Corsair launches Dominator GTX 2250MHz CL8 DDR3 Memory Kits
Corsair today announced the launch of its new Dominator GTX ultra-high performance DDR3 memory modules for Intel and AMD platforms, designed specifically for performance enthusiasts, gamers and extreme overclockers. Corsair Dominator GTX modules are individually screened and tested on multiple high-performance Intel X58 and P55 chipset platforms to ensure that they operate at the incredible frequency of 2250MHz at low-latency timings of 8-8-8-24 at 1.65V.
"Corsair has a long history of delivering the fastest overclocking memory on the planet, and our engineering expertise and unique understanding of the enthusiast market allows us to continue to push boundaries," said Kevin Conley, VP of Engineering at Corsair. "Corsair Dominator GTX modules are the most tightly-screened, highest-quality and fastest DDR3 memory modules in the world, and we look forward to seeing what the enthusiast and overclocking community can do with these exciting new products."
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Super Talent Launches Storage Card 4x Faster Than CompactFlash - CFast
Super Talent released a brand new compact digital storage product line called CFast. Just like the traditional SD card and its enhanced version, SDHC, the CFast storage card, with SATA interface, has improved, unmatched write/read performance speeds. Super Talent is offering five different CFast storage cards, 8GB and 16GB based on SLC (Single Level Cell) flash and 8GB, 16GB and 32GB based on MLC (Multi Level Cell) flash. The first generation of CFast storage cards supports transfer speeds up to 200MB/s.
Super Talent CFast storage card is an evolution of the traditional CompactFlash card which has been in the industry for over 14 years, satisfying storage needs for mobile digital devices such as PDAs, digital cameras, etc. CFast has a bandwidth of 375MB/s which is four times more than the fastest High Speed 600x (90MB/s) CompactFlash card while still keeping the small original CF mechanical form factor. The new CFast storage card breaks the speed bottleneck between the SSD and the device by using a SATA interface. Super Talent has clocked these CFast cards at up to 200MB/sec read speeds. With Super a Talent CFast storage card installed, there will be no waiting time for the camera to catch up, and it will be much swifter to view pictures on a camera or to copy them to computer.
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Spire Launches TherMax Eclipse universal CPU Cooler
Spire Corp. today officially launched its new TherMax Eclipse towering CPU Cooler. Following up to the success of the original TherMax were proudly introducing the TherMax Eclipse. The TherMax Eclipse is now available from their factory in Shenzhen, China. Distribution through Spire branch offices locations will commence late December 2009. The MSRP on the TherMax Eclipse universal CPU Cooler will be USD $48.95 / EURO 32.95.
Powered by Innovation and with awesome looks this CPU Cooler is one supreme performer. The TherMax Eclipse is ready to best cool the 130W and upcoming extreme hot 130W Micro-processors. Universally compatible with the Intel 1156/1366/775 platforms in combination with the AMD AM3/AM2/940/939 platforms giving professionals and gamers a huge scope to utilize this CPU cooler.
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Bing Maps Beta Underway
Falling short of Google maps functionality, Bing maps is on it's way to rivaling Google maps but one downside is that it requires the installation of Silverlight which users may be opposed to.
Microsoft's Bing took a major step forward Wednesday in adding rich mapping and image data to its search engine, but until it assembles more data, pretty pictures aren't enough to beat the Google Maps juggernaut. Bing Maps Beta was released during a presentation at Microsoft's offices here. It's a Silverlight-based application that runs inside Bing Maps and adds Microsoft's version of Google Street View--called Streetside--to Bing Maps, as well as enhanced "bird's eye" images that let you swoop over cities.
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December 3 News from Around the Web
Evercool Fit Notebook Cooler Review @ OCC and other reviews from around the web can be found by visiting our forums!
"The Fit is small, comes with a retractable cable, and also comes with a small bag to carry everything in. In other words, very mobile which is great for people that are constantly on the go. While the cooler doesn't provide some benefits such as ergonomic benefits that many other coolers offer, some people would rather keep their laptop flat which would make the Fit a great solution for that."
