VIA announces VIA VN1000 Digital Media Chipset

VIA Technologies on Thursday announced the VIA VN1000 digital media chipset for next generation desktop and all-in-one PCs, offering a world-class HD multimedia entertainment platform compatible with the advanced desktop features of Microsoft Windows 7. The VIA VN1000 is the most power efficient DX10.1 digital media chipset available today, making it the perfect solution for next generation small form factor and all-in-one Windows 7 PCs that focus on entertainment, multimedia and touch screen capabilities. The DirectX 10.1 hardware environment provided by the VIA Chrome 520 IGP means Windows 7 users can enjoy a more fluid and visually enhanced desktop …

Seagate Pulsar : First Solid State Drive (SSD) from Seagate

Seagate on Tuesday introduced the Seagate Pulsar drive, the first product in its new enterprise solid state drive (SSD) family. Designed for enterprise blade and general server applications, the Pulsar drive uses single-level cell (SLC) technology, delivers up to 200GB capacity, and is built in a 2.5-inch small form factor with a SATA interface. The Pulsar drive leverages Seagate’s 30 years of leadership in meeting large enterprise customer needs in product development, qualification, and support. “Seagate is optimistic about the enterprise …

MSI and SteelSeries announce preorder of Big Bang-Trinergy Mainboard

MSI today announced preorder details for its latest gaming mainboard, Big Bang-Trinergy. Starting now, those who pre-order Big Bang-Trinergy from participating retailers will get a limited 8-year warranty and exclusive Big Bang messenger bag. In addition, SteelSeries KINZU and QcK+ gaming gears will be offered to those who pre-order, cooperating with the world’s famous gaming company, SteelSeries. Gamers will experience the ultimate gaming machine when heading into battle. "Big Bang is the state-of-the-art gaming series from MSI through long-standing development. We feel …

Transcend’s new StoreJet 35T External Hard Drive

Transcend recently introduced StoreJet 35T, a new addition to its StoreJet external hard drive lineup. With its cutting-edge TurboHDD USB transfer mode and One Touch auto-backup button, the compact 3.5-inch StoreJet 35T is an ideal data management system for uploading, downloading, storing and transferring vital data and information.

About the size of a hardback book, the black streamlined StoreJet 35T offers up to 1.5TB capacity, providing ample space for essential files, folders, documents, photos, music and high-definition videos. Its slender design allows it to be …

MSI launches R5970-P2D2G Graphics Card

MSI on Wednesday unveiled the new Radeon R5970-P2D2G graphics card. This high-end graphics card not only equips two advanced 40nm GPUs, but also utilizes 3200 stream processors (SPs), and 2 GB 512 bit GDDR5 graphics memory, making it the best performing card on the planet today! MSI’s R5970-P2D2G graphics card features ATI Eyefinity triple-display output technology, allowing gamers to get fully immersed in the latest DirectX 11 environments. The card also offers PowerPlay power-saving functionality that shows remarkable power-saving when the machine is in stand-by. Equally noteworthy is MSI’s own "Afterburner" overclocking software that allows the user to adjust …

Toshiba launches 320GB 1.8-inch HDD

Last week, Toshiba Corporation introduced a new line up of 1.8-inch HDDs with a maximum capacity of 320GB, the highest yet announced by the industry, targeted at thin and light mobile PCs and portable external hard disk drives. The new series delivers three models in 160GB, 250GB and 320GB capacities, and will start mass production from December 2009. Improvement of the MK3233GSG family’s perpendicular magnetic recording head and the disk’s magnetic layer secure an areal density of 801Mbit/mm2 (516Gbpsi), the industry’s highest for …

Seagate launches BlackArmor NAS 110 Network Storage Server

Seagate, the maker of hard disk drives and other storage products, on Wednesday announced the availability of the BlackArmor NAS 110 network storage server. This new offering is the first of the Seagate BlackArmor NAS family to include additional capabilities designed to meet the specific needs of small/home offices and consumers who crave the latest NAS technology.

The new BlackArmor NAS 110 server complements Seagate’s existing line of two-and-four bay NAS solutions, ranging from 1TB to 8TB. The new BlackArmor NAS 110 h …

ECS P55H-A Black Series Motherboard for Intel Core i5 and Core i7

On Tuesday, leading motherboard, graphics card, barebone system and notebook manufacturer, Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) announced the launch of the P55H-A Black Series motherboard based on Intel P55 Express chipset supporting the new Intel Core i5 and Core i7 processors.

The LGA 1156 socket motherboard is ideal for gamers setting up a feature rich system on a tight budget. The ECS P55H-A supports CrossFireX for blistering fast graphics as well as Intel’s latest features such as Turbo Boost Technology which overclocks your CPU …