Danger Den GeForce GTX 480 waterblock pictured
While the GeForce GTX 480 is a welcomed addition to the DirectX 11 graphics card market, its power consumption and working temperatures are not so it's nice to hear that Danger Den is working on fixing one of those problems. The cooling company is finishing up a trio of waterblocks for the most powerful GF100-based card (GTX 480), and one of them, the all-copper one can be seen below.
Set to be the first released, the copper GTX 480 block is said to cost between $140 and $150, and will be followed after one-two weeks by a waterblock with a copper base and a nickel top cover, and one with a nickel top and nickel (plated?) base. More info about Danger Den's Fermi-compatible cooling offer will be provided very soon.
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Club 3D rolling out its own Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 card
Going with today's release flow, Club 3D has also revealed a Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition which can power up to six monitors. The new graphics card features 1600 Stream Processors, a 850 MHz core clock, DirectX 11 and CrossFireX support, a 256-bit memory interface, 2GB of GDDR5 VRAM @ 4800 MHz, six mini DisplayPort outputs, a dual-slot cooler and two PCIe power connectors.
Club 3D's Cypress-based Radeon is now available for pre-order priced at 459 Euro.
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Noctua offers existing customers free NM-A90 upgrade kit for AMD CPUs
If you own a NH-U12P SE2 or NH-U9B SE2 then you may be interested in the fact the Noctua has introduced the NM-A90 upgrade kit which enables the two coolers mentioned to be installed turned by 90° on AMD motherboards for better air circulation. The best thing about this product is probably the fact that it will be offered for free to people who have the NH-U12P SE2 or NH-U9B SE2, if they provide proof of their purchase. This is Noctua-flavored LTS (long term support) for you.
"We've received excellent customer feedback on our new SE2 coolers," said Mag. Roland Mossig, Noctua CEO, "but some AMD users expressed the wish to have the possibility to change the alignment of the coolers on AMD motherboards. We've always been convinced that premium quality products and premium quality service should go hand in hand, so we're responding to this demand by offering the new NM-A90 kit as a free upgrade."
To request your complimentary NM-A90 upgrade kit you have to fill in this form.
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Silicon Power unveils the Armor A70 waterproof portable HDDs
Taiwan's own Silicon Power has just presented to the world its latest storage solution, the rough and tough Armor A70 portable hard drive. Coming in 250, 320, 500 and 640GB capacities, the new HDD measures 139.45 x 85.7 x 18.1 mm and weights about 250 grams, has a red or black coating, a USB 2.0/1.1 connection interface, and a solid shell and construction that makes it water, pressure, vibration, shock and dust proof - it's almost like you can play soccer with it.
The yet unpriced Armor A70 drive is backed by a two-year warranty and should become available in April.
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Google versus China: Great firewall pinned for .hk block
Following the original claims that Google's search services were being blocked deliberately by the Chinese following their redirection to Hong Kong, Google have cleared the air somewhat in a statement describes that the blocking of their services as a result of a technical error that lead to renewed speculation of Chinese interference.
The reports surfaced just this week that China might attempt to cripple Google's Hong Kong services, but Google responded immediately stating that this was more likely a technical issue.
"The 'gs_rfai' started appearing in the URLs of Google searches globally as part of a search parameter, a string of characters that sends information about the query to Google so we can return the best result," Gooogle said at the time. "Because this parameter contained the letters 'rfa' the Great Firewall was associating these searches with Radio Free Asia, a service that has been inaccessible in China for a long time - hence the blockage. We are currently looking at how to resolve this issue."
However, backtracking in a new statement, Google has told the press that they are now holding China's firewall fully responsible for the block.
"Having looked into this issue in more detail, it's clear we actually added this parameter a week ago. So whatever happened to block google.com.hk must have been as a result of a change in the great firewall," said Google.
And oh the plot thickens, as in a further twist, Google has admitted that the Chinese search traffic has now returned to normal, although according to the search giant this has happened "even though we have not made any changes at our end".
