Corsair Vengeance 1600 MHz CL9 12 GB DDR3

Corsair is a well known brand of performance memory in the enthusiast market. They offer modules with unique cooling and a broad range of high performance USB flash drives as well as well built power supplies. As of late their focus has been placed on cases and water cooling parts along with SSDs. With their newest line-up of memory - called Vengeance, Corsair is now offering a new series of high-performance DDR3 for the enthusiast.

From the manufacturer:

• Speed Rating: PC3-12800
  
• Tested Speed: 1600Mhz
  
• Size: 12GB Kit (3 x 4GB)
  
• Tested Latency: 9-9-9-24
  
• Tested Voltage: 1.5 V
  
• Warranty: Lifetime
  

Packaging

Razer Gaming Gears

"Are You Man or Mouse"

"Frag The Competition"

"Get The Unfair Advantage"

"Have You Seen My Snake"

"Losing Sucks"

"Proud To Be a Player"

"Well Equipped"

Price:

Specification:

• High quality 260 GSM, 100% Cotton

Razer Gaming Mouse Mats

Razer Kabuto

Essential Soft Mobile Gaming Mouse Mat

Price:

Specification:

• High quality ultra-thin microfiber material
• High grip natural rubber base
• Doubles up as a laptop screen protector for ultimate usability and convenience

Razer Gaming Audio

Razer Megalodon

Elite 7.1 Surround Sound Gaming Headset

Price:

Specification:

• Razer Maelstrom™ audio engine
• Onboard Audio Processing
• Noise filtering, amplified microphone
• Tangle-free braided fiber cable

Razer Keyboard

Razer BlackWidow Ultimate

Elite Mechanical Gaming Keyboard

Price:

Specification:

• Mechanical Key Architecture for Superior Tactility and Faster Response
• Full Programmable Keys allow Effortless Configuration
• Individually Backlit Keys With 5 Levels of Lighting

Razer Mice

Razer Naga Epic™

Elite MMO Gaming Mouse

Price:

Specification:

• MMO-optimized multi-button thumb grid
• Charging dock and wireless receiver unit
• Scroll wheel with 24 individual click positions
• 3 interchangeable side panelsAnti-slip rubber coating
• 16 million color backlight illumination
• Detachable 7-ft braided cord for dual mode wired/wireless functionality

Cooler Master Black Label

Cooler Master Black Label Limited Edition Launched
Cooler Master introduces the Black Label Limited Edition with worldwide availability of 500 individually numbered sets. This luxiourious collection brings together the company’s award-winning computing chassis, cooler and power supply, with an added touch of sophistcated black appearance plus feature enchancements: Cosmos Black Label, Hyper Z600 Black Label and a powerful PSU unit. MSRP 599USD or 499EUR. Details at: Cooler Master Black.

The 500 Club
Black Label Limited Edition customers will receive private membership, giving them access to our Black Label Lounge. Members will enjoy exclusive benefits such as: priority purchase privileges, VIP event invitations, interaction with fellow club members and more.

Pure Black Sophisticated Design
Designers at Cooler Master have ensured that pure black means every detail is taken into account, with a full black exterior and interior. This stunning pure black is a first for Cooler Master which shows the excellence in craftsmanship the company has built its reputation on.

Striving for Perfection
Subtle improvements have made this an elite collection. Cosmos Black Label has a unique tinted side panel and its upgraded cooling capability further improves on reliability and performance. Hyper Z600 Black Label with the all new black appearance is equipped with improved PWM fan and airflow cover for unsurpassed cooling.

The Bulldozer and Bobcat

AMD has been curiously absent from the value netbook and nettop segments since Atom’s arrival nearly three years ago. These markets are highly profitable only for component vendors, as the OEMs that sell netbooks and nettops must survive on very slim margins in order to hit aggressive price points. It wasn’t too long ago that we were shocked by $699 desktop PCs, but to now be able to get a fully functioning portable PC with display at below $300 is impressive. In order for the profit equation to work out however, you can’t simply scale down a larger chip - you need an architecture targeted specifically at the type of very light workloads you expect to encounter in these segments. Underclocking and undervolting an architecture targeted at high end desktops or servers won’t cut it.

Generally a single microprocessor architecture can cover an order of magnitude of power envelopes. You can take an architecture from 10W - 100W using clock speed, voltage scaling and disabling features (e.g. cutting cache sizes). You can’t efficiently take a 100W architecture and scale it down to 1W. Intel realized this with Atom, and what resulted was a new architecture designed to span the 0.5W - 5W range. Given the constraints of the process (Atom was built at 45nm) and a desire to keep die size down to a minimum (and thus maximize profits), Intel went with a dual-issue in-order architecture reminiscent of the old Pentium - but with a modern twist.

