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Computer Hardware Daily News: August 28th 2008

By Joel Leblanc • Aug 28th, 2008 • Category: News

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Well, here we are, Thursday, with only 2 days left before the weekend is here! We’ve got a pretty awesome line-up for you today. From stunning heatsink designs to microscoping computers and then some, we’ve got a smoking edition today for you. Let’s get it on!

Video cards -

Galaxy brings forth improvements to their model of the 9400GT, with better memory and overclocking. Check out how they’ve stepped up their game.
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Nvidia GPUs proclaimed to be the first ever to break the 1.5 PFlops barrier and is said to be able to improve at an impressive rate.
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Cpus

Instead of three AMD Phenom X2 chips, as announced on Tuesday the 26th, AMD is set to release a new , Athlon X2 6500+
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Mice -

Once again, Microsoft is teasing its userbase. This time, they’ve announced a new mouse technology, which is planning to be released in early September.
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Cases -

Antec once again blows our mind with yet again another out-of-this-world Case design at NVISION08. Can I get a “Space Lander”?
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Cooling -

Asus showcase final version of their “Crown” heatsink and I have to say, it’s pretty wicked. While it won’t really improve Overclocking performance all that well… It’s got some serious bling goin on.
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Displays -

Epson shows off it’s new 4-inch High resolution LTPS LDC screen intended for camera’s. This new technology may very well find itself changing the way we view our pictures and movies.
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Motherboards -

Well, looks like gigabyte’s e-peen just grew a few inches longer. With the recent showing of their prototype motherboard at NVISION08, they have gamers and performance enthusiats drooling over this baby. Set to support Intel’s new core i7, they’re aiming to dominate the record books.
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Storage

SanDisk Extreme III SDHC cards hit 30MB/s. Nothing short of amazing, I’m certainly looking forward to that and I’m sure that every D-SLR user is too!
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Samsung goes after low-cost laptop market with new SATA II SSDs. The MLC-based drives only come in 8GB, 16GB and 32GB flavors, and read / write performance ranges from 90MB/sec to 70MB/sec, respectively. Can you say cheaper subnotebooks with SSD?
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Cameras

Nikon D90 full specs. 720p video mode, 12MP and so much more. I can’t wait to try one out.
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Laptops

MSI announces EX300 and EX400. 13,1″ and 14.1″, featuring impressive hardware!
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Various -

Two inch-cube-computer? Only the Japanese could think of such a thing. NASA plans on using it.
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Well, there you have it. That was it for today’s news. Hope you enjoyed. Don’t forget to subscribe to our RSS feed or add your e-mail to the mailing list at the top right of this page. If you have any questions, comments, suggestions or general knowledge, please feel free to contact me.

Let me end this with a question. Do you prefer getting news like this, in a concentrated post once a day or would you rather get several posts a day, each containing a news? Let us know in the comments!

Joel Leblanc is an old-time PC gamer and friend of Mathieu's for over a decade now. He enjoys video games, manga and he's a huge fan of LaserQuest. Quite a guy, he's anything but boring! He currently posts hardware news and will be posting more in the future.Email this author | All posts by Joel Leblanc | Receive all his posts via RSS

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1 Comment »

Comment by Jerome
2008-08-28 09:26:14

Woah, you’re fast with the updates. I’m surprised you managed to go at this pace despite being new.
Keep it up and wish you luck!

 
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