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Intel Unveils 48-core Cloud Computing Chip
One of the hot buzzwords in the tech industry for awhile has been "cloud" computing. Intel has unveiled an impressive 48 core chip based on the x86 architecture allowing each core to run a separate OS.
Intel has unveiled a prototype chip that packs 48 separate processing cores on to a chunk of silicon the size of a postage stamp. The Single-chip Cloud Computer (SCC), as it is known, contains 1.3 billion transistors, the tiny on-off switches that underpin chip technology. Each processing core could, in theory, run a separate operating system.
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Need for Speed SHIFT PC Game Expansion Pack and Patch 1.02 Released
The new patch for Need for Speed SHIFT has been released and is ready for download. This is the patch that I benchmarked here and found that it greatly improves ATI video card performance! I just downloaded the North American patch and found it to be 135MB in size and their download servers are fairly fast right now with ~800 KB/sec download speeds. Grab this if you play the game!
Patch 1.02 includes five new cars (Toyota Supra Mk IV, 1967 Shelby GT500, 1967 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray, 1969 Dodge Charger R/T and the 1971 Dodge Challenger R/T). There is a new game mode called Team Racing which pits Team Red vs Team Blue in an intense battle for track domination. The maximum number of racers in an online game is increased from 8 to 12.
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Micron Launches First SATA 6 Gb/s Solid-State Drive - RealSSD C300
Micron Technology, Inc. has raised the performance bar for SSDs. The company today announced its RealSSD C300 SSD, the industrys fastest for notebook and desktop PCs. Microns new RealSSD C300 drive enables users to enjoy a more powerful and responsive computing experienceincluding faster operating system (OS) boot and hibernate times, and speedier application load, data transfer and file copying. Micron says that C300 drive outperforms every client SSD currently available on the market, which is amazing if it is true. They also sent us a link of a YouTube clip that shows their RealSSD C300 go head-to-head with a 7200RPM hard drive in everyday tasks that is worth a watch.
The RealSSD C300 drive leverages Microns established 34nm MLC NAND flash memory, allowing the company to provide a cost-competitive, high-capacity SSD solution. Bringing another first to SSDs, Microns 34nm MLC NAND supports the high-speed ONFI 2.1 standard, ensuring the NAND performance keeps pace with the faster SATA 6Gb/s interface. The drives will be available in 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch form factors, with both drives supporting 128GB and 256GB capacities. Micron is currently sampling the C300 SSD in limited quantities and expects to enter production in the first quarter of calendar 2010.
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December 2 News from Around the Web
Thermaltake Lanbox Lite Case Review @ Hi Tech Legion and other reviews from around the web can be found by visiting our forums!
"I am a pretty big gamer, and I definitely am known to frequent a LAN party or two. In most cases, I would be packing up one of my computers that was housed in a mid tower case, which was far from portable. Now having tested the Lanbox Lite and seen the room that this case provides, I think a LAN build will be in order for me. The easy installation with excellent airflow will allow me to run a full sized graphics card with good graphics power for gaming. In addition, the side windows and the stylish exterior will certainly garner attention from my fellow gamers at the next LAN party I attend. If LAN parties are not your thing, dont pass over this case without a look. The stylish design and excellent interior space makes this a very nice HTPC case that will add a nice touch to any entertainment center. The quiet running fans do not contribute much to the noise levels, which makes for a quiet solution as a piece of entertainment for your home theater center."
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Chevy Volt Picked To Launch First in California Next Year
California will be the "lead market" for the Chevy Volt when the electrically driven car is available at the end of next year, General Motors said Wednesday. California was chosen because the state has the largest U.S. car market, and Californians are "known to be leaders in adopting groundbreaking new technologies," GM's vice president of global Chevrolet brand, Brent Deware, said in a statement pegged to this week's Los Angeles International Auto Show. The 2011 Chevy Volt is an electric car that goes 40 miles on an electric charge. This reduces harmful carbon emissions and gas usage.
