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TDk enables 3TB harddrives with new technology
Storage | 2010/02/08 18:10 | Andreas Galistel Back in August of last year we reported on the research at TDK Corporation for a more efficient read head for mechanical harddrives. The technology would make it possible to create platters with 640GB capacity, which is considerably more than the 500GB platters we have to suffice with today. By usin...Full news ... 2 Comments |
Open-PC - First all open source nettop
Linux | 2010/02/08 17:57 | Andreas Galistel The name Open-PC comes from the fact that this Intel Atom 330 nettop uses nothing but open-source software. The Linux operating system sporting KDE and all applications inside are all completely free of charge. The list of programs include applications like Firefox and OpenOffice. The only thing...Full news ... Comments |
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AMD Phenom II X6 gets C-state performance boost, AMD Turbo mode
CPU / Chipset | 2010/02/08 17:39 | Andreas Galistel AMD took the hexa-core desktop processor code-named Thuban and turned into something even fiercer. The processor that will launch as Phenom II X6 series is said to sport a technology dubbed “C-state performance boost". Just like Intel's Turbo Boost, AMD's technology can control the individual co...Full news ... 1 Comments |
NZXT Unveils Line of Premium Cables and Performance Fans
Cooling | 2010/02/08 15:48 | Andreas Galistel El Monte, CA – February 4, 2010 – NZXT, a company built on realizing the dreams of gamers worldwide, is proud to announce its new line of premium cables and performance fans for PC enthusiasts. The new lineup premium cables consists of VGA, PSU, and HDD cables that are individually sleeved in...Full news ... Comments |
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IBM scientists hit 100 GigaHertz with graphene transistor
Science | 2010/02/06 18:47 | Andreas Galistel In a recent paper published in Science IBM scientists published results with the world's fastest graphene transistor. The article entitled "100-GHz Transistors from Wafer-Scale Epitaxial Graphene" was published in Science 5 February 2010: Vol. 327 records a milestone in the use of carbon in radio...Full news ... Comments |
Snowman89 overclocks Core i3 530 to 5.5GHz
Overclocking | 2010/02/06 18:04 | Andreas Galistel Emil "Snowman89" Wadell proved himself to be a quality overclocker when he finished fifth in this year's edition of the Swedish Computer Performance Championship. Emil who is going to be appearing more and more here at NordicHardware have been playing around with Core i3. Emil has posted a number of...Full news ... Comments |
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MSI R5770 HAWK shows overclocking potential
Graphics | 2010/02/05 21:01 | Andreas Galistel MSI have started shipping its in-house designed versions of AMD's Radeon HD 5000 series. While waiting of the flagship HD 5870 Lightning we have MSI R5770 HAWK to fill the void. It sports a more powerful heatsink on top of a redesigned circuit board with high-quality capacity, 7+1 phase power supp...Full news ... Comments |
Google ditches Internet Explorer 6
Software | 2010/02/05 20:32 | Andreas Galistel The browser war is great in many ways. Unfortunately it also brings different interpretations of standards and compatibility problems. At the same time the development moves forward and new functions are introduced. Google has now announced that it will no longer support Microsoft's stone-age Intern...Full news ... 1 Comments |
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Biostar confirms 890GX and Phenom II X6 branding
CPU / Chipset | 2010/02/04 21:16 | Andreas Galistel Motherboard maker Biostar has posted some preview information on one of its coming motherboards for AMD's Socket AM3 platform. This preview not only reveals a lot of information on the new chipset, AMD 890GX, but also confirms the name of AMD's hexa-core Thuban processor. The processor is referred...Full news ... 2 Comments |
Nickshih breaks 32nm WR, closing in on 6 minutes
Overclocking | 2010/02/04 21:00 | Andreas Galistel Overclocker NickShih has been at it again. His latest adventure with SuperPI 1M and Intel's new Clarkdale CPU Core i5-670 he was extremely close to breaking 6 seconds, only to be beaten by Hicookie. NickShih rolled up his sleeves and decided to hit SuperPI 32M and break 6 minutes instead, where Germ...Full news ... Comments |
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Tour of the IM Flash Technology plant
Memory | 2010/02/04 20:42 | Andreas Galistel Intel and Micron and the joint venture IM Flash Technologies is a market leader in NAND flash technology and thus a force on the SSD market. We recently covered the unveiling of its new 25nm technology that will enforce its position among the leading companies. Making and baking transistors that on...Full news ... Comments |
