Thermaltake Announces Transporter Carry Bag
Coming to aid LAN party goers, Thermaltake has made, and today unveiled, a sturdy carry bag that can hold up to a 100kg worth of gaming gear, including a (full/mid) tower chassis, a mouse, a keyboard, a headset, and all the cables that go along with them.
Called Transporter, this polyester TteSports-branded bag measures 600 x 300 x 600 mm, has a black/red color scheme, and provides protection against snow, water and dust. No word on pricing or availability
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ASUS ROG CG8565 Gaming Desktop
Here are the first pictures of ASUS' latest gaming desktop under its premium Republic of Gamers banner, the ROG CG8565. This black beauty is sculpted with the typical edgy design that has been found on recent ROG products. The case has no windows, but its design is enough to be an eyeball-magnet at LAN parties. The case looks well-ventilated with its intricately-designed vents on its top and sides. The front door slides down revealing the front panel, with two USB 3.0 ports, two USB 2.0 ports, audio, multi-format card reader, a Blu-ray ROM + DVD-RW combo drive, and a 3.5-inch SATA hard drive hot-swap bay. The ROG logo glows red when the system is powered on.
Under the hood, the ROG CG8565 is a Sandy Bridge-powered system. It is driven by an Intel Core i7-2600K quad-core processor, that's overclocked out of the box at 4.20 GHz. There are two higher OC presets that's selectable using the ROG panel, OC1 runs the CPU at 4.40 GHz, and OC2 runs it at 4.60 GHz. The CPU makes use of liquid cooling. In all likelihood, the motherboard is an ROG Maximus IV-class. There's 16 GB of dual-channel DDR3-1600 MHz memory.
A NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 dual-GPU graphics card is in-charge of graphics. An ASUS Xonar DX handles 7.1 channel sound. In terms of storage, a RAID 0 array of two 80 GB SSDs holds the operating system, while there are two 1 TB hard drives for storage, which can either be run as non-RAID disks or clubbed into RAID 0 or 1 modes. Pricing and availability information is awaited.
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MultiTouch today launched the largest LCD multi-touch display
MultiTouch today launched what it claims to be the largest LCD multi-touch display, powered by Intel's Sandy Bridge.
The MultiTaction Cell is a modular, 55-inch integrated LCD screen that can be combined into massive touch screen walls that support an unlimited number of users. Up to 24 displays can be stacked to run a single application. User input tracking is achieved via backlight emitter camera modules.
The screens come with a frameless, thin-bezel design that allows customers to build the Cell devices into any type of environment, including custom furniture, MultiTouch said. The displays can also be displayed horizontally and compete directly with Microsoft's Surface technology.
The screen has an active display area of 1209 x 680 mm and delivers 1080p resolution. The brightness is 250 cd/m2 and the contrast ratio is 4000:1. The software and high response time of 200 fps is driven by Intel Sandy Bridge processors. The power consumption is 450 watts per screen.
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Google+ Rolls Out Real-Time Search, Improved Hashtag Support
As of yesterday, Google+ has started to roll out a couple of updates that bring extra functionality, and make it 'easier to follow and contribute to live events'. One of the goodies is enhanced hashtag support while the other is real-time search.
The hashtag improvements basically make it so that terms you use hashtags for become links,. These links are to a search results page where you can find stories that contain the linked word.
Real-time search is pretty self-explanatory and allows result pages to be automatically updated when a new post is relevant to your query. Both these features should be available to all very soon.
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Nokia 603 Symbian Belle Smartphone Announced
Nokia still won't talk Windows Phone but it's willing to remind us that Symbian isn't technically dead yet so it went ahead to announced the Nokia 603 smartphone which runs Symbian Belle.
Coming in black and white (but users will have colorful rear covers to spice it up), this new phone measures 113.5 x 57.1 x 12.7 mm, it weights 109.6 grams and has a 3.5-inch (640 x 360) scratch-resistant ClearBlack touchscreen, a 1GHz processor, 2GB of storage space, a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera (can record 720p video), NFC, 802.11 b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth 3.0, A-GPS, FM radio, and a micro USB port.
The Nokia 603 will ship later this quarter and cost about €200 before taxes or operator subsidies.
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AMD launches FX Bulldozer desktop chips
Semiconductor giant AMD proudly announced on Tuesday the launch of its new FX series of processors, aimed at the desktop PC market and equipped with a set of customisable and fully unlocked functionalities.
The long-awaited FX Series debuts with four 32nm CPUs - two octo-cores, one hexa-core and one quad-core, all featuring unlocked multipliers so as to allow for easier overclocking, and all compatible with AM3+ motherboards.
The chips are equipped with four modules, each with a pair of cores, said the company.
