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Radeon HD 5570 review - ATI today is launching the most budget of gaming capable graphics cards, the Radeon series 5500. In specific today we'll look at the Radeon HD 5570. A 400 shader processor encounting DX11 class product, with multi-monitor Eyefinity support (up-to three monitors) and a very low price -- set at just 69 USD.
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Gigabyte -H57M USB3  motherboard - The Gigabyte H57 series offers a little more in the form of RAID support while it also packs a little more punch which we'll look at in this review of course. A more interesting feature on this GA-H57M-USB3 motherboard is that it also contains USB 3.0 and very excessive display connection options like DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort.
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MSI R5770 HAWK - A wicked Radeon HD 5770 based on a custom PCB, voltage check points, improved power phases and a nice heavy duty yet silent cooler. MSI labels it as their military class products, as the quality and choice in components is just top notch.
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Radeon HD 5450 review  - We'll look at the Radeon HD 5450. A DX11 class product, with multi-monitor Eyefinity support (up-to three monitors) and a very low price -- set at just 49 USD.
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Zalman MS1000-HS2 Professional mid-tower - Zalman recently released a new chassis onto the market called MS1000-HS2, a chassis targeted at the somewhat high-end professional end-user with a grasp for style, design and functionality.
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PowerColor Radeon HD 5770 PCS+ -  PowerColor is releasing a Radeon HD 5770 which is labelled as PCS+ and comes with a custom PCB, slightly higher clock frequencies, custom cooler, and no less than four output connectors.
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Guru3D Rig of the Month January  - Mario Kriegsmann's PC is the the Rig of The Month January 2010. Meet the man at the age of 21, he has been a Guru3D aficionado for five years (!) already digging through our articles, he shares our passion of building nice PCs.
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Core i3 530 processor - The Core i3 series is a processor that is priced much more attractive-- yet for a dual-core processor offers much more bang for buck at a mainstream or HTPC. We still owed you a review on it.
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HIS Radeon HD 5670 ICEQ - The Radeon HD 5670 equipped with their classic ICEQ cooler. And that equals completely silent noise levels versus good cooling at a fair price.
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OCZ Vertex 2 Pro (SandForce SF1500) SSD - OCZ has been on a winning streak with their SSD drives ever since that started selling Indilinx controller based products. Armed with that controller and a nice phat cache these SSDs show brilliant performance. Therefore it came as a total shock to all of the sudden see OCZ announce a new series SSDs with SandForce controllers.
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ECS H55H-M motherboard - The all new H55 chipset based ECS H55H-M motherboard priced at roughly 55 EUR / 79 USD. It comes in that all too familiar green PCB color, all the features you need to run a very decent PC, it's mATX based allowing much flexibility
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NVIDIA GF100 Fermi Tech preview - Fermi is of course the family name of the latest generation of GPUs from NVIDIA. The first chipset deriving from Fermi will be called the GF100 GPU which will likely be used on what we think will be called products like GeForce 360 and GeForce 380. Join us in a quickie technology preview.
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ATI Radeon HD 5670 - Today ATI releases thus the Radeon series 5600. Actually Radeon HD 5650 and 5670 today in specific -- we'll be looking at a couple of these cards in Crossfire as well.
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HIS Radeon HD 5750 ICEQ+ - The Radeon HD 5750 oozes with bang for buck. HIS made a more exclusive deal for you out of it. They launched an ICEQ+ version with customized silent cooling and DiRT 2 (the full PC game) for free bringing more value to what is supposed to be a mainstream product.
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International CES 2010 - Guru3D flew over from Europe to cover the CES exhibition in the City of Sin, Las Vegas. From the LVCC convention center and the MGM Grand Hotel home base we'll try and deliver you guys some nice news items from Las Vegas.
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MSI Big Bang Fuzion (Lucid Hydra) mobo - Now the big deal about the Big Bang Fuzion mainboard is that the board has that Lucid Hydra 200 chip that allows it to support multiple video cards of different brands and models at once.