HDDBoost mixes SSDs and HDDs for better read performance
Storage | 2010/02/04 20:18 | Andreas Galistel Hybrid harddrives is not news and was actually in the news before retail SSDs, but component maker SilverStone has launched a PC accessory with the name HDDBoost that brings back the idea of pairing SSD technology with mechanical harddrives. Silverstone's 5.25" drives ships with three SATA ports whe...Full news ... Comments |
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Quad-core Westmere planned, next-gen Power Gate Un-Core
2010/02/04 19:36 | Andreas Galistel Intel's first Westmere processors were unleashed about a month ago. Clarkdale for desktops and Arrandale for notebooks. During yesterday's conference call Intel revealed additional bits and pieces on its latest processor architecture and high up on the list of priorities was new moves to lower power...Full news ... Comments | Memory |
Patriot Announces their Sector 5 Series 2250MHz Extreme Performance DDR3 Memory
2010/02/04 19:23 | Andreas Galistel ![]() Full news ... Comments |
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New ATI Radeon HD 5450 Graphics Card Delivers Enthusiast Video Game Features and HD Multimedia Capabilities at an Entry-Level Price
2010/02/04 18:20 | Andreas Galistel — Newest addition to the award-winning ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series product line-up brings advanced technology at an incredible price point —
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Crucial RealSSD-C300 - First retail SATA6Gbps is here
2010/02/03 20:51 | Andreas Galistel Micron presented the RealSSD-C300 Solid State Drive back during the fall and it talked about read speeds up to 355MB/s thanks to the SATA6Gbps support. Micron has finally launched the drive for retail, which makes it the first commercially SATA6Gbps SSD, available under the Crucial brand.
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ASUS shows USB 3.0 notebooks
2010/02/03 20:36 | Andreas Galistel ASUS is truly adapting new SuperSpeed USB 3.0 interface for all of its products. From a broad motherboard update with support for the technology it has started to spread to its notebooks as well. ASUS is preparing the N82 and N61 models for launch, sporting not just USB 3.0 but also Intel's new m...Full news ... Comments | Storage |
Corsair preparing P512 SSD
2010/02/03 20:25 | Andreas Galistel The storage capacity of Solid State Drives is expected to improve substantially in 2010. Not the least with Intel and Micron's new 25nm technology where there are talks of 600GB capacity in Q4. There are big drives available today already and memory maker Corsair is now preparing to release a new mo...Full news ... Comments |
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ICY BOX IB-DK210 Series, Netbook Extension Tablet
2010/02/03 19:56 | Andreas Galistel ![]() Full news ... Comments | CPU / Chipset |
Texas Instrument shows powerful OMAP4 SoC
2010/02/03 19:16 | Andreas Galistel NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Marvell and Texas Instrument are just some of circuit manufacturers that are taking on the latest ARM processor architecture. ARM has taken the smartphone market by storm and the company is aiming even higher. Texas Instrument has revealed its latest creation that will succeed th...Full news ... Comments |
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Samsung Announces Massive 2TB Eco-friendly Drives for High-performance Desktop Systems
2010/02/03 19:06 | Andreas Galistel SEOUL, South Korea - Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world leader in digital consumer electronics and information technology today announced the F3EG, its new high-performance environmentally-friendly HDD (hard disk drive) for the desktop market. The EcoGreen F3EG, a higher...Full news ... Comments | Storage |
Hitachi aiming for 10TB drives with hot plates
2010/02/02 22:50 | Andreas Galistel The storage capacity of modern harddrives is starting to get pretty decent, but as we've learn through the years you can never have enough storage space and current 2TB harddrive will soon be replaced by even more spacious models. Even if may see harddrive with up to 3TB capacity this year, Hitachi...Full news ... Comments |
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Back in August of last year we reported on the research at TDK Corporation for a more efficient read head for mechanical harddrives. The technology would make it possible to create platters with 640GB capacity, which is considerably more than the 500GB platters we have to suffice with today. By usin...
The name Open-PC comes from the fact that this Intel Atom 330 nettop uses nothing but open-source software. The Linux operating system sporting KDE and all applications inside are all completely free of charge. The list of programs include applications like Firefox and OpenOffice. The only thing...
