Sunday, February 27, 2011

IT News HeadLines (TweakTown) 26/02/2011



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SPARKLE Announces GeForce GTX 580 Thermal Guru Graphics Card
SPARKLE Announces GeForce GTX 580 Thermal Guru Graphics Card
SPARKLE Computer Co., Ltd., the professional VGA card manufacturer and supplier, today announced the SPARKLE GTX580 Thermal Guru Graphics Card with Effective Own Design Cooler, the ultimate DX11 3D monster from SPARKLE, which delivers intense performance and premium cooling effect for gamers who demand the best.

SPARKLE Announces GeForce GTX 580 Thermal Guru Graphics Card


SPARKLE Announces GeForce GTX 580 Thermal Guru Graphics Card

The SPARKLE GTX580 Thermal Guru Graphics Card is the latest new addition to SPARKLE's GTX 580 Series. Its core and memory clock are 772 and 4008 MHz respectively. Designed specifically for gamers who demand the best, the SPARKLE GTX580 Thermal Guru Graphics Card is built with NVDIA GeForce GTX 580 GPU. Based on 40nm processor and advanced GDDR5 memory technology, it consists of ground-breaking features including Microsoft DirectX 11 and NVIDIA PhysX which lead to incredibly immersive HD gaming experience and unrivaled performance.

SPARKLE Announces GeForce GTX 580 Thermal Guru Graphics Card


SPARKLE Announces GeForce GTX 580 Thermal Guru Graphics Card

Light Sense Design -- The Perfect Balance of Weight and Performance
For the cooler design, SPARKLE always has its own unique concept, it has been to balance the weight and the cooling performance of graphic cards' cooler. So as for this SPARKLE GTX580 Thermal Guru Graphics Card, it adopts the aluminum fins with the pure copper heat pipes to enhance heat transfer efficiency while also reducing the weight of the cooler, effectively avoiding the risk of bending the plate. This cooler also integrated many of the most advanced manufacturing process, the whole cooler uses tin free welding process, pillars traversed cooling fins technology and pillars inserted cooling fins technology to ensure cooling efficiency, use life and the sense of integrated design. With this cooler, the full loading GPU temperature is 5 degree Celsius lower than the reference cooler of GeForce GTX 580 graphics card. The weight of the cooler is only half of the reference design.

SPARKLE Announces GeForce GTX 580 Thermal Guru Graphics Card

One Slot Iron Bracket Design
The SPARKLE GTX580 Thermal Guru Graphics Card takes up 2 PCI slots, but only with one slot iron bracket, making the card to be more light and clean.

SPARKLE Announces GeForce GTX 580 Thermal Guru Graphics Card

Dual 80mm Fans Design
The SPARKLE Announced GTX580 Thermal Guru Graphics Card's cooler comes with two 80mm cooling fans. Compared with single fan design, they make the card running quieter and provide more powerful air flow for the graphics card.
Direct Contact Technology
The cooler of the SPARKLE Announced GTX580 Thermal Guru Graphics Card use four pure copper heat pipes, combing with the GPU direct contact technology to enable more efficient heat transfer.

SPARKLE Announces GeForce GTX 580 Thermal Guru Graphics Card

Unique&Advanced Cooling Fins Assembly Technology
Combining with pure aluminum cooling fins, the pure copper heat pipes use tin free welding process and cooling fins assembly technology, effectively avoiding the heat pipes' oxidation due to the corrosion from the high temperature tin melting process in the tin welding process and the high welding temperature.
Unique Designed Wind Collecting Cover
The most graphics cards' coolers can only randomly draw the air to do cooling job. But SPARKLE deliberately designs a unique wind collecting cover for the cooler. Using the specially designed air duct on the cover, the flow of the air will enter the cooler along the fixed orbit, to enhance the efficiency of heat dissipation, while reducing wear and tear on the fan. In addition, the air duct design can effectively avoid the hand injury due to touching the cooler during the graphics card installation and taking down process.
Ray Tracing Support: The Future Of Gaming
The SPARKLE GTX580 Thermal Guru Graphics Card enables interactive ray tracing for ultra photo-realistic scenes. The SPARKLE GTX580 Thermal Guru Graphics Card powers interactive raytracing, bringing spectacular, photo-realistic renderings to your screen for the first time. By using the power of the GF110 GPUs, the SPARKLE GTX580 Thermal Guru Graphics Card supports recursion in hardware, enabling efficient ray tracing and a host of other graphics algorithms. It excels not just at standard ray tracing, but also at advanced global illumination algorithms such as path tracing.
32x Anti-Aliasing Technology
The SPARKLE GTX580 Thermal Guru Graphics Card implements a brand new 32x anti-aliasing mode for higher levels of image quality. And the GeForce GTX 580's enhanced compression engine maintains incredible performance with anti-aliasing and resolution cranked up, providing both high frame rates and top notch image quality.
Total Immersive With NVIDIA 3D Vision Surround Technology
Prepare to be blown away by the most immersive PC gaming experience imaginable. Leveraging the power of multiple GF110 GPUs in an NVIDIA SLI configuration, NVIDIA 3D Vision Surround enables a new level of eye-popping 3D stereo gaming, expanding your real estate across 3 panels for the ultimate "inside the game" feeling. The SPARKLE GTX580 Thermal Guru Graphics Card provides the incredible graphics horsepower to run your game in 3D stereo, across 3 panels, at HD resolutions up to 5760x1080. The SPARKLE GTX580 Thermal Guru Graphics Card aslo supports gaming across three non-3D displays with resolutions up to 2560x1600,it's the best in Class 2D Surround Gaming.
Stunning DX11 Gaming Performance
Packing in 512 CUDA cores, a high speed GDDR5 memory interface, and full DirectX 11 support, the SPARKLE Announced GTX580 Thermal Guru Graphics Card .With Effective Own Design Cooler is designed for groundbreaking graphics performance. With a revolutionary new scalable geometry pipeline and enhanced anti-aliasing capabilities, the SPARKLE GTX580 Thermal Guru Graphics Card is the world's most powerful single GPU Graphics Card solution.
1536MB Incredible Large High Speed GDDR5 Video Memory
Today's DX11 game, such as Stalker: Call Of Pripyat, Metro 2033, they insanely use as large as possible number of bump texture, transparent texture to describe faces of characters and render realistic gaming scenes, so these DX11 games put rigorous demands on the bandwidth and capacities of video memory. The current situation demands at least 1GB video memory to run these games. Compared with high-end graphics cards on market with 1GB GDDR5 video memory, the SPARKLE GTX580 Thermal Guru Graphics Card comes with incredible large 1536MB high speed GDDR5 video memory, meeting the rigorous demands from current DX11 games.

