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Origin PC is back into the spotlight and this time it really means business with the unveiling of 'The Big O', a new system which brings together in the same custom chassis, a high-end gaming PC and a Microsoft Xbox 360 console, both of which are water-cooled.
Seen below, the hybrid gaming beast will let you play the latest console titles via the included Xbox 360 slim, and also enjoy the hottest PC games at high resolutions, with quality setting turned up to the max.
The PC part of The Big O can feature one Core i7 or two Xeon processors, 6/12GB of RAM, two or four GeForce GTX 480 cards in SLI, multiple Vertex 2 SSDs in RAID 0 and one or more HDDs, a 12x Blu-ray writer, a Lamptron FC3 fan controller, and one or two 1kW+ power supplies.
The starting Big O configuration costs $7669 but can easily go up to $17,000. Time to sell that kidney. Or car. Or both.
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Asus has kicked off the week by revealing the latest additions to its ROG (Republic of Gamers) line, new G53 and G73 gaming laptops (G53JW and G73JW) that make use of Nvidia's recently-announced GeForce GTX 460M mobile card boasting 192 CUDA Cores and 1.5GB of GDDR5 memory.
The GTX 460M-powered 15.6-inch (1366 x 768) and 17.3-inch (1600 x 900 or 1920 x 1080) gaming machines can be equipped with a Core i3, i5 or i7 processor, up to 4GB of RAM, up to 750GB of storage space, a DVD or Blu-ray drive, and pack an 8-in-1 card reader, a 2 megapixel webcam, Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11 n WiFi, and an 8-cell (5200 mAh) battery.
Both the G53JW and G73JW come with Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit pre-installed.
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The HD 598 headset makes use of a cellulose fleece ear cups padding and has a frequency response of 12 to 38,500 Hertz, while the HD 558 model has soft velour ear pads and a top response of 28,000 Hertz. As for the HD 518, it boasts an anthracite finish and a frequency response of 14 to 26,000 Hertz.
All three headphones are expected to become available later this month.
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Fractal Design has now launched its newest mid-tower PC chassis and the big brother of the R2/R3 models, the Define XL. This case comes in two versions - Pearl Black and Titanium Grey, and claims to offer low noise levels, expandability, ease of use and good cooling performance.
Pictured below, the chassis measures 232 (D) x 560 (H) x 561.3 (D) mm, weights 17.95kg, and has an all-black interior, top-placed USB, eSATA and audio ports, four 5.25-inch bays, ten HDD trays, pre-fitted noise absorbing material, a PCI fan controller and three fans - one 140mm spinner in front, one at the rear, and one 180mm fan on top.
The Define XL (Pearl Black or Titanium Grey) costs £139.99 ($215.6).
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Chinese website IT168 posted slides leaked from the GeForce GTS 450 press presentation. The slides reveal the final specifications of the upcoming GPU, as well as show the market positioning. To begin with, the GTS 450, as mentioned in numerous occasions, has 192 CUDA cores, 1 GB of GDDR5 memory across a 128-bit wide memory interface, and clock speeds which include 783/1566/900 MHz (core/shader/memory); but the slides confirm that NVIDIA's reference design cooler looks nearly identical to the GeForce GTS 460, at least as far as the cooler shroud and fan goes. Other specifications confirmed are the TMU count: 32, four Polymorph engines (should translate into 16 ROPs), power input being just one 6-pin PCI-Express connector, and card max power draw of just 106W, nearly 2/3 that of the GTX 460.
NVIDIA is positioning this SKU to be the successor to the popular GeForce GTS 250, which held the sub-$200 and later sub-$160 markets for NVIDIA, for quite some time. Its target buyers are those which need a light on the pocket graphics card for LANParty rigs. The card can afford users smooth gameplay of the latest DirectX 11 titles at 1680x1050 with 4xAA. Unfortunately, what we're looking out for the most (price), isn't mentioned. Perhaps NVIDIA will stabilize the price of this SKU based on how it plays out against competing SKUs. Speaking of which, the ATI Radeon HD 5700 series is in this card's crosshair.
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Going from the Cayman XT leak earlier, some more or less undercover enthusiasts in China have also posted a couple of pictures of what they claim is an AMD Radeon HD 6300 series card, a low-end DX11 solution powered by the Caicos 40nm GPU.