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Core i5 650 - 660 and 661 processor - The new Intel processor lineup will include the Core i3 530 and 540 models, as well as the Core i5 650, 660, 661, and 670. Guru3D will put the Core i5 650, 660 and 661 to the test.
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VidaBox Premium Wireless Keyboard - Today we review a product called the VidaBox Premium Wireless Keyboard with Laser Trackball. This is an all-round HTPC keyboard with a very wide RF range and embedded trackball.
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Zalman CNPS 10X Quiet and Extreme - Zalman recently released a new series of CNPS (Computer Noise Prevention System ) heatpipe based coolers. We will put two out of the three to the test namely the CNPS10X Extreme and CNPS10X Quiet. Both coolers impressed us a lot.
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Auzentech X-Fi Home Theater HD 7.1   - Today in the Guru3D audio lab, we have a brand spanking new Auzentech Home Theater HD 7.1. This ongoing one-upmanship between existing companies is what drives the soundcard market and ensures new products are higher quality and offers new and innovative features to the audio community.
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G.Skill DDR3 2200 MHz C7 PI memory - Some Memory vendors felt the need to go really extreme, and GSkill did exactly that. 2200 MHZ at CAS 7 at low voltage (1.65v).
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Aurora Micro Wireless HTPC keyboard  - The Aurora MicroWireless Keyboard with Trackball from Enermax. A handy aluminum HTPC media keyboard with a lot of functionality, range and great design.
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MSI 785GM-E65 motherboard - Here we will test the with MSI 785GM-E65 motherboard, this piece of kit is stuffed and loaded with features, looks nice and remain very affordable.
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Noctua NH-D14 CPU cooler - It is called the Noctua NH-D14 premium cooler, but we like to call it the Big Ben of CPU coolers.
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MSI P55 Big bang Trinergy  - Today we take a peek at the MSI P55 GD80 Big bang Trinergy. One of the best p55 board ever made.
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Gigabyte GeForce GTX 260 Super Overclock - Today we'll test Gigabyte's new GeForce GTX 260 (SP216) SO -- it comes with an Ultra durable design (long-lasting components) and as the title already suggests .. a pretty  nice overclock -- making this product faster than say a GeForce GTX 275.
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A-Data DDR3-2200+ DRAM - A-DATA recently introduced their XPG Plus Series DDR3-2200+ v2.0 DRAM module that is the highest speed of DDR3 DRAM module in the industry. A-DATA’s new DDR3-2200+ DRAM module offers a 2,200MHz clock speed and CL8-8-8-24 timings at a voltage of 1.65V
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Radeon HD 5970 Overclocking - We boosted the Radeon HD 5970 Core from 725 MHz towards 935 MHz and the 4000 MHz memory is running and purring steady at 5240 MHz --- and that's a baffling result on just the reference air-cooler.
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MSI GeForce GT 240 - GeForce GT 240 comes packed with 96 shader cores and features GDDR3 memory.
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Cooler Master HAF 922 - The HAF 922 is a good blend of a nice design, yet comes with pretty wicked yet silent cooling and then all the little extra's like decent cable management.
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Corsair Obsidian 800D chassis - Corsair's first ever PC chassis is called the Obsidian 800D, and it is without any shame I dare to state that this is among the best ever PC cases I personally have ever tested.
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Phenom II X4 965 BE revision C3 - AMD today updates their most high-end processor to a new revision, the Phenom II X4 965 BE processor with stepping C3 -- and this new model is all about energy efficiency. Oh and this thing just overclocks insane !
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OCZ Agility EX SSD  - We test the OCZ Agility EX SSD. If 100% reliability is your thing then this is the cheapest SLC based SSD with an Indilinx controller that you can think of.
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eVGA p55 Classified 200 - Today we look at a P55 motherboard in the extremely high-end range .. it's the all new eVGA P55 Classified 200. A board designed for the extreme overclockers a board for the uber enthusiast PC aficionado's.
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Quick article links