Production of the Volt is scheduled to start in late 2010. GM has not announced pricing for the 2011 model, though newly dethroned CEO Fritz Henderson acknowledged earlier this fall that the price would be about $40,000. (GM's board on Tuesday asked Henderson to resign, effective immediately.) As part of the California rollout, GM plans to make 100 Volts available to three utilities for testing. The cars will be used as fleet vehicles, and performance data will be collected via GM's OnStar in-car communications for a Department of Energy-run research program.
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Sapphire Radeon HD 5750 Vapor-X Video Card Review
The Sapphire Radeon HD 5750 Vapor-X, with the configuration of 720 stream processors and 1GB of GDDR5 memory offers users access to the same new generation technology, and full DirectX 11 support found on the more expensive models at a lower price point. The Vapor-X model is also factory overclocked and uses a better cooling solution than the reference design. Read on to see what this budget friendly card is all about.
The Sapphire Vapor-X HD5750 has a look all its own. Though, looks aren't what the Vapor-X is all about; it's about performance. Using their patent pending Black Diamond Chokes they can offer a card that is 10% cooler and offers 25% more power efficiency than other cards that use the normal chokes. To keep things even cooler this card uses the Vapor-X cooler. A key point for me aside from performance (which the Vapor-X has plenty of) is the noise, or lack thereof. Throughout the testing I never heard a peep out of the fan. The test I was sure I would hear the fan on was the power consumption test. I disabled all the other fans in the system so that they wouldn't fluctuate speed and power, and I still couldn't hear the fan on the Vapor-X while it was set on auto.
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DiRT 2 Games for Windows LIVE Edition Demo Out Now
Codemasters announced yesterday that a playable demo of the DirectX 11-powered Games for Windows LIVE edition of DiRT 2 has gone live and is available for PC gamers everywhere to download and play. A full list of mirror sites, plus gameplay and tech videos, is now available at www.dirt2game.com. If you have a DirectX 11 graphics card already you owe it to yourself to download this demo and see what your new graphics card is capable of doing. This game looks amazing and only the new DirectX 11 enabled AMD Radeon HD 5000 series of graphics cards give you all the eye candy.
The playable demo enables gamers to compete in two of DiRT 2s exhilarating events. In the Trailblazer event, players take on the ultimate test of rally car against the challenging Moroccan terrain on a point-to-point track filled with flat-out straights and hair-raising hairpins in the Mitsubishi Eclipse GT. In the second event, gamers compete in a Landrush race at the spectacular Ensenada Port circuit set in Baja California, where players go wheel-to-wheel in an 8-vehicle riotous race over lethal bumps and killer jumps in the heavy duty West Coast Choppers Stuka TT.
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Patriot Box Office HD Media Player Firmware Update - P02
The Patriot Box Office is a media player that frees your digital media library from the constraints of a PC and bridges digital media to your home entertainment system. The Box Office also supports the most popular media formats (H.264, ISO, VOB, DivX, xVid, MKV, MOV, MPEG and more) and recently came out with a firmware update to play Blu-Ray ISO files. Legit Reviews took the time to try out this new firmware version and gives you the details on it in a down and dirty update.
This week Patriot released their first firmware update for the Box Office media player. This beta P02 firmware adds support for Blu-ray ISO files and gives the player support for multi-channel HDMI audio out. With the newest firmware installed, we immediately tried to play an ISO ripped from a Blu-Ray disk. The file played with no hesitation. In fact, my receiver even picked up the LPCM via the Patriots HDMI out. Mission accomplished, Patriot. O.
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Thermaltake Element T Gaming Case Review
The Thermaltake Element T is a mid-tower gaming chassis with great features such as a tool-less design, a full mesh front panel and the ability to house seven 3.5" hard drives. When it comes to cooling the case features a 230mm side panel fan as well as two 200mm case fans in addition to its 120mm 'turbo' exhaust fan. Read on to see if this is the case for you!
Out of the cardboard box, Styrofoam, and plastic wrap, we have this case with its 'tactical appearance' which is really not that descriptive, if I had to choose words to describe its appearance, I would go with 'simple' with more of a 'functional' outlook. This case doesn't have all the bells and whistles a lot of cases now come with like most gaming chassis. Aside from the four red LEDs in the 200mm top fan, the only other light is the HDD status indicator.
