Gigabyte launches two tablets Windows 7 Pro on Intel Atom

Manufacturer Gigabyte launches two touch tablets, S1081 and S1081s, with an Intel Atom architecture and running under Windows 7 Pro.

Gigabyte released two models of touch tablets, S1081 and S1081s, with an Intel Atom architecture and with the Microsoft Windows 7 OS in its Pro version.

These two slates integrate in their hull Intel NM10 chipset, a processor dual core Atom N2800 running at 1.86 GHz, 2 GB DDR3, a GMA 3600 graphics chip, being assigned to a disk storage hard 2.5 "320 GB 5400 RPM for the S1081 and a 64 GB version S1081s DSS classic.

The two models share a screen of 10.1 "1024 x 600 pixels, the same connectors complete namely a USB 3.0 port, a USB 2.0 port, a port RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet, a reader of card memory SD outputs VGA and HDMI video. Of course integrate the connectivity Wireless WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0 and a 4000 mAh Li-polymer battery is responsible for providing a decent autonomy.

Both models have identical dimensions of 270 x 173 x 14,93 mm, only their weight differ with 850 grams for the version S1081 HDD and 790 grams for the S1081s SSD version. These Windows 7 tablets are available today for rates public advised of €635 for the S1081 and €735 for the S1081s.

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Gigabyte launches two tablets Windows 7 Pro on Intel Atom

Manufacturer Gigabyte launches two touch tablets, S1081 and S1081s, with an Intel Atom architecture and running under Windows 7 Pro.

Gigabyte released two models of touch tablets, S1081 and S1081s, with an Intel Atom architecture and with the Microsoft Windows 7 OS in its Pro version.

These two slates integrate in their hull chipset NM10 Intel processor dual core Atom N2800 running at 1.86 GHz, 2 GB DDR3, a GMA 3600 graphics chip, being assigned to a disk storage hard 2.5 "320 GB 5400 RPM for the S1081 and a 64 GB version S1081s DSS classic.

The two models share a screen of 10.1 "1024 x 600 pixels, the same connectors complete namely a USB 3.0 port, a USB 2.0 port, a port RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet, a reader of card memory SD outputs VGA and HDMI video. Of course integrate the connectivity Wireless WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0 and a 4000 mAh Li-polymer battery is responsible for providing a decent autonomy.

Both models have identical dimensions of 270 x 173 x 14,93 mm, only their weight differ with 850 grams for the version S1081 HDD and 790 grams for the S1081s SSD version. These Windows 7 tablets are available today for rates public advised of €635 for the S1081 and €735 for the S1081s.

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Prolimatech launches the heatpipe CPU Black Series Genesis

The Prolimatech constructor leaves its imposing Black Series Genesis, heatpipe CPU dual tower which is horizontal and the other vertical.

Prolimatech launches Black series of its CPU heatpipe particular design. Indeed it is composed of two towers of vanes in aluminium which is vertically and the other horizontally.

    

This perpendicular vanes blocks provision then to place up to three fans of 120 or 140 mm (sold separately) to cool not only the CPU but also strips of RAM, which must not exceed 49 mm in height, but also the other components of the motherboard.

    

As its name indicates this series offers therefore a black colour of the radiators, the base and the 6 heat pipes however remaining copper nickel plated. The bulk of all (without fan) rises to 216,5 x 165 x 146 mm and weighs 800 grams.

    

The Black Series Genesis is sold nude so without fan with a kit of compatible with socket 775 mounting, 1155, 1156, 1366, 2011 Intel and AM2, AM2 +, AM3 of AMD. It will be available in a few days at the rate of €70.

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MSI launches a GeForce GTX 670 OC with the Twin Frozr IV

The MSI Builder offers a GeForce GTX totally customisée 670, overclockée of plant and its home, the Twin Frozr IV heatpipe equipped.

MSI, after having proposed that a simple clone of the reference GeForce GTX 670, will launch a new fully customisée model, the GTX 670 Power Edition.

Overclockée factory and equipped with cooling House Twin Frozr IV system, the map has under the hood. GPU frequency therefore were reviewed upward by MSI and proposes now the 1019/1079 Mhz standard and GPU Boost against respectively 915/980 Mhz on the GTX 670 of origin NVIDIA. The 2 GB of GDDR5 remain for their processors at the frequency recommended by the firm to the Chameleon or 1502 Mhz, damage.