    PC Buyers Guide - Winter Edition - Guru3D offers you their annual PC Buyers Guide, the 2009 Christmas edition was just launched. This article brings you a set of recommendations of products we feel are great components to build yourself a nice gaming rig.
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    Colin McRae Dirt 2 (PC) VGA performance  - Let's go check out both the DX9 and DX11 image quality and performance.
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    Radeon HD 5970 single & Crossfire - It's time to unleash the beast, welcome to a nice feature length review on the latest dual-GPU offering from ATI. What ATI did with the Radeon HD 5970 is to place two RV870 chips onto one PCB. Bridge them, Crossfire them and all of the sudden you'll have 4.3 Billion transistors at your disposal with a whopping 4.6 TFLOPs of raw performance.
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    COD Modern Warfare 2 VGA performance - Over the next few pages a word or two about the game, some image quality comparisons and obviously a nice lengthy VGA chart ranging from monitor resolution 1280x1024 up-to 2560x1600 measured with and with out AA.
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    ATI Eyefinity review - Eyefinity in short is having the ability to connect multiple monitors to your graphics card and create an extreme native resolution.
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    Windows 7 vs Vista VGA game performance - With Windows 7 already released on MSDN as Final, Guru3D figured now would be a good time to look at ATI, NVIDIA, Single- and Multi-GPU game performance in-between Windows Vista and Windows 7.
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    Blizzconn 2009 - The place is packed across 4 halls and here you see a mob waiting to try out the latest class for Diablo III, the Monk. Some of the latest hardware was on display; Oh and this year of course there was Ozzy.
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    Guru3D PC Buyers Guide Summer 2009  - Guru3D offers you their annual PC Buyers Guide, this is the 2009 summer edition. This article brings you a set of recommendations of products we feel are great components to build yourself a nice gaming rig.
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    Anno 1404 VGA graphics performance - So then, 1404’s levels are set on a series of islands. Some of them are already inhabited, while others are virgin territory, ripe for conquest. The 3D engine is smooth, beautifully detailed, so how will the game perform with a selection of 15 graphics cards ?
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    Guru3D photo contest winners  - From the 135 photo's you guys have been able to see we made a cut to 15 photo's we figured could end up as finalist. The 15 photo's have been submitted through a panel of judges. Check out the contest top 5 winners as well.
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    A Decade of Guru3D:

