Tuesday, February 8, 2011

IT News HeadLines (InsideHW) 07/02/2011



InsideHW
CrossFire in Practice: Radeon HD 4850 CF vs 6850
We’ve gone through all the advantages and disadvantages of SLI and Crossfire modes many times by now. We’ve even had an article (Reviews/Motherboards/MSI-Big-Bang-Fuzion-With-a-Little-Help-From-a-Hardware-Friend.html) on the Hydra chip present on MSI motherboards, which enables AMD and NVIDIA graphics to work in conjunction with more or less tangible results.
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MSI prepares Wind Top AE2240 all-in-one PC
MSI's first all-in-one of 2011 is known as Wind Top AE2240 and it is a sleek and smooth, white-colored model that utilizes a 21.6-inch Full HD (1920 x 1080) multi-touch display, and is based on Intel's last-generation mobile platform named Calpella (no SATA bug on this one).
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HTC Pyramid to use dual-core 1.2 GHz Snapdragon
Since LG has the Optimus 2X and Samsung will soon have the Galaxy S2, it's natural that HTC too will bring out its own dual-core smartphone. According to reports, one of those dual-headed phones is codenamed Pyramid and is planned to be introduced in the US by T-Mobile.
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Apacer releases another SandForce-powered SSDs
Apacer Technology has launched its fastest solid state drive yet, the Turbo II AS602 model which comes in the usual 2.5-inch form factor, has a SATA 3.0 Gbp interface, and delivers read and write speeds of up to 285 MB/s and 275 MB/s, respectively. The new drive features multi-level cell NAND Flash memory chips, a SandForce SF-1222 controller, TRIM support, a mean time before failure of 1 million hours, and is capable of up to 30,000 IO operationsApacer's SSD has a durable aluminum case, is backed by a five-year warranty and is shipping in 60GB ($172), 120GB ($362) and 240GB ($672) in Taiwan./second for random reads and 13,000 IOPS for writes.
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