The company NVIDA, known producer of chips and graphics processors, reduced the price of its GeForce GTX 280 graphics card. Although the video appeared in sales, more recently, the company NVIDA still had to resort to decisive action. This is because the new graphics card is its main competitor Radeon HD 4800 series are more powerful, but it costs less.

It was learned that NVIDIA advises its partners to sell GeForce GTX 280 graphics card at a price of $ 499 (a similar price from competing graphics cards series Radeon HD 4800). One of the partners concluded: “retail price may be slightly higher, but in theory and a bit below”. Video GeForce GTX 280 on the new price will appear in sales over the next two weeks.

The company Acer has finally been submitted its version of class notebooks mini-PC - Acer Aspire One. The series comprises three notebook: A110L, A150L and A150X. All laptops have 8.9 - inch screens and supports a resolution of 1024 x 600.

Acer Aspire One A110L has the following characteristics: processor Intel Atom N270, 512 MB RAM, three USB ports, Wi-Fi adapter, and solid NAND drive, the volume of 4 GB. The remaining two models differ only hard drive to 120 GB. As a basic operating system offered Linpus Linux and Windows XP. In Germany, laptop Acer Aspire One A110L already sold at a price of $ 518.

In the class computers All-In-One PC, representatives of which are iMac computers and Gateway One, replenishment. Averatec Company submitted its new computer this class. He has excellent design and not bad performance.

Computer Averatec based on a processor Intel Core 2 Duo E4600 with 2.4 GHz frequency, has 2 GB of RAM, GeForce 8400 graphics card, hard disk, 320 GB volume. As a basic operating system are invited to Windows Vista Home Premium. Certainly in quality and price of computer Averatec can not be compared with the iMac and Gateway One. Yet for those who need harmoniously write a personal computer in interior rooms, he fully fit.

When it comes to a cheapo machine like the Eee PC, the spec that everyone cares most about is the price. For whatever reason, Asus is still playing coy on the pricetag for the little machine, even though it’s scheduled to launch before the end of the month. They are, however, releasing final specs for the U.S. market, so you can figure out which Eee PC is right for you. On the high end, we’ve got a machine with 1GB of DDR2 RAM, an 8GB SSD, a built-in webcam and a 5200 mAh battery that will see around 3.5 hours of life. On the low end, you’ll be getting 256MB of RAM, a 2GB SSD and a 4400 mAh battery that’s good for around 2.8 hours. All machines will feature a 7″ LCD display, Intel CPU and chipset, Ethernet and WLAN, will weigh in at less than 1kg and will run either Windows XP or the Linux flavor of your choosing (neither is included). Looks like these Eee PCs are going to be fairly well-equipped for their size–let’s hope that the low-end model manages to clock in at just over two Benjamins as was promised. Read the rest of this entry »

Mionix is a brand new, and Swedish I might add, company that has just launched its first products. Mionix is a gaming company focusing on the most important of all input devices, the mouse. Mionix has designed and develop two mice and two pads to go with them. Saiph 1800 and Saiph 3200 are the names of the two mice. The numbers in the names explain how many dpi the laser is capable of. Thus, Saiph 3200 has a resolution of a whopping 3200 dots per inch. Just having the Saiph 1800 model would have been impressive to be honest. Read the rest of this entry »

PowerColor has gone all the way with its coming Radeon HD 4850 graphics card. One of the few but often heard complaints is the fairly small memory buffer. You get rather far with 512MB, but when you crank up the resolution it gets rather easy to fill that buffer. Since GDDR3 is plentiful, PowerColor decided to quadruple the memory buffer to make sure that all of the modern games can use as much memory as the may possibly need.

On top of the increased buffer, PowerColor also raised the memory frequency to 2000MHz, and gave the core frequency a slight polish while they were at it, up to 665MHz. To make sure these increased frequencies doesn’t hurt anyone, or the card, PowerColor has installed a ZeroTherm VGA cooler that should do the trick. Price and availability is unknown.

Seemingly official-looking pictures have emerged of Asus’s upcoming all-in-one PC and display, the Eee Monitor.

The images, which are believed to have been leaked from within Asus, are available on the French site Blogeee.net. It is hard to tell at this point what components are inside the machine, but it is likely that they will not be dissimilar to those inside the Eee Box, which is set to launch in August.

The photographs appear to show at least six USB ports on the machine, alongside standard ports like Ethernet, line-in and line-out. A webcam is integrated, as are an SDHC slot and LEDs to show Wi-Fi and disk activity. Interestingly, the PC appears to have integrated Denon speakers.

Seagate on Thursday unveiled 1.5TB desktop and half-terabyte notebook hard drives, claiming industry firsts for both.

The Barracuda 7200 1.5TB drive is aimed at the desktop market and the half-a-terabyte jump in capacity from 1TB marks “the single largest capacity hard drive jump in the more than half-century history of hard drives”, according to the company. Both drives use perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology. Read the rest of this entry »

We recently tested the latest Silverstone Decathlon series power supply, but we also wanted to review one of their top-end models from the Zeus series. Silverstone has delivered many new features in the past, and their build quality has always been good. Unfortunately, the major addition for the Zeus family appears to be the bump to 1200W - power very few people will ever need for their system. However, the Zeus 1200W does make some changes to the voltage delivery subsystem that may be useful. Read the rest of this entry »

Systems with Intel integrated graphics still not ready

As notebook shipments have begun to significantly outpace the sales of desktop computers, each new notebook platform launched by Intel becomes more important to the company. This Monday July 14 marks the launch of Intelā€™s Centrino 2 platform, previously known by the code-name Montevina. The launch comes weeks after Intel had planned due to a problem with Intelā€™s own integrated graphics for the platform. Read the rest of this entry »