Tuniq Tower 120 Extreme Review
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IN Win Fanqua and Maelstrom PC Chassis
In Win has a pair of relatively recent additions to it PC chassis product lineup with the FANQUA and Maelstrom cases. The FANQUA is a mid-tower case designed to incorporate the important features of Fan, Airflow, Neat, Quality, User friendly and Affordable which is how they came up with the name. The case features a 22cm side fan and mesh filters to trap dust before it enters the case. The Fanqua also features a tool-free design and lots of cable management clips on the inside.
The Maelstrom case has been out for a little over a month and it is a full-tower design with a black interior that supports motherboards from Micro-ATX to Extended-ATX. The Maelstrom supports up to ten front, side, and top 12cm fans along with retaining holes at the rear for water cooling. The case uses a bottom-mounted PSU design with dedicated ventilation holes to further enhance cooling performance.
Both cases can be found on-line right now with the Fanqua averaging around $70-$80US and the Maelstrom hitting the $100-$120US range.
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Noctua NH-U9B Special Edition CPU Cooler
Noctua's NH-U9B cooler is designed for smaller cases such as those used in HTPC applications. The company has announced a special edition called the NH-U9B SE2 and added a second NF-B9 92mm fan to the package along with support for LGA1156 as well as LGA1366 sockets using Noctua's SecuFirm2 multi-socket mounting system making it compatible Intel's latest Core i7 and Core i5 processors as well as AMD AM2, AM2+ and AM3 motherboards. With the addition of the second fan, you can set the fans up for maximum cooling or ultra-quiet mode using the included Low-Noise and Ultra-Low-Noise adapters. Noctua has said the coolers will be available shortly at a recommended retail price of EUR 46.90 / USD 54.90.
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PowerColor Operation Media Scout Contest
Contests are always fun and PowerColor is partnering AMD, Crucial, Gigabyte, NewEgg.com, Plextor, ThermalTake and Western Digital to bring a little excitement, along with some prizes, into your life. Operation Media Scout is a 2-week contest with daily prizes being awarded to participants. At the conclusion, there will be a grand prize drawing for a media PC valued at $1,000 built with components from the listed partners.
Beginning 11/9/2009 through 11/23/2009, PowerColor will be giving away a prize every day to people who prove they can complete the tasks posted in the PowerColor forum, Facebook and Twitter pages. For more information and complete rules, visit the Operation Media Scout page.
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Matrox's M9188 Supports 8 Displays
Matrox has just announced the newest addition to their video card line-up, the M9188 PCIe x16 Octal graphics card. The card is labeled as Octal because it can drive 8 displays at once. Yes, I said 8 diplays. The card has 2GB of memory and can run each display at up to 2560x1600 for Display Port monitors or up to 1920x1200 for DVI Single-Link monitors. It is a single-slot design so that it will not block other slots on the motherboard and allows room for additional cards. Two of these cards can be combined in one system to drive a total of 16 displays! The connected displays may be arranged in two ways: One arrangement is a single desktop stretched across all connected displays, while another option provides an independent desktop on each. This allows for either more space for one program, or multiple desktops to display multiple programs at once. Two keys areas that Matrox mentions the card would be beneficial in are electric grid management and train dispatch management. Both of these areas require displaying large visualizations of the grid or train tracks to effectively manage them. The M9188 will retail for $1995 and supports Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003/2008, and Linux.
If $1995 is too much or you only need to drive 2 monitors, Matrox is offering the M9128 LP PCIe x16 that can support 2 monitors. This card will retail for $259.
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DDR2 Prices Rising
According to DRAM Exchange there has been a raise of about 14% in DDR2 prices in the first part of November alone. The high demand of DDR2 memory at the moment (probably caused by the large number of users upgrading their systems to run Windows 7 smoothly) is surpassing the production and it looks like it will stay like that for some time, eventually making DDR2 prices even higher. With DDR3 starting to appear even in low/mid-range OEM machines and manufacturers also aiming more and more for the replacing of DDR2, this looks like the perfect time for DDR3 to take over the market, however this is bad news for those who are not planning to move into DDR3 platforms any time soon since they will have to pay much more for their memory than they have enjoyed previously.
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Razer Launches Abyssus 'Back to Basics' Gaming Mouse
Razer's latest mouse offering, the Abyssus does away with the multitude of extra buttons that can be found on other mice (the company's own Naga MMO mouse being a good example of that). Instead you get a simple three button configuration (though as this is Razer, these are programmable 'Hyperresponse' buttons) on a design built around a 3500dpi 3.5G infrared sensor. You also get 2 hardware toggles on the underside of the mouse, used to switch between 450/1800/3500dpi or to adjust the polling rate (125/1000Hz). The idea behind it is to provide a straight forward gaming grade mouse that doesn't come with the price premium of the company's top end products. You can check out further details and pre-order an Abyssus for $49.99 at razerzone.com.
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EA Cuts 1,500 Jobs
After announcing the acquisition of Playfish, creator of social networking games for $300m yesterday, Electronic Arts is now saying that it will also be cutting around 1,500 jobs in an effort to cut costs. EA has not yet confirmed where the job losses will occur, but it will likely be over a range of the company's studios. EA reported a $391m net loss for the third quarter this year, which was up from a loss of $310m for the same period last year. Those sort of figures will have likely prompted the latest round of lay-offs (EA had already shed 1,100 jobs this year before this announcement). The reductions in staff numbers are expected to save around $100m a year, though it may also lead to some projects that are currently in development to be cancelled as EA narrows its focus to more profitable titles.
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ATI Radeon HD 5970 Announcement Date
The Radeon HD 5970 will be the new flagship GPU coming from ATI. They have decided to drop the X2 moniker, and instead of branding their dual-GPU cards as X2 cards, they will be branded within the Radeon HD 5900 series. Officially, we know that the 5970 will be two 5870’s, but we are yet to know if there will officially be a 5950 (two 5850’s). The NDA lifts on the 16th of November, but it is not known if this will be the official date, but we can hope that it is. The specifications of the 5970 are as follows: Built on the 40 nm fabrication process, 334 mm² die size, 2154M transistors and PCI Express 2.1 X16 Interface. From various images leaked from the internet we can see that it is in fact two 5870 GPUs on a single PCB, destroying the hope of having a MCM GPU. This means that there will be two separate GPU cores clocked at 750 MHz, 2x 1600 Stream Processors, 2x 256-Bit Bus Widths (512-Bit Total), 2x Memory Sizes of 1024 MB with 1000 MHz clocks (4000 MHz effective), with support for DirectX 11 and Shader Model 5.0. Price hasn’t been announced, although due to stock shortages because of problems with TSMC and lack of competition, it could come in around $500+.
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Research in Motion Working With Developers
Research in Motion, makers of the popular Blackberry devices, will be aiding developers of apps for its phones. The aid will come in the form of helping developers include ads in their apps, allowing them to increase their revenue. Additionally, RIM will assist developers in accepting payments for premium content through its app store. By helping developers, RIM hopes to attract more developers to create apps, hoping to compete with the popular App Store from Apple. Apple and other smartphone manufacturers have been taking a bite out of the market that the Blackberry has long dominated, and improved app offerings could help RIM gain some market share back.
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