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Avnet Electronics Marketing and Tyco Electronics Release Pluggable I/O Solutions Kit Thursday, March 4, 2010 @ 9:00AMPHOENIX----The Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas business region of Avnet, Inc. and Tyco Electronics have released a new Pluggable I/O Solutions Sample Kit. The kit includes 15 product samples and four quick reference guides for SFP, SFP+, XFP, X2 and Quad Small Form-Factor Pluggable connectors, cages, heatsinks, light pipes and cable products.
Intel DH57JG “Jet Geyser” - Intel's First Mini-ITX H57 Monday, March 1, 2010 @ 1:52PMIntel delivers mini-ITX without the frills and fuss......
Sumitomo Electric's PureAccess - R5 Optical Fiber Exceeds The New ITU-T G.657.B3 Recommended 5-mm Fiber Bend Radius ... Friday, February 26, 2010 @ 1:47AMSumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., a leading global developer and manufacturer of optical fiber, cable and components as well as modules and subsystems for the information and communications industry, today announced that its PureAccess-R5 bending loss insensitive single mode optical fiber is fully compliant with the new ITU-T G.657.B3 recommended standard for macrobend at a 5-mm radius for ...
Thermaltake SpinQ VT Review Tuesday, February 23, 2010 @ 9:43PMIf the SpinQ VT looks a little familiar, it is, because the design is the same as the original SpinQ released back in the Fall of 2008. It's been a while, but Thermaltake has moved forward and taken the concept to new heights, making this the VT model, a vertical tower design.
Sumitomo Electric's PureAccess - R5 Optical Fiber Exceeds the New ITU-T G.657.B3 Recommended 5-mm Fiber Bend Radius ... Monday, February 22, 2010 @ 11:00AMTOKYO----Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. , a leading global developer and manufacturer of optical fiber, cable and components as well as modules and subsystems for the information and communications industry, today announced that its PureAccess-R5 bending loss insensitive single mode optical fiber is fully compliant with the new ITU-T G.657.B3 recommended standard for macrobend at a 5-mm ...
BUSINESS WIRE: Sumitomo Electric's PureAccess - R5 Optical Fiber Exceeds the New ITU-T G.657.B3 Recommended 5-mm Fiber ... Monday, February 22, 2010 @ 3:07AMMITTEILUNG UEBERMITTELT VON BUSINESS WIRE. FUER DEN INHALT IST ALLEIN DAS BERICHTENDE UNTERNEHMEN VERANTWORTLICH.
Noctua NH-C12P SE14 Review Monday, February 15, 2010 @ 10:47PMHeatsinks - they take away the heat generated by any number of components found in our systems. The CPU heatsink is one of the most important when it comes to the enthusiast, as not just any run of the mill heatsink will be up to the task.
Xigmatek Thor's Hammer heatsink Wednesday, January 27, 2010 @ 10:12AMNebojsa Novakovic THE INQUIRER First INQpressions On Core i7 975 and Gigabyte X58A-UD7
2333MHz Corsair Dominator GTX1 Is Fastest XMP-Certified Memory Friday, January 22, 2010 @ 8:41AMIf you have the money......
Corsair Dominator GTX Now World's Fastest Intel XMP-Certified Memory @ 2333MHz Thursday, January 21, 2010 @ 8:22PMIf one thing is certain in the world of computing, it's that everything gets faster. This is certainly the case with Corsair's Dominator GTX memory. The DDR3 modules have now been confirmed as the world's fastest Intel XMP-Certified products, coming in at a cool 2333MHz, handily beating the 2000MHz record previously held by Corsair memory. According to Corsair every GTX module is hand-screened ...
CPU Fan features barometric ball bearing technology. Thursday, January 14, 2010 @ 7:51AMMeasuring 120 x 120 x 25 mm, Excalibur utilizes BBB technology to maintain barometric pressure in center of fan. Unit has 3-piece frame with metal rim, 9 sword-shaped blades for optimal cooling efficiency, and triangular blade tips to minimize turbulence at fan edges. Honeycomb ventilation holes work as secondary intake to maximize airflow under low-speed operation. Rated at 12 Vdc, fan operates ...
Upgrading a CPU (part 2) Wednesday, January 13, 2010 @ 3:50PMLinuxPlanet: "There is a right way to remove and replace your computer's CPU, and several wrong ways. Carla Schroder shows the right way, and how it isn't very difficult."
Intel Processors Wednesday, January 13, 2010 @ 3:24PMLike AMD, Intel has several different processor lines, but it's simpler to figure out what Intel CPU goes with which motherboard.
Hardware Roundup: Tuesday Edition Tuesday, January 12, 2010 @ 6:38AMCES is over and our team of 11 staff members have safely made their way back home for some much needed rest in their own beds. Although CES is done for the year, the coverage continues as everyone finishes up their articles covering everything they experienced at the show. At CES 2008 we were introduced to the concept of a large curved display panel to increase the immersion factor in gaming ...
TI delivers industry's highest power, integrated Class-D audio amplifiers Tuesday, January 5, 2010 @ 8:00AMTexas Instruments Incorporated today introduced two new Class-D audio amplifiers that advance the home entertainment experience. Capable of driving 600 watts, the TAS5630 and TAS5631 feature the highest stereo output power in the industry, more than twice that of the closest comparable devices.
Corsair Launches Dominator 24GB DDR3 Kit Wednesday, December 16, 2009 @ 4:43PMIf you are planning on putting together a serious workstation PC, then there is generally one rule you can always abide by: the more memory the better. If that is your aim, then Corsair has you covered with the launch of its new Dominator 24GB DDR3 memory kit. That means a total of six 4GB modules operating at 1333MHz with timings of 9-9-9-24 @ 1.65V. They feature the company's DHX+ heatsinks ...
