Gigabyte is working on a new X58 motherboard totally pimped up and designed for overclocking, as their blog reported. The new color schema is quite wicked alright, anyway the mobo will be called the X58-OC and will come with four PCIe x16 slots and one PCI slot.

With the help of two SATA (?) power connectors you can direct extra voltage to the graphics cards and the mobo has two 8-pin ATX power headers as well.

The board comes with dual-BIOS and handy power/reset/cmos buttons. Hiding under the heatsink are new 50A rated driver MOS chips used to deliver up to 600A(1200W) load via 12 phases. Dual power design is still in place providing redundant phase power and great phase control.

For the non-overclockers, the board also comes with two USB 3.0 ports, Gigabit Ethernet, six SATA 300 and two SATA 600 ports.

Expect this product to be released in March right after CeBIT.

   

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Here's a bold move, which I can appreciate for sure. Mushkin announced it will not switch its solid state disks from 34nm to 25nm NAND flash due to the reduced lifespan of the smaller NAND flash memory. The company says it will continue to stick with 34nm NAND flash memory until it's convinced of the effectiveness of 25nm NAND flash memory:

The Solid State Drive (SSD) market is one of the most exciting and fastest-growing segments in computer components today, and for good reason. SSDs offer a host of advantages over traditional platter-based Hard Disk Drives, with many of these advantages already known to seasoned computer enthusiasts.

Mushkin, Inc. has been very eager to release SSDs with the best specifications and quality control standards that exist. Our

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Memory manufacturer Exceleram introduced a new 2GB DDR3 memory module that runs at 1333MHz with 9-9-9-24 timings and a voltage of 1.5V. You can get it in single, dual, and triple-channel bundles.

Landau, 21st February 2011: Exceleram - the High-end Memory Blacksmith in Landau / Germany announces the availability of 3 new parts of the EP-Series, and expanded its product range.

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Intel's Itanium series will soon get an update with an eight-core part called Poulson (codename). This 32nm CPU will be the world's largest general-purpose processor designed to date, it packs 3.1 billion transistors on a 588mm

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Super Talent has two new storage products; the CoreStore MVMini PCIe SSD and the CoreStore MP PCIe SSD. Both products are available in capacities of 16GB, 32GB, 64GB and 128GB, in SLC (only 16GB to 64GB) and MLC NAND flash memory variants. The MLC-based editions offer a read speed of up to 350MB/s and write speeds of up to 80MB/s, while the SLC-based disks have the same read speed but a write speed of as high as 220MB/s.

Super Talent Technology, a leading manufacturer of Flash storage solutions and DRAM memory modules, today announced their CoreStore line of SSD solutions designed to bring a new level of performance to the SSD market.

By combining the very latest Marvel controller (88NV9143), new DDR ONFi 2 flash and plugging directly to the PCIe bus, Super Talent is now able to create two solutions that deliver unforeseen performance.

Available in two standard formats, mini-PCIe and PCIe Card, Super Talent has a drive to fit many popular applications. The mini-PCIe card (30mm x 50.95mm) is perfect for embedded applications, Industrial PCs, All-in-One PCs, Netbook PCs, Notebooks. Don't have a mini-PCIe slot, Super Talent also offers a version of this product that will plug directly into a standard PCIe card slot; perfect for any Desktop PC. Note: Gen 2 PCI slot required for top speeds.

"By utilizing our relationships with both first tier controller manufactures and DDR flash manufactures, we are able to create innovate solutions such as the CoreStore SSD and offer them to our customers before anyone else"., CH Lee COO of SuperTalent.

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Microsoft has announced that the first service pack for Windows 7 operating system would be available for public download from February 22 onwards.