  • Introduction (open)
  • History of Guru3D 1 (open)
  • Contest 1 (closed)
  • History of Guru3D 2 open)
  • Contest 2 (closed)
  • Guru3D going Green (open)
  • Contest 3 (closed)

    Computex 2009 - Guru3D traveled half way around the globe to attend the Computex exhibition in Taiwan. Check out the diverse reports covered in over 50 pages of content.
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    Gigabyte Nan-Ping Factory Tour - Guru3D visited Gigabyte's Nan-Ping production factory in Taiwan. We followed the design and productions stages of both a motherboard and VGA card.
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    Guru3D Rig of the Month  - We just adore hardware. And sometimes some you guys really make a PC that really stands out. We ask you to answer a few simple questions and send in photo's of your rig. Each month we'll have a look at the entries and perhaps pick you and post your PC with photo's and everything here at Guru3D.com, each month we add a new addition - join now! 
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    Guru3D VGA Charts - The VGA charts is simply put a selection of games in which we will show you performance numbers (measured by average framerate). The distinct difference review results and these charts is two-fold, in our reviews we can only show you 5 maybe 6 comparative graphics card results due to limitation. In the VGA chart you can see all the reference cards we have tested in an orderly and easy to comprehend manner.
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    Guru3D PC Buyer's Guide - Time to build that dream PC before you head off for school! Surely don't take our advice for granted, but at the very least let us help you a little.
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    CeBIT 2009 coverage  - Guru3D was at CeBIT 2009 in Germany this year. In this 23 page encounting article Guru3D will show you what was hot and what was not. Loads of photo's on the latest gear, and even some prototype product you have never seen will be on display.
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    Games Convention Leipzig - We just arrived in bumble-frickin nowhere, Leipzig. The cultural rich Leipzig where this years GC - Game Convention will take place. Guru3D is there pretty much to meet up with some of the hardware vendors. We'll tell you all about the gaming hardware & show you well .. a lot of booth babes.
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    PhysX by NVIDIA - A review - NVIDIA will introduce a new set of GeForce drivers, PhysX driver and a PhysX pack. All GeForce series 8 and newer cards will get full PhysX support with a little help of the guys from Ageia and NVIDIA's CUDA team. We take a peek at what is released next week, what can you expect, what combo's are possible and obviously our opinion on the entire PhysX experience.
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    Guide to MKV x.264 GPU acceleration - How would you like to learn to playback MKV / x.264 content 98% accelerated by your Radeon of GeForce graphics card ? And we'll even go a step further, optimize image quality with the help of your graphics card shader processors ?
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    Radeon HD 5850 review - We'll test and review the Radeon HD 5850, we'll check both the single GPU performance but also will check it out in CrossfireX multi-GPU mode.
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    Radeon HD 5870 review - It's time for the article you've all been waiting on. Today ATI will launch their series 5800 graphics cards, the Radeon HD 5850 and 5870. Our twenty-seven page article today will cover all the ins and outs of this new DirectX 11 class graphics card series.
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    Core i5 750 - Core i7 860 and 870 - Today Intel is introducing the P55 motherboard chipset and no less than three new Nehalem based Lynnfield processors, with many more to follow in the upcoming months. Today's product releases are targeted at the higher segment of the mainstream market.
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News Headlines

Radeon HD 5570 review
Gigabyte GA-H57M-USB3 motherboard review
MSI R5770 HAWK review
HWiNFO32 version 3.40
Nvidia on External Graphics Accelerators
Intel to focus strongly on SSD market
Canon Rebel EOS 550D (Rebel T2i) dSLR launched
Koolance CPU-360 waterblock
Windows 7 64-bit adoption rate higher than 32-bit for gamers
NVIDIA releases Optimus Technology
AMD's 6-core processors to get Turbo Boost feature
Intel Core vPro Processor Family
Researchers create world’s first solar power circuit
Aliens vs. Predator Demo Patched
ASRock USB 3.0 and SATA 6 Gb/s Equipped P55-Deluxe3 Motherboard
ATI Radeon HD 5800 gray screen hotfix
DirectX End-User Runtimes (February 2010)
SunBeamTech launches series USB 3.0 products
NZXT Premium Cables and Performance Fans
Gigabyte releases USB 3.0 PCI Express Card
MSI launches Radeon HD 5450 card
PowerColor Radeon HD 5450 cards
Teens: Blogging and Twittering is for old people
ATI Tray Tools 1.6.9.1472
Intel Launch Six-Core but 8-Core Chips as well

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Guru3D.com Cheapest Prices for

 

NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards:
GeForce GTX 295 1.75GB
GeForce GTX 285 1024MB
GeForce GTX 275 1024MB
GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 896MB GeForce GTX 260 896MB
GeForce GTS 250 512MB
GeForce 9800 GT 512MB
GeForce 9600 GT 512MB

AMD (ATI)  Radeon graphics cards:
Radeon HD 5970 2GB
Radeon HD 5870 1GB
Radeon HD 5850 1GB
Radeon HD 5770 512MB
Radeon HD 5750 512MB
Radeon HD 4870 X2 1024MB
Radeon HD 4890 1024MB
Radeon HD 4850 512MB

Processors AMD:


AMD Phenom X4 965BE Quad-Core
AMD Phenom X4 955BE Quad-Core
AMD Phenom II X4 940 Quad Core
AMD Phenom II X4 920 Quad Core
AMD Phenom II X3 720 Triple-Core BE

