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Along with the main retailers, the minor ones are also showcasing products.  We’ve reviewed Biostar products before at AnandTech, but not Jetway and Giada, both of which are now selling consumer level products in North America. Our main criticism with Biostar in the past is PCIe and feature placement.  On one series of products, Biostar has to a certain extent listened – the Z68 series have spaces between the PCIe x16 and space for a PCIe ...
be quiet!, a German brand from Listan, showed some interesting new products at Computex. Late this year, be quiet! [Ed: silliest name award pending] will present one of the first 80 Plus Platinum PSUs. This 850W model has modular cables and offers a feature called "overclocking key" that allows the customer to choose between a +12V single ...
As Computex 2011 ended Saturday (June 4), our news from the show is dwindling down. Here is one of the last products that we have to show you coming soon from VIA Technologies Inc, the ZOTAC ZBOX Mini-PC. What makes this mini-PC impressive is its size, a palm-sized chassis measuring 12 x 12 x 4cm, and its VIA Nano X2 dual-core CPU. ...
ASUS have been coming to Computex to sensationalize and dazzle the press with concepts for years, and this year is no different, regardless of whether something is technically feasible or not.  Last year, we saw the ASUS Immensity motherboard concept that was never put into production – an X58 featuring a 5450-type integrated GPU and a Lucid Hydra chip to combine any discrete GPU combination on board.  This year takes a turn for the surreal. Introducing ...
Posted on June 05, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , ,
The very first enthusiast SSDs had their roots in USB drives. Memory vendors that were making USB sticks thought to put a bunch of NAND in parallel behind a rudimentary NAND to SATA controller and you had an SSD. Performance characteristics looked great on paper but of course there were teething problems. These days the reverse has happened. ...
Posted on June 03, 2011 | Tags: , , , ,
Gigabyte has unveiled at Computex the Booktop T1125P a new All In One Laptop that is unfortunately only available so far for the Taiwanese/Chinese market. The T1125P is not your ordinary laptop but a true 3 in 1 solution that incudes a powerful Core i3/i5 ULV compact laptop, but also a tablet (Convertible) fitted with a 11.6 multitouch capacitive screen and a really capable desktop thanks to a unique charging docking station that includes, a DVD Super Multi Drive HDMI, USB 2.0 ...
LG Hitachi’s Hybrid drive is not something really new, but that’s cool here is that the company will finally release to the public this summer their H:D ODD or Hybrid Drive Blu-Ray Drive. Available for both Notebook and Desktops, these Hybrid ODDs comes with the usual Blu-Ray/DVD Reader/Burner function as well as 8GB of internal Storage (SSD) SATA III compatible. Made in order to give the possibility to any own to boost their PC performances by moving your OS SWAP on 8GB ...
Microsoft just showed Windows 8 running on three different ARM platforms: a single-core 1.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon, a dual-core TI OMAP 4430 and a quad-core NVIDIA Kal-El notebook. The same interface we showed you earlier exists on these systems, and the same applications can run across both systems (assuming the apps have been ported to ARM). You get a ...
By now you know that Ivy Bridge (due out in March - April of 2012) will be backwards compatible with some 6-series motherboards. The CPU itself has a PCIe 3.0 controller on-die, however MSI tells us that without modifications to existing motherboard designs you won't be able to properly support the 3.0 spec. MSI's Z68A-GD80 (G3) features new circuitry ...
Patriot gave me a preview of their new Viper Xtreme Division4 DDR3 memory due out later this year. Patriot is targeting this new line at Sandy Bridge E systems, which support up to four channels of DDR3 memory (official support for DDR3-1600, but overclocking will surely be an option). Given the current price of memory, Patriot expects the default configuration ...
Posted on June 01, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , ,

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