AMD took the hexa-core desktop processor code-named Thuban and turned into something even fiercer. The processor that will launch as Phenom II X6 series is said to sport a technology dubbed “C-state performance boost". Just like Intel's Turbo Boost, AMD's technology can control the individual co...
El Monte, CA – February 4, 2010 – NZXT, a company built on realizing the dreams of gamers worldwide, is proud to announce its new line of premium cables and performance fans for PC enthusiasts. The new lineup premium cables consists of VGA, PSU, and HDD cables that are individually sleeved in...
In a recent paper published in Science IBM scientists published results with the world's fastest graphene transistor. The article entitled "100-GHz Transistors from Wafer-Scale Epitaxial Graphene" was published in Science 5 February 2010: Vol. 327 records a milestone in the use of carbon in radio...
Emil "Snowman89" Wadell proved himself to be a quality overclocker when he finished fifth in this year's edition of the Swedish Computer Performance Championship. Emil who is going to be appearing more and more here at NordicHardware have been playing around with Core i3. Emil has posted a number of...
MSI have started shipping its in-house designed versions of AMD's Radeon HD 5000 series. While waiting of the flagship HD 5870 Lightning we have MSI R5770 HAWK to fill the void. It sports a more powerful heatsink on top of a redesigned circuit board with high-quality capacity, 7+1 phase power supp...
The browser war is great in many ways. Unfortunately it also brings different interpretations of standards and compatibility problems. At the same time the development moves forward and new functions are introduced. Google has now announced that it will no longer support Microsoft's stone-age Intern...
Motherboard maker Biostar has posted some preview information on one of its coming motherboards for AMD's Socket AM3 platform. This preview not only reveals a lot of information on the new chipset, AMD 890GX, but also confirms the name of AMD's hexa-core Thuban processor. The processor is referred...
Overclocker NickShih has been at it again. His latest adventure with SuperPI 1M and Intel's new Clarkdale CPU Core i5-670 he was extremely close to breaking 6 seconds, only to be beaten by Hicookie. NickShih rolled up his sleeves and decided to hit SuperPI 32M and break 6 minutes instead, where Germ...
Intel and Micron and the joint venture IM Flash Technologies is a market leader in NAND flash technology and thus a force on the SSD market. We recently covered the unveiling of its new 25nm technology that will enforce its position among the leading companies. Making and baking transistors that on...
Hybrid harddrives is not news and was actually in the news before retail SSDs, but component maker SilverStone has launched a PC accessory with the name HDDBoost that brings back the idea of pairing SSD technology with mechanical harddrives. Silverstone's 5.25" drives ships with three SATA ports whe...
Intel's first Westmere processors were unleashed about a month ago. Clarkdale for desktops and Arrandale for notebooks. During yesterday's conference call Intel revealed additional bits and pieces on its latest processor architecture and high up on the list of priorities was new moves to lower power...
— Newest addition to the award-winning ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series product line-up brings advanced technology at an incredible price point —
Micron presented the RealSSD-C300 Solid State Drive back during the fall and it talked about read speeds up to 355MB/s thanks to the SATA6Gbps support. Micron has finally launched the drive for retail, which makes it the first commercially SATA6Gbps SSD, available under the Crucial brand.
ASUS is truly adapting new SuperSpeed USB 3.0 interface for all of its products. From a broad motherboard update with support for the technology it has started to spread to its notebooks as well. ASUS is preparing the N82 and N61 models for launch, sporting not just USB 3.0 but also Intel's new m...
The storage capacity of Solid State Drives is expected to improve substantially in 2010. Not the least with Intel and Micron's new 25nm technology where there are talks of 600GB capacity in Q4. There are big drives available today already and memory maker Corsair is now preparing to release a new mo...
NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Marvell and Texas Instrument are just some of circuit manufacturers that are taking on the latest ARM processor architecture. ARM has taken the smartphone market by storm and the company is aiming even higher. Texas Instrument has revealed its latest creation that will succeed th...
SEOUL, South Korea - Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world leader in digital consumer electronics and information technology today announced the F3EG, its new high-performance environmentally-friendly HDD (hard disk drive) for the desktop market. The EcoGreen F3EG, a higher...
The storage capacity of modern harddrives is starting to get pretty decent, but as we've learn through the years you can never have enough storage space and current 2TB harddrive will soon be replaced by even more spacious models. Even if may see harddrive with up to 3TB capacity this year, Hitachi...