The passive design of Thermaltake Fanless 330 0dBA VGA Cooler offers the absolute quiet operation environment for all the gamers and graphic designers who especially require supports of high end graphic cards. Beside the silent operation, three heatsink modules on SpinQ to dissipate GPU heat, and 4 efficient copper heatpipes speeding up the heat transfer.

The mirror coating base also ensures these well designed cooling structures on Fanless 330 are in perfect contact with the GPU. Fanless 330 0dBA VGA Cooler, the new passive graphic card cooler from Thermaltake, has the most unique mechanical design never seen on the market. It does not just offer 0bBA operating environment, but great cooling performance and distinguishing style too! Thermaltake 330 0dBA VGA Cooler measures 180mm x 123.2mm x 68.6mm and weigh 260g.

Rumors on the web report that NVIDIA will stop making the standard GeForce GTX 260 model. instead they will be moving forward with the GTX 260 Core 216 model only. The standard GTX 260 had a pretty hard time competing with the Radeon 4870 whereas the Core 216 version, do seem to have a secret or two up their sleeves and compete pretty darn well.

In fact we'll have an article on Core 216 against Radeon HD 4870 1024 Mb tomorrow, where we'll take six Top 10 games do a shootout and tally it up. This information was not confirmed by NVIDIA.

Specification on AMD's Phenom II processors have leaked yesterday, and quite honestly .. it's looking pretty good. Phenom II will be based on the new Deneb core at 45nm. The new processors are to be launched as soon as Q1 next year already, we heard this might be January 8th.

Interesting is the Core i7 like naming, you'll stumble into a Phenom II X4 920, 940 and so on, matching Core i7 model names pretty tight. It's also rumoured that the new processors should be able to achieve a clock frequency of no less than 4 GHz .. on air cooling. Which means there's a 1 GHz clock delta to play around with. The high-end models will not have a limitation my multiplier lock.

How coincidental is it that the info "leaked" on the day the Intel officially is shipping Core i7 eh ?

This one was reported in our forums by Cybermancer, pretty cool. If you've been waiting for that Minority Report-style interface to really come to fruition, you can finally exhale.

One of the science advisors from the Steven Spielberg film -- along with a team of other zany visionaries -- has created an honest-to-goodness, real-world implementation of the computer systems seen in the movie. Dubbed g-speak, the mind bending OS combines "gestural i/o, recombinant networking, and real-world pixels," to deliver what the creators call "the first major step in [a] computer interface since 1984." There are some things that need to seen to be understood, so watch the video after the break, and prepare to have your mind thoroughly blown to bits [via engadget]. 

For those of you who missed the little bomb that Intel dropped earlier on, X58 is the enthusiast high-end chipset for motherboards. Enthusiast also means expensive and I won't lie to you, it would make more sense to just sit it out and wait for cheaper chipset to arrive. But for those of you that can't wait .. well we certainly would like to show you your options, and this motherboard certainly has options.

This review will cover the GA-EX58-UD5P motherboard from the funky blue colored people at Gigabyte.

You can fin the review right here.

Four planets in total were photographed circling two different stars. And while we know of about 300 planets out of our solar system, this is the first time any of them have been photographically captured.

The problem with imaging before is that stars were so bright, they

Japan's Eizo recently introduced the ColorEdge CG242W LCD monitor that offers a 24.1-inch display and offers 1920x1200 resolution. The monitor's colors cover 97 percent of the Adobe RGB spectrum, and is meant to be used with video editing applications that include 3D-look-up table (3D LUT) support. New MacBook Pros use a mini Display Port connection and nothing else, so once an adapter is released, users will be able to add EIZO's LCD as a secondary, external display to the notebooks. Apart from the DisplayPort, there is a DVI connection, and both are HDCP compatible.
More mainstream specifications are comprised of a 178-degree viewing angle, maximum brightness of 270cd/m2 and 1100:1 contrast ratio. Black-to-white response time is rated at 12ms, while grey-to-grey is set at 6ms. Viewing angles from all four sides are fixed at 178 degrees. The LCD also includes a pair of USB ports that allows users to add external devices to their computers.

Buyers have the option of purchasing sensors that, when combined with the included ColorNavigator software, ease the process of setting up the monitor to display true-to-life colors.

When the CG242W launches in Japan on January 13th, 2009, it will cost the equivalent of about $1,975.

Intel is starting the week by officially shipping its first Core i7 processors. The technology is just the seventh major x86 architecture from the company and is designed more explicitly for multi-core processors than the earlier Core 2 architecture. It marks the return of Hyperthreading from the Pentium 4 and allows each core to theoretically run two program threads at once; the overall processor also has the option of a Turbo Mode that can disable as many as three cores and overclock the remaining cores for apps that depend only on one or two threads.

It also represents a significant increase in memory efficiency and raw performance, according to Intel. A conventional front side system bus has been dropped in favor of the QuickPath Interconnect format that establishes a point-to-point link between the processor and peripherals, removing the bottleneck of a single path. The chipmaker has likewise moved the memory controller from a separate chipset to the processor die to reduce lag and has added a third DDR3 memory channel to provide as much as 25.6GB per second of bandwidth across three 1,066MHz RAM sticks.

The optimizations let Intel reduce the total Level 3 cache per chip for its initial lineup, which includes three mainstream desktop quad-core parts. The 2.66GHz Core i7-920, 2.93GHz Core i7-940, and 3.2GHz Core i7-965 Extreme Edition all have 256KB of Level 2 cache per core and 8MB of Level 3 (down from 12MB) to be shared between the four cores. Prices for retail kits are set at about $320, $600 and $1,070 respectively and should be available on Monday.

The new processors use the new LGA 1366 socket and, with the new memory architecture, also need Intel's new X58 mainboard chipset to work; in addition to supporting Core i7's features, boards based on the platform can handle up to 24GB of memory and two full-speed PCI Express X16 video cards in either AMD's CrossFire or NVIDIA's SLI modes. Manufacturers such as ASUS, MSI and Intel itself are shipping boards as of Monday.

Complete systems based on Core i7 will also be available at the same time and should include systems from Dell, its sub-label Alienware, Falcon Northwest and other performance-focused PC builders.

Guru3D related Core i7 article:

• Intel Core i7 920 and Core i7 965
• Intel X58 Extreme DX58SO motherboard
• ASUS P6T DeLuxe review - X58 motherboard

Sony Corporation today announced the commercialization of "IMX060PQ", a new type 1/2.5 CMOS image sensor "Exmor