Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) has introduced a new motherboard technology called Durathon technology that dramatically improves stability and durability of ECS motherboards. Thanks to the implementation of the highest quality motherboard components and new designs the new ECS motherboards with Durathon technology make use of the best bi-directional spl...
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Faster USB 3.0 is on the horizon
11 April 2013 | Peripherals/Accessories
The USB Implementers Forum has announced the upcoming arrival of a new and faster USB 3.0 standard that is capable of achieving peak bandwidth of 10 Gbit/sec making it a real competitor to Intel's Thunderbolt technology. The news was shared at the on-going Intel Developers Forum in Beijing, China. The new standard doubles current USB 3.0 speed but the speed advantages will re...
HGST starts sales of new UltraStar solid-state drives
10 April 2013 | SSD
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST), a company that now belongs to Western Digital, has released a new family of very fast corporate UltraStar SSDs. The new family consists of the following models – UltraStar SSD800MH, SSD800MM and SSD1000MR. All models are based on 25 nm MLC NAND flash memory, come in 2.5-inch form factor and support Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) inter...
Acer to unveil Aspire P3 ultrabook hybrid
10 April 2013 | Tablets, Ultrabooks
Acer will soon debut a new ultrabook – the Aspire P3 – that will come in a sleek aluminum chassis with a unique form that allows it to work as an ultrabook and a huge tablet depending on the user’s wishes. Once released the Aspire P3 will run Windows 8 and will be based on energy efficient Intel Ivy Bridge processors including Celeron, Pentium and Core i5 chips. The ult...
Patriot sells external hard drive with built-in battery
10 April 2013 | Peripherals/Accessories
The US memory and SSD maker Patriot has released a rather interesting external hard drive that gets powered by an integrated battery that allows the user to work with it virtually anywhere. Called AERO the new company product offers extreme portability and flexibility and comes equipped with built-in Wi-Fi 802.11n that can connect it to up to five other external devices such ...
Intel to debut two more mobile Celeron processors
10 April 2013 | Notebooks, Ultrabooks
The upcoming Intel Haswell platform will surely strengthen Intel’s high-end market positions but it seems the company needs something in the budget segment too. This is the reason why the famous US corporation will soon release two more budget-oriented Celeron processors based on the Ivy Bridge architecture – the mobile Celeron 1005M and the mobile Celeron 1017U. The mobi...
Micron launches M500 SSD family with impressive capacity
9 April 2013 | SSD
Micron Technology has officially released the Crucial M500 family of solid-state drives that offers impressive speed and massive storage capacity. The M500 family has four SSD members – 120 GB, 240 GB, 480 GB and 960 GB models, which means that if you have the cash you can grab a M500 SSD that combines the capacity of a mechanical hard drive with the speed of a SSD. ...
Galaxy Mega 6.3 specs also leaked
9 April 2013 | Smartphones, Tablets
Just a day after the specs of the Samsung Galaxy Mega 5.8 were leaked online Galaxy Mega 6.3 has followed suit thanks to the efforts of an unknown source. According to the leaked information the Galaxy Mega 6.3 phablet – a hybrid between a tablet and a smartphone – will measure 167 x 88 x 7.9 mm and will carry a 6.3-inch sensor display at qHD resolution (960 x 540 pixels)...
Gelid unveils low-profile universal CPU cooler
9 April 2013 | PC
Gelid, a company which designs and makes CPU coolers, has released the SlimHero – a universal low-profile CPU cooler that is capable of cooling processors with TDP of up to 136 watts. The Gelid SlimHero measures 131 x 123 x 59 mm and relies on four heatpipes and an aluminum heat sink as well as on a 120 mm fan that spins between 750 and 1600 rpm thanks to the included PWM c...
HP talks about first “Moonshot” systems
9 April 2013 | PC
US tech giant HP has unveiled the first commercially available Moonshot system that makes significant progress in the server market by using up to 89 per cent less energy, 80 per cent less space for a price that is 77 per cent lower. “With nearly 10 billion devices connected to the Internet and predictions for exponential growth, we’ve reached a point where the space, pow...
Intel to ship updated Haswell chipsets this summer
8 April 2013 | PC
The infamous hang issue that affects the core logic for Intel’s Haswell processors will soon be a thing of the past – Intel has officially announced that the bug will be fixed with a new chipset revision expected this summer. The new chipset will come with a new C2 stepping instead of the original and buggy C1 stepping. The good news in the picture is that the C2 stepping...
