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ARCHOS enters the smartphone market with not one, not two, but three phones with the entry model starting at $99. All three models will come with slim design, IPS screen, stock Android UI, and dual-SIM. The cheapest of the bunch ARCHOS 35 Carbon will have 3.5” screen size at resolution of 320×480, 4GB of internal storage and 512 MB of RAM. The Platinum models will feature quad-core processor clocked at 1.2GHz, 4GB of internal storage, and 1GB of RAM. The 50 Platinum will feature 5” screen with 2000mAh battery while the 53 Platinum will equipped with 5.3” screen and 2800mAh battery. Both models screen resolution is at 960×540, a bit low in today’s standard but considering the pricing of these phones, it’s understandable. The phones will be available at the end of May 2013 in Europe. No information on whether or not these phones will made it way to the US.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif.—April 16, 2013—NVIDIA today announced that gamers who purchase a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 or above would also receive a copy of the highly anticipated Metro: Last Light, published by Deep Silver and is the sequel to the multi award winning Metro 2033. Metro: Last Light will be available May 14, 2013 within the US and May 17, 2013 across Europe.
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AMD’s HD 7790 bridges the gap between the HD 7700 and the HD 7800. While the card’s performance is decent for a budget card, one of its limitation maybe the 1GB memory that may potentially cause issue especially if you are considering to setup a multiple monitors. Luckily Sapphire has released the 2GB version of the card aimed at those who need the extra gig of memory. Not only the card comes with 2GB of GDDR5, it also is factory overclocked with the core clockspeed of 1050 MHz and memory speed of 1600 MHz. The card also comes with Sapphire’s custom cooler with a dual heatpipe system and single aerofoil section fan assembly with dust repelling bearing. According to the PR, the cooler is able to reduce the memory and the PCB temperature to as low as 13C, pretty impressive. The card also comes with two DVI ports, an HDMI, and a single DisplayPort for up to four monitors support. To top it off, Sapphire also includes a free copy of BioShock Infinite when you purchase it from the participated retailer.
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Want to win a HD 7870 Myst or HD 7790 Turbo Duo from PowerColor? If so, simply follow the simple instruction at the PowerColor’s Facebook page and you are all set. The contest will run for 15 days starting on the 15th of April. Pretty simply and you may just be the lucky one with a very nice graphic card. Good luck!
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Noctua continues to deliver excellent performance and craftsmanship with their cooler. Their latest NH-U12S and the NH-U14S are designed with large, siz heatpipe design equipped with the NF-A15 fan. While the NH-U12S will have 120mm fan and the NH-U14S will have 140mm fan The NH-A15 is Noctua’s own design fan that features PWM for fan speed control. Furthermore, the maximum speed on the fan can also be reduced to 1200 RPM from 1500 RPM for ultra quiet operation. Both coolers are single tower design with slim layout of merely 45mm (for the NH-U12S) and 52mm (for the NH-U14S) to provide maximum RAM compatibility. It is even possible to install two fans on these coolers without the fan overhang the RAM modules.
The coolers are compatible with a range of CPUs that includes both Intel Socket LGA2011, LGA 1156, LGA 1155, LGA1150, and AMD Socket AM2, AM2+, AM3, AM3+, FM1, and FM2. The NH-U12S and the NH-U14S will be available shortly at retail price of 64.90 and 74.90, respectively.
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The SSDs are getting better as the prices are falling to where it is no longer costing an arm or an leg for a relatively decent size storage capacity. Lately, we have seen a growing trends of many budget SSds appearing on the market like the OCZ Vertex 3.20 or the Kingston V300 that offers excellent performance at an affordable price. The folks at Silicon Power also joins the market with their budget SSD with the Velox V50. The Velox V50 features 530MB/s max read and 200 MB/s max write speed. It will be available in storage capacity ranges from 32GB to 250GB.
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The SSD pricing are getting to the point that it is no longer out of reach for average users. As a result, more and more people are putting it in their system. Not only that, we see more and more NAS are equipped to accommodate SSD as well for enhancing the responsiveness. Thecus has added many popular SSD to its compatibility list that includes Intel 520 Series, Corsair Force Series GS, and Crucial M4. In addition, it also adds support for Seagate Constellation CS series and the HGST MegaScale 4000 HDD. For the complete list of compatible SSD and HDD, hit the link below and check Thecus’s website for the complete list.
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Popular PC benchmark suite AIDA64 has released an update version 2.85 today. The new version optimize support for 64-bit AMD A-series Richland APU, and improves support for the upcomin gKabini, Temash, and Kaveri APUs. It also improves support for the Intel Haswell and Valleyview processors as well as add preliminary support for Intel Avoton SoC and the upcoming Haswell-E CPU and Lynx Point PCH. It also adds support for the AMD HD 8000 Series and the GeForce GTX Titan. The new version also adds plenty of new tests that includes GPGPU Stress Test, a revamped PhotoWorxx benchmark with AVX, SSE4.1, and XOP optimization, and a rewritten AES data encryption benchmark with AESNI, SSE4.1, and VIA PadLock optimizations.
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Thecus has add the Intel 10GB Ethernet Server Adapter X540-T2 card to its compatibility NIC cards. The card joins other 10Gb Ethernet NIC cards like the Emulex OCe10102-NX, Emulex OCe11102-NX, Intel X520-T2, Intel X520-SR1, Intel X520-SR2, Intel X520-DA2, Intel CX4, and Thecus C10GT, and Thecus C10GI. To use the card, users would need to download the latest firmware, which can be download from Thecus website. The card is compatible with various models that includes: N7700PROv2 / N8800PROv2 / N8900 / N8900V / N12000 / N12000V / N12000PRO / N16000 / N16000V / N16000PRO / W8900 / W12000 / W16000.
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QNAP launches Turbo NAS TS-421U and TS-420U racckmount models for workgroups and entry-level SMBS. Both models features Marvell CPU where the TS421U is clocked at 2.0 GHz while the TS-420U is clocked at 1.6GHz. They also come wiht 1GB of DDR3 RAM, dual Gigabit LAN port with failover and load balancing, 2 USB 3.0, and 2 eSATA ports. The four hot-swappable bays comes in 1U rackmount form factor that offers iSCSI target survice with Thin Provisioning. Plenty of features are supported that includes Windows AD and LDAP directory service, Windows ACL and real-time remote replication for backing up date in the cloud. Both units are available but QNAP has not announced the pricing yet.
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