Amongst the new products in the FX series, the FX-8150 happens to be the most powerful one with a base clock speed of 3.6 GHz, and it go as high as 4.2 GHz using the ‘Max Turbo’ mode and would be available in stores for about $245.
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Acer Launches Half a Dozen S0 Slim LED Series Monitors
Acer has now launched in Europe the S0 Slim LED Series monitors, six models going from 19-inch to 24-inch which make use of LED backlighting, TN panels, have a dynamic contrast ratio of up to 100,000,000:1, and can brag with a profile just 13mm thick.
The S0 line includes the 19-inch S190WL with a native resolution of 1440 x 900, the 20-inch S200HL (1600 x 900), and the Full HD/1080p-cable 21.5-inch S220HQL, 23-inch S230HL, and 24-inch S240HL and S240HLbid HDMI). Acer's displays feature a 5ms response time, 250 cd/m2 typical brightness, and provide D-Sub and DVI connectivity (the S240HLbid also has a HDMI port).
According to Acer, the S190WL, S200HL, S220HQL, S230HL, S240HL and S240HLbid HDMI are shipping with recommended price tags of €109, €119, €139, €159, €179 and €189, respectively.
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WD Reports Impact on HDD Production Due to Severe Flooding in Thailand
Having already affected millions of people in the country, the massive floods that hit Thailand are also taking their toll on Western Digital's business, as the company was forced to suspend its hard drive production there to protect employees and equipment from water ingress.
These unfortunate events will lead to serious constraints in Western Digital's supply as its Thailand facilities are very important pieces in the company's inner workings. In the quarter ended July first, the fab in Thailand shipped just over 32 million hard drives, of about 60% of Western Digital's total output.
WD says the continuously-changing conditions in Thailand don't allow for a full impact assessment.
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Qualcomm processor disclosed details of the next generation of Snapdragon S4
Qualcomm has recently released the details of their upcoming next-generation SoC, System on Chip or processor. This process will make your Smartphone able to run with a great power and will fulfil almost all of your expectations.
The Qualcomm’s S4 SoC or their latest 28nm processors are called as the Qualcomm’s Krait CPU and the Adreno 225 GPU. 28nm can come across as the same amount of work that can be done on this small chip, as in a larger hardware. They even seem to be the smallest as the last smallest was 45nm.
s it will be providing the same amount of power and boost in a smaller size, this also means that the power consumption of is also less, thus a longer up time with the same set of batteries.
The Krait CPU promises a boost of 60% over the current Qualcomm Scorpion line as it brings a new pipeline architecture. The clock speeds ranges from 1.5 to 2.5GHz, which seems to be the highest processor speed among the CPU of mobile devices.
The Adreno 225 GPU will have a 50% increase in performance over the last 220 line of Adreno GPU’s. The 225 will also be capable of providing support for DirectX 9.3 for Windows 8 as well as OpenGL ES 1.1 and 2.0. All these mean that these processors are really going to be great for the high powered games.
The S4 MSM8960 will also have multi-mode capabilities along with support for frequencies ranging from 700MHz to 2600MHz. Qualcomm has also claimed the support for Cat. 3 LTE (up to 100Mbps) and Cat. 24 HSPA+ (up to 42Mbps). There’s more according to them as EV-DO Rev. B 1x Advanced, EV-DO Rev. B TD-SCDMA, GSM, GPRS, and EDGE, and there’s even more support for simultaneous GLONASS and GPS and of course, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, NFC, and FM radio.
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Palit unveils the GeForce GTX 560 Ti Twin Light Turbo
Palit unveiled a new limited-edition GeForce GTX 560 Ti based non-reference design graphics card, the Palit GTX 560 Ti Twin Light Turbo. The card's design is based on a black colored PCB (Palit uses a red-colored one on its regular GTX 560 Ti cards), and a unique GPU Cooler design. The heatsink follows essentially the same structure as the one featured on Gainward Phantom cards, in which heat is conveyed to the aluminum fin stack by four heat pipes, but the fans that ventilate the card are located on the side of the heatsink facing the PCB, rather than on top of it. The fans draw in air from the heatsink. Palit claims that the cooler has a noise output of less than 10 dBA.
The clock speeds of the card are not given out, yet. Like every other GTX 560 Ti, this card makes use of a 40 nm GeForce Fermi 114 GPU, is DirectX 11 compliant, packs 384 CUDA cores, and makes use of 1 GB of GDDR5 memory across a 256-bit wide memory interface. Display outputs include two DVI, and one each of D-Sub and HDMI (full-size). There is one SLI connector that allows 2-way SLI with any other GTX 560 Ti card, and power is drawn in from two 6-pin PCIe power connectors. Availability and pricing information is not known at the moment.
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