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NZXT Prices and Dates Crafted Full-tower Phantom Chassis
NZXT has priced and dated its Crafted series Phantom chassis. It will be available in three colors - white, red or black for a MSRP of US$139.99 in early September. The Phantom full-tower chassis was unveiled at Computex earlier this month. It is constructed out of steel and features a wide array of cooling features. It includes three 120mm and one 200mm fans with the option to add three more. An integrated fan controller for up to five fans, dual radiator support and quad watercooling cutouts come as standard. The case has five external 5.25" and seven internal 3.5"/2.5" drive bays with a screw-less design. It supports E-ATX, ATX, Micro-ATX and BABY AT form-factor motherboards. Top mounted USB, audio and eSATA provide quick connectivity. Founder and Chief Designer at NZXT, Johnny Hou said:
"This is the most intelligent and elegantly designed chassis we've ever conceived. The profoundly unique contours combined with a highly functional, robust feature set solidifies Phantom as one of the most innovative case designs on the market."The Phantom Chassis measures 222x540x623mm (WxHxD) and weighs in at 11kg. If you want to see how the Phantom performs before its release in September, check out OCC's review here.
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Hacker Breaks ATM Security
At the Black Hat security conference, Barnaby Jack demonstrated two ways to get money from an ATM machine. These exploits can be done in person or remotely. One exploit requires a master key and to be at the ATM machine. The other involves connecting remotely to do your dirty work. In the latter method, the remote authentication is bypassed and a rootkit, named Scrooge, is installed. Another tool, Dillinger, allows him to keep track of compromised machines and the people who use them. Criminals can find the vulnerable machines through war-dialling, to find which machines respond. The hack had been discovered last year, but ATM vendors asked Jack to hold off until they were able to patch the vulnerability.
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AMD Overtakes NVIDIA in Graphics Card Shipments
It has been a long time coming but it seems AMD has finally managed to take the upper hand in the graphics card battle by shipping more graphics cards than NVIDIA. NVIDIA has seemingly held the market ever since its GeForce 8000 series launched way back in 2006. AMD kept turning out products and getting the die size down and then when its HD 4000 series came out, NVIDIA saw some serious competition against its GeForce 200 series. NVIDIA still held the lead by aggressively pricing its products to compete against AMD even though the offering by NVIDIA had massive dies in comparison. With the current generation of HD 5000 and GeForce 400, AMD had nearly a half year lead to get its products out which only helped the company gain market share. For the second quarter of this year, AMD had a 51% market share while NVIDIA had a 49% share.
On the integrated graphics front, Intel still retains the market with 54.3% while AMD is at 24.5% and NVIDIA at 19.8%. NVIDIA does not seem to be doing so hot as even Apple has dropped its graphics cards from its iMac and Mac Pro line. Hopefully NVIDIA can see a turnaround with its GTX 460 being priced around the $200 mark and the upcoming launch of the GTS 450 to cut into the mid-range market held firmly by AMD. In any case, it seems NVIDIA has to weather this news and hopefully see a turnaround before long.
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