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BBC Trust postpones iPhone app releases for review
The BBC Trust has decided to halt the original plans laid out for April, to release an application that is geared for providing news and sports information to Apple handsets. The decision was made following newspaper publishers outcry against the BBC, stating that it would clearly provide them with an unfairly influenced advantage over the market for news applications.
The BBS Trust is now reviewing the plans in order to find whether the application(s) in question could violate their public service agreement.
This row is hardly fresh on the week's news, as newspaper publishers and book publishers have sought to capitalise on the Apple iPhone, iPod Touch and up coming iPad platforms, not least of all to curb the slowing sales of print media.
Papers such as The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times have both announced their agreements with Apple that are set to offer a special subscription package formatted for the iPad tablet device, and recent reports suggest that the BBC intends to reduce their web operations by as much as 50% - taking them by far in the opposite direction to their competition.
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Buffalo announces new 2.5-inch solid state drive line
Buffalo has today revealed the SHD-NSU2, a new family of 2.5-inch solid state drives which, although it's not mentioned, are likely equipped with Indilinx's Barefoot controller. Buffalo's SSDs feature a SATA 3.0 Gbps interface and also USB connectivity, MLC (multi-level cell) NAND Flash memory, 64MB of cache, TRIM support, measures read speeds of up to 175 MB/s, and are bundled with Acronis' TrueImage HD software.
The 32GB, 64GB, 128GB and 256GB SHD-NSU2 drives will start selling in Japan around mi-April and cost from $157 to $845.
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HIS bundles CoD: Modern Warfare 2 with HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 card
HIS has today done pretty much the same thing as its rivals and that's to introduce a Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition graphics card. Based on the reference design, HIS' Eyefinity-loving Radeon features 1600 Stream Processors, a core clock of 850 MHz, a 256-bit memory interface backed by 2GB GDDR5 VRAM @ 4800 MHz, a dual-slot cooler, CrossFireX support, and six mini DisplayPort outputs for driving up six monitors.
It's no surprise that there are no surprises regarding the new card but still, HIS has made an effort to set itself apart from other board partners and so it bundled its products with the BumpTop 3D desktop environment, and a voucher for the download of Infinity Ward's hit FPS - Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Those interested in his package can get it from Newegg for $500.
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Roccat Pyra mobile gaming mouse gets priced
Announced earlier this month, and set to start selling in April, Roccat's newest gaming rodent, dubbed Pyra has now begun to be listed by stores in Europe. Coming in wired and wireless versions, the Pyre features a 1000Hz polling rate, a 1600dpi blue-optic sensor, Griptech solid rubber side grips, a mousewheel and five buttons. Pyra is also the first Roccat product to include the EasyShift[+] feature which enables users to assign two functions per button, thus transforming the 6-button design into a 12-button solution.
The wired Pyra mobile gaming mouse can be found @ 35 Euro, while the wireless version is up for pre-order @ 55 Euro.
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Asus officially details its Matrix series custom Radeon HD 5870
Taiwanese Big Boy of the IT trade Asus, has finally went on the record about its not really shiny but fast and Fermi-opposing Matrix series Radeon HD 5870. The new ROG (Republic of Gamers) card, which is codenamed Matrix 5870/2DIS/2DG5, makes use of one 40nm Cypress GPU clocked at 894 MHz (850 MHz stock), has 1600 Stream Processors, a 256-bit memory interface, 2GB of GDDR5 memory @ 4800 MHz, a custom, dual-slot fansink which is claimed to lead to 13% lower temps than the stock HD 5870.
Asus' card also includes DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort outputs, voltage measurements points for the GPU core, PCI-E bus, board and memory, and the Super Hybrid Engine, a technology that will automatically tune clocks and fan speed depending on the applications ran. Moreover, there's the iTracker2, a hardware-software bridge for easy user overclocking and card monitorization.
The Matrix 5870's price or retail availability were not announced but should be revealed in the next few weeks.
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