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Published on Thursday, November 20 2008 9:58 pm by Visionary

Sparkle Calibre P980X+ Graphics Card Announced

SPARKLE today announced the Calibre P980X+ Graphics Card that comes with Calibre Dual Fly Fan and SPA Tune OC software.


Published on Thursday, November 20 2008 9:52 pm by Visionary

Sharkoon Released X-Tatic: Dolby Surround Headset 3rd Edition

Sharkoon today introduced the third edition of its X-Tatic Dolby certified 5.1 headset. This new model has a new design, an improved microphone mount and enhanced functionality. End customers will find the Sharkoon X-Tatic available at the beginning of December from authorized retailers. Suggested retail prices are as follows: harkoon X-Tatic Digital: 109,99 euros, X-Tatic Analog: 64,90 euros and X-Tatic SCU: 67,90 euros


Published on Wednesday, November 19 2008 6:39 pm by JamCanSing

Creative Announces GigaWorks T3 Speaker System

Creative today (18 Nov 2008) showcased their GigaWorks T3 speaker system to the media. The speakers were designed to deliver quality sound and sound accuracy (clarity). Creative's goal was to be able to reproduce that of a S$5,000 reference system. Read more and see live pics of the event inside.



Published on Wednesday, November 19 2008 4:13 pm by Visionary

GELID Silent

The WING UV Blue series (fans size in 80, 92 and 120 mm available) for gamers and modders features a unique Nanoflux bearing whose motor bearing is not only water - and dustproof but also allows the impeller to be removed for cleaning. WING 8 UV Blue, WING 9 UV Blue and WING 12 UV Blue are available for US$12.50, $13.50 and $16.40 respectively.


Published on Wednesday, November 19 2008 2:08 pm by Visionary

Coolermaster Black Cosmos Special Edition Sneak Peek

Coolermaster decided to get a little fun and sneaky this time by providing us some details on their upcoming limited edition bundle of their Cosmos case. The official launch date is set on 11th of December with limited availability of 500 sets worldwide in selected countries only. No further plans on future production to keep it even more special. Price is kept a secret for now.


Published on Wednesday, November 19 2008 11:19 am by Visionary

XFX Unveiled Intel G31 Based XG31i Board

Built to support Intel LGA 775 processors, the XG3li can support up to 4GB of dual channel DDR2 800 MHz SDRAM, delivering up to 12.8 GB/s (DDR2 800 dual 6.4GB/s) of bandwidth and 4GB memory addressability to increase system responsiveness and support for 64-bit computing. The XFX XG3li motherboard supports up to a 1333 MHz front side bus. Additional XFX XG3li motherboard features include a rear panel e-I SATA port, rear panel clear CMOS button and on selected models, a Debug LED.



Published on Wednesday, November 19 2008 10:19 am by Visionary

NVIDIA Tesla Powers 29th Most Powerful Supercomputer in the World

The Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) today announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to use NVIDIA® Tesla™ GPUs to boost the computational horsepower of its TSUBAME supercomputer. Through the addition of 170 Tesla S1070 1U systems, the TSUBAME supercomputer now delivers nearly 170 TFLOPS of theoretical peak performance, as well as 77.48 TFLOPS of measured Linpack performance, placing it, again, amongst the top ranks in the world’s Top 500 Supercomputers.


Published on Wednesday, November 19 2008 10:14 am by Visionary

Mathematica Gets GPU Accelerated

At SC08, Wolfram Research will demonstrate a new version of Mathematica, the world’s most powerful general computational software, that integrates CUDA®, NVIDIA’s parallel GPU computing architecture. This new version is expected to give Mathematica users an unprecedented performance increase of 10-100X in numerical computing, modeling, simulation and visual computations, without the need to learn or write C code. The CUDA accelerated version of Mathematica is expected to be available in Q1 2009.


Published on Tuesday, November 18 2008 5:00 pm by Visionary

How much RAM do you need for your Core i7 gaming PC?

Before you head out to grab a Core i7 system loaded with 6GB or 12GB of memories for your gaming needs today, we will check out if you really need that much and if it is better to invest your money to get a more powerful graphics card. This article is suited for those who will be buying a Core i7 system primarily for gaming. Using the Core i7 920 processor overclocked to 4GHz on ASUS Rampage II Extreme board loaded with Windows Vista 64 SP1, we will check out how the latest games out there such as Crysis Warhead and Far Cry 2 perform along with benchmarks like 3DMark Vantage and Tropics.



Published on Tuesday, November 18 2008 11:39 am by Visionary

Biostar TPower X58 Board Unveiled

BIOSTAR TPower X58  design is based on previous TPower Series Tech top features like 100%XDC (extreme durable capacitor), Space-Pipe Thermal Design…etc. Furthermore, BIOSTAR TPower X58 adds in 12 Phase power design and Green Power Utility function.    The TPower X58 is further equipped to support ATI CrossFireX™ and NVIDIA SLI Technology with triple PCI-E 2.0 (x16, x8, x4) interfaces.