AMD 64 Athlon X2 6000+ (AM2)
AMD 64 Athlon II X2 250
AMD 64 Athlon X2 5200+
AMD 64 Athlon X2 4850e


You can check the best price on any piece of hardware & software in our database »

 


 

Processors Intel :
Intel Core i7 975 Processor 
Intel Core i7 950 Processor 
Intel Core i7 920 Processor 
Intel Core i7 870 Processor  
Intel Core i7 860 Processor  
Intel Core i5 750 Processor  
Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 Dual Core Processor  
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 Processor 2.5 GHz 
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Processor 3.0 GHz 
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Dual Core Processor  
Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 Dual Core Processor  
Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 Dual Core Processor  
Intel Core 2 Duo Mobile T7500 Processor 
 


 


Radeon HD 5570 review
By Hilbert Hagedoorn, February 9, 2010 - 8:27 PM - 0 Comments


 

Radeon HD 5570 review

ATI Radeon HD 5570ATI today is launching the most budget of gaming capable graphics cards, the Radeon series 5500. In specific today we'll look at the Radeon HD 5570. A 400 shader processor encounting DX11 class product, with multi-monitor Eyefinity support (up-to three monitors) and a very low price -- set at just 69 USD.

Is the card good enough for all-round usage and a little gaming ? Well, let's find out.

Check out the Guru3D review right here.

ATI Radeon HD 5570

  

 


Gigabyte GA-H57M-USB3 motherboard review
By Hilbert Hagedoorn, February 8, 2010 - 9:27 PM - 0 Comments


 

Gigabyte GA-H57M-USB3 motherboard review

Gigabyte motherboard reviewIn the wake of the Intel Clarkdale series of processors (Core i3 500 & Core i5 600 series) we have seen a lot of H55 chipset based motherboards out there. H55 is a chipset for your average mainstream entry level motherboards series, there is in fact a small step up .. it's based on the H57 chipset and will bring some more features to the table. Gigabyte was one of the first out there to ship out one of their H57 based motherboards. The Gigabyte H57 series offers a little more in the form of RAID support while it also packs a little more punch which we'll look at in this review of course. A more interesting feature on this GA-H57M-USB3 motherboard is that it also contains USB 3.0 through an onboard NEC uPD720200 host controller and very excessive display connection options like DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort.

Check out this Guru3D article right here.

 

Gigabyte motherboard review


  

 


MSI R5770 HAWK review
By Hilbert Hagedoorn, February 5, 2010 - 9:00 PM - 0 Comments


 

MSI R5770 HAWK review - The coolest 5770 of them all ?

MSI RadeoN HD 5770 HAWXToday here at Guru3D.com we'll be looking at a Radeon HD 5770 HAWK edition based on a custom PCB, voltage check points, improved power phases and a nice heavy duty yet silent cooler. MSI labels it as their military class products, as the quality and choice in components is just top notch.

The end results is astonishing, a cool looking silent product, that we overclocked quite easily towards 1050 MHz.

You can read this Guru3D review right here.

MSI RadeoN HD 5770 HAWX

 


  

 


HWiNFO32 version 3.40
By Hilbert Hagedoorn, February 10, 2010 - 1:43 AM - 0 Comments


 

HWiNFO32 is a professional hardware information and diagnostic tools supporting latest components, industry technologies and standards. Both tools are targeted to recognize and extract the most possible amount of information about computer's hardware which makes them suitable for users searching for driver updates, computer manufactures, system integrators and technical experts too. etrieved information's are presented in a logical and easily understandable form and can be exported into various types of reports.

