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MSI launches 3 Gamer Notebook with Intel Core i5 or Core i7 CPU

admin — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 10:37:34 +0000

In March, MSI launches two new notebooks with Core i5 or Core i7 CPU for gamers on the market. For fast 3D graphics ATI Mobility Radeon 3D graphics make the 5800er series.

The manufacturer MSI is expanding its range of gamers around the notebook models GX740 (17 inches) and GX640 (15.6 inches), equipped with an Intel Core i7 720QM Quad or Core i5 430M dual-core processors and Hyper Threading support, and Turbo Boost. They are available with 4 or 8 GB of DDR3 memory.

As a graphic solutions are used in the MSI GX640 with an ATI Radeon HD 5850 and the MSI GX740 with an ATI Radeon HD 5870 with DirectX11 support used. The notebooks are among the first with high-speed 1 GB big GDDR5 graphics memory.

The MSI GX740 Gamer Notebook is equipped with five speakers, of which there are two on the keyboard and two on the front panel. The fifth speaker is a subwoofer on the bottom. The MSI GX640 is equipped with only two speakers.

Both notebooks support 3D Gamer Express WLAN (IEEE 802.11 b / g / n), an eSATA port, an HDMI output and a webcam with 2 megapixel resolution, including microphone. The keyboard has a separate numeric keypad.

Thus the gamer notebooks, given their performance is not very fast out of power, they are equipped with a 9-cell battery. Thanks to special ECO technology of MSI, you can toggle between five modes of operation. How can spare the battery, for example, only when reading e-mails or written texts. For PC games with 3D graphics to speak, then switches into high gear.

Depending on the configuration of the new 3D Gamer MSI notebook with a DVD burner or Blu-ray combo drive is equipped. Similarly, there is a choice between a 500GB or a 600 GB hard drive. Windows Home Premium as the operating system comes in the 64 bit version is used. The MSI GX640 and MSI GX740 come in March 2010 in the trade.

P55H-A: A new motherboard from ECS

admin — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:25:13 +0000

From the house, a new ECS motherboard has been presented, which bears the name of P55H-A and the new motherboard is part of ECS Black Series and is suitable for socket LGA 1156 processors. The motherboard here has a 6-phase PWM design, four DDR-2133 MHz DIMM slots, two PCI-Express x16 slots and of course, continues to support CrossFireX configurations.

In addition, there follow six SATA 3.0Gbps ports, one eSATA port, a debug LED, 7.1 channel audio, Gigabit Ethernet LAN and the MIB II OC BIOS utility. Price and release date of the P55H-A from ECS, however, are still not out, but should follow soon.

New hard drives from Hitachi Travelstar 7K500

admin — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 14:55:22 +0000

Hitachi today announced the 5th Generation of the new 2.5 inch hard drives of the Travelstar 7K500 Series, and the new drives will appear in the sizes of 120GB – 500GB storage space and are fitted next to an interface with a 16MB buffer SATA 3.0Gbps.

There is also added a power consumption of 0.69 watts in idle mode and 1.8 watts at labor steps and there is a hardware-based data decryption of data. As early as next month to appear larger quantities of the new hard drives on the market.

Sonos CR200 remote control touch screen

admin — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:31:06 +0000

The company has presented its new Sonos remote control the Sonos Controller 200 (CR200) and this new remote, of course, falls within the range of touchscreen remotes, and is therefore equipped with a 3.5-inch display and a virtual keyboard.

The remote control comes at a price and costs about $ 349 U.S. (about 245 €) in trade. However, it could also soon be possible for the iPhone or iPod touch with the right software to transform into a Sonos remote, which is already the case for the model Sonos CR100 and in this case the purchase price would naturally occur much less and would therefore only the Applications concern.

Asus P6X58 Premium motherboard with USB 3.0 ports

admin — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:32:44 +0000

Asus has introduced the P6X58 a new model in the premium segment of the motherboards and the new board is not only suitable for Intel Core i7 processors by the X58 chipset, but also provides two USB 3.0 ports, three USB 2.0 ports and six DDR3 Ram slots at.

In addition, there are three PCI-Express 2.0 slots for up to three graphics cards, but still no price or release date. With the USB 3.0 ports ASUS, however, has made provision for the future once, and other manufacturers will follow suit soon.