March 6, 2011
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…
Tags: areal density, hardware, HDD / SSD drives, innovation, News Worthy, samsung, Storage
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March 4, 2011
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 [...]
Tags: asus, build a pc, gigabyte, hardware, motherboards, MSI, News Worthy
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February 11, 2011
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 …
Tags: business, investment, jmicron, Kingston, News Worthy
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February 11, 2011
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…
Tags: benchmark, build a pc, corsair, dominator gt, hardware, maxxmem, Memory, News Worthy, ram
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February 11, 2011
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.” …
Tags: adreno 220, CPU, GPU, hardware, mobile, News Worthy, processor, qualcomm, snapdragon
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February 11, 2011
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…
Tags: atheros, hardware, Internet, mobile, News Worthy, wi-fi, wireless, Wireless-N
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February 10, 2011
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…
Tags: build a pc, Cooling, GeForce, GPU, gtx 580, hardware, hydrogen, MSI, n580gtx, News Worthy, Nvidia, videocard, water cooling, waterblock
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February 9, 2011
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…
Tags: activision, cancellation, gaming, guitar hero, News Worthy
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