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Intel Releases 34nm SSD Firmware Fix - 2CV102HD
Chip-maker Intel promised to supply a fix for their October firmware update by the end of November and quietly missed that deadline. For certain Windows 7 installs it seems that once the TRIM firmware update was applied it would brick certain users' solid-state drives (SSD). The decision by Intel to stop the firmware's availability was due to various reports, including several disgruntled forum posts, that the software was bricking certain users drives. If you installed the firmware and had it work then you were able to get TRIM support and an instant performance boost on the sequential write speeds as the speeds have been increased to 100MB per second on the 160GB models. That is a 40 percent performance improvement over the previous firmware version. It seems a new 'fixed' firmware version was released late yesterday that solves the bricking issue without hurting overall drive performance. This is the fourth firmware update for the 34nm SSDs since they have been released. The firmware revisions in order are 02G2, 02G9, 02HA, 02HD. You'll want to download firmware revision 2CV102HD for the very best performance and stability.
Firmware revision 2CV102HD has several continuous improvement optimizations intended to provide the best possible user experience with the Intel SSD.
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EVGA GeForce GT 240 SuperClocked Video Card Review
The EVGA GeForce GT 240 SuperClocked graphics card features overclocked GDDR5 memory, with twice the bandwidth of GDDR3 for blazing fast performance at a mainstream price point. With a native HDMI port on-board, the GT 240 offers the flexibility to connect both audio and video, via one cable, to any HDMI enabled monitor. Is this card right for you? Read on to find out!
Two weeks ago NVIDIA released the GeForce GT 240 graphics card to help fill in the gap in pricing and performance between the GeForce GT 220 and GeForce GT 250 graphics cards. The GeForce GT 240 is nothing new in terms of features and performance, but the chip that powers it is made using the latest 40nm manufacturing process at TSMC. The GeForce GT 240 is aimed at the entry level discrete graphics card market at the fiercely competitive $99 price point. Taking a look at some of the key specifications over the past few generations of NVIDIA graphics cards you can see that the EVGA GeForce GT 240 SuperClocked should be slightly faster than the GeForce 9600 GT since it has more shader units (stream processors), but slightly slower than the GeForce 9800 GT as it has fewer shader units. When it comes to memory bandwidth the GT 240 has just a 128-bit bus, but as you can see the faster GDDR5 memory ICs make up for the narrow bus and the memory bandwidth is nearly identical to the GeForce 9600 GT and 9800 GT video cards.
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Codemasters' DiRT 2 Ships Today on PC
Today Codemasters released their newest title on PC in the 'Colin McRae' line of rally car racing games, DiRT 2. DiRT 2 is the long-awaited racing game of '09 based on the revolutionary DirectX level 11 from Microsoft, found only on ATI's newest line of graphics cards, featuring the 5750, 5770, 5850, 5870 and the 5970. If you would like to see some of the action, you can download the demo Here, or navigate from the main page to the news section.
AMD announced today that the Games for Windows Live Edition of DiRT 2 is now shipping and marks the first racing game developed from the ground up to take advantage of advanced graphics features available with Microsoft DirectX 11 and the incredible new ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology for the most engaging gaming experience yet. With a wealth of image quality and performance enhancements supported only on new Direct X 11-capable ATI Radeon graphics cards, DiRT 2, the thrilling sequel to the award-winning Codemasters off-road racer, offers players a more realistic, immersive and exhilarating experience than ever before, and is the latest example of the benefits of AMDs close working relationship with todays leading game developers.
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Sex App Shop Launches with Adult Content for Apple iPhone
Apple iPhone users rejoice, now there really is an app for that, with the launch of the Sex App Shop available for download now on the iPhone and iPod touch. The Sex App Shop is available free at sexappshop.com and once downloaded, users can enjoy adult content from major labels and studios including apps, videos and still photos that can all be accessed anywhere, anytime.
