDIA to Re-introduce Hybrid SLI Under Optimus Brand Name

 

NVIDIA talked up the Optimus technology last month, and Xbitlabs has learnt that the graphics technology for mobile platform will be revealed on February 9th. However, Optimus is not a particularly new technoloy, but just an improved version of Hybrid SLI and Hybrid Graphics.

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Gigabyte Delivers USB 3.0 PCIe Add-in Card

 

Gigabyte has just unveiled a USB 3.0 expansion card, GA-USB3.0, which provides two USB 3.0 ports via the NEC USB 3.0 controller.

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Asus Shows off USB 3.0 Ready Notebooks

 

Asus has recently showcased its new notebooks featuring USB 3.0 port – N61 and N82, according to Engadget.

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Zune HD Gets up to $40 Price Drop at Newegg

 

Getting sick of all the attention Apple has been getting lately, Microsoft has decided to drop the price of its Zune HD media player to compete better.

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Top 5 Best Selling Video Games for 2009

 

NPD has just released the 2009 video game sales rank, and it comes as no surprise that the Modern Warfare 2 grabbed the sales champion, especially considering the fact that the title already sold $1 billion worldwide last month.

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Intel Begins to Ship “Tukwila” Itanium Processors

 

Intel has just begun to ship its newest Itanium processor, codenamed Tukwila, and prepares it for launch later this quarter.

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FurMark 1.8.0 Hot Like Hell Edition Available

 

Geeks3D yesterday updated its FurMark utility to version 1.8.0 which is said to overheat your GPU like hell.

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