Let’s get the hard data out of the way first: 480 CUDA cores, 700 MHz graphics and 1,401MHz processor clock speeds, plus 1.5GB of onboard GDDR5 memory running at 1,848MHz (for a 3.7GHz effective data rate). Those are the specs upon which Fermi is built, and those are the numbers that will seek to justify a $499 [...]

A new Apple iMac has been spotted in the wild, sporting a thinner body and ramped-up specs – and a rumoured Blu-ray drive.
The chaps over at AppleInsider have reported that the new iMac dual-core all-in-ones have been in production for two weeks, so we can expect a launch announcement very soon.

MSI has just announced the MSI X400, a super-slim, affordable addition to its X-Slim range for those who need the power of a laptop in the portability of a netbook.Following on from the larger X600, the X400 weighs in a just 1.5kg and closes down to 9mm at its thinnest point.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc ships a lower-power version of its Opteron server chip on Monday as it tries to expand its offerings for Web hosting companies. The company declined to give its projections for revenues from the new chip.
AMD said the new chip is aimed at companies that use servers for tasks like cloud computing, and [...]

Having your browser, iTunes, IM, TweetDeck, Word, Skype, Photoshop, video editing tools, folders, and more open at the same time…well, it just takes up a lot of screen real estate. On a 15.4? laptop, you can only fit so much before your screen is piled with program after program.
gScreen, an Alaska-based notebook designer and manufacturer, aims to solve [...]

Transcend has launched a set of new server-grade DDR3 modules that come equipped with an advanced thermal sensor. This allows motherboard chipsets to monitor the exact temperature of each memory module and adjust the memory load accordingly, ensuring the best possible system performance while at the same time protecting the DRAM modules from potentially catastrophic [...]

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With newer Hi-Def video and audio formats becoming popular, games getting larger, and collections growing, you need more space, period. Western Digital plans to satiate your hunger for space with their new 1 Terabyte Caviar Black edition HDD.
This HDD is almost the same size of a 500GB HDD, [...]

Asus India launched two new graphics cards in the market, apparently inspired by the design of Formula 1 cars – the Formula EAH4770 with 512MB DDR5 and the Formula EAH4890 with 1GB DDR5 memory.
It’s a bit of a marketing gimmick, but it looks good and it improves performance, so we aren’t complaining. ATI’s 4890 line [...]

AMD HAS RELEASED a new version of its proprietary ATI Catalyst Linux display driver for both x86 and x86_64 systems.
The ATI Catalyst 9.8 suite updates the software to version 8.64 and supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.8 – and therefore most Red Hat based Linux distros – as well as the current Debian based Ubuntu [...]

The word is finally out. AMD will launch it’s much anticipated next generation graphics processors code name “Evergreen” on September 10th; ahead of Windows 7’s launch in late October..
Evergreen is the codename for AMD’s 40nm DX11 based product. With AMD’s codename shift this time around, it is still a little ambiguous as to whether Evergreen [...]

Aching to switch dull old DVD for beauteous Blu-ray but worried it’ll punish your pocket? Philips has snuck out a budget Blu-ray player to brighten up your Monday  – the Philips BDP3000Slap down £169 and hook the Philips BDP3000 up to your HD TV and it’ll give you Blu-ray movies in 1080p 24fps Full HD.  [...]

The software giant has built a new touchscreen computer—a coffee table that will change the world. Go inside its top-secret development with PopularMechanics.com, then forget the keyboard and mouse: The next generation of computer interfaces will be hands-on.

If you saw Minority Report’s gesture-controlled computers and immediately added one to the imaginary Amazon wish list in your head, your’re in luck. While the MSI Wind Top isn’t as flash as the ones Tom Cruise used in the 2002 thriller, it is a fully touchscreen PC, housed in a monitor about the same width [...]

Most of the connectors at the back of your computer are familiar while some are not. Here is a visual guide to all the possible plugs and sockets you’ll encounter.
Very often, people peek at the back panel of their computer or laptop and wonder what all those connectors are for. While many of them are [...]

With Socket AM3 processors supporting DDR3 memory, motherboard manufactures are finally starting to shift the focus from DDR2 to DDr3 memory based boards. Asus too is focusing largely on AMD’s socket AM3 processors, confirming their interest with the release of the M4A79T-Deluxe motherboard. The M4A79T-Deluxe motherboard chipset is based on the AMD 790FX northbridge. Unlike [...]