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iStarUSA xAGE 902 HDD Docking Station Review

By Ewdison Then on Monday, Feb 2nd 2009 No Comments

External drive caddies have been a boon for anyone wanting to switch one hard-drive between several systems. Start playing with more than one drive, however, and opening up the caddy gets tiresome: instead, take a look at the “toaster” style drive dock. iStarUSA’s xAGE902-SAUF accepts both 3.5 and 2.5 inch drives in an easy-access top-loading slot. More than that, it offers no less than four different connection types – eSATA, USB 2.0, Firewire 400 and Firewire 800 – to suit all but the most stubborn of systems. Is this the last drive dock you’ll ever need? SlashGear set to finding out.

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Intel drops prices on processors with little notice

By Staff Editor on Monday, Jan 19th 2009 No Comments

Intel has taken the time to drop the prices for their Core 2 Quad, Core 2 Duo and Pentium processors, all while not drawing too much attention to the change. This makes some of the Core 2 Quad processors a considerate amount cheaper than before. See below for full price changes.

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Fitting an Xbox 360 into a PS3 case just may make your eyes bleed

By Staff Editor on Tuesday, Dec 30th 2008 12 Comments

Well it finally happened, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 was fit into a Playstation 3 case. This May be able to fool your friends into thinking you had enough money for you, but look at it twice and you will see that there is something very strange about it. For one there is a big hole in the front.

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Micron 1GB/s SSD to be released in the near future

By Brenda Stokes on Wednesday, Nov 26th 2008 1 Comment

micron real ssd Well this is exciting news. Micron has come up with a new SSD that could actually break current records for internal storage and would be incredibly fast. This new storage would actually use two solid-state drives that have 16 data channels. This would make for a transfer speed of up to 1GB/second!

Call me impressed! Performance exceeds 200,000 input/output operations per second. It also requires that the current Serial ATA II 300MB/s bandwidth cap be released with a PCI Express. During a demo video, the SSDs are mounted on cards and these managed to top 800MB/s.

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S3 Chrome 500 series graphics chips announced

By Brenda Stokes on Friday, Nov 21st 2008 No Comments

S3, the graphics label for VIA, announced their Chrome 500 series graphics chips yesterday, offering up a competitor to the Radeon HD 4350 line as well as other budget cards that provide features at a much lower price.

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AMD Phenom II microprocessor set to launch at CES

By Brenda Stokes on Friday, Nov 14th 2008 No Comments

01425i22482600 AMD is really rolling out the processors these days and are set to launch their Phenom II at the upcoming CES in Las Vegas in January 2009. The Phenom II X4 will be a part of the Dragon platform and is also known as the Deneb core. This will be the desktop processor version of the Shanghai processor that launched yesterday.

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Seagate Savvio 15K.2 HDD is super fast and super green

By Brenda Stokes on Thursday, Nov 6th 2008 No Comments

savvio 10k 2 sm 106x106 Seagate has just added another drive to their Savvio enterprise HDD line and this time around, it’s faster, greener and smaller. In fact, the Savvio 15K.2 HDD uses less power and has a 115% performance boost when compared to 3.5-inch drives.

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OCZ Solid Series SSDs introduced

By Brenda Stokes on Thursday, Nov 6th 2008 No Comments

OCZ has just announced their latest solid state offerings and they definitely feature high quality on a budget. The OCZ Solid Series SSDs are intended for use in current notebook models and while not recommended for pre-2007 laptops, they do sport a 2.5-inch sizing and use the SATA II interface.

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OCZ announces Core Series V2 SSDs

By Emily Price on Friday, Aug 15th 2008 No Comments

core OCZ has announced brand new Core Series V2 SSDs. The new drives follow the release a little over a month ago of OCZ’s original Core Series SSDs. The new drive have increase read and write speeds and are now available in four different sizes instead of three.

The SSDs are going to be available in 30GB, 60GB, 120GB, and 250GB capacities, and read speeds for the drives have been increased to 170MB per second while write speeds are at 98MB/sec.

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Next week’s driver update brings PhysX to GeForce GPUs

By Chris Scott Barr on Friday, Aug 8th 2008 No Comments

I generally try to stay on top of things when it comes to the components in my gaming rig. I usually try to buy a new graphics card once, maybe twice a year, and generally don’t go for the top-of-the-line card. Despite generally being up-to-date, I really haven’t considered purchasing a separate physics card, even though they have been available for some time. It’s a good thing too, since now many GeForce cards will soon have the same hardware physics capabilities as a standalone card.

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