Archive for July, 2008

Calling all Gamers, OCZ Announces the “Win with the nia” Contest for Case and Prizes

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

OCZ Technology Group today announced its latest contest, "Win with the nia," where competing gamers can use the revolutionary Neural Impulse Actuator to contend at national and regional levels for prize money and OCZ computer products. Gamers from all over the world will have the chance to put their nias ...

Hitachi Brings CinemaStar 7K1000.B and CinemaStar 5K320 to the Market

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi) today introduced two new CinemaStar hard drives optimized for use in digital video recorders (DVRs) and set-top boxes. The CinemaStar 7K1000.B is available in a broad range of capacities up to one terabyte (1TB) and the CinemaStar 5K320 delivers up to 320GB of capacity and ...

Corsair Claims Another DDR3 Memory World’s Speed Record.

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Corsair Memory, a leading manufacturer of high-end memory products, on Thursday said it had broken another world’s record with its DDR3 memory module operating at a frequency higher than 2.50GHz, which is more than two times higher compared to memory clock-speed in a performance mainstream personal computer.

KDE 4.1 Released

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

Six months after the release of KDE 4.0, the KDE community today announced KDE 4.1, the second most important release in the KDE 4 era. KDE 4.1 brings support for a lot of new applications and newly developed features. It is also the first KDE4 release to contain the Personal ...

KDE 4.1 Released

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

Six months after the release of KDE 4.0, the KDE community today announced KDE 4.1, the second most important release in the KDE 4 era. KDE 4.1 brings support for a lot of new applications and newly developed features. It is also the first KDE4 release to contain the Personal ...

NVIDIA Brings GeForce 9800M and 9700M GPUs to Notebook PCs

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

NVIDIA Corporation has unveiled a new era of notebook PC gaming, featuring advanced rendering and physics effects that will transform gaming beyond what consumers know today. Enabling this evolution is a new generation of notebook PCs equipped with NVIDIA's newest GeForce 9800M and 9700M GPUs and featuring NVIDIA's PhysX physics ...

Dell Comes Up with 24-inch 16:9 Widescreen Display

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

True HD computer displays have become increasingly popular for the past year. Now Dell knows that and has released S2409W, Dell's first 24-inch 16:9 widescreen display. The 16:9 aspect ratio brings along 1920x1080 Full HD display resolution, 5ms response time, 300 cd/m2 brightness, 1000:1 contrast ratio, and 160° / 170° ...

NVIDIA Amps Up GeForce Lineup With Immediate Availability Of Three New GPUs

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

NVIDIA Corporation, the world leader in visual computing technologies, today announced the immediate availability of three new desktop GeForce 9 Series graphics processing units (GPUs) that bring support for NVIDIA PhysX technology and CUDA general-purpose parallel computing to mainstream PC computing markets.

Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 to Arrive on August 31st

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

It has been said that Intel is preparing to launch its latest Core 2 Quad processor, the Q8200 on August 31st. The forthcoming processor features four 45nm Penryn cores, 2.33GHz core clock, 4MB of shared L2 cache, a 1333MHz front-side bus, and a suggested price tag of just $203. Specs ...

WD Announces 2.5-inch 10k RPM VelociRaptor HDD for Blade Servers

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

WD announced today the WD VelociRaptor 10,000 RPM enterprise SATA hard drives in an enterprise-class 2.5-inch form factor for blade servers and 1U and 2U rack servers. The newest WD VelociRaptor hard drive is built for business-critical applications with enterprise-class mechanics and packs up to 300 GB of capacity into ...