IT News HeadLines (VR-Zone) 27/02/2011

MSI annouces exchange procedures for P67 and H67 motherboards
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MSI has announced it is now ready to swap faulty B2-stepping Intel P67 and H67 motherboards with revised B3-stepping ones. Users can either register online for an exchange and wait for MSI's go-ahead for a swap, or wait till the end of March for a walk-in exchange at the store the board was purchased from.

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GIGABYTE shipping new B3 P67 and H67 motherboards, available as early as this week
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GIGABYTE has announced on Friday that they have begun shipping motherboards with the new B3-stepping Intel P67 and H67 Express chipsets. The products are expected to be available as early as this week, when shipments start to clear customs in markets around the world.

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Play PC games on your iPhone and iPad now, PS3 games in the near future
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While you can't literally install your desired PC games onto your iOS devices for gaming-on-the-go, there has been a way around this: by using remote desktop connectivity to remotely control your PC at home. Now, a developer is working on bringing the PS3 experience to your iOS device.

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Zalman Launches New USB3.0 External HDD Enclosures
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Korean cooing specialist has unveiled its new line-up of USB 3.0 enclosures (ZM-HE250 U3, ZM-HE350 U3 & ZM-HE350 U3E) and a USB 3.0 expansion card (ZM-PC302 U3), targeting enthusiasts. The stylish aluminium enclosures support 2.5" and 3.5" SATA I/ II HDDs and deliver data transfer speeds up to 5Gbps via a USB 3.0 interface. The ZM-PC302 U3 is a dual USB 3.0 port expansion card with PCI-e 1X interface and 4-Pin auxiliary power support (for stability), allowing users to add USB 3.0 functionalities to their PCs.

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OCZ Preps Vertex 3 and Vertex 3 Pro SSDs
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OCZ Technology Group's Vertex 3 and Vertex 3 Pro SSDs are poised to make their debut at Cebit 2011 next week. The 2.5" SSDs, powered by SandForce's SF-2000 series controllers, deliver data transfer speeds up to 550Mb/s (read) and 500Mb/s (write) and feature TRIM support,  MLC NAND flash memory, and a SATA III interface. The Vertex 3, aimed at prosumers, is equipped with the SandForce SF-2200 processor and will be available in 120Gb and 240Gb capacities. The "enterprise-class" Vertex 3 Pro features a SF-2500 chip and will come in 100Gb, 200Gb, and 400Gb models. All Vertex 3 series SSDs are covered by a three-year warranty.

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GeForce GTX 550 Ti spotted in EU e-tail
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Several EU e-tailers have listed PNY's take on NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce GTX 550 Ti, well ahead of launch. There are no major surprises from the details we first reported on the GTX 550 Ti earlier. The specifications are remarkably similar to the outgoing GeForce GTS 450 - 192 SP, 32 TMU, 16 ROP, based on GF116, a tuned GF106. The GTX 550 Ti also continues to have 64-bit of the 192-bit in the GF116 chip disabled, for an effective bus width of 128-bit. Where the GTX 550 Ti largely differs from its predecessor, the GTS 450, is in clocks and pricing (and, of course, branding).

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Biostar unveils its H61 motherboards
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Ahead of CeBIT, Biostar has unveiled its Intel H61 chipset based motherboard models and the company will offer three different SKUs of what is pretty much the same board as well as one more advanced model. The H61 chipset is Intel's budget solution for the second generation Core i processors and is really intended to be paired up with the cheaper Pentium branded CPUs which are expected to launch sometime later this year.

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iPhone 5 to feature larger screen and thinner bezel?
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It seems that parts of the upcoming iPhone 5 has been leaked in China. Yes, the image is the rumoured iPhone 5 screen component.

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