EVGA have announced a new LCD display, the InterView 1770, which offers not one but two 17-inch panels fixed to a single central stand. The 1440 x 900 panels each rotate 180-degrees horizontally, so they can be flipped completely around to show a person sitting opposite you, or clamshell in to fit into a narrow cubicle.
Corsair’s latest SSD range, the Extreme Series, has been announced, offering between 32GB and 128GB of storage with a new Indilinx Barefoot controller. The three solid-state drives – the Extreme X32, X64 and X128 – claim read speeds of up to 240MB/s and write speeds of up to 170MB/s.
We’ve covered numerous backup systems here on SlashGear, ranging from simple USB hard-drives through network-attached media boxes and full-on RAID arrays, but bar individual drive failure we’ve never really considered the impact of physical damage. That’s exactly the sort of thing that ioSafe have in mind with their Solo drive, up to 1.5TB of fireproof, waterproof storage. SlashGear have been testing it out.
MSI have announced a new video card, the R4890 Cyclone SOC, which brings together ATI’s 1GHz HD 4890 core with 800 stream processors and 1GB of GDDR5 256-bit memory. Since cooling all that takes some effort, there’s also a huge 10cm fan with four 8mm heatpipes. That makes for the biggest fan on an HD 4890-based video card to date, and a setup which MSI claim is far quieter than rival systems.
Backup is often the dirty little secret of amateur and professional computer users alike, something we know we should be doing but so often don’t find time for. Investing in a capable storage system is a good first step for bypassing apathy and minimizing backup headaches, however, and that’s just what WiebeTech promise with their RTX400-QR RAID array. Various levels of data redundancy and multiple connection options suggest the bulky RTX400-QR means business; SlashGear tested it out.
Yesterday’s rumored NVIDIA 40nm GPUs have been made official, in the shape of listings for two new OEM cards: the NVIDIA GeForce G210 and the GeForce GT 220. Both support DirectX 10.1, OpenGL 3.0 and CUDA, with the G210 having VGA, DisplayPort and DVI outputs while the GT 220 has VGA, HDMI and DVI.
Full specifications for both cards after the cut
NVIDIA are expected to announce two new GPUs at the end of September 2009, built using 40nm processes. The NVIDIA GeForce GT220 (GT216) and GeForce G210 (GT218) have been tipped by sources at graphics card manufacturers, with the products expected to go up against ATI’s Mobility Radeon HD 4860 and 4830 products.
Careful where you pour that hot water: on the right is a 12oz coffee cup, while on the left is Synology’s latest NAS, the 4-bay Disk Station DS409slim. Squeezing up to four 2.5-inch hard-drives into a 120 x 105 x 142 mm box, the DS409slim still offers up to 2TB of storage or various levels of RAID secure data redundancy.
A new liquid-cooling setup from Thermaltake has been announced, the PW880i, offering more flexibility than the company’s all-in-one systems. Consisting of a copper water block, a tank, a P500 pump and a 24cm Motorsports Radiator, the PW88oi is intended for mainstream processor sockets such as the AMD AM2 or Intel’s P4 478.
Video demo after the cut
ASUS‘ latest motherboard for AMD Phenom II processors has been announced. The ASUS ROG (Republic of Gamers) Crosshair III Formula uses the AMD AM3 socket platform, together with CPU Level Up real-time overclocking and bundling a SupremeFX X-Fi sound card.
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