Posts Tagged ‘ News Worthy ’

Samsung Hits 1TB per Platter – 4TB Desktop & 1TB Notebook Drives Shipping Soon

March 6, 2011
Samsung Hits 1TB per Platter – 4TB Desktop & 1TB Notebook Drives Shipping Soon

Remember when the hard drive industry tried to convince us they would never be able to pump out hard drives bigger than 100GB? Well according to Samsung the platter density war is still alive and well, and a new breakthrough has allowed them to hit 1TB…

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Motherboard Prices on the Rise?

March 4, 2011
Motherboard Prices on the Rise?

Remember when you could purchase a high-end AMD motherboard for around $100? You have to look all the way back to the Barton glory days, when the Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Abit NF7-S v2 dominated the talk of bang-for-buck ratios. But that was years ago, and inorder to get a top-of-the-line motherboard today, you’re looking [...]

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Kingston Buying Multi-Million Dollar Stake in JMicron

February 11, 2011
Kingston Buying Multi-Million Dollar Stake in JMicron

Kingston Technology, which focuses on memory products like RAM and solid state drives, is buying a NT$96 million (~US$3,3 million) stake in JMicron, DigiTimes reports. JMicron’s board of directors approved the sale of 1.5 million shares to Kingston at …

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Corsair’s Dominator GT Series Sets New MaxxMem Benchmark Record

February 11, 2011
Corsair’s Dominator GT Series Sets New MaxxMem Benchmark Record

Corsair is no stranger to benchmarking records, and it can now add another notch to its belt. Give the assist to both “splman” (Roger Tanner) and “Mat” (Matthias Zronek), a couple of overclockers who used Corsair’s Dominator GT memory with Intel’s Core…

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Qualcomm Details New Generation Snapdragon Processor

February 11, 2011
Qualcomm Details New Generation Snapdragon Processor

HP’s upcoming 9.7-inch TouchPad tablet will ship with Qualcomm’s new APQ8060 dual-core Snapdragon processor, and according to Qualcomm, this wonder chip will enable the “latest and greatest multimedia experiences in today’s commercial mobile devices.” …

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Atheros Brings Dual-Band Wi-Fi to the Mobile World

February 11, 2011
Atheros Brings Dual-Band Wi-Fi to the Mobile World

Maybe we should call this the era of mobility, because when we look back, we’ll remember this time period as when cell phones transformed into smartphones (and superphones), tablet computing debut without falling on its face, and handheld devices of al…

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MSI’s N580GTX Runs Cool and Silent, Just Add Water

February 10, 2011
MSI’s N580GTX Runs Cool and Silent, Just Add Water

If you subscribe the motto that air is for breathing, not for cooling, then MSI’s new N580GTX HydroGen is exactly the type of videocard that should float your water cooling boat. MSI ditched the reference air cooling solution and replaced it with it…

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End of An Era: Activision Axes Guitar Hero Series Once and for All

February 9, 2011
End of An Era: Activision Axes Guitar Hero Series Once and for All

Here at Maximum PC, we usually prefer gaming news that’s brought to you by the letters “P” and “C,” but a doozy of an earthshaker dropped today over in Console Land, so here we are. Anyway, remember when Guitar Hero was a national institutio…

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