• ATi R580 Is Ready

    By on September 28, 2005 10:46 pm

    In an ATi R520 presentation, one of the slides reveals that their next generation R580 is actually in the house and working. It will be the improved version of R520 built with 24 and 32 pipelines. Two months back, we reported that NVIDIA G80 is ready and waiting for...

  • ATi R5xx Series Summary

    By on September 28, 2005 10:31 pm

      R520 RV530 RV515 Segment Enthusiast Performance/Mainstream Mainstream / Value Process 90nm 90nm 90nm DX Support DX9, SM 3.0 DX 9, SM 3.0 DX 9, SM 3.0 Shader Processors 16 12 4 Memory Interface 256-bit 128, 64-bit 128, 64, 32-bit (HyperMemory) AVIVO Support Y Y Y Memory Support (Ref....

  • HIS X800GT IceQ II Turbo

    By on September 28, 2005 10:51 am

    It has been HIS’s tradition to include the pretty looking Arctic Cooling heatsink fan onto their products. Together with HIS’s special iTurbo feature, we take a look at the “BMW” of the X800GT class.

  • GSkill 1GB GH DDR Review

    By on September 28, 2005 2:57 am

    In the current DDR market, there are 2 types of memory enthusiasts and overclockers look out for. One type uses Samsung TCCD that can scale to very high frequencies at loose timings. The other type uses Winbond UTT which do moderate frequencies at very fast timings. We take a...

  • Radeon X1300LE Performance

    By on September 28, 2005 12:52 am

    HKEPC has done some testing on the upcoming 90nm RV515 to be officially known as X1300LE. This card comes with 4 pipelines and was compared against the NVIDIA GeForce 6600 card with 8 pipelines. It is benchmarked using Pentium 4 XE 3.73 1066MHz FSB, Gigabyte GA-8I955X-Royal and Corsair DDR2...

  • Toshiba To Develop Slim-Type HD DVD-ROM Drive

    By on September 28, 2005 12:30 am

    Toshiba today brought high-definition imaging to portable computing with the development of the world’s first notebook PC integrating a slim-type HD DVD-ROM drive. Toshiba plans to commercialize the new PC by the beginning of 2006, initially in Japan, giving computer users access to high definition video images recorded in...

  • Intel & Microsoft Endorse HD DVD

    By on September 27, 2005 11:52 pm

    Intel and Microsoft are combining their industry power in an attempt to make the HD DVD format the victor in a battle over a standard to succeed DVD. There are several reasons the two companies went with HD DVD, said Richard Doherty, Microsoft’s program manager for media entertainment convergence....

  • VIA StrongBox Mobile Computing Security

    By on September 27, 2005 11:42 pm

    VIA today made available VIA StrongBox, a secure virtual drive application that utilizes the VIA PadLock Security Engine in VIA C7 and VIA C7-M processors to enable real-time encryption of data on local storage devices using military-grade security algorithms. The security of VIA StrongBox will be put to the...

  • Shuttle Launches NVIDIA SLI Ready XPC

    By on September 27, 2005 11:38 pm

    Shuttle has today released final details of its much anticipated gaming barebone, the XPC SN26P. Previewed by a number of hardware review websites and magazines earlier in the year, the XPC SN26P has, even before today’s launch, earned itself numerous awards including “Most Innovative Product” awards from websites HardwareZone...

  • ASUS P5ND2 SLI Deluxe Voltage Mods

    By on September 27, 2005 9:25 pm

    The ASUS P5ND2 SLI Deluxe is not as popular a board as its 955x chipset brother, the P5WD2 Premium. Nevertheless, there are still people out there who overclock on these boards and may need a bit of modding to get more voltages from the board. More details here.

  • ASUS Extreme N6600GT Silencer

    By on September 27, 2005 2:54 pm

    Silence has been the trend these days. Various graphics card makers are outdoing each other with more elaborate cooling solutions that boast to be quieter and just as efficient. For the N6600GT Silencer, ASUS totally removed the fan for total silence. Just how did they do it?

  • Tyan “Triumph” Network Appliances

    By on September 27, 2005 11:52 am

    Leveraging from the success of its award-winning server and workstation platforms, Tyan’s new Triumph network security product line incorporates multiple LAN network ports and protection features into platforms designed for the emerging network security industry. These highly-integrated embedded platforms offer high-integrity Firewall, VPN, IPS and IDS features to meet...

  • Palm Smartphones On Windows Mobile

    By on September 27, 2005 11:50 am

    Palm and Microsoft today announced a strategic alliance to accelerate the smartphone market segment with a new device for mobile professionals and businesses. Palm has licensed the Microsoft(R) Windows Mobile(R) operating system for an expanded line of Treo(TM) smartphones, the first of which will be available in the U.S....

  • OCZ DDR PC-4000 Platinum EB 2GB Kits,

    By on September 27, 2005 11:05 am

    OCZ announce the release of OCZ DDR PC-4000 Platinum Enhanced Bandwidth Edition 1GB modules and 2GB dual channel kits, a series designed to give PC enthusiasts and gamers the ultimate combination of density and speed. Unlike no other 2GB memory solution, this cutting-edge line operates with the extraordinarily fast...

  • Intel Unveils 3.8GHz & LV Xeons

    By on September 27, 2005 2:38 am

    As part of its strategy to improve power efficiency, Intel today introduced low voltage versions of its Intel Xeon processors. They include the 64-bit Intel Xeon processor LV 3 GHz with only a 55W processor power envelope and the 64-bit Intel Xeon processor MV 3.20 GHz with a 90W...

  • AMD Roll Out Dual-Core Opterons @ 2.6GHz

    By on September 27, 2005 2:26 am

    AMD today announced three new models in the Dual-Core AMD Opteron™ processor family, delivering the world’s highest performance for one-way to eight-way x86 servers and workstations. The Dual-Core AMD Opteron processor Model 880 for up to eight-way, 16-core enterprise-class servers and Model 280 for high performance dual-processor workstations and...

  • X-Micro Video Mp3 400 Player

    By on September 27, 2005 2:24 am

    X-Micro has introduced the Video MP3 400, an innovative new MP3 player with a video display. The pocket-sized device looks like most flash-based MP3 players on the market, except for one outstanding feature: it has a color video screen. The Video MP3 400 comes with standard features such as...

  • “ASUS Ready” Corsair XMS-3500LL PRO 2GB Kit

    By on September 27, 2005 2:13 am

    Corsair and ASUS today announced a joint product launch targeting the AMD® enthusiasts. Under this collaboration, Corsair will release its first “ASUS Ready” XMS-3500LL PRO 2GByte-kit to support the release of the first “Corsair optimized” x16 SLI motherboards engineered by ASUS. Available in a matched pair of two 1GByte...

  • EPoX EP-8NPA SLI S754 Board

    By on September 27, 2005 2:02 am

    After nVIDIA released nForce4 SLI chipset , it caused a huge disturbance in the gaming world by bringing to the table possibilities for dual VGA card gaming systems. EPoX has now launched the worlds first SLI mainboard, EP-8NPA SLI, with 754 Sempron CPU support which satisfies the needs of...

  • UMC To Produce R521, RV531 & RV516

    By on September 26, 2005 9:20 pm

    ATI has placed orders with UMC to produce its R521, RV531 and RV516 GPUs using 90nm technologys. The GPUs have similar designs as the upcoming R520, RV530 and RV515 GPUs, which are being manufactured at TSMC. Low yield rates at TSMC has given UMC an opportunity to win 90nm...