The map is thus cooled by the new version of the MSI own heatpipe, Twin Frozr in its fourth grinding. It consists of a large sink finned aluminum crossed by five heat pipes in nickel plated copper, the all topped two diameter 80 mm PWM fans composed each of 13 blades. The Builder and announces an increase of 20% of the air stream to achieve a reduction in the temperature of 20 ° and diminished noise of 11.7 dB from the original cooling system on the NVIDIA GTX 670.

Dust Removal developed by the mark is also and, on startup the PC to run the fans at full speed in the opposite direction to dust that would be filed on it. MSI GTX 670 Power Edition using the PCB of the GTX 680, 27 cm long and has four video outputs including two ports DVI Dual Link, a HDMI 1 4 port and a Display Port 1.2.

The card will be available for sale from the half of the month of June for a fee of €420.

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HGST/Western Digital launches its 7 K 4000, a 4 TB hard drive

Hitachi GST - or rather Western Digital - launches the commercialization of its new drive hard high density of 4 To, for the time reserved for companies.

A destination of business first and foremost, HGST (Hitachi Global Storage Technologies) - now in the hands of Western Digital - announces the production of its new 4 TB hard disk, called Ultrastar 7 K 4000 which we knew already the specifications. As its name indicates, it runs at 7200 t/m and although offers 4 TB of disk space.

Compared to the 7 K 3000 Ultrastar, it offers 33% additional space with a consumption report go reduced by 24%. To provide important flows, it has a SATA 6 Gb/s (and non-SAS) connector with a 64 MB cache. Blocks on the disk sizes are 4 k with a 512-byte emulator directly managed by the disk, known 512e Advanced Format, making it compatible with older operating systems does not support this new formatting system.

This disk is accompanied by advanced features as the DSA (Dual Stage Actuator) and RVS (Enhanced Rotational Vibration Safeguard) or BDE (Bulk Data Encryption) that allow businesses to ensure availability important. Indeed, this 7 K 4000 Ultrastar has a MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) of 2 million hours. This new range is available in small quantities in his adaptations of 2TB, 3TB and 4 To, all covered by a five year warranty. There is unfortunately no price to which share these new hard drives for the moment.

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Virgin Mobile launches its offensive: quadruple-play from €29.99 and mini-forfait to €4.99

Make the point on the strategy of Virgin Mobile, which announces three new packages including two mixed with a quadruple-play offering.

Virgin Mobile has, as expected, announced new offerings this week. The first virtual operator French first started to be reassuring about the impact that could have on the arrival of Free Mobile on the market. Recognizing "explosion" on the fifteen days following the announcements of Free, pressure is quickly settled according to the MVNO before his recruitment leave rising in mid-March, when Free Mobile began to experience technical problems on its network. In total, Omea Telecom (which includes Virgin Mobile, Tele 2, Breizh Mobile and Casino Mobile) has thus lost "only" 26,000 customers in January and 15,000 in February, and returned to 17,000 in March... or loss dry 24,000 customers in the first quarter on a total of a little less than 2 million subscribers.

"The Free margin is indecent, it must be that the authorities are studying this issue"

Indeed, the same analysis on the only Virgin Mobile brand, 16,000 customers left in January, 3,000 in February, and 29,000 arrived in March, which accumulated allows the MVNO to win 10,000 customers in the quarter! Omea Telecom Group is therefore well, with sales up 21% to EUR 567 million for the year ended March 31, with a level of profitability equivalent to that of the previous year. The Group has however assume the disappearance marks Breizh Mobile and Tele 2 term, to do more to focus only on Virgin Mobile and Casino Mobile. Therefore, Virgin Mobile is ready to launch "his new offensive" for 2012, with its full-MVNO status that grants him more technical and commercial freedoms to its network provider than other virtual operators.

