Another important unveiling in the computer cooling system has been recently made by Scythe, the Japanese specialist in cooling system. Katana, which has been named by the Japanese sword, the Katana 3 CPU cooler (SCKTN-3000) is compatible with Intel sockets 478, LGA 775 and LGA 1366. This CPU cooling system is further compatible with AMD sockets 754, 939, 940, AM2, AM2+ and AM3 processors. Read the rest of this entry »
The capacities of storage devices used to store the digital goodness have increased steadily in past few years. The most popular method of storing huge amount of data has been the external hard drives only. External hard drives are portable, comparatively cheaper and offer a easy way to increase your system’s storage capacity. Western Digital is no exception too as they have expanded their My Book family of external hard drives to 2TB capacity. It is claimed to be the largest capacity available in any single-drive system. Read the rest of this entry »
The Synology Disk Station DS209+ offers you a lot of benefits. To start with, it features a compact, two-bay design. It boasts of user accessible drives. As far as performance is concerned, it offers an extremely speedy performance. It is available in RAID 0, 1, and JBOD configurations. The Synology Disk Station DS209+ supports up to 3 TB of storage. This unit is available at a price of $700, along with the drives. If you just want to buy the enclosure, you can do so by just paying $490. Read the rest of this entry »
The Linksys by Cisco Media Hub 410 1TB provides you the friendliest media-serving Web interface in the form of a NAS box. This is the only model apart from Synology’s DS209+ and the HP MediaSmart that allows you to view and play media on your computer through the Web-based configuration interface. There is one feature that it has that is absent in its rivals. It has the ability to play video files, audio files, and images. The video displayed by the device is considerably reduced in size but is good for a small preview before you downloading it to your computer. In case you use Firefox, then you will have to install the Windows Media Player 11 plug-in in order to play video and music. A downside is that you will not be able to play WMA audio tracks with Firefox. Read the rest of this entry »
The Hewlett-Packard MediaSmart Server ex487 boasts of four drive bays, of which two have a 750 GB drive in each and the other two are provided for you to carry out upgrades. The Hewlett-Packard MediaSmart Server ex487 is the only unit that features Microsoft’s feature-packed Windows Home Server software. This software makes use of a process called folder duplication in order to span available disk storage across your single, redundant volume of around 1.3 GB of total usable storage. Other units use RAID to do the same. Read the rest of this entry »
QNAP Systems has announced the release of its TS-119 and TS-219 one and two-bay Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems this week. These systems are equipped with iSCSI support. However, QNAP Systems has not announced the prices of these systems. According to the company, both these systems are desktop NAS appliances. They have been specifically aimed at home, small home office, and medium level business users. The box of both the systems houses a 1.2 GHz CPU and 512 MB DDR2 RAM that lends enormous power to the embedded operating system. As far as other specifications of the box are concerned, it comprises front and rear-facing USB 2.0 ports, an external Serial ATA (eSATA) interface, and a Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) network interface. The external Serial ATA (eSATA) interface helps you to join additional devices to the systems. Read the rest of this entry »
A notebook cooler is in at the market, which is compatible with laptops having a display size of up to 15.4 inches. The dimension of the device being 11.81 x 10.62 x 9.84 inches (30 cm x 27 cm x 25 cm) and weighing approximately 1.76 lbs (800 grams), the LapChilla notebook cooler has been launched by Coolink. Read the rest of this entry »
EVGA has recently unveiled the “Ultimate in X58 motherboards“. This has been one of the most anticipated products of 2009. Yes, the X58 Classified sets its own standards as far as modern motherboards are concerned. The X58 introduces a variety of new features in the field of motherboards. It takes pride in being the first motherboard that is capable of holding 3-way SLI graphics cards, a PCIe 1x sound card, and a dedicated PhysX card, all at the same time. As its reviews, the X58 sports two 8-pin +12V CPU connectors on it. These connectors are capable of providing up to 600 watts of power to the board. Read the rest of this entry »
The Radeon HD4870 IceQ 4+ Turbo, from HIS is the fastest single-core card produced by the company till date. HIS has taken AMD/ATI’s Radeon HD 4870 GPU, incorporated to it a custom cooling solution, overclocked the core and memory clock speeds with two times the standard memory to boot and readied the card. The HD4870 (RV770) core is made on a 55nm process. Its die measures 260mm². AMD has successfully packed it with 956 million transistors. The 800 stream processors on the device handle the vertex, geometry shader data, pixel, and the 40 texture units very well. The device supports both DirectX 10.1 and multi-card CrossfireX set-ups. Read the rest of this entry »
The world of advance computing is constantly in search of faster speeds. In today’s world of flash based memories, traditional hard disk drives are equally familiar and are still rolling in the market. Seagate and AMD have joined hands to give the old Serial ATA HDD’s a new platform with the introduction of their next-generation high speed data transfer 6 Gigabit/second hard drives. These new hard drives are surely to give a speed leap to those so called bandwidth-hungry desktop and laptop PC applications such as gaming, streaming video and graphics multimedia. Read the rest of this entry »
