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Judging from the products line-up from AVEXIR at this year's COMPUTEX, it appears they are well endowned to be one of the leading memory players in the enthusiasts market along side with Taiwan based G.Skill, TeamGroup and GeIL. Later part of this year, they will focus on pushing their own brand memories instead where in the recent years, they have taken a more backstage approach by supplying modules to well-known memory brands. Read on to find out more.

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VR-Zone was invited to a tour of ECS' headquarters in Taipei and an interview with ECS vice-president David Chien. Read on for pictures and an interesting Q&A session!

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After five eventful days of showcasing the latest technological advanvements in the field of infocommunication technology, the world's second largest such trade show, also known as Computex, has finally come to an end. And like how most major events are, TAITRA has organized a press conference at Hall 1 of the Taipei World Trade Center, where it talked about the success of this year's trade fair and its plans for the future of Computex.

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Over at COMPUTEX, A-DATA has a rather interesting line-up of SSDs based on SandForce controllers from top to bottom. For the performance category, they have the S511 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s in capacities of 60/120/240/480GB utilizing the SandForce SF-2200 controller and Intel 25nm Compute NAND with 550/520MB read/write speeds. What is more interesting is that their mSATA and unique form factors that are used in tablets and super slim notebooks are also using SandForce based controllers.

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The complete coverage on desktop PCs and peripherals, all together now!

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We chanced upon a quiet booth this morning but in a good way. They have some really sleek looking, high performance yet silent products lurking around their booth and we have rounded up some of their best products that might interest you.

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Enermax has been making some pretty nice keyboards like the Acrylux and Aurora series and is now exploring mechanical keyboards. For the first time, they have showcased a very early prototype of their mechanical gaming keyboard known as the KB01X. No further specs are available except that it is fitted with MX keyswitches from Cherry. We are still quite some time away from a more final version slated for 2012 so we can expect alot of changes and designs along the way. It is good to see more makers are getting on board gamers will have more options to choose from in the near future.

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LEPA, a brand probably still unknown to most people has showcased a rather interesting chassis over at COMPUTEX. This chassis that is able to fit two completely different systems inside. Let's check out more of this tall chassis.

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Kingston has another interesting product announced today and it's a storage solution known as the Wi-Drive for Apple iPad, iPhone and iPod users. Due to the limited storage capacity of Apple's mobile gadgets, this portable storage solution certainly has its potential. It allows up to three Apple users to store, share and even stream content wirelessly through the Wi-Drive app available for download from the App Store. Wi-Drive will be available later this month in capacities of 16GB and 32GB for US$129.99 and US$174.99 respectively.

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Kingston is clearly getting more serious in the SSD business and unveils their first SandForce based HyperX series SSD today. These SSDs are using the SandForce SF-2281 SATA 6Gb/s controllers with Intel 25nm Compute NAND (5K Program Erase) and are available in 120GB and 240GB capacities. HyperX SSDs have a read throughput of 525MB/s and a write throughput of 480MB/s, 4KB random read/write speeds of up to 95K/70K IOPS.

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Over at COMPUTEX Taipei 2011, Acer for the first time has showcased a 10-inch MeeGo based tablet running off Intel Atom (Moorestown) platform. Acer Iconia M500 has a  resolution of 1280x800 and has a snackable UI with a widget in circle shape. This MeeGo tablet is slated for launch later this year. We have included a hands-on video too so check it out.

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Vantec is all about expansion cards, PSUs and CPU coolers right? Well, not at Hall 1 of the Taipei World Trade Centre they aren't; apparently, the US-based designer and manufacturer of thermal products and computer peripherals does not have any new or updated versions of the aforementioned products available for the enthusiast market this year. So what will Vantec be showcasing this year? Why, the latest additions to its NexStar line of storage products, of course.

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Remember Leadtek? Well, it turns out that the Taiwanese graphics card designer and manufacturer has got its own booth at Computex as well (and at Hall 1, at that), where it has a collection of both enthusiast and professional graphics cards up on display for visitors. Let's take a look at what Leadtek has to offer...

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