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Archive for the ‘Hardware’ Category
Monday, July 26th, 2010
Recently Cooler Master uploaded the landing page for it’s new addition to the HAF series of computer chassis – the HAF 912.
At this stage, almost nothing is known about the new HAF product, although speculations floating around the web suggest we should expect a Mid tower case having a MSRP of $59-69.
Cooler Master HAF 912 landing page
Tags: cm, cooler master, haf
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Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
I guess you read the title and immediately asked yourself the “Who the fudge is that?!?” question. Well, he’s the founder and CEO of Ageia. Still doesn’t ring a bell? Maybe Ageia‘s only product will – PhysX. Yeah, yeah – he’s the dude behind PhysX and he’s moving to AMD. For what, we don’t know yet, but we’re pretty sure he’s not gonna be a janitor.
Will Hegde‘s decision be a problem for nVidia? Will AMD finally have a PhysX implementation? Will graphic cards’ prices fall because of dishonest competition between the two companies? We can only hope 
Tags: ageia, amd, manju hegde, physx
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Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
As you probably may know, ASRock has got some really innovative (more commonly referred to as “just weird”) products and technologies in it’s portfolio. Well, guess what – today they announced their latest one – the AIWI.
But wait one second, doesn’t that sound a bit like Nintendo’s Wii? Well yes, it does kinda rip-off Wii‘s name and even it’s function… in typical ASRock fashion, that is.
“I really, really like the Wii controller, but I’m too darn cheap to buy one for my PC! What do I do? Oh, lookie here – an iPhone, I bet this’ll make an excellent motion controller!”
I’m pretty sure those were the exact thoughts of the ASRock employee who came up with the idea.
The rest of the deal is pretty straightforward – you install the AIWI app on both your iPhone/iPod (and probably iPad, though I really want to see someone use it for that) and PC. And, yeah – you’ve got to have an ASRock mobo. Supported platforms so far are intel’s 1366/1156/775 and AMD’s AM2+/AM3.
Official AIWI site is here.
Tags: aiwi, asrock, motion controller, nintendo, wii
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Monday, May 24th, 2010
You may know the Taiwanese-based cooling manufacturer Prolimatech for it’s top-notch Megahalems, Megashadow and Armageddon coolers. If you haven’t heard of them, chances are you’ve been living under a rock for quite some time.
Anyways, a few minutes ago the Prolimatech dudes officially announced their newest cooler, named Samuel 17 on their Facebook page:
As you can probably see, this time we’re talking about a low-profile cooler, which will most likely interest HTPC users. It’s base has got six nickel-plated copper heat pipes, which make direct contact with the processor, and convey heat to a dense aluminum fin array that propagates along the plane of the motherboard.
Supported sockets are intel’s 775/1366/1156 and AMD’s AM2/AM2+/AM3. Let’s hope this time the AMD brackets are shipped with the cooler, rather than being sold in highly limited quantities…
25mm and 12mm thick 120mm fans are supported, but I’m guessing that with some cable ties you can get any fan you’d like.
Samuel 17 is expected to be on the market in June. MSRP is rumored to be around 40€, which is equal to ’bout $50.
Tags: prolimatech, samuel 17, samuel17
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Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
Today (yes, this IS fresh news, even I can’t believe it!) Western Digital announced the shipping of the new Velociraptor drives with the slogan “The world’s fastest SATA hard drive now has twice the capacity”.
 - Velociraptor 2.5″
The new Velociraptors actually come in two flavors – 450GB and 600GB. MSRP for ‘em are $299 and $329 respectively. Features are: SATA3, 10000 rpm, 2.5″ size (3.5″ available too), 32MB cache.
 - Velociraptor 3.5″
You can view the original press release here.
Tags: wd western digital velociraptor sata3
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010
Instead of a fully working Fermi prototype, nVidia’s announced yesterday a new Do-It-Yourself kit simply named ‘GeForce PC Kit’.
It’s main purpose (aside nVidia getting some fresh cashflow) is supposed to be teaching more people how to assemble their own machine.
Don’t expect any fancy parts, though. Here’s what you get in the box:
CPU: Intel Pentium Dual Core E5300 @ 2.6GHz
Cooler: GlacialTech Igloo 5058
Motherboard: MSI G31TM-P21
Memory: 2GB DDR2-667 Corsair Value Select
Graphics Card: XFX 9800GT 512MB (most likely using DDR3)
Hard Drive: 3.5″ Seagate Barracuda 250GB SATA2
Optical Drive: LG DVD-RW burner
Power Supply: Ultra LifeTime 500W
Keyboard and Mouse: Microsoft keyboard and mouse
Chassis: CoolerMaster Elite 334 NVIDIA Edition
Included are the standard cables and adapters one can expect to find in such a kit, and some glossy color manuals, making life easier for ordinary users.
As a bonus for giving 500 dollars to nVidia, you also get a limited edition nVidia screwdriver. Oh, the irony… 
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Missouri-based custom server and workstation maker Oakville Mehlville Computers started selling four 12-core Opteron 6174 processors on eBay today. The starting bid for the four-pack is set to 7,000$.
The interesting thing here is that these processors are not announced by AMD yet. Still, judging from their markings, they don’t seem to be engineering samples. Each one of them features twelve cores running at a clock speed of 2.20GHz, has 12MB of unified L3 cache and 6MB L2 cache (512KB of cache per core). The central processing units code-named Magny-Cours have quad-channel PC3-10600 (DDR3 1333MHz) memory controllers and are designed for the socket G34 platform.
The processors are tray-packaged, so the lucky bidder must think of a way to cool them. More over, at the time of writing this, there are no announced socket G34 motherboards available for sale…
Tags: 12-core, amd, magny-cours, opteron
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Although SATA3 (a.k.a. SATA 6.0Gbps) is still a relatively new standard and only a handful of high-end motherboards support it, California-based manufacturer Western Digital released it’s first hard disk drive utilizing it last week in some Japan stores.
It’s a 1TB Caviar Black, featuring a regular 3.5″ form factor. The exact model is WD1002FAEX and it has 64MB of cache. It’s based on two 500GB platters which rotate at a standard 7200rpm.
The retail price of the new drive in Japan is around 118$, which is somewhat higher than the previous 1TB Caviar Blacks.
Tags: hard disk, hdd, sata3, wd1002faex, western digital
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