SPARKLE Announces GeForce GTX 580 Thermal Guru Graphics Card


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GIGABYTE Ships All New B3 6 Series Motherboards
-- GIGABYTE Ships All New B3 6 Series Motherboards --
-- Totally New B3 Motherboards Feature Revised B3 Stepping Chipset, Motherboard, Logo, Retail Box Design, and Model Numbers--

GIGABYTE Ships All New B3 6 Series Motherboards

City of Industry, California, February 25, 2011 - GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co., Ltd, a leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards and other computing hardware solutions, today announced that they have begun shipping the totally redesigned GIGABYTE 6 series motherboards featuring the new Intelآ® B3 stepping chipsets. Motherboards are expected to be available around 2nd week of March. Please check with your store sales representatives or online store for product availability.
The new B3 version GIGABYTE 6 Series motherboards have been totally redesigned and renamed so that they can easily be distinguished from the older B2 versions through the signature 'B3' at the end of the model name. For example, the GA-P67A-UD7 has been replaced by the GA-P67A-UD7-B3 and the GA-H67A-UD3H has been replaced by the GA-H67A-UD3H-B3. The new model name is highly visible on the retail box, PCB, in the BIOS at start up and on applications such as the GIGABYTE 6 Series SATA Check utility and CPU-Z.

GIGABYTE Ships All New B3 6 Series Motherboards

GIGABYTE 6 Series SATA Check Utility
Immediately after learning about the B2 stepping Intelآ® 6 Series chipset design error, GIGABYTE released the easy to use GIGABYTE 6 Series SATA Check utility that helps to optimize SATA performance by identifying the white SATA 6Gbps that can be used, while advising users not to use the affected Intelآ® PCH SATA ports. As the new B3 versions on 6 Series motherboards start to ship, GIGABYTE just released an updated 6 Series SATA Check utility that also identifies the chipset and its stepping (either B2 or B3).
Another way to identify a B3 stepping chipset motherboard is to look for the motherboard model name as the PC boots.
The new B3 version 6 Series motherboard packaging features a large B3 Stepping logo that users will easily be able to identify.
More information about GIGABYTE's all new B3 revision 6 Series motherboards is available from the official GIGABYTE website and the GIGABYTE Tech Daily blog.
About GIGABYTE Upgrade Your Life
GIGABYTE Technology Co. Ltd., headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, is known as a leading brand in the IT industry with branch offices located in 24 countries around the world. Founded in 1986, GIGABYTE started as a small research and development team and has since taken a position as one of the in the world's top motherboard manufacturers. In addition to motherboards and graphics cards, GIGABYTE further expanded its product portfolio to include notebook and desktop PCs, datacenter servers, networking products, mobile handsets, and home entertainment devices to serve each facet of the digital life in the home and office. Everyday GIGABYTE aims to "Upgrade Your Life" with innovative technology, exceptional quality, and unmatched customer service. Visit www.gigabyte.us for more information.

