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[Techreport.com] Deal of the week: Graphics cards, SSDs, cases, and more Been putting off your Christmas shopping until the last minute? You’re in for a treat, then, because both Newegg and Amazon have some particularly good deals on offer today. Let’s start with Amazon, which lets you nab OCZ’s 128GB Agility 4 solid-state drive for [...]

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[Techpowerup.com] (PR) Samsung Electronics Acquires SSD Caching Software Maker NVELO Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., a world leader in advanced semiconductor solutions, announced today that it acquired privately held NVELO, Inc., a Santa Clara, Calif.-based pioneer of storage software. By intelligently managing and optimizing the use of SSDs in the storage subsystem, SSD caching has… [Techpowerup.com] [...]

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[Techpowerup.com] (PR) Major Semiconductor Investment to Continue at Samsung’s Austin Facility Samsung Austin Semiconductor LLC today announced that a $4 billion investment at its Austin, Texas, site is on schedule for production of state-of-the-art mobile application processors within the second half of 2013. The remodeled fabrication line will produce state-of-the-art mobile application… [Techpowerup.com] (PR) Icy [...]

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[Techpowerup.com] (PR) Kingston Digital Ships 128 GB Wi-Drive for More Sharing and Storage Kingston Digital Europe Ltd, an affiliate of Kingston Technology Company Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, today announced a new 128 GB capacity addition for the Wi-Drive product line. The 128 GB Wi-Drive allows even more sharing on Wi-Fi enabled [...]

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[Techpowerup.com] (PR) Drobo Launches the Drobo 5N Storage System Drobo, maker of award-winning data storage products for businesses and professionals, today announced the Drobo 5N, the latest in their new lineup of ultra-modern, high-performance storage systems. The Drobo 5N, a sophisticated, network-attached storage (NAS) device, extends Drobo’s traditional… [Techpowerup.com] Ratoc Intros MR08 Line of Dual-SDXC [...]

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[Techpowerup.com] (PR) Micron Extends Portfolio of Phase Change Memory for Mobile Devices Micron Technology, Inc., one of the world’s leading providers of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced the addition of a new product to its Phase Change Memory (PCM) portfolio. With high-volume shipments of its 45-nanometer (nm), 1-gigabit (Gb) PCM-based multichip package (MCP) solution… [Techpowerup.com] [...]

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[Techpowerup.com] MSI Readies Celeron 847-based C847MS-E33 Micro-ATX Motherboard MSI is working on a new micro-ATX motherboard with Celeron 847 BGA processor hard-wired onto it, the C847MS-E33. The Celero 847 is a dual-core processor based on the 32 nm “Sandy Bridge” architecture, clocked at 1.10 GHz, featuring 2 MB of L2 cache, and a dual-channel DDR3 [...]

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[Techpowerup.com] MSI Readies Celeron 847-based C847MS-E33 Micro-ATX Motherboard MSI is working on a new micro-ATX motherboard with Celeron 847 BGA processor hard-wired onto it, the C847MS-E33. The Celero 847 is a dual-core processor based on the 32 nm “Sandy Bridge” architecture, clocked at 1.10 GHz, featuring 2 MB of L2 cache, and a dual-channel DDR3 [...]

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[Techpowerup.com] (PR) Intel Delivers the World’s First 6-Watt Server-Class Processor Intel Corporation introduced the Intel Atom processor S1200 product family today, delivering the world’s first low-power, 64-bit server-class system-on-chip (SoC) for high-density microservers, as well as a new class of energy-efficient storage and networking systems. The energy-sipping,… [Legitreviews.com] WD Red 3TB NAS Hard Drive Review [...]

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[Anandtech.com] MSI FM2-A85XA-G65 Review: Know Your Platform The A85X chipset and FM2 socket is supposedly here to stay for Trinity plus one more generation.  As a result, AMD needs to make sure that the platform is right so that the new processors can slot straight in (whenever that may be).  While they may have missed [...]

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[Techreport.com] Monday Shortbread *_The Pick 6_* 1. Droid-Life: USPTO declares (http://www.droid-life.com/2012/12/07/uspto-declares-apples-multitouch-steve-jobs-patent-invalid-the-crowd-goes-wild/) Apple’s multitouch “Steve Jobs” patent invalid 2. Neowin: CompUSA and Circuit City to die… [Techpowerup.com] Tesoro Shrike H2L Gaming Mouse Launched Tesoro, of the Durandal mechanical keyboard fame, launched the Shrike H2L gaming mouse. Built in the right-oriented large form-factor oriented for palm grip, [...]

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[Overclock3D.net] ASUS PB278Q 2560×1440 Monitor Review Fancy taking the plunge to something beyond HD? We look at the ASUS PB278Q, and also the performance hit you’ll take with 2560×1440 pixels. More… (http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/gpu_displays/asus_pb278q_2560x1440_monitor_review/1) [VR-Zone.com] Spike TV’s VGA 10 awards show aftermath vr-zone.com – Image: http://resources.vr-zone.net/uploads/18282/VGA_10.jpg Did you miss Spike’s VGA 10th anniversary awards show? Jump in [...]

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[Bjorn3d.com] ASUS GeForce GTX 660 DirectCU II Categories: Hardware (http://www.bjorn3d.com/category/reviews-articles/hardware/), NVIDIA (http://www.bjorn3d.com/category/reviews-articles/hardware/video-cardsgraphics-cards/nvidia-video-cardsgraphics-cards/), Reviews & Articles (http://www.bjorn3d.com/category/reviews-articles/), Video… [Techreport.com] TR’s 2012 Christmas gift guide Winter is coming, and you know what that means. White Walkers! Also, Christmas—or the non-denominational holiday season, depending on your affinity for political correctness. Whatever. It’s gift-giving time for most of us, [...]

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[Anandtech.com] iPad 4 (Late 2012) Review For years, almost a decade in fact, we’ve been asking for higher quality displays in notebooks. With most of our pleas left ignored for the value notebook segment, smartphone and eventually tablet makers capitalized on the opportunity. These days the $399 – $499 tablet display experience tends to… [Anandtech.com] [...]

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[Techpowerup.com] Amazon Slips Out GTA V Release Date Those who marked Spring of 2013 as the most beautiful time of the year to come — because your favorite game franchise has one coming for you — will have to spend almost the entire season watching blooms and leaves sprout. Amazon revealed the definitive launch date [...]

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[Techpowerup.com] Amazon Slips Out GTA V Release Date Those who marked Spring of 2013 as the most beautiful time of the year to come — because your favorite game franchise has one coming for you — will have to spend almost the entire season watching blooms and leaves sprout. Amazon revealed the definitive launch date [...]

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[Anandtech.com] AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta 11 Drivers Available Image: http://images.anandtech.com/doci/6497/AMDRadeonLogo.jpg (http://www.anandtech.com/show/6497/amd-catalyst-1211-beta-11-drivers-available) Continuing their work on the 12.11 drivers, AMD has recently released their 12.11 beta 11 driver update. This driver fixes several system hangs while… [Anandtech.com] NVIDIA GeForce 310.70 Beta Drivers Available Image: http://images.anandtech.com/doci/6496/NVidia_logo_hd_green_wallpapers.jpg (http://www.anandtech.com/show/6496/nvidia-geforce-31070-beta-drivers-available) Seeking a candidate for WHQL certification, NVIDIA has just released [...]

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[Techreport.com] Super-heating flash memory reportedly extends endurance The inconvenient but unavoidable truth about flash memory is the fact that individual cells degrade every time they’re written or erased. These cells will burn out eventually, leaving users with dead drives; the only question is how long it will take. To combat this issue, flash maker Macronix… [...]

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