• 975X Boards Not Ready For Conroe Yet

    By on January 27, 2006 5:36 am

    We tested some of the 975X boards out there but none can support Conroe so far and not even a BIOS update can fix it. Apparently there are some hardware modifications that need to be done to the board before Conroe can run on it. That means there will...

  • Xbox 360 Pricing & Launch Date For Singapore

    By on January 27, 2006 4:34 am

    Microsoft today announced the Singapore retail price for the Xbox 360™. The next generation video game and entertainment system from Microsoft Corp will start from SG$ 535 and will be available on retail shelves from 16 March, 2006. Two versions of the console will go on sale in Singapore...

  • Intel Formed Itanium Solutions Alliance

    By on January 27, 2006 4:32 am

    Senior executives from the Itanium® industry met today in San Francisco to lay out a united strategy for Itanium® solution delivery with a goal of mission critical computing market segment leadership by the end of the decade. To take advantage of the growing momentum in enterprise and technical computing...

  • ATi Radeon X1900XT Retail Cards : ASUS & Sapphire

    By on January 26, 2006 6:41 pm

    ATi Radeon X1900XT is the long awaited successor to the older X1800XT. Previously known as the R580, the X1900XT features a whopping 48 Pixel Shader unit architecture – 3 times more than what the X1800XT offers. In this review, we take a look at retail cards from ASUS and...

  • ATi & NVIDIA Mobile GPUs Roadmap

    By on January 26, 2006 6:10 pm

       Market Segment Q1 2006 Q2 2006 H2 2006 ATi High End Mobility Radeon X1800 (M58) Mobility Radeon X1900 (M68) M78 Mainstream Mobility Radeon X1600 (M56) M76 Value Mobility Radeon X1400 (M54) Mobility Radeon X1300 (M52) M72 NVIDIA High End GeForce Go 7800 GTX (G70M) GeForce Go 7800 (G70M)...

  • Conroe Comes In 2MB & 4MB Configs

    By on January 26, 2006 4:45 pm

    Intel Conroe will be available in 2 versions; 2MB and 4MB shared L2 cache and will be LGA775 based. Most probably the 4MB Conroe will be the Pentium Extreme Edition series while 2MB Conroe will be Pentium D series and the Celeron D will be occupied by Cedarmill. Conroe...

  • Intel 965 Chipsets Slated For Q2 Launch

    By on January 26, 2006 4:42 pm

    Intel will be releasing 965 chipsets codenamed Broadwater in Q2 and there are mainly two versions; P965 and G965. Both chipsets will be supporting the next generation Conroe processors, 1066MHz FSB and Dual Channel DDR2-800. Of course G965 will come integrated with the next generation Intel GMA graphics with...

  • Palm’s Valentine’s Day Promotion

    By on January 26, 2006 3:51 pm

    Good news for those who want to celebrate Valentine’s Day in style. Palm® today announced its Valentine’s Day “one-for-one promotion” where customers who purchase either the TreoTM 650 Smartphone Special Blue Edition or the silver edition will be able to redeem* a ZireTM 31 handheld (worth S$ 248) for...

  • WD Ships 500GB Desktop & 120GB Mobile HDD

    By on January 26, 2006 3:34 pm

    Western Digital is shipping its new high-capacity 500 GB Serial ATA (SATA) WD Caviar® SE16 desktop-class hard drives. Providing a half terabyte of capacity for data-intensive applications such as graphic design, digital video editing, personal video recorders and advanced business computing, WD Caviar SE16 500 GB drives also deliver...

  • Thecus YES nano N1050

    By on January 26, 2006 3:19 pm

    Thecus Technology is proud to introduce the YES nano N1050 OTG Photo Bank. Featuring on-the-go backup, large storage capacity, and USB connectivity, the YES nano N1050 delivers digital storage that’s as active as you are. Measuring a scant 124 x 75 x 13mm, the YES nano N1050 is barely...

