Posted on May 21st, 2007 by ElectroGeek
Western Digital joins Fujitsu with a 250GB 5400RPM SATA notebook HDD
Not to be outdone by Fujitsu which recently announced its 250GB 2.5″ 5400RPM MHY2 BH Series notebook HDDs, Western Digital today announced its new 250GB Scorpio notebook HDD.
Western Digital’s 250GB Scorpio takes full advantage of perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) and features a Serial ATA interface. [...]
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Posted on May 14th, 2007 by ElectroGeek
ATI’s DirectX 10 capable GPU is finally here in the form of the Radeon HD 2900 XT. Does this $399 video card have what it takes to compete with NVIDIA’s 8800 series? We explore the architecture, image quality, and real world gaming that shows a different experience than canned benchmarks.
The day we have been waiting [...]
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Posted on May 10th, 2007 by ElectroGeek
For those of you who just can’t seem to get enough storage capacity for your PC, Hitachi has the answer. Hitachi has recently started shipping their 1 terabyte (1000 Gigabyte) SATA hard drive which is ideal for extreme gamers, video editing and music.
The 7K1000 is perfect for various applications such as:
Internal and external storage [...]
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Posted on May 7th, 2007 by ElectroGeek
Your wait is over. 128GB of pure solid state Hard Drive goodness is upon us. Gone will be the days of whining, over heating hard drives that encourage the BSOD (blue screen of death).
These new solid state hard drives have zero moving parts, run 80% cooler and use much less power than their spinning predecessors. [...]
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Posted on May 2nd, 2007 by ElectroGeek
The Motorola laptop card, designed for Clearwire’s WiMAX network, fits into a standard Type II card slot on a laptop PC, and will give users high-speed wireless access to the Internet over WiMAX networks. Clearwire is busy putting up WiMAX networks throughout the U.S., while Sprint-Nextel is also on the job, building its own mobile [...]
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Posted on May 2nd, 2007 by ElectroGeek
NVIDIA GeForce: Return of the Ultra
NVIDIA today pulled the wraps off its ultra high-end GeForce 8800 Ultra, its fourth G80-based graphics card. NVIDIA has taken its run-of-the-mill GeForce 8800 GTX and raised the core, memory and shader clocks, for an infusion of performance. The latest GeForce 8800 Ultra kicks performance into overdrive with a new [...]
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Posted on May 1st, 2007 by ElectroGeek
A California company has released a new line of USB 2.0 flash drives which they appropriately named the “extremely rugged line.” I’ll agree with the name. These drives are rugged!
The “Flash Survivor” USB 2.0 drives are sold by Corsair out of Fremont California. According to Corsair these drives are designed and engineered to be the [...]
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Posted on April 27th, 2007 by ElectroGeek
The other day a client of mine presented me with a situation in which he needed to add a second monitor to his PC. The solution. An external USB 2.0 video card was just the ticket.
External video card you say. Yep. But you thought you had to open the PC, pop a 2nd video card [...]
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Posted on April 22nd, 2007 by ElectroGeek
VIA has shrunk its motherboards again and has announced its Pico-ITX design which is barely larger than a playing card. The 10 cm by 7.2 cm board is 75% smaller than the already small Mini-ITX form factor board released a few years ago. VIA’s reference board the VT6047 runs the VIA C7 or [...]
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