AMD came to the same realization. For it to compete in these value markets, AMD couldn’t rely on its existing Phenom II derived architectures. The Phenom II and its relatives currently span a range of TDPs from 9W to 140W, and at the lower end of that spectrum we’re talking about some very low clock speeds and performance targets. Getting down to 1W was out of the question without a separate design.

What AMD came up with was a core called Bobcat, initially targeted for netbooks, notebooks, nettops and entry level desktops. Architecturally Bobcat is a significant step ahead of Atom: while still dual-issue, it features an out-of-order execution engine making it the Pentium Pro to Atom’s Pentium.

Review Intel 2nd generation; Sandy Bridge

Intel never quite reached 4GHz with the Pentium 4. Despite being on a dedicated quest for gigahertz the company stopped short and the best we ever got was 3.8GHz. Within a year the clock (no pun intended) was reset and we were all running Core 2 Duos at under 3GHz. With each subsequent generation Intel inched those clock speeds higher, but preferred to gain performance through efficiency rather than frequency.

Today, Intel quietly finishes what it started nearly a decade ago. When running a single threaded application, the Core i7-2600K will power gate three of its four cores and turbo the fourth core as high as 3.8GHz. Even with two cores active, the 32nm chip can run them both up to 3.7GHz. The only thing keeping us from 4GHz is a lack of competition to be honest. Relying on single-click motherboard auto-overclocking alone, the 2600K is easily at 4.4GHz. For those of you who want more, 4.6-4.8GHz is within reason. All on air, without any exotic cooling.

Unlike Lynnfield, Sandy Bridge isn’t just about turbo (although Sandy Bridge’s turbo modes are quite awesome). Architecturally it’s the biggest change we’ve seen since Conroe, although looking at a high level block diagram you wouldn’t be able to tell. Architecture width hasn’t changed, but internally SNB features a complete redesign of the Out of Order execution engine, a more efficient front end (courtesy of the decoded µop cache) and a very high bandwidth ring bus. The L3 cache is also lower and the memory controller is much faster. I’ve gone through the architectural improvements in detail here. The end result is better performance all around. For the same money as you would’ve spent last year, you can expect anywhere from 10-50% more performance in existing applications and games from Sandy Bridge.

I mentioned Lynnfield because the performance mainstream quad-core segment hasn’t seen an update from Intel since its introduction in 2009. Sandy Bridge is here to fix that. The architecture will be available, at least initially, in both dual and quad-core flavors for mobile and desktop (our full look at mobile Sandy Bridge is here). By the end of the year we’ll have a six core version as well for the high-end desktop market, not to mention countless Xeon branded SKUs for servers.

It's the World's Smallest SSD, and Pocket Knife

It's the "world's smallest SSD" encased in a Swiss Army Knife.

Victorinox, maker of the original Swiss Army Knife, has combined its flagship product with what it dubs as the world's smallest solid-state drive. Called the Victorinox Secure SDD, the device stores up to 256 GB and reportedly offers double the read speeds and triple the write speeds of USB flash drives with the same size.

As expected, the storage device comes packed with the standard features: scissors, a straight blade, and a nail file/screwdriver. For the not-so-adventurous, the tool also provides USB 2.0 and eSATA II connectivity, a 32-bit processor with hardware error correction, secure data encryption, and dynamic power management. There's even an LCD/e-paper display that shows how much space is available on the drive.

On the software front, the drive provides a suite of tools for automatic backups, managing bookmarks and favorites, synchronizing documents and folders between more than one computer, synchronization of Office Outlook or Outlook Express files, and password management. The software also provides Zero-Footprint capability to ensure anonymity while browsing for other less-geeky knives online.

Victorinox also revealed two additional, smaller models: the 64 GB Victorinox Slim and the 128 GB Victorinox Slim Duo. Both are waterproof, shock-resistant and come in various colors. Despite the smaller capacity, both drives also sport scissors, a blade, and a nail file/screwdriver. There's even a "flight friendly" version to please airport security checkpoints, offering the knife/SSD duo without the suspicious tools.

Pricing and availability was not provided, so stay tuned.

Article from: tom's hardware

SSD on the board for shotgun and riffles

This is how we test a SSD. No one is going to deny the ioSafe SSD in this way.

ioSafe's Rugged Portable SSD has the following feature points:

• Crush protection up to 5,000 lbs.
• Drop protection up to 20'
• Immersion protection up to 30' for 3 days
• USB 3.0, USB 2.0 and FireWire
• Data Recovery Service up to $5,000
• World's best warranty
• Works with Macs and PCs

While ioSafe never makes any claims about being bulletproof, the company set up a special opportunity for us to shoot up drives ourselves. 

