Wednesday, February 10, 2010

IT News HeadLines (InsideHW) 10/02/2010


InsideHW
ASRock unveils P55 Deluxe3 board
ASRock's latest motherboard, P55 Deluxe3, comes with support for both USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gbps. The P55 Deluxe3 arrives in an ATX form factor designed to take advantage of Intel's LGA1156 processors, and two PCIe x16 slots are available, with support for both NVIDIA SLI and ATI CrossFire configurations.
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Intel Sandy Bridge CPU to have up to 2 GPUs
According to Intel’s plans that were revealed to partners and industry insiders Sandy Bridge, brand new 32nm architecture will have one to two graphics cores on a monolithic die! Not only does it look like Intel might be the first with monolithically integrated with the CPU and have Fusion before AMD, bit it might be the first “graphics” company to ever launch two GPUs on the same die.
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NVIDIA considering external notebook graphics
According to a recent Xbitlabs report, NVIDIA is considering introducing its first true external notebook graphics. NVIDIA notebook GPU division general manager Rene Haas sees a big opportunity in such a market, and the product could come in the form of a docking station or another type of external device.
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BenQ releases worldآ’s slimmest LED monitor
BenQ has introduced the world's thinnest 21.5” W LED monitor, which promises top of the line performance as well. Dubbed the BenQ V2220/V2220H, the 15mm-thick monitor has a 10,000,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio and offers Full HD 1080p playback.
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MSI R5770 Hawk announced
MSI has today officially introduced its first Hawk series card, a custom, and slightly overclocked Radeon HD 5770. Seen below, the R5770 Hawk features a black PCB equipped with Military Class components (Hi-c CAP, solid state capacitors, and solid state inductors), a 7+1 phase design that provides 100% more current than reference cards, built-in voltage measurement points, and the dual-slot dual-fan Twin Frozr II cooling system which boasts three heatpipes.
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Chaintech presents the Apogee SSD Convertor
Walton Chaintech is serving up a speedy new storage solution in the form of Apogee SSD Convertor, a 2.5-inch device that can be equipped with one or two (in RAID 0/1) CompacFlash memory cards and act as a solid state drive. The faster/larger the CF cards used, the greater the performance and capacity offered by the convertor which comes with a SATA 3.0 interface. According to its maker, the Apogee SSD Convertor can deliver read speeds of up to 55 MB/s, but, again, it all depends on the cards used.
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Microsoft cuts Zune HD prices to fight rivals
Microsoft in the past few days has quietly cut prices on the Zune HD through an at least temporary promo. The touchscreen media player now costs $190 for a 16GB model at Amazon, or $32 less than the original price; the 32GB model has dropped by a similar amount to $250. Microsoft's own store has also dropped its prices by a lesser amount, to $200 for a 16GB Zune HD and $270 for a 32GB edition. Walmart and other retailers are also closely matching Amazon's prices.
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Motorola Devour to launch with Flash support
More details have been released on the upcoming Motorola Devour from Verizon, and it appears that the Android device will launch with Adobe Flash Lite, giving the phone the Flash support that no other Android device has had yet, including more expensive brother phone, the Verizon Motorola DROID.
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