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Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championship 2008 or in short GOOC 2008 is drawing nearer each day and is slated to take place next week in Taipei. It is the second major overclocking event taking place this year after Advanced Overclocking Championship 2008 (AOCC 2008) which was held in late July. According to Gigabyte, we will be expecting to see not only the overclocking action but many unreleased products will be showcased such as X58 boards and Core i7 demos. Also, Gigabyte is going to have many showgirls too.

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JSP Tech has unveiled a patented power supply unit that comes with a 140mm cooling fan and a rotatable fan grill. According to them, the rotatable fan grill design helps in lowering noise and temperature opposed to the conventional fan grill design. We asked for some technical data but they are unable to provide at this point of time. Specs and pricing will be updated later.

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Creative today announced the new Creative Sound Blaster® X-Fi® Notebook sound card, designed to make all of your iTunes, Rhapsody, Napster and MP3 music, movies and games on your notebook PC sound better. It fits easily into the ExpressCard slot to upgrade the latest notebook PCs to premium sound systems with award-winning X-Fi audio technology. The Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Notebook and the Creative Wireless Receiver (which includes a remote control) will be sold together at a suggested retail price of S$ 269.00 from end October 2008 onwards.

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ZOTAC enhances its award-winning GeForce GTX 260² and GeForce GTX 260 AMP²! Edition with 24 additional processor cores for a total of 216. The new enhanced ZOTAC GeForce GTX 260² and GeForce GTX 260 AMP²! Edition delivers performance that obliterates the competition. “We sought to squeeze extra performance from the NVIDIA GTX 260 graphics processor. By adding 24 additional processor cores, we saw performance gains up to 10-percent in the latest DirectX 10, OpenGL 2.1 and CUDA enabled 3D games and software applications,” said Carsten Berger, marketing director, ZOTAC International.

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BFG announced GeForce® GTX 260 MAXCORE™ graphics cards in three factory overclocked versions; OC, OC2, and OCX. BFG’s GeForce GTX 260 MAXCORE graphics cards boast 216 processing cores—24 more cores than a standard GeForce GTX 260. The BFG GeForce® GTX 260 OC, OC2, and OCX MAXCORE graphics cards will be available at leading online and in-store retailers throughout North America and Europe beginning the week of September 15, 2008.

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Designed for home users, the NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo offers many powerful features, performance and hardware flexibility to cater to even the savviest users storage needs.

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Intel has extended its lead in the high-end server segment, setting new standards in virtualization performance with the launch of seven 45 nm manufactured Intel® Xeon® Processor 7400 Series products. These products offer frequencies up to 2.66 GHz and power levels down to 50 watts, including the first 6-core, x86 compatible 65-watt version which translates to just under 11 watts per processor core, with platforms available in rack, tower and highly dense blade form factors. Pricing for the Xeon® 7000 Sequence processors in quantities of 1,000 ranges from $ 856 to $ 2,729.

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NOX /Nitrous Oxide/ A gas when used as an additive to boost the performance of a standard gasoline combustion engine. The performance level of this Zepto is gassed up with the Montenvina CPU and nVidia 9600GT 512MB DDR3 graphics card. Also, sometimes referred to as laughing gas...this is no notebook to be laughed at.

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Apple today introduced the new fourth generation iPod® nano, the thinnest iPod ever featuring a sleek new design with a curved aluminum and glass enclosure, in nine vibrant colors. The new iPod nano is available immediately for a suggested price of S$ 248 for the 8GB model and S$ 328 for the 16GB model. Apple also today introduced the second generation iPod® touch featuring an amazingly thin contoured metal design, a gorgeous 3.5-inch widescreen glass display, 802.11 b/g Wi-Fi wireless networking, integrated volume control buttons, a built-in speaker for casual listening, a built-in accelerometer and other advanced sensors, and Apple’s revolutionary Multi-Touch™ user interface. The new iPod touch is available immediately for a suggested price of S$ 388 for the 8GB model, S$ 498 for the 16GB and S$ 648 for the 32GB model.

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MSI today unveils non-reference R4850-T2D512 graphics card with Quad Pipe thermal design. In order to allow the -T2D 512 Quad Pipe graphics card to provide better stability and overclocking performance at full speed, MSI R&D team added a large heatsink in the graphics memory and power module to enhance the cooling performance. So that the overall cooling efficiency will substantially increase by 107%, enabling gamers to enjoy the ultimate gaming experience of R4850-T2E512 Quad Pipe graphics card.

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OCZ unveiled the OCZ Gladiator and Gladiator Max, the latest CPU cooler line designed for supreme thermal management and efficiency. Combining a distinctive stacked fin array, heat-pipe direct touch (HDT) design, and a large low-noise fan, the Gladiator series is built to take on the cooling challenges of today’s most powerful processors and ensure your system functions at its peak.

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AMD today announced two new workstation products; ATI FirePro V8700 and FirePro V3750. V8700 comes with 1GB frame buffer memory and has 800 shader units while V3750 features 256 MB of frame buffer memory with 320 shader processing units. The new ATI FirePro™ V8700 and ATI FirePro™ V3750 are expected to being shipping in fourth quarter 2008.

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