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nVidia GTX 560 power requirement revealed

As you all know, nVidia will be launching its GTX560 refresh to the popular GTX460 card on 25th January 2011. Going back to the early part of 2010, when the first Fermi cards began to surface, one of the biggest worries was power draw. Has nVidia got it right with …

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EVGA set to slash warranty support by up to 80% ?

Different companies market on different things. The idea is to establish a USP or Unique Selling Point and push into the market with that USP. For a long time, nVidia partner EVGA has been pushing a global message that its 10 year warranty was a key reason to but its …

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Gigabyte release new G1-Killer gaming motherboards

Gigabyte have announced the release of three new motherboards – the G1 Assassin, G1 Sniper and G1 Guerilla. These are based on the X58 chipset and feature Creative and BigFoot Networks technology incorporated. “GIGABYTE is thrilled to be able to introduce the world’s first motherboard series designed solely for elite …

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Facebook revenues $1.2 billion across nine months

Facebook growth is staggering in recent months. Latest reports from Goldman Sachs show that they raked in $1.2 billion across the first nine months of 2010. Facebooks net income in the first nine months of 2010 peaked at $355 million and Goldman values the company now at $50 billion and …

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Skype purchase Qik

Skype, the leading VOIP software package has announced that they are buying Qik, a small firm who specialise in mobile video software and services. Qik's software enables users to share video clips. Skype have announced this at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. California based Qik was only founded …

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50,000 iTunes accounts on sale in China

A major chinese website is selling thousands of stolen iTunes accounts. 50,000 accounts are linked to stolen credit cards, listed on auction site TaoBao, the countries equivalent of eBay. Buyers of the accounts are offered temporary access with unlimited downloads from the service for a price of only 1 yuan …

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FREE SearchStorage guide to SSD for Business

At KitGuru, when we see the latest and greatest in SSD technology we get a collective tingling in our loins and Zardon drifts off to a happy place where half a dozen of the new drives are strapped together in RAID 0 in order to make one of his benchmarks …

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Cooler Master CM Storm Spawn Mouse Review

Over the past couple of years the gaming peripherals market has been flooded with new products, both from new and existing manufacturers.  Cooler Master's CM Storm brand is a relitavely new player in the market, competing with the longer-established brands such as SteelSeries and Razer. Today we are going to …

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Kingston HyperX 2133MHz XMP Certified for Intel Sandy Bridge

Kingston have just announced that their new 2133mhz XMP certified memory modules have been approved (Intel XMP certification) for use on the p67 Sandy Bridge platform. The Kingston HyperX T1 kits of four are the world’s first 8GB memory kits to be validated. Intel has posted the XMP certification results …

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Samsung announce first DDR4 module – 2.133Gbit at 1.2 volts

Samsung have just announced the completed development of the first DDR4 dynamic ram module, which offers twice the performance of today's DDR3 DRAM and manages to lower power consumption by 40% when used in a notebook environment. Samsung said today that the development was completed last month, using 30 nm …

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Gigabyte announce AMD ‘highest clock’ contest

GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co., Ltd, a leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards and other computing hardware solutions announced a new overclocking competition in conjunction with HWBOT.org called the “AMD Highest Clock (ever) Contest!” Running from January 1st to January 31st, the contest is split into 2 stages, Max validation and SuperPI 1M. …

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Noctua NH C14 Heatsink Review

Regular readers of KitGuru will already know that the Noctua NH D14 is always at the center of our high end system builds, especially when it comes to overclocking articles. Today we are looking at the NH C14, a dramatic design combining two 140mm fans, in a stack based air …

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Sapphire release first APU ‘Fusion’ motherboard

Sapphire have just announced their first mainboard based on the new Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) architecture, from Sapphire. They have been working closely with AMD to produce this board, which is called the ‘Pure White Fusion E350M1W'. This is a mini ITX mainboard which features the E350 Zacate APU from …

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Firefox surpasses Internet Explorer in Europe

Following on from our news yesterday, we wanted to follow up with some ‘European' specific information on the browser wars. Internet Explorer leads the way in most parts of the world, however it appears that Europe are adopting Firefox faster than anywhere else. Web Analytics firm StatCounter show that it …

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Windows Graphic Rendering Security Vulnerability

Microsoft have announced a new security vulnerability which is related to the Windows Graphic Rendering Engine. Apparently it can be used by an attacker to run arbitrary code in the context of the logged on user. Angela Gunn, senior marketing communications manager of Trustworthy computing at Microsoft said “Today we …

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Gigabyte to showcase first AMD Fusion Mini ITX MB @ CES

Gigabyte will be showcasing their new GA-E350N-USB3 Mini ITX motherboard at CES. This features upcoming AMD Fusion Technology. The motherboard features Direct X 11 support, Superspeed USB 3.0, SATA 6 Gbps as well as HDMI out and a host of Gigabyte features such as Ultra Durable 3 Classic, 3 x …

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Apple’s Market Cap is now $302 billion

It is hard to escape a single day without a news post on Apple. We are as guilty as everyone else, but for a very good reason. This company are one of the largest on the planet. They have passed their latest milestone, with their stock climbing to $330 a …

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Android smartphones winning over the public

Apple could be facing their biggest threat in 2011, from Google. Even though Apple's share of the U.S. Smartphone market is still ahead of Googles, more customers in the last six months have choosen a device powered by Android OS. Nielsen, the polling company have said that an Android handset …

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