Boasting a black PCB, the spied card has a low profile, a passive cooler, a 64-bit memory interface and 1GB of VRAM (DDR3), DVI and (maybe) HDMI outputs. No word on clocks or stream processor number but it 's probably too early for that (BEd: It's never too early).
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AMD's Southern Islands-based Radeon family (Radeon HD 6000 series) is closing reasonably fast so it comes to no surprise that we're starting to see leaks claiming to be the real deal of what we'll be seeing in stores in Q4.
One such leak is of the alleged Cayman XT-powered card which could be named Radeon HD 6870 or HD 6970. According to the leaked photo, the flagship single-GPU model in the new Radeon line has a dual-slot, single-fan cooler, two PCIe power connectors, two CrossFireX connectors enabling Quad CrossFireX, and two DVI, one HDMI and two mini-DisplayPort output - meaning up to five monitors are supported.
The card has an ATI sticker on the fan but this brand will not be used to market the Radeon HD 6000 line. The specifications of the Cayman XT GPU are still unknown, the only certain thing about it being its manufacturing process - 40nm.
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Cooler Master's new HAF 912 mid-tower gamer/enthusiast-targeting case has practically been made official, with its maker spilling the whole bean regarding it. This budget-minded chassis has support for the latest and/or longest graphics cards and provides multiple air and liquid cooling.
The HAF 912 measures 230 x 480 x 496 mm and weights about 8kg, has four exposed 5.25-inch bays, a front I/O panel with USB 2.0 and audio ports, modular drive cages (one supporting 2.5-inch HDDs/SSDs, removable dust filters on the bottom and front cover, three pre-drilled holes for watercooling tubing, and two 120mm (1200 RPM) fans in front, with extra options for installing fan on top, at the read and on the side.
Cooler Master's case is expected to hit stores bearing a price tag of $60.
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No, Asus' Lamborghini VX6 'premium' netbook is still not shipping but at least you can now pre-order it and start bragging to friends about how cool it is. Just be sure you have $699 ready as that's the price tag of the eye-catching, sports car-inspired mobile machine.
As previously mentioned, the Lamborghini VX6 packs a 12.1-inch (1366 x 768) LED-backlit display, a 1.83 GHz Atom D525 dual-core CPU, 2GB of DDR 3 memory, a 250GB hard drive, a ION 2 GPU, Ethernet, WiFi and Bluetooth 3.0 connectivity, and USB 3.0. The netbook has a battery life of up to 6 hours and is pre-loaded with Windows 7 Home Premium.
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Santa Clara-based Nvidia Corp. woke up really early today to let the world know it too has made a whole line-up of DirectX 11-supporting mobile GPUs which includes the already-released GTX 480M, and the new GTX 470M, GTX 460M, GT 445M, GT 435M, GT 425M, GT 420M and GT 415M.
According to Nvidia, the added solutions target the enthusiast and performance segments, are based on the Fermi architecture, and feature support for CUDA, PhysX, 3D Vision, as well as the Optimus technology enabling on-the-fly switching between integrated and discrete graphics.
"The GeForce 400M Series takes the award-winning Fermi architecture across a complete line-up of DirectX 11 GPUs for notebook," said Rene Haas, general manager of notebook GPUs at Nvidia. "Coupled with Optimus technology, 400M Series notebook GPUs deliver great performance for visual computing applications when you need it, and great battery life when you don't."
In terms of specs, the fresh mobile solutions look a little something like this
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Seen below, Asus' upcoming notebook measures 386 x 259 x 34 mm and weights 2.8 kg, and (also) has a 15.6-inch (1366 x 768) LED-backlit display, a 2.4 GHz Core i5-450M processor, 4GB of RAM, a 320GB hard drive, a 4x Blu-ray combo drive, and a GeForce 310M graphics card with 1GB of dedicated memory (Optimus is present). Moreover, it packs a 5-in-1 card reader, Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11n WiFi, SRS Premium Surround Sound speakers, the Express Gate instant-on OS, and an 8-cell battery.
The U53JC-XX127V runs Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit and will cost €999.
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Sharkoon expands on their PC-housings portfolio: The ATX Case Sharkoon Bandit brings together comfortable installation options, an elaborate airflow concept, integrated card reader and as a special feature, a practical docking station for 2.5 and 3.5 inch SATA hard drives.