The Sex App Shop has partnerships with major studios, labels and distributors of adult content. Featured models include Penthouse Pets and stars seen in Playboy, Vivid, VCA, Wicked Pictures and New Sensation. Apps currently available from the Sex App Shop are 99 cents. Alternatively, a yearly membership is available for $99, giving users instant access to a library of more than 10,000 images for free. New apps are constantly added and the stores library of content is growing daily.
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VIA Mobile-ITX form factor is 50% smaller than Pico-ITX
VIA Technologies today announced Mobile-ITX, the latest VIA-developed open form factor specification for the creation of ultra-compact and portable embedded devices. Mobile-ITX defines a uniquely compact 6cm x 6cm computer-on-module specification designed to enable an easier and less resource intensive development cycle for a range of ultra-compact, portable embedded systems. Shown below is an image of the Mobile-ITX reference design module, compared with a feather.
Extending VIAs reputation as a leading innovator and creator of ultra-compact form factors, Mobile-ITX at 6cm x 6cm, is currently the most compact computer-on-module form factor on the market, an incredible 50% smaller than the successful VIA-developed Pico-ITX form factor. Mobile-ITX employs a modularized design that includes a CPU module card and an I/O carrier board. This offers greater flexibility for developers who can simply drop in the CPU module to a custom designed, application specific carrier board, negating lengthy developmental design and testing phases.
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Thermaltake Element G Gaming Case Review
In the computer chassis industry, Thermaltake is well-renowned for their professional engineering and high-performance products. When designing the Element G case, Thermaltake engineers opted for a classic, yet dramatic look with the option to switch on a variety of case lighting effects. Read on to see if the Thermaltake Element G is the right case for gamers and enthusiasts!
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Sapphire Radeon HD 5750 Vapor-X Video Card Review
The Sapphire Radeon HD 5750 Vapor-X, with the configuration of 720 stream processors and 1GB of GDDR5 memory offers users access to the same new generation technology, and full DirectX 11 support found on the more expensive models at a lower price point. The Vapor-X model is also factory overclocked and uses a better cooling solution than the reference design. Read on to see what this budget friendly card is all about.
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Patriot Box Office HD Media Player Firmware Update
The Patriot Box Office is a media player that frees your digital media library from the constraints of a PC and bridges digital media to your home entertainment system. The Box Office also supports the most popular media formats (H.264, ISO, VOB, DivX, xVid, MKV, MOV, MPEG and more) and recently came out with a firmware update to play Blu-Ray ISO files. Check it out!
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Thermaltake Element T Gaming Case Review
The Thermaltake Element T is a mid-tower gaming chassis with great features such as a tool-less design, a full mesh front panel and the ability to house seven 3.5" hard drives. When it comes to cooling the case features a 230mm side panel fan as well as two 200mm case fans in addition to its 120mm 'turbo' exhaust fan. Read on to see if this is the case for you!
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EVGA GeForce GT 240 SuperClocked Video Card Review
The EVGA GeForce GT 240 SuperClocked graphics card features overclocked GDDR5 memory, with twice the bandwidth of GDDR3 for blazing fast performance at a mainstream price point. With a native HDMI port on-board, the GT 240 offers the flexibility to connect both audio and video, via one cable, to any HDMI enabled monitor. Is this card right for you? Read on to find out!
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NZXT Beta Evo Mid Tower Black Steel Computer Case
The NZXT Beta EVO is a mid tower black steel chassis that comes at a budget price of $29.99. Beta EVO features advanced cooling performance with support for up to 6 120mm fans with an option of a 140mm fan at the top. Beta EVO also provides external dual radiator support along with a meshed front panel allowing for enhanced cooling potential.
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Thermaltake BlacX Duet HDD Docking Station
The Thermaltake BlacX Duet is a budget friendly dual drive SATA HDD docking station that provides fast, convenient access to 2.5†or 3.5" SATA or SATA II (SATA /300) hard drive contents through either USB or eSATA connections. The best part about this product is that you never need to open a computer case or mount hard drives in an enclosure.
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