Therefore, Virgin Mobile launches new packages. A mini-forfait to €4.99 per month Extaz Mini that provides 45 minutes of communication and 450 SMS, without commitment. As more generous than the package 2 commented offer € Free Mobile by Geffroy Bézieux Roux, the CEO. Alongside this, new blocked packages make their appearance, from €12.99 per month for 2 h of voice and unlimited SMS. It takes €19.99 to add 3 GB of data. These packages are also without commitment, and all are marketed on the Internet but also in shops, Virgin Mobile does not believing the model all online for mobile telephony.

But it is obviously not everything, because the big announcement that Virgin Mobile had to do concerning his arrival on the market of the ADSL. The CEO noted that the market has resumed an oligopolistic form with offers all roughly similar about €35/40 per month, and announced that it is possible to do better given the profitability of these competitors... especially for quad-play. "When we give lessons of morality the whole earth, it might better to apply these principles to all its offers." The Free margin is indecent, that the authorities are studying this question. "We no longer have the most competitive ADSL market in the world" said Geffroy Roux de Bézieux.

Virgin Mobile offering is called H@ppy 4 and includes ADSL access provided by SFR with a box similar to the old access (and not the Evolution model) with a maximum flow rate of 25 Megas, calls unlimited to fixed in France and 100 destinations international, calls to mobile and access to 130 TV channels and VOD portals. Since this offer is quadruple-play, guests can choose between a formula to €29.99 per month with a mobile package including 2 h of calls and unlimited SMS, or €39.99 per month with 4 h of voice, SMS and the data with 3 GB. The offers are without commitment, even if it is possible to commit to 24 months and €6 more per month to have a subsidized smartphone.

These attractive offers are available today for the Virgin Mobile customers and will be marketed at the end of may for the others. A few hidden costs are however unfortunate, as the additional minute charged 37 cents or the MB that will cost 10 cents. Any hassle, the box to mobile calls are available after the third minute and it takes 25 cent per minute of appeal before that, or 75 cents per call of more than 3 minutes. Also note that the box is not equipped with disk hard and not can not manage the TV recordings. However Business Mobile Virgin Mobile says that there are "move up the chain of value gradually" and improve its offer and its equipment with time. The intention of Virgin Mobile is actually itself as a player in the telecoms capable of pushing the market.

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BIOSTAR launches a new card mother AM3 +

For all AMD processors supporting socket AM3 +, BIOSTAR launches motherboard well off and not expensive to €75.

There is not for Intel processors, at least not in Biostar that proposes us today a new motherboard on socket AM3 +. Its name? TA970XE.

The ATX format, it is managed by chipset AMD 970 as its name indicates, of the SouthBridge SB950 and feed into the CPU by its five floors of food, very little for a card which is oriented overclocking and Gamers. Also controlled by its smart UEFI House, it may support drives larger than 2 TB, and has four banks DDR3 memory between 800 and 1866 MHz with a pre-OC mode up to 2000 MHz for a total maximum of 32 GB.

On interfaces, it offers two slots PCI-Express 2.0 x 16, five SATA 3 ports with support for RAID 0,1,5 and 10, a port eSATA, two USB 3.0 ports controlled by the chipset ASMedia ASM1042 and eight ports USB 2.0 and a FireWire port which will pass through the chipset VIA VT6315N. There is also a gigabit Ethernet (Realtek RTL8111E) port and 8 + 1 sound output via the chip VIA VT1828S. Biostar has provided its TA970XE two other PCI-Express 2.0 x 1 slots and two PCI slots.

This motherboard has also a few features such as the BIOSTAR G.P.U for Green Power Utility which allows to optimize the power of the processor when it is not loaded. But also of the Rapid Switch function that allows to quickly restart the configuration in the case of an unfortunate overclocking which is accompanied by another Rapid Debug named function that displays the status of the motherboard on the LED control. It also has different applications dedicated to the UEFI, such as BIOS Flasher or BIOS RELIFE which allows to update or to own firmware from a USB key. Last application called BIO-Remote 2 allows the control of the media center under Windows since the mobile Android or iOS.

Last House known as the Clean Tone 2 functionality is available on this motherboard. It allows dedicate capacitors for each line, which will provide greater than 98 dB signal-to-noise ratio. Available soon in our French shops for €75 on average.

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Zalman launches in graphics cards

Zalman and AMD become partners. Maps charts of solid performance and impeccable cooling?