Source: tom's hardware

AMD Radeon 6990 show time.

26 January 2011, AMD is in Singapore "Shangri-la Hotel Singapore" in "AMD Asia Pacific Fusion Tech Day" was held. To oversee the company's graphics business Matt Skynner (Matt Skinner), vice president and general manager there, Cayman equipped with two units of the GPU core, codenamed "Antilles" next Furagushippugurafikkusukado known as "Radeon HD 6990 " and to market by the end of the first quarter of 2011 to clarify and real samples were also published.

　Radeon HD 6990 has now been published, Card "center" equipped with a fan, had become a two-slot graphics card specifications. PCI Express auxiliary power connector 8-pin +6 but, according to officials Gurafikkusukadobenda in Kurokkuappumoderu-pin 8-pin and 8 × 2 × 2 +6 × pin is secured with the flexibility to take a configuration thing.
"ATI Radeon HD 5970" and "Radeon HD 6970" and so, unlike the card also has side slits for heat dissipation, which in appearance and features.

　The display output reference design, Dual Link DVI-I × 1, Mini Display Port × 4 configuration. There is only one CrossFire connector, consists of four pieces of 2-way CrossFireX also supports.

　It became clear the market in the fourth quarter, which we expect will increase still more.

Article From: 4gamer.net

Intel hires Will-i-am as 'director of creative innovation,' whole world is nonplussed

You know a job title is tenuous when even the guys who announce it have to put it in quotation marks -- Intel's just signed up the Black Eyed Peas' Will.i.am as a "director of creative innovation." The hip hop star responsible for flooding CES 2010 and every BlackBerry event since with an irritatingly cheery tune (which we're sure we don't have to name) is about to commence a long-term, "hands-on" collaboration with Intel on its development of "new technologies, music and tech advocacy." Basically, it sounds like he'll act as an ambassador for the chip company, who'll in turn pretend to listen to his zany ideas aboutmega-giga-bass. Then again, Lady Gaga's similar partnership with Polaroid produced these glasses, so what the hell do we know? 

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Source: Engadget

AMD RADEON 6850 RECEIVES HIS ICEQ TREATMENT

With the word “ICE” in its name, you can pretty much guess what these graphic cards are made for. Featured in many of HIS previous graphic card offerings, the proprietary IceQ cooling solution is now available for their AMD Radeon HD 6850 graphic cards series and promises lower operating temperature which is usually associated with better performances together with more room for overclocking.

The company claims that the new HIS Radeon 6850 IceQ X series cards are more than 13-Celsius cooler and 7db more quieter than a reference 6850. HIS also stated that the cards are equipped with high quality components such as dynamic phase control PWM IC, solid stake choke and full solid state capacitors in order to make them more stable, efficient and last longer. Not bad indeed.

The HIS 6850 IceQ X series graphic cards is available in two version - the standard version with a stock 775MHz graphics core / 4000MHz memory clock and the Turbo version with a slightly overclocked 820MHZ graphic core / 4400MHz memory clock. Both are readily available in the market right now, so check them out at your favourite hardware retailers. Alternatively, you can also learn more about them at www.hisdigital.com.

Source: lowyat.net

NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 TI: THE LATEST ADDITION TO NVIDIA 500-SERIES GPU

For many, two months usually passes by in just a blink of an eye but I bet for graphic cards aficionados out there especially for those who belong to the NVIDIA camp, it most probably feel like forever. The wait is now finally over as NVIDIA have officially taken the cover off the latest NVIDIA GeForce 500-series GPU, the GTX 560 Ti.

Based on the well-known DirectX-11 ready Fermi architecture, the GTX 560 Ti is currently the most affordable GTX 500-series GPU with a base price of around RM 760 (USD 249). In terms of performance, a standard GeForce GTX 560 Ti is equipped with a graphic core that runs at 822MHz (graphic clock) / 1,644 MHz (processor clock) and contains 384 CUDA cores together with 8 tessellation engines. As for memory capabilities, the GPU is paired together with 1GB GDDR5 memory with a memory clock speed of 4,008MHz.

According to NVIDIA, all these numbers are equivalent to around 46-percent faster performance compared to their competitor’s offerings. Considering that the GTX 560 Ti is also available as overclocked version – some with graphic clock speed up to 1GHz – their claims seems pretty legit but of course, the best way to know this yourself is by checking it at your favourite retailers right now. Click on www.nvidia.com to learn more about the new GeForce GTX 560 Ti.

Source: Lowyat.net

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