  • Thermalright HR-01-775 Passive Cooler

    By on January 26, 2006 3:15 pm

    Once again, Thermalright has stepped up to take that challenge and introduced the HR-01-775*. HR-01-775 is a passive tower cooler that utilizes the fan that is already installed in your computer. It works side by side with the fan duct system developed exclusively by Thermalright. Basically, the fan duct...

  • Compro VideoMate U900 TV Tuner

    By on January 26, 2006 6:28 am

    Compro VideoMate U900 is the world’s smallest full functions USB 2.0 TV Box. Built-in the advanced high-quality silicon tuner, it’s smaller than a credit card, provides the powerful features with TV watching, MPEG-1/2/4 formats scheduled recording, timeshifting, channel surfing, still frame capture, S-Video, composite video and stereo audio capturing,...

  • AMD CPU Market Share Grew Over 20%

    By on January 26, 2006 6:24 am

    AMD now accounts for 21.4 percent of all desktop, notebook and server processors using the x86 instruction set that were shipped during the fourth quarter. The chipmaker’s share grew from 17.7 percent in the third quarter, on strong gains in all three of those segments. Surging shipments of Opteron...

  • Super Talent 2GB DDR Kits

    By on January 26, 2006 6:00 am

    Super Talent Technology today announced two new ultra high performance DDR memory kits. Both kits consist of a pair of 1GB DDR memory modules. X40PB2GC3 is a kit of two 1GB PC4000 CAS-3 modules. This kit supports ultra fast 500MHz clock speeds at standard latencies. X32PB2GC2 is a kit...

  • Intel Produced 45nm Chips

    By on January 26, 2006 5:18 am

    Intel today announced it has become the first company to reach an important milestone in the development of 45 nanometer (nm) logic technology. Intel has produced what are believed to be the first fully functional SRAM (Static Random Access Memory) chips using 45nm process technology, its next– generation, high–volume...

  • PowerColor Radeon X1900 Series

    By on January 26, 2006 4:47 am

    Tul Corporation, provider of industry-leading PowerColor graphic cards, today introduces PowerColor X1900 CrossFire Edition, X1900XTX and X1900XT, the latest series of extreme performance graphic cards. These cards demolish previous benchmarks to set new standards in hard-core 3D gaming. The PowerColor X1900 Series utilizes the latest ATI Radeon R580 core....

  • GeCube Radeon X1900 Series

    By on January 26, 2006 4:45 am

    GECUBE, the major supplier of the world’s leading graphics card brand, today announced the fastest graphic card to be released to the market—the GECUBE RADEON ®X1900XT high-performance graphics card. Powered by the ATI R580XT VPU (visual processing unit), the GECUBE RADEON ®X1900 series is the most and fastest card...

  • Sapphire Radeon X1900 Series

    By on January 26, 2006 3:43 am

    Radeon X1900 Crossfire Radeon X1900 XT Radeon X1900 XTX Sapphire is introducing several models in this exciting new family, all featuring 512MB of high speed GDDR3 memory. Top of the range is the RADEON X1900XTX with its 650MHz engine clock and 775MHz (1550MHz effective) memory clock frequency, while the...

  • Adobe Production Studio Unveiled

    By on January 26, 2006 3:32 am

    Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today unveiled Adobe® Production Studio, an extension of the Adobe Creative Suite family of products. The most complete post-production software solution available today, Adobe Production Studio combines full new versions of Adobe’s world class video and graphics applications—Adobe After Effects® 7.0, Adobe Premiere Pro® 2.0,...

  • TYAN Validated For AMD Server Program

    By on January 26, 2006 2:59 am

    AMD today welcomed three new participants – Supermicro Computer, Inc., Tyan Computer Corporation and Uniwide Technologies, Inc. – to its Validated Server Program (VSP), broadening the program’s reach in North America and Europe and into new geographical regions. AMD’s VSP is designed to connect solution providers with VSP participants...