Zalman, known and recognized in the field of cooling, society continues to diversify. For example, we recently presented a new SSD disk proposed by the trade mark. And today, we learn that it starts in the race for graphics cards with three models based on AMD processor. This is in any case what think of our fellow Overclockers.ua site which gives the future map of the brand images.

                                                   

Table, cards are therefore to base frequencies, step of Overclocking of plant, but it is very likely that cooling will be insured property and therefore it will be, a posteriori, possible to frequencies. Bet that Zalman has greatly improved the ventilation of these cards to present products with a strategic advantage over the range of prices which will be chosen. And availability, talking about cards launched tomorrow...

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HP launches a Ultrabook and a MacBook Pro

HP introduced its new range of laptops from the end of the year. It includes a Ultrabook 13 inches, Folio 13 and three MacBook Pro, Envy, 15, 17 and 17 3D.

Folio 13 is a Ultrabook pure blood letter respecting the desires of Intel: 18 mm thick for a screen of 13 inches, 128 GB SSD, Core i5-2467M processor. It weighs 1.4 kg and offers a rich enough connections for a Ultrabook: a port USB 2, a 3, a USB output HDMI, SD card reader and even an Ethernet port! HP presents as the first Ultrabook for professionals. Folio 13 justifies this designation by a backlit keyboard, the possibility of adding a TPM chip and the greater autonomy of the market: 9 hours. Folio 13 should especially seduce by its prices: it is announced to the United States to $899. It will be available from December 7.

The Envy at HP have originally assumed a strong resemblance to the MacBook Pro from Apple. Their latest versions grow mimicry still further. Open hood is difficult not to be confused: same screen with black border protected by a glass slab, same all-metal chassis, same same trackpad, backlit black keys "chiclet" keyboard integrated without apparent button. The similarity disappears once closed screens, Envy being black external hulls. Fortunately, HP with its Envy of other arguments than a little inspired design.

The Envy 15 base offers for $1100 an Intel Core i5 2430M CPU, a GPU AMD Radeon, 6 GB RAM, 500 GB of hard disk (7200 RPM / min), two USB 3.0 ports and 8 battery cells of 76 Wh intended to hold 9 h. Very interestingly, HP offers on this model, optional, a Radiance screen brings not only a resolution of 1920 x 1080 but mostly non-TN and IPS liquid crystals. Farewell angles of narrow visions and unstable colour! The Envy also benefit from the partnership between HP and Beats Audio: they have seven speakers including a serious. The options include a smart WiFi type 3 x 3 (to achieve 450 Mbps rates) and a 128 GB solid state of type mSATA on Envy 17. Availability is also announced for December 7 in the us. We will update this news as soon as HP will have clarified us what it will be for the France.

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HP launches a mouse with Facebook button

HP launches new wireless mouse with touch wheel and a touch Facebook impossible to reprogram ...

HP today introduced a new mouse, called Touch X7000 WiFi. This is the second mouse HP to receive a Wi-Fi interface. Except that it does not adopt an ambidextrous design, unlike the WiFi Mobile Mouse, an ergonomic shape but clearly intended for right-handed. HP has opted for a glossy black plastic on top and a flat coating "soft-touch" under the thumb, to provide better "grip".

Its range is 10 meters, and its autonomy is announced at 9 months, while the WiFi connection has the advantage of direct free a USB port, sometimes valuable for laptop users. Another specific, this mouse offers - in addition to its five programmable buttons - one button dedicated to Facebook! A button is impossible to re-configure (re-!) who will run the social network each time. Note also that the scroll wheel is replaced by a touch strip, as in mice in the range of Microsoft Touch (tested here and there).

X7000 WiFi Touch This should land in stores in the coming days to about 60 dollars, and as many euros?

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Scythian launches its Big Shuriken 2

The Japanese manufacturer Scythe has just launched in Europe a new cooler for home theater PC.

Scythe has just launched in Europe's Big Shuriken 2. The new cooler from the Japanese manufacturer is 125 x 135 x 58 mm and weighs 410 g. It is designed around five copper heat pipes that remove heat from the base in contact with the processor to the many aluminum fins.

