Thursday, February 4, 2010

IT News HeadLines (InsideHW) 04/02/2010


InsideHW
Asus G60J: A Notebook for Gamers
The indigo-blue chassis glistens in the sun while Asus G60J slowly appears from the darkness to enter the testing track. The lit-up “Republic of Gamers” logo clearly states whom G60J is destined for. It’s run by one of the most powerful engines currently in production – the quad-core Core i7-820QM, and it is unmatched in the wealth of its accessories. Mentioning only some of that wealth should suffice: GeForce GTX 260M, 4 GB DDR3-1066, 2x500 GB HDD… It’s clear that Asus G60J is a sport machine that takes the breath away, taking the lead from other competitors on the track with ease.
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OCZ 4GB DDR3 PC3-15000 Platinum Low Voltage Dual Channel memory kit
If you're looking for a little further information on this memory kit, then some further investigation shows it to have CAS-TRCD-TRP-TRAS timings of 9-9-9-27, while the modules are also rated to operate using these timings at 1,866MHz, giving us a fair amount of overclocking headroom without the need to compromise on other aspects of memory performance. LINK (http://www.elitebastards.com/index.php?option=com_content view=article id=1197 catid=13 Itemid=27)
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Nexus RX-5300 530W Modular Power Supply
Quiet computing has always been the focus for Nexus products and the RX Series power supplies claim to be the quietest units on the market today. We have the RX-5300 up for review to find out. LINK (http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=840)
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Vantec NexStar TX NST-210S2-BK
With a large amount of their external enclosure lineup already in their repetoir, Vantec brings to us today for review the NexStar TX 2.5 SATA External USB 2.0 Enclosure. LINK (http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Vantec/NexStar_TX/)
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Choosing the Best H55/H57 Motherboard
After a solid two weeks on the merry-go-round, leaving us with eye-bags larger than potato sacks and eyeballs redder than a Baboon's backside, we are finally in a position to deliver part one of our coverage. LINK (http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=3732)
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GIGABYTE X58A-UD7 Motherboard
The board packs a lot of promise, built on GIGABYTE\'s tried and true X58 based design with some nice bells and whistles added for that extra bit of appeal including USB 3.0 and SATA III features LINK (http://www.hardocp.com/article/2010/02/01/gigabyte_x58aud7_motherboard_review)
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NVidia Fermi to be known as GeForce GTX 470 & GTX 480
NVidia has revealed that its first consumer graphics cards to use the long-awaited Fermi architecture - codenamed GF100 - will be known as the GeForce GTX 470 and GeForce GTX 480. Knowing that the cards - or, presumably, the GeForce GTX 480 at least - are likely to usurp AMD's ATI Radeon HD 5000-series as the fastest single-GPU solution around, it may come as no surprise to notice that the company has taken a giant leap in terms of model numbers.
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