Thus, Sharkoon has integrated for the first time their highly-demanded external QuickPort docking station into a housing. SATA hard drives of both sizes can be easily plugged into the PC without any complicated assembly. Another distinctive feature on the top of the housing is the blue illuminating 180mm LED fan, which blows warm air out of the housing. Also, easily accessible on the housing surface are Power and Reset switches, audio connections, a power and hard drive LED, an eSATA and two USB ports. A card reader is installed in the highest front panel which supports SD, SDHC, MS, as well as CF I formats and contains an additional USB port.
The Sharkoon Bandit is constructed out of sturdy SECC-steel with a black finish on both the inside and outside. Behind the plastic front faceplates, which are constructed in a mesh design for optimum air intake, the housing offers space for five optical drives and three hard drives. The latter sits nicely cooled due to the preinstalled 120mm LED front fan situated in a removable hard drive cage. The optical drives can be installed tool-free by their practical quick-locking mechanisms, the CPU with the handy fitting aperture allows construction without the cumbersome task of dismounting the motherboard and the hidden cable management system routed between the motherboard bracket and the side panels ensures an uninhibited air circulation throughout the housing.
For those whom the two preinstalled fans on the top and front are not enough will find additional installation options for two 140mm or 120mm fans on the side panel and a 120mm or 80mm fan on the backside. The housing measures 200mm x 485mm x 485mm (W x H x L), the empty weight averages 6.6 kg. Sharkoon provides in shipping extensive installation accessories including three mounting frames for internal 3.5 inch drives.
End customers will find the Sharkoon Bandit available immediately for the recommended retail price of 69.90 euros in authorized retailers.
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Still buzzing around the storage market, LaCie has now introduced its newest flash drive which is called MosKeyto, measures just 21 x 16 x 10 mm, weights 10 grams, and can store 4GB, 8GB and soon, up to 16GB worth of blo... of digital content.
The MosKeyto has a USB 2.0 interface, is Windows ReadyBoost compatible, delivers transfer speeds of up to 30 MB/s, provides 4GB of secure online storage from Wuala, and comes with a detachable cap that is tied up to the drive to prevent its loss.
The 4GB and 8GB MosKeyto drives are now available at $17.99 and $27.99, respectively, and come with a two-year warranty.
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Samsung has now announced in the US a bunch of Calpella-based, and Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit-loaded mobile solutions combining an eye-catching design with solid performance - the 14-inch QX410, the 15.6-inch SF510 and RF510, and the 17.3-inch RF710.
Going for $899, the QX410 features a Core i5-460M processor, an LED-backlit (1366 x 768) display, 4GB of RAM, up to 64GB of storage space, a GeForce 310M 512MB graphics card, a DVD writer, 802.11n, WiMAX, a 4-in-1 card reader, and a battery life of up to 7 hours.
The SF510 starts at $799 and has a Core i3-370M processor, 4GB of DDR3 memory, up to a 500GB HDD, Intel integrated graphics, and the same remaining specs as the model above.
Next, we have the $939+ RF510-S01 with its Core i5-460M chip, 4GB of RAM, 500GB HDD (max), GeForce GT 330M card with 1GB of dedicated memory, DVD writer, Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11n, Bluetooth 3.0, and 4.5-hour battery life. As for the, RF510-S02 it goes up from $1,079, and has a Core i7-720QM CPU and up to a 640GB HDD.
Last but not least, the RF710 comes with a 1600 x 900 display, has the same specs as the RF510-S02, and starts at $1,099.
The The QX, SF and RF-series notebooks are all set to become available in the US this fall.
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Buffalo is going with the 3D trend and will later this month be bringing to market, the Japanese market to be exact, an external Blu-ray writer that has Blu-ray 3D support, and can even 'do' 2D to 3D conversion thanks to the bundled CyberLink PowerDVD 9 software.
Named BP3D-PI6U2-BK, Buffalo's drive measures 137 (W) x 20 (H) x 147 (D) mm and weights 340 grams, has an all-black coating, a USB 2.0 interface, and offers write speeds of 6x for BD-R (SL/DL), 2x for BD-RE (SL/DL), 8x for DVD-R/+R and DVD+RW, 6x for DVD-R/+R DL and DVD-RW, 5x for DVD-RAM, and 24x for CD-R/-RW.
The 3D-craving writer is expected to costs about $338.
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