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Nanotechnology enables pumpless water cooling
Cooling | 2010/07/28 19:22 | Andreas Galistel  Modern microprocessors offers not only impressive performance but also often substantial heat emissions. A team of university scientists and industry experts have developed a new cooling technology that uses nanotechnology for cooling even the hottest chips of today.
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Intel transfers data at 50 Gbps through optic links
Science / Technology | 2010/07/28 10:43 | Andreas Galistel  Intel has made another breakthrough in its experiments with optical data transfers, and has now created the world's first silicon-based optic data link that uses lasers to move data inside a computer at speeds of 50 billion bits per second.
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Tagan using heatpipes in new PipeRock III PSU
Power supplies | 2010/07/27 22:13 | Andreas Galistel  Renowned power supply maker Tagan has presented a new series of power supplies called PipeRock III. The new units uses heatpipe technology for optimized cooling, together with a 135mm fan.
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ATI holds off antialiasing in StarCraft II
Graphics | 2010/07/27 13:04 | Andreas Galistel  AMD, or ATI, has made an official statement regarding the handling of antialiasing in the just released StarCraft II. ATI confirms that it has chosen not to enable antialiasing in the driver, since the performance hit is too great.
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Qi low-power standard promises wireless battery recharge
Science / Technology | 2010/07/27 11:23 | Andreas Galistel  Wireless power has taken a great leap closer to a commercial launch as the Wireless Power Consortium has nailed a standard for wireless recharging of mobile devices. The new standard Qi low-power uses magnetic induction and delivers up to 5 watt without wires.
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Harddrive sales to drop in Q3
Storage | 2010/07/27 10:00 | Andreas Galistel  The sales of harddrives, embedded and discrete, was expected to reach 185 million sold units in Q3 2010. The number has now been lowered to 175 million after slow sales in Q2.
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AMD Catalyst 10.7 available
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PowerColor LCS Radeon HD 5870 V2 launched
Graphics | 2010/07/26 16:50 | Andreas Galistel  PowerColor has announced a new model of AMD's flagship graphics card. PowerColor LCS Radeon HD 5870 V2 comes seriously overclocked from factory and with a tailored water block covering the heat-emitting components.
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Fusion chip Zacate appears in leaked roadmap
CPU / Chipset | 2010/07/26 16:02 | Andreas Galistel  AMD recently revealed that the launch of the mobile Ontario chip has been moved up to Q4 2010. A leaked AMD roadmap has revealed a surprising addition, two energy efficient Zacate models.
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48GB DDR3-1900 memory kit from G.Skill
Memory | 2010/07/26 11:13 | Andreas Galistel  G.Skill is known for caring for the enthusiasts and overclockers with its extreme memory products, and the latest memory kit is certainly a product for these users. G.Skill has announced a 48GB memory kit, solely for EVGA's SR-2 motherboard.
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SilverStone PS01 lose weight and go black
Cases and Barebones | 2010/07/23 17:09 | Andreas Galistel  SilverStone has announced an updated version of the PS01 case. The case company has painted the whole thing black, and reduced the weight by around 250 gram.
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Hitachi reveals first SSD line
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Circuit board drawings for GeForce GTS 450
2010/07/23 10:46 | Andreas Galistel  NVIDIA hasn't commented on the rumors of a launch of a fifth member of the Fermi family, GeForce GTS 450. The new graphics card is said to launch in August and now we have pictures that are claimed to be drawings of the circuit board.
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Microsoft reports record revenue of $62.48 billion
2010/07/22 22:59 | Andreas Galistel  Microsoft follows Intel and Apple, and reports impressive numbers for the last fiscal quarter. Microsoft reported record revenue of $62.48 billion and net income of $18.76 billion during the last quarter, an increase of 18% and 29% respectively.
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Famous overclockers caught cheating in MSI competition
2010/07/22 14:20 | Andreas Galistel  Overclocking has gone from a fun hobby to a legitimate sport where not only honour but also money is at stake. We are now reached by news of several big profiles being caught cheating in MSI Lords of Overclocking.
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FTC gives Intel more time in antitrust settlement
2010/07/22 10:54 | Andreas Galistel  Intel has been in the center of attention from more than one point of view over the last couple of years, and accusations of bribery and breaking anticompetitive laws are some of the less flattering. After settling with AMD it got sued by the Federal Trace Commission, which is now giving Intel more...Full news ... Comments |
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Faster NAND flash from Samsung and Toshiba
2010/07/22 08:52 | Andreas Galistel  Samsung and Toshiba have announced a joint venture to develop faster NAND flash memory technology, which will build up on the DDR2 specification with 400 Mbps data interface, far beyond the speeds available with current NAND technology.
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Super efficient Athlon II X2 270u consumes only 25 watt
2010/07/22 07:24 | Andreas Galistel  Energy efficient computers are becoming all the more popular and it seems AMD is preparing a desktop processor with really low power consumption. AMD Athlon II X2 270u has a TDP of only 25 watt, lower than many mobile processors.
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Full speed ahead with Corsair F40 SSD
2010/07/21 14:52 | Andreas Galistel  Corsair has announced new a model of the Force SSD family, Corsair F40. The new entry model has 40GB capacity, but still offers good performance thanks to SandForce DuraWrite architecture.
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GeForce GTS 450 to launch in August sporting GF106 GPU
2010/07/21 13:39 | Andreas Galistel  GeForce GTS 450 looks like NVIDIA's next Fermi-based graphics card and when the mid-range card appears by the end of August it will bring another GPU to the market, code-named GF106. The card is rumored to sport 128-bit memory bus and 1 GB GDDR5 memory.
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Matrox increase multi-monitor resolutions with Intel chips
2010/07/20 16:55 | Andreas Galistel  Matrox hasn't made much fuzz in the retail segment lately, but it offers a sturdy assortment of graphics products. Not the least its multimonitor solutions. Matrox has now announced that it has increased the resolutions of its DualHead2Go and TripleHead2Go products.
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Intel lowers prices with new releases
2010/07/20 14:43 | Andreas Galistel  Intel has released a couple of new processors during the last week or so, including Core i5 760 and Core i7 970. While doing that it also lowered the prices of some of its other modeles, price cuts between 11% and 48%.
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