A fan PWM Slip Stream 120 mm completes the picture. It will run between 500 and 2000 rev / min, between 12.13 and 45.47 charge CFM, and will issue between 9.32 and 33.67 dB. This cooler is compatible with sockets AMD AM2/AM2 + / AM3/AM3 + / LGA775/1155/1156/1366 FM1 and Intel. It seems perfect for home theater PCs, thin and computers in general. Scythe Shuriken offers its Big 2-36 euros, all taxes included. This is a tariff which positions so 10 euros more than the Kozuti, a model much simpler.

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Corsair launches its Carbide 500R

The Californian manufacturer Corsair has officially launched its Carbide 500R housing.

Corsair indicates that its Carbide 500R is now available, a month after the arrival of the 400R, and four months after the announcement of these two means-Tower enclosures. This "new" solution made of steel and plastic measuring 520 x 200 x 500 mm. It can accommodate an ATX or Micro-ATX motherboard, and any graphics card. Its facade shows four 5.25-inch bays, and a control panel with two ports USB 3.0, FireWire port, and a pair of 3.5 mm jacks. This 500R Carbide will support a maximum of six HDD/SSD 3.5 or 2.5-inch.

It supports a maximum of ten fans, and it is provided with three 120 mm (two front, one rear) and a 200 mm (on the right panel). This package is offered in two colours, all black, or black and white bi-ton. Corsair covers its novelty of a two year warranty. The Carbide 500R is marketed across the Atlantic to public price of $ 139 (€125 TTC). It is also available in Poland under the bar of €100.

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Microsoft launches Hotmail on Android

Easily access the Microsoft webmail on your Android smartphone...

An Android smartphone users were not spoiled to consult their e-mails in Hotmail. They should either install an unofficial application of a third editor and therefore potentially "dangerous", or use the web via the internet browser of the smartphone, not very practical... The firm of Redmond finally overcomes this problem out its official application Hotmail, freely available on the Android Market. It is not yet perfect but already:

To receive its messages mode pushD 'send, receive and view its jointesDe parts synchronize his contacts and his calendrierDe manage the files and sub-dossiersD' send photos directly from the mobileDe manage multiple Hotmail accounts

It is now available for Android 2.1 minimum equipped terminals.

    

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GlacialTech launches new a ventirad

The Taiwanese manufacturer GlacialTech comes to unveil a new heatpipe.

GlacialTech comes to unveil its new heatpipe. This Igloo 5620 adopts a classic design, with two heat pipes copper 6 mm in diameter dating back a copper base to a block of lamellae of aluminium. A 92 mm PWM fan full table and two models are proposed. The first work from 800 to 2300 rpm, debiting a maximum airflow of 43 CFM, for 30 dB sound emissions. The second displays a speed of 1200 rpm, with a 34 CFM air flow and sound emissions of 20 dB.

The Igloo 5620 is 100 x 62 x 135 mm and it weighs 320 g. The new baby of GlacialTech is compatible with the sockets Intel LGA775/1155/1156/1366 and AMD AM3/AM3 + / FM1. The heatpipe is provided with a tube of thermal paste. It is not known yet when and how much GlacialTech will propose his new heatpipe.

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AMD launches two new Llano bi-hearts

The California firm AMD has launched a pair of new APU A-Series. These Llano are first bi-hearts of the range!

AMD take re-entry to expand its range of APU (Accelerated Processing Unit). You thus discover new Llano in tariff listing of Sunnyvale firm. These A-Series logically take place in a socket FM1. Two new fleas of the day are the first available with two hearts of executions. A4-3300 is running at 2.50 GHz while the A4-3400 reached 2.70 GHz. These two APU also include a Radeon HD 6410D. This graphics solution is compatible DirectX 11. It has 160 stream processors, and is dual-core 600 MHz (A4-3400) or 443 MHz (A4-3300).

The A-Series are equipped with a memory controller supporting the DDR3 to 1600 MHz on two channels and 1 MB L2 cache. These two new processors have a TDP of 65 watts. They are marketed to 64 and 69 $ official rates. The A4-3300/3400, therefore, are less expensive than the A6-3500 (a triple 89 dollars sold hearts), as well as the Athlon II X 4 631 (a quadri-hearts at 79 $, which is however without GPU). It remains to see if the performance is sufficient to justify the choice of an APU other present solutions on the market.