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Icy Dock releases the MB974SP-B 4-in-3 SATA Backplane
Icy Dock releases the MB974SP-B 4-in-3 SATA Backplane
Introducing the new face of Icy Dock screw-less technology, the MB974SP-B 4-in-3 SATA Backplane. This product allows the user to install 4 x 3.5" SATA hard drives into a computer case's 3 available 5.25" device bays. Using our world renowned screw-less technology, no screws or tools are required to insert or eject the drives making hot swapping a completely hassle free experience.
The front of the device includes childproof power buttons for each and they also act as an LED indicator showing drive power and activity. Similarly, each drive door has a multi-locking latch mechanism to prevent a door from being opened easily. Also on the front are USB and eSATA ports to quickly and easily connect external storage peripherals.

Icy Dock releases the MB974SP-B 4-in-3 SATA Backplane

On the rear of the MB974SP-B is a monster 80mm cooling fan to pull cool air from the front ventilation slots, over the drives, and exhaust the warm air out through the rear ventilation slots. The fan also features an "on-demand" power system, so that the fan is only powered on if a drive's power is on. So even if all 4 slots are filled, the fan will only spin if one of the drives is powered on. And if the included fan is not enough, it can be upgraded to use most aftermarket 80mm case fans that use a 2 or 3 pin connector. A 3 speed fan control is built in letting the user choose between high, low, or auto which uses our Smart Cooling Technology to adjust fan speed according to the cooling requirements of the drives.
Product Features:
* Fits 4 x 3.5" SATA HDD into 3 x 5.25" Device Bays
* Screw-less, tool-less design for genuine plug &play and hot swap use
* Compatible with SATA 6 Gb/sec
* Stylish aluminum construction for durability and heat dissipation
* 80mm cooling fan for maximum air flow
* On-demand power system - Fan power only when a drive is powered on
* Fan is replaceable with aftermarket fans that use 2-pin or 3-pin connectors
* 3 speed fan control including Smart Cooling Technology providing temperature
* Front and rear ventilation slots
* Front side USB and eSATA ports for convenient external storage connections
* Individual power switches and LEDs for each drive
* Child-proof power buttons to avoid accidental power shut down
* Multi-locking door latches to prevent accidental drive ejection
* Internal SATA cable and USB header cable built into rear of device
Product Page:
http://www.icydock.com/goods.php?id=128
Product Image Pack:
http://www.icydock.com/prodoct_img/MB974SP-B_product_image.zip
Contact Info:
http://www.icydock.com/contact_info.php
About ICY DOCK:
http://www.icydock.com/about.php
Home Page:
http://www.icydock.com/index.php

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CyberPower Reintroduces Sandy Bridge Desktop Line For آ“Visibly Smartآ” Next Generation Gaming
CyberPower Reintroduces Sandy Bridge Desktop Line For "Visibly Smart" Next Generation Gaming

BALDWIN PARK, CA (February 25, 2011) - CyberPower Inc. www.cyberpowerpc.com, a manufacturer of custom gaming machines, today announced it is immediately taking orders on custom-built desktop gaming systems based on Intel's second-generation Core i7, i5, and newly introduced, i3 Sandy Bridge processors.

CyberPower Reintroduces Sandy Bridge Desktop Line For آ“Visibly Smartآ” Next Generation Gaming


Beginning today, CyberPower will offer the Intel Sandy Bridge processor with fixed "Cougar" B3 chipsets across its entire lineup of award winning Gamer Xtreme and Infinity models and through its custom Configurator. CyberPower customers can be assured of ordering a custom system that brings exciting new performance features to desktop PC gaming as well as HD video, 3D games, multitasking, multimedia, or sharing photos.
Among the many models to feature the new processors will be the Gamer Xtreme 1000, 2000, and 5000. CyberPower gaming rigs with Sandy Bridge processors along with the 6 series chipset deliver the performance needed for HD video and photo editing, 3D gaming, and extreme multitasking.

CyberPower Reintroduces Sandy Bridge Desktop Line For آ“Visibly Smartآ” Next Generation Gaming

To celebrate the relaunch of Sandy Bridge and the annual NCAA March Madness tournament, CyberPower is spreading the madness with a month-long giveaway on Facebook. The giveaway features awesome prizes daily from brands CyberPower customers all know and love: Intel, NVIDIA, Razer, Kingston, Gigabyte, EVGA and more. To enter, visit CyberPower's official Facebook page at www.facebook.com/cyberpowerinc.

CyberPower Reintroduces Sandy Bridge Desktop Line For آ“Visibly Smartآ” Next Generation Gaming

All CyberPower Sandy Bridge-based systems are preloaded with Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium with Service Pack 1. All models can be easily customized with a number of hard drive and/or SSD, optical drive, memory, and other peripheral component options at the CyberPower website. CyberPower backs every desktop PC with its industry-best 3-year limited warranty.
About CyberPower Inc.
CyberPower Inc. www.cyberpowerpc.com was founded in 1998 and has emerged as one of the leading custom computer system manufacturers. Headquartered in Baldwin Park in Southern California, CyberPower manufacturers and distributes a complete line of custom built Gaming Desktops, Gaming notebooks and high performance workstations to meet the unique needs of gamers, businesses, government agencies, educational institutions and other end-users. For more information contact: Sales (800) 707-0393; Email cyberpower@cyberpowerpc.com.

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