  • Comprehensive hardware information
  • System health monitoring
  • Basic benchmarks
  • Text, CSV and XML report formats
  • Periodical updates
  • For Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/Server 2003; Windows 9X/Me (limited)

The new version of the HWiNFO32 hardware information and diagnostic tool and it features:

Changes

  • Added reporting of TRIM command capability (for SSD).
  • Improved sensor monitoring for Giga-Byte series: H55, 790FXTA.
  • Improved support of nVidia GT21x series.
  • Fixed support of several nVidia GPU sensors.
  • Added monitoring of nVidia GPU temperature for G92, G94, GT200, GT21x.
  • Added reporting of ATA drive media rotation rate in RPM (if drive supports reporting).
  • Fixed detection of first DIMM on certain nVidia chipsets.
  • Improved sensor monitoring for MSI series: Big Bang Trinergy (MS-7580), P55-GD80 (MS-7581), P55-GD65 (MS-7583), P55-CD53 (MS-7586), H57M-ED65 (MS-7587), P55M-GD41/45 (MS-7588).
  • Improved general handling of sensor monitoring, added possibility to clear stored preferences.
  • Enhanced reporting of PCIe properties for GPU.
  • Added preliminary Sandy Bridge support.
  • Improved sensor monitoring for Biostar series: TPower I55 and X58.
  • Improved sensor monitoring for MSI series: MS-7032, MS-7046, MS-7100, MS-7185, MS-7204, MS-7236, MS-7250, MS-7260, MS-7267, MS-7327, MS-7350, MS-7369, MS-7373, MS-7376, MS-7388, MS-7501, MS-7577, MS-9130.
  • Improved sensor monitoring for Giga-Byte series: 945P, 945G, 946, G31MX, 965P, 965Q, N650SLI, M55S, M57SLI, M56S, M61P, M61SME, M61VME, M68SM.
  • Improved sensor monitoring for ECS series: 945P, P55H, X58, RS480, RS482, RS485, A740GM, A785GM, A790GXM.
  • Improved sensor monitoring for DFI series: CFX3200, RDX200, NF590, NF4, 790FX.
  • Improved sensor monitoring for Biostar series: N750, TA780, TP35.
  • Improved sensor monitoring for Foxconn series: 945, 946, 965, 975, P31, G31, G33, P35, X38, G41, Q45, G43, P43, P55, C55, MARS, BlackOps.
  • Improved sensor monitoring for Foxconn series: CK804, VX800, RS690, RS740, RS780, RX780, RD790, RS880, A79A, N570, C51G, MCP55, MCP61, MCP65, MCP68, MCP72, MCP78, MCP73, MCP7A.
  • Improved sensor monitoring for Biostar series: NF520, NF560, TA770, TF520, TF560, TF570, TF7025, TF7050, TF7100, TF7150.
  • Improved sensor monitoring for several Supermicro and ASUS workstation boards using W83793 and W83795 sensors.
  • Improved sensor monitoring for Intel series: DX58, D5400XS (SkullTrail).
  • Added identification of nVidia MCP89.
  • Added support of Fintek F71872F and F75334DG sensors.
  • Improved sensor monitoring for several EPoX motherboards.
  • Improved sensor monitoring for EVGA series: E173, E178, E179, E180.
  • Improved sensor monitoring for Foxconn series: BLOODRAGE, Flaming Blade, Destroyer.
  • Added preliminary support of AMD Hudson FCH.
  • Improved sensor monitoring for Supermicro series: C2SBX, X8SII, X8SIL.
  • Improved sensor monitoring for Albatron series: PX975X.
  • Improved sensor monitoring for JW series: 780G, 790G.
  • Improved sensor monitoring for Shuttle series: P35, X38.
  • Added new AMD Family 10h CPU models.
  • Fixed reporting of temperatures in Farhenheit in tray.

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Nvidia on External Graphics Accelerators
By Hilbert Hagedoorn, February 9, 2010 - 8:56 PM - 0 Comments


 

Guru3D.com ImageMuch like ATI's external XGP solutions (Guru3D review here) NVIDIA now seems to show an interest as well. In a recent interview with xbitlabs an executive from Nvidia Corp. said that it considers external graphics adapters for notebooks a big opportunity even though the company does not offer such products at the moment.

