Up until now, SSDs were regarded by most users as some “Sci-Fi” storage solutions, which, indeed, are able to seriously boost up a PC's or notebook's level of performance, but for a sum very few people were willing to spend (with price-per-GB ratio far inferior to HDDs). However, it would seem that Kingston, one of the leading innovators in the field of solid-state drive solutions, is willing to change this situation, since it's just announced a new SSD offering that will certainly prove to be quite appealing to a more mainstream audience. So, the memory manufacturer has just announced the release of the Kingston... [read more >>] Changing pixel shaders and DirectX versions is nothing that gamers take lightly since usually that means they will have to dig deeper into their pockets to get a new graphics card. And if you have a gamer friend, you know that the temptation will be too much to withstand. And with offers like AMD's new ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series cards, who can blame them? Stick around in order to hear everything about their new DirectX 11 enabled HD 5800 Series. Trust me, it's worth the read! The initial AMD release will comprise of two graphics cards: the ATI Radeon HD 5870 and ATI Radeon HD 5850, each one having 1GB GDDR5 memory as well as featu... [read more >>] One of the most respected families of hard drives in the world is without a doubt the Seagate Barracuda. And if any one of you still doubts it, get ready to hear this: Seagate has just introduced the Barracuda XT, the fastest desktop hard drive in the world and first to feature the Serial ATA 6Gb/s interface. This is especially essential for gamers and video slash photo editing professionals who need very fast speeds but cannot afford going for a professional SSD. "Capacity and performance remain the defining attributes of hard drives for PC gamers, digital multimedia content developers and many other customers requiring high-end systems a... [read more >>] While, in general, we tend to cover gadgets rather than “deep” hardware issues, there are times when we come across some very interesting piece of news from that segment as well. And that's exactly the case now, the issue at hand being represented by AMD's announcement regarding its first (and actually, the industry's first) quad-core CPU to go under the $100 threshold.The respective central processing unit is the AMD Athlon II X4 620 processor, built using the 45-nm process, which is going to play a very important role in the future mainstream desktop platforms powered by AMD. However, it won't go at it alon... [read more >>] If there is one universal constant I am sure will never change is that we will always need more space. Just you wait and see: as soon as we discover space travel, even what we now call “infinite” space won't be so “infinite” anymore. Humanity is in a continued evolution and since computers have become more of an extension of ourselves than some perhaps realize, our storage needs get bigger and bigger as we make our computers evolve to fit our ever changing demands.And because companies are quick to comply to people's request, Hitachi has started shipping the first 2TB drive with 7200 rotations per minute. T... [read more >>] You know, Advanced Micro Devices has been awfully quiet lately. Sure, an AMD processor and graphics using system delivered every now and then but nothing really big. Well, up until now, that is. Because the company has just announced the launch of what is currently its most powerful professional 3D graphics card, the ATI FirePro V8750. With 800 shader engines, a bandwidth of 115.2 GB/s, this graphics card is really a sight.“We’re amazed at the performance boost to our already fast MachStudio Pro real-time 3D workflow and rendering product with the new ATI FirePro V8750 3D workstation graphics accelerator,” said David Koeni... [read more >>] I was recently changing some cables on my computers when I realized that, for some reason, with all the additions I had made throughout the months that have passed, taking out my 3.5-inch hard drive would result in seriously injuring my computer's motherboard. Therefore, I had to take apart the entire computer in order to rectify the problem. Well, had I the newly (and world's first too) launched Western Digital 2.5-inch 1TB hard drive installed, things would have gone a whole lot simpler.Yes, you read that right. Western Digital has just released the first 1TB 2.5-inch hard drive designed, obviously, for mobile use. While I do no... [read more >>] Over the years, ASUS has managed to convince its fans that it can provide them with some of the most high-end computer solutions on the market. In that perspective, the Taiwanese company has launched a couple of product series featuring solutions that provides users with unique, high-end features.On that note, it appears that ASUS is at it again with the company expected to announce and showcase a new dual-GPU graphics card that will provide users with an impressive 4GB of DDR3 memory. The behemoth, which will be dubbed GTX 295 Mars, features a custom dual-slot cooler and might be showcased at next week's Computex show in Taiwan. ... [read more >>] Ever since its official launch, NVIDIA's ION platform has created quite a stir in the computer industry, leading to all sorts of interesting debates on the Internet, as well as quite a lot of bad blood between NVIDIA and Intel. And now, confirming some rumors and pieces of news that have been around for quite a long time (ever since CeBIT, to be precise, when we first heard a little something on the subject), Acer decided to be the first to roll out an ION-based product. And it wasn't the Hornet system everyone had been waiting for, but the AspireRevo nettop, a device whose form factor and features look very similar to the first I... [read more >>] It has already become somewhat of a custom for the manufacturers of various hardware components (mostly DRAM memory modules, but also cooling solutions) to create some very impressive custom-built systems that will really leave a mark with viewers, at the same time promoting the respective products. And that's exactly what you'll be able to see as follows, namely a very interesting system setup by Kingston in order to demo its SSDNow storage solution and HyperX RAM memory. The first thing that really drew the attention to the system was the case, which was completely see-through, allowing people to view exactly what was ... [read more >>] | 
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