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Motorola launches its Bionic Droid

The American manufacturer Motorola launches its first smartphone 4 G/LTE. The Bionic Droid has t - it everything to please?

Motorola is finally poised to launch Bionic Droid. The latest smartphone to disembark in the famous American manufacturer's range will be marketed from tomorrow by Verizon. Droid Bionic integrates a 4 G/LTE modem, but it is not its only asset. Indeed, it sports a beautiful touch screen 4.3-inch resolution 960 x 540 pixels, protected by a Gorilla Glass qHD. A dual-core processor 1 GHz, accompanied by 1024 MB of RAM are at the heart of the beast.

The storage of the device is assigned to 16 GB of flash memory and a microSD slot. The last baby of Motorola is also a 8 megapixel camera with flash and auto focus sensor (who can also shoot in Full HD 1080p). A webcam is also of the party, and a module WiFi 802 .11n ready.

This smartphone comes with Google Android 2.3.4 coupled to the latest version of the wrapper House: Blur. Also note its compatibility with the Atrix docks system. Motorola offers its Bionic Droid $ 299 with a two year contract. It has therefore case to a high-end model, even if this high rate mainly of support for the LTE. This smartphone will be obviously not compatible with French networks. However, it proves that Motorola may move to tackle HTC (who proposed his Thunderbolt for some months already).

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Cooler Master launches Gemini II S524 CPU-cooler

Today, almost all high-end processor coolers based on the tower principle, with some copper heatpipes the heat from the base plate transfer to numerous horizontal aluminum cooling fins. These are then cooled by one or two fans, that the hot air directly out of the closet can be expelled. Such a CPU-cooler is particularly effective in the cooling of the processor, but flows there is less fresh air along other heat-producing components such as the power supply for the CPU, chipset and memory.

Who is there concern can also at Cooler Master rightly so, because with the new GeminII S524 brings this company a new processor cooler on the market that also cooling can give to the components surrounding the processor. The GeminII S524 is a development of the old GeminII from 2007, which still worked with two 120 mm ventiloren. The new S524 works in fact according to the same concept, but the extra cooling surface and an improved heat pipe construction even better cooling performance. In addition, the new GeminII S524 what higher, so also memory modules with large heatspreader not in the way. The height difference between the baseplate and heatsink is 47 mm.

The GeminII S524 has one 140 mm PWM fan with sleeve bearing type, who works on a minimum of 800 and up to 1800 revolutions per minute. The air displacement is 34.2 and 77.7 CFM respectively, while the sound production 15.1 and 31.6 dB (A) for, respectively, the lowest and highest speed. The heatsink has dimensions 144 x 144 x 105 millimetres and a weight of only 490 grams, making many reasonable certainty we can say that this cooler will constitute no threat for the tower models of nearly 1 kilogram. The GeminII S524 has a nickel-plated brass base, in which five heatpipes of 6 millimetersthickness are processed.

According to Cooler Master GeminII S524 retrieves the, which is also cooling can give to the components around the processor, a lifetime of 40,000 hours. There are adapters included for the socket LGA 1366/1156/1155/Intel 775 * and the socket FM1/Am2 +/AM3/AM2 +/AM2 from AMD. The GeminII S524 is directly available and the suggested retail price is now also known, which is set at $ 39.99.

* Presence of LGA 775 adapter varies by country, please contact the webshop

Cooler Master GeminII brings new S524 CPU-cooler with 140 mm fan for $ 39.99 on the market

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Hauppauge launches new HD game recorder

For users of a PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 which want their arts in HD recording, the Hauppauge HD PVR Gaming Edition placed on the market. The HD PVR Gaming Edition comes with, according to the manufacturer, user-friendly software that allows gameplay in HD on a computer can be recorded and then can be directly uploaded to YouTube. This has a hardware device on high definition video encoder with support for multi-channel sound. The recordings are created in h.264 format.

The connection to the console and HDTV is created via supplied component cables. The HD PVR Gaming Edition features a so-called video pass-through, which while recording gameplay no delay occurs when gaming on an HDTV.

The HD PVR Gaming Edition from the end of August 2011 will be available for a suggested retail price of 200 Euro.

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