“I think it is a big opportunity. We have two strategies at Nvidia: one is to put graphics everywhere, the other one is to [find more ways to] integrate discrete chips into the box. I think there is definitely a place for [external graphics cards for notebooks], no question. We continue to look at whether this is a GPU [docking stations] or external devices,” said Rene Haas, general manager of the notebook GPU business at Nvidia, in a brief interview with X-bit labs.

There are a lot of notebooks featuring high-performance microprocessors, but there are much less notebooks with high-performance graphics processors since discrete graphics chips increase the size and weight of mobile computers rather tangibly and are not needed crucially. A way to add high-performance graphics to laptops was introduced by ATI in 2008: external graphics cards and external graphics port (XGP) technology. Unfortunately, so far such graphics cards have hardly become widespread; in fact, there is only one XGP graphis solution available: Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Graphics Booster powered by ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 that can be plugged to Fujitsu Siemens Amilo SA3650 or Acer Aspire Ferrari One. One of the issues, believes Nvidia, is the price of such graphics solutions.

“I think, the issue that has to be solved for something like that is the right price-point that hits the right segment. There is definitely a lot of interest in it and [this is] something we are keeping our eye on to be able to offer something there,” said Mr. Haas.

Unfortunately, Nvidia does not reveal any concrete plans on the matter and it is unclear when the company could introduce its own external graphics technology for notebooks. As a result, the only thing for sure is that Nvidia is keeping an eye on such market opportunity.

“This is my opinion, I cannot say much about our plans,” added general manager of the notebook GPU business at Nvidia.


  

 


Intel to focus strongly on SSD market
By Hilbert Hagedoorn, February 9, 2010 - 8:49 PM - 1 Comments


 

EETimes reports that during a recent event, the new chief of Intel Corp.'s NAND group outlined the company's strategy and revealed a surprise: The chip giant hopes to be the technology and solid-state storage (SSD) leader, but it is not seeking to be the top player in the discrete market.

Intel wants to avoid the cyclical, market share game in the NAND flash chip sector against the likes of Samsung, Hynix and Toshiba. But Intel dropped hints it wants to unseat Samsung as the No. 1 player in SSDs.

What's surprising about its discrete chip strategy is Intel generally aspires to be No. 1 in a given market, such as processors and chipsets. Generally, if Intel lags in a market, it exits the sector. For example, Intel has exited the ASIC market, communication ICs, NOR flash, branded PCs, supercomputers and other sectors for one reason or another over the years.

SSD is a different story. In fact, Intel this year plans to ship a line of SSDs, based on a new family of 25-nm parts made by the company's venture with Micron Technology Inc., said Tom Rampone, the new vice president and general manager of Intel's NAND Solutions Group.

"We want to be a leader in SSDs,'' he told EE Times at the event here. In 2010, ''we want to bring SSDs out of the niche markets and into the mainstream.''

Over the years, though, Intel has experienced some ups and downs in flash. The company is said to have introduced the first commercial NOR type flash chip in 1988. Although it became the process and market share leader in NOR, the company generally lost money in the business. In NOR, there were (and still are) too many players in a declining market.

Several years ago, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Fujitsu Ltd. saw the light and spun out their NOR venture into a company called Spansion. More recently, Intel jettisoned its NOR unit. That business was combined with STMicroelectronics Inc.'s flash unit to form what is now Numonyx NV.

 


  

 


Canon Rebel EOS 550D (Rebel T2i) dSLR launched
By Hilbert Hagedoorn, February 9, 2010 - 8:47 PM - 0 Comments


 

Canon refreshed its consumer dSLR lineup with the EOS 550D (Rebel T2i in the US). This new camera features a 18 megapixel APS-C CMOS sensor, DIGIC 4 image processor, ISO 100 - 6400 (expandable to 12800), 3.7fps shooting, 1080p HD video recording at up to 30fps (720p at up to 60fps), and a 3" LCD display. The body will be available next month for $800, or in a bundle with a EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS lens for $900.

