Hardware

by Steven G. posted Wednesday, January 4th 2012.

Gelid decided to start the year 2012 well, so it put together what its announcement dubs the first tower case in its GAMER product line. The full name of the new, black and solid gaming chassis is Gelid GAMER DarkForce. Since we started by mentioning the color, it should be noted that the black paint

by Steven G. posted Wednesday, January 4th 2012.

After being introduced at the beginning of October 2011, OCZ has now announced that its mSATA Deneva 2 SSDs have gained certification for being used together with Intel’s Smart Response Technology in future Ultrabook models. For those of you who aren’t up to date with Intel’s Smart Reponse technology, this allows for an SSD to

by Steven G. posted Tuesday, January 3rd 2012.

Asetek, a company well renowned for its liquid cooling solutions, has just announced its plans of entering into the HPC cluster and data center market with a series of new solutions which utilize the company’s liquid cooling technology developed in the consumer space. These solutions are designed to chill both CPUs and GPU units and

by Steven G. posted Tuesday, January 3rd 2012.

VIA keeps updating its range of embedded motherboards and recently has unveiled a new mini-ITX solution that is built around the company’s processors and was designed to be used for POS and kiosk applications. Dubbed the VIA VB7009, the motherboard can be equipped with a wide selection of VIA CPUs ranging from a fanless 1.0GHz

by Steven G. posted Sunday, January 1st 2012.

Intel will soon update its processor portfolio with some three new chips based on the Sandy Bridge architecture which, in a rather strange turn of events, will come with their on-board GPU disabled. The reasons behind Intel’s decision are not known at this point in time, but we suspect that the chip maker is trying