Thursday, February 11, 2010

IT News HeadLines (InsideHW) 11/02/2010


InsideHW
Seagate reveals 10,000 RPM 600GB hard drive
Seagate said it's now shipping its Savvio 10K.4 enterprise-grade hard drives. The series is the first to feature a model with 600GB of capacity and a 10,000RPM speed in a 2.5-inch form factor. The drives are said to offer twice the capacity of their competitors and are the first to carry a 2 million hour Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF).
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ATI Radeon HD 5570 brings DirectX 11 to HTPCs
AMD launched its second new video chipset in just a matter of days and this time targeted mini PC category. The Radeon HD 5570 is a major step up in performance from the 5450 with 400 stream processors versus 80 but still occupies a single card slot and is relatively short, making it ideal for small form factor cases where even the 5600 series would be too large or use too much power.
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Green House launches USB 3.0 PCIe card
Claiming to be capable of high speed data transfer of max. 5Gbps for USB 3.0, this latest interface card from Green House, named GH-UIPE302, is PCI Express x1 bus compliant and officially supports Windows 7, Vista and XP OS.
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Adobe Flash 10.1 limited to Android 2.1
Adobe has announced today that Flash 10.1 will only work on Android smartphones running firmware 2.1 or later, a move that disappoints most Android phone owners out there, being that only one phone currently has 2.1, the Google Nexus One (see the demo clip here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlWOocHwcLo)). Most Android phones still run firmware 1.5 or 1.6.
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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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