Today's photo enthusiast is looking for a camera that will grow with them as they learn, and that is a perfect description of the new EOS Rebel T2i Digital SLR camera. Retaining all of the traditional characteristics that have made the EOS Rebel series beloved by entry-level photographers and an industry best-seller, the new Rebel T2i succeeds in bridging the gap between an entry-level camera and a true pro-sumer camera.

The Rebel T2i Digital SLR camera includes a variety of new features for photographic assignments as varied as grabbing that action shot from the sidelines or creating memorable family portraits, including: 3.7 fps shooting, an ISO range of 100-6400 (expandable to 12,800), a 63-zone Dual Layer Metering System, and Canon's DIGIC 4 Imaging Processor. There are some moments in our lives where video helps capture the moment better than a still image, and the Rebel T2i offers the best of both worlds with Full HD 1080p video as well as 18-megapixel still images. The Rebel T2i DSLR continues Canon's industry-leading trend in Full HD DSLR video capture with manual exposure control, selectable frame rates and a new external microphone input. There is also a new feature for standard definition recording, Movie Crop, which provides an approximate 7x additional zoom with no loss of image quality when shooting SD quality video.


  

 


Koolance CPU-360 waterblock
By Hilbert Hagedoorn, February 9, 2010 - 8:45 PM - 0 Comments


 

Koolance is now shipping their all new CPU-360, their waterblock flagship. It's sold for $84.99 and is compatible with Intel's LGA775/1156/1366 and AMD's Socket AM2/AM2+/AM3.

Following the extremely successful CPU-350 comes Koolance's latest high-performance CPU water block. The CPU-360 uses an advanced microfin cold plate (0.25mm fins, 0.30mm channels), o-ring sealed impingement plate, and an optimized flow path to yield best performance with relatively low coolant restriction.

The CPU-360 contains a copper cold plate with brass top. As with all Koolance products, nickel plating is added to improve corrosion resistance. Two universal steel mounting brackets are included for mainstream Intel and AMD processors. The CPU-360 has standard G 1/4 BSP threading for any Koolance nozzle diameter. Please select the desired nozzle type for this base model (it does not include nozzles).


  

 


Windows 7 64-bit adoption rate higher than 32-bit for gamers
By Hilbert Hagedoorn, February 9, 2010 - 8:42 PM - 0 Comments


 

And that makes sense as in 64-bit you will not quickly run into memory limitations. Each month Steam posts their statistics on the average specs for gamers, along with detailed information about the most popular hardware and software brands, including operating systems, like Windows 7.

Based on Steam's January 2010 information, Windows 7 64-bit is used by 19.50% of all Steam users comapred to 9.03% for Windows 7 32-bit. Windows 7 managed to take 28.53% of all users, up +5.47% from last month. Windows XP is still dominant with 42.78%, down 2.63% from last month.


  

 


NVIDIA releases Optimus Technology
By Hilbert Hagedoorn, February 9, 2010 - 4:01 PM - 0 Comments


 

Guru3D.com ImageOn the notebook front a lot is changing all the time. NVIDIA is debuting their new Optimus technology. The solution will actually be based of one of the company's older technologies which got canned / placed in the fridge roughly a year and a half ago. You guys know it as “Hybrid SLI” and “Hybrid Graphics,”. Optimus is going to enable end-users to dynamically and automatically switch between discrete (GPU) and the integrated graphics chips.

NVIDIA's Optimus technology will in it's bare essence enable consumers to take advantage of the performance enabled by a discrete graphics chip when it is required, while switching back to Intel's integrated graphics to save battery life once the GPU is not needed anymore. Switching between the integrated graphics or the discrete graphics chips should be pretty straightforward, effortless and nearly undetectable according to NVIDIA.

The solution will be Windows 7 only as Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system allows users to install two graphics drivers at simultaneously. From what we heard this solution will be available for the Intel platform only.  


  

 

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