For users, Windows 7 Service Pack 1 doesn't pack any new feature but is a cumulative bunch of security updates and hot fixes. From today, Microsoft Developer Network subscribers, TechNet subscribers and Volume License customers would be able to download the Windows 7 SP1. Windows 7 SP1 would be available as a direct download from Microsoft Download Center or through Windows Update. Before you start updating:

• Ensure the laptop is plugged in to an electrical outlet (AC) while installing Windows 7 SP1
• Save work and take back up of important files before you start the installation since it requires a reboot and implements number of changes
• Installing Windows 7 SP1 requires a bit more hard drive space. Use Disk Cleanup tool to assist in freeing up hard drive space.

For those who may want to free up hard drive space, it is possible to remove the service pack installation specific files after installing Windows 7 SP1. After installing Windows 7 SP1, you can remove the service pack installation files by running Disk Cleanup and clicking on the 'Clean up system files' button and checking 'Service Pack Backup Files' to free up space.

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Check this out, all in all it remains ATOM/ION on the hardware side, but the softyware side seems nice. The Xtreamer ultra are portable HTPC equipped with 6 USB, eSATA, 4 Giga DDR3 RAM , HDMI, an integral IR remote control and powered by nVIDIA ION2 Chip that allows vivid and crisp playback of dozens of FULL HD multimedia files.


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This week sees the first DLC for Fallout: New Vegas released on the 22nd as well as the major releases Bulletstorm and Killzone 3. Also of note for old school gamers is the Dreamcast Collection, available on PC and Xbox 360 from the 22nd.

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Palit submitted their GeForce GTX 560 Ti Sonic, a product that comes with a nice factory overclock and a rather silent cooler. It comes factory clocked at 900 MHz on the primary GPU core and 4200 MHz on the memory at default.  All factors combined deliver a product onto the market that is quite interesting performance and features wise, a product that is noiseless and has a power consumption level we can all life with.

But hey now, have a quick peek at the Palit model and then let's head onwards into the review.

 

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Available a couple of days from our download section is AIDA, previously know as Everest. FinalWire released the latest update to AIDA64, a comprehensive system information, diagnostic, and benchmarking suite for engineers and enthusiasts alike. Version 1.60 introduces a host of changes. To begin with support for AMD's Fusion "Ontario" and "Zacate" APUs was added, it was improved for Intel's "SandyBridge" processors. Tests in the benchmark suite which became 64-bit optimized since AIDA64's first release, is now optimized for the AVX SIMD instruction set. PCI-Express 3.0 controllers and devices are now supported. Support for new AMD Radeon HD 6000 series and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti GPUs was added. Lastly, support for AMD and JMicron storage controllers was improved.

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Corsair shared more info its plans for the upcoming transition from 34nm to 25nm NAND flash memory on its solid state disks.

The 25nm NAND flash memory is cheaper to manufacture but the downside is that it's less durable and somewhat slower than the previous generation. The company says more over-provisioning will be needed to ensure reliability, and reports tests show a roughly 3-4 percent drop in performance. All of Corsair's new Force SSDs with 25nm NAND will get an "-A" suffix to make it easy to determine the difference with the 34nm disks.

Corsair, a worldwide designer and supplier of high-performance components to the PC gaming hardware market, today announced its plans for the upcoming transition from 34 nanometer to 25 nanometer flash chips used on its solid-state drives.

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Google has made Chrome 10 beta public, you can grab it over here. This new release promises a 66 percent enhancement in JavaScript performance and offers GPU-accelerated video support, which should decrease CPU usage by up to 80 percent. Other new features include password synchronization and two new settings features that make it easier to customize Chrome to your liking.

In our new beta release, JavaScript is as quick as a bunny. With a new speed boost that we previewed in December, Chrome

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Check out the first footage from the game, which will be released for PC, Mac and more in April:


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Operation Flashpoint: Red River is set to launch on April 21st across the EMEA region with North America shipping on April 2


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Palit submitted their GeForce GTX 560 Ti Sonic, a product that comes with a nice factory overclock and a rather silent cooler. It comes factory clocked at 900 MHz on the primary GPU core and 4200 MHz on the memory at default.