OCZ and its new modular Bronze alims

The Californian manufacturer OCZ has just officially new power supplies, unveil the ZT Series.

OCZ persists on the segment of the power supplies. The California manufacturer presents its new ZT Series. These blocks are certified 80 Plus Bronze. They therefore display a minimum efficiency of 85%, knowing that three powers are proposed: 550, 650 and 750 watts.

There are in all cases a single rail of 12 volts of 45, 54 or 62 amps. These solutions support the ATX12V v2.2 standard and integrate an Active PFC. Fully modular, they offer two or four slots PCI Express, as well as nine six Molex, SATA connectors, and a Floppy.

The cooling of the ZT Series is entrusted to a thermo-regulated 140 mm fan. OCZ advance a MTBF of 100,000 hours for these new blocks, which are covered by a warranty of five years. These power supplies are already available to the United States, at the respective rates of $ 99.99 (€87,99 TTC), $ 109.99 (€94,99 TTC) and $ 119,99 (€104,99 TTC).

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ASUS Boost My PC : le "Pimp My Ride" du geek...

You have an any mouldy old PC that turns the first opus of Doom at 5 fps in 640 x 480? No problem, Asus is here!

The Taiwanese manufacturer launches a special operation open to all on its site Boost My PC. To participate simply fill out a form, attach a photo of your Clippit and explain in a few words why your Motorcyle groveling you both.

With a little luck you selected, an ASUS technician and an experienced overclockeur will come then you to totally transform your old config' obsolete in a Cree last PC top-of-range.

For evidence the happy first participant saw its old Athlon lapsed long replaced by an Intel Core i7 2600K, Maximus IV extreme-Z motherboard, 8 GB RAM DDR3 1600 Mhz, a SLI of GeForce GTX580 Matrix, a DSS of 120Go + 2TB HDD, power 1200W Gold all assembled in a package CoolerMaster Haf - X supplemented by 3 screens 23 inch compatible active 3D. What to run all the more greedy in excellent conditions, non-3D games? Here is the first issue of the programme, broadcast via YouTube:

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The differential Transformer under Tegra 3 shows... a little

After a furtive appearance in a teaser video yesterday, Asus took the AsiaD Conference to unveil its new touchscreen tablet.

It is the CEO of Asus in person, Jonney Shih, who presented the new Eee Pad Transformer differential and not "transform 2". According the photos of our colleagues to Engadget, the Tablet resumes look brushed aluminium Ultrabooks "Zenbook" range and only 8.3 mm thick which makes it one of the finest bars of the time.

It is the first to integrate the new SoC quad-core Tegra Nvidia 3 (Kal - El), it will be completed by 1 GB of RAM, 32 GB of memory storage, a screen of 10 inches, a mini-HDMI output and SD card reader. It will always be or even add a keyboard dock (that hopefully retro-compatible) adding a USB host port and a battery for autonomy combined from 14: 30. Running Android 3.2 (Honeycomb) to its output, slate will be quickly updated to Android 4.0 alias Ice Cream Sandwich.

This Transformer differential, which will be presented a complete a conference press on November 9, met us already the water to the mouth.

 

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Cooler Master prepares a new Heatpipe

The Taiwanese manufacturer Cooler Master will soon unveil its last heatpipe, the Hyper 412 PWM.

Cooler Master will soon propose a new heatpipe. This Hyper 412 PWM 132 x 99 mm x 160 mm and it weighs 642 g. It takes the form of a tower, and it architecture around four heat pipes in direct contact with the processor of 6 mm in diameter. They go back to many aluminum slats. A 120 mm PWM fan full table.

It will run between 600 and 2000 rpm, will charge of 24.9 to 82.9 CFM and issue 9 to 36 dB. The heatpipe should be compatible with the sockets Intel LGA 775/1155/1156/1366 and AMD AM2/AM3. It is not known yet when and how much Cooler Master account market its Hyper 412 PWM. It should be noted that the Taiwanese manufacturer recently announced a Hyper 212 EVO at €29.90 TTC.

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HTC Rezound shows his

More known as the HTC Vigor, the next model of phone high-end HTC changes name and unveiled a little more by showing its rear hull.

To do not too steal the spotlight by the iPhone 4 S of Apple, Galaxy Nexus of Samsung and RAZR of Motorola Droid, HTC Rezound (formerly Vigor), future Taiwanese constructor high-end smartphone comes out of the shadow. New shots of the lit screen apparatus and its coated back of the hull of protection have been leakés by a site specializing in the sale of cases for mobile phones.

If the design has nothing to extraordinary and seems closer to the HTC sense, technical characteristics seem promising, judge for yourself: touch screen Super LCD 4.3 inch (resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels) HD, processor dual core running at 1 GHz, 1 GB of RAM, 16 GB of internal memory expandable through a slot microSD, 2 megapixel of 8 Megapixels, front-end sensor AFN, connectivity GPS/Bluetooth/Wifi / 3 G / 4 G and sound part benefiting from technology Beats by Dr.

HTC Rezound look under Android 2.3.4 with the wrapper HTC Sense 3.5 (therefore not Ice Cream Sandwich in the immediate future). But expect its official presentation scheduled for November 10 to confirm or quash the information.

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Ultra HDTV has its standard: 7680 x 4320 for our TV!

The democratization of the Full HD 1080p standard is not completed, even, that his successor already point the tip of his nose...

TV Ultra high definition (UHDTV) already sees its technical characteristics defined by the experts of ITU (International Telecommunication Union) and it is indeed already in experimentation at the Japan on the NHK channel.

A resolution of 7680 x 4320 (definition 8 K) displayed images are then composed of 33 million pixels "only" 2 million for the current 1080p or a nose and incomparable image quality 16 times more. Of course the sound part will not left since the standard specifications provide support of 22.2 channels (!).

A first model of compatible TV of a diagonal of 85 inches has already presented by Sharp in September last at the IFA in Berlin show. Unfortunately, the arrival on the market for televisions UHDTV is not expected before 2020, but demonstrations are expected during the London Olympic Games in 2012 in some public places with retransmission of certain events captured in 4320p.

In the meantime, the transition will be surely format Quad Full HD (3840 x 2160 pixels - definition 4 K) already in force in some cinemas and may be available on future consoles PS4 and Xbox 3...

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WD flows 57.8 million hard drives in a quarter

The American manufacturer Western Digital has announced having sold over 57.8 million hard drives these past three months.

Western Digital has just reveal the results of the quarter ended September 30. The American manufacturer has elapsed 57.8 million hard drives on its first quarter fiscal 2012, a sequence of 4 million and 6.8 million annual increase. This allows him to achieve a turnover of $ 2.70 billion. WD also displays solid profits, in the amount of $ 239 million.

The company is expected to very bad results this quarter. WD had to close its Thai plants on 12 October because of flooding in the country. The constructor produces about 60% of its hard drives. WD should produce between 22 and 26 million HDD in the second quarter of 2012. The CA of the society would fall significantly (to achieve a value between 1.05 and 1.25 billion), and losses are anticipated.

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