Design with IGBT modules for high power inverters Friday, December 11, 2009 @ 11:25AMAlthough IGBT modules with blocking voltages up to 6500 V are available, many applications require the design of inverters with ratings close to or even beyond 1MVA with 1,2000V or 1,7000V devices.
Noctua NH-D14 Review Thursday, December 10, 2009 @ 10:28PMOne improvement most of us make to the system we have or a new system that is being built is the cooling system for the processor.
Low Power Thermoelectric Cooler has low-profile design. Wednesday, December 9, 2009 @ 7:45AMMeasuring only 15 mm high, NtelliJet(TM) series uses rapid-fire pulses of turbulent air produced by oscillating diaphragm working between 50 and 200 Hz to cool heatsinks and surrounding components. Low-acoustic device is immune to shock and vibration and eliminates mechanical wear, dirt, and dust clogging. Providing 100,000 hr of life at 60°C, unit is suited for range of industrial applications ...
Sapphire HD 5870 and HD 5750 Vapor-X Review Tuesday, November 3, 2009 @ 2:17AMBy now the world knows that ATI and its partners came out and dropped a bomb on the Nvidia camp with the release of the first DirectX 11 capable video cards, the HD 5800 series, which includes the Sapphire HD 5870 and Sapphire HD 5850 . To add insult to injury, they followed up with the HD 5700 series that includes the Sapphire HD 5770 and 5750 .The performance of the HD 5800 series scaled well ...
Alienware pulls all stops Friday, October 30, 2009 @ 5:12AMPaul Taylor THE INQUIRER Daily Wibble ALX gaming system upgraded
Apple iMac Review: 27-inch And Less Chin Friday, October 23, 2009 @ 4:46PMIn the 10+ years since the iMac was born as Apple’s simple computer, it’s become visibly less of a computer and more of a display. And what a screen this new iMac has. (more…)
Apple iMac Review: 27 Inches and Less Chin [Apple] Friday, October 23, 2009 @ 12:09PMIn the 10+ years since the iMac was born as Apple's simple computer, it's become visibly less of a computer and more of a display. And what a screen this new iMac has. But First, Simplicity This...
More Apple teardowns: Fall 2009 iMac & Magic Mouse Thursday, October 22, 2009 @ 10:59AMThe crack engineers at iFixIt are at it again. Yesterday I posted their teardown of the new "unibody" (a.k.a. poly) MacBook which revealed a relocated Bluetooth antenna and a larger 60 watt-hour battery. Today's installment includes teardowns of the new Fall 2009 iMac and the mysterious Magic Mouse. Some highlights from the new iMac: The power supply puts out 25.8 amps at 12 volts, for a total ...
StrongARM to FastARM Tuesday, October 6, 2009 @ 11:41AMCards on the table time. RISC OS needs new hardware, no secret there. We've had 300MHz StrongARM cards from Castle but they've run out of those so it was back to the 200-odd MHz StrongARMs.
Titan Skalli Review Sunday, October 4, 2009 @ 10:50PMWhen it comes to cooling your hot new quad core processor the stock heatsink just won't do now, will it?
Eyefinity and beyond Wednesday, September 30, 2009 @ 10:27AMPaul Taylor THE INQUIRER Daily Wibble Multi-monitor playground
Semiconductor Assemblies offer range of electronic options. Tuesday, September 29, 2009 @ 7:51AMFeaturing voltages from 100-20,000 V and currents ranging from 30-3,000 A, Semiconductor Assemblies come in single, double, or 3-phase circuit configurations. Units are also available as full bridge or as series stacks and AC or static switches. Bus bars, gate firing circuits, fuses, snubbers, blowers, and fans are optional. Typical applications include power supplies, AC/DC and static ...
CoolerMaster Hyper TX3 Review Thursday, September 24, 2009 @ 10:31PMThe one thing you need if you plan on pushing the clock speeds on your processor is a replacement for that stock cooling solution. The stock solutions are good for what they originally designed for.
Titan TTC-NK95TZ Entertainer Review Monday, September 21, 2009 @ 11:40PMHeat. It is currently technology's worst enemy, and lately with increasing performance and power draw, there is more of it. Heatsink manufacturers have been constantly improving their designs in order to keep up with the demands of the heat energy the latest hardware can produce.
Breakthrough Design Cuts Cost of LED Light Bulbs by 40 Percent Thursday, September 17, 2009 @ 2:16AMEternaleds, Inc. (http://www.eternaleds.com) announces the debut of their Quanta Series LED screw-in replacement bulbs, the world's first LED flood lights to use a patented cooling technology that makes them 40% cheaper and the first to payback in 2 years with typical usage. (PRWeb Sep 17, 2009) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases ...
Breakthrough Design Cuts Cost of LED Light Bulbs by 40 Percent Thursday, September 17, 2009 @ 2:01AMEternaleds, Inc. announces the debut of their Quanta Series LED screw-in replacement bulbs, the world's first LED flood lights to use a patented cooling technology that makes them 40% cheaper and the first to payback in 2 years with typical usage.
Cooler Master Hyper N620 Review Tuesday, September 8, 2009 @ 10:05PMOver the past few years, the CPU heatsink market has exploded with many new products - and that alone can make it difficult to narrow down potential selections, even before looking at the specifications of each candidate.
How to take apart the PS3 Slim in 6 steps Tuesday, September 8, 2009 @ 2:18PMINSIDE THE PS3 SLIM: Rapid Repair shows us how to disassemble the PlayStation 3 Slim in six steps. All you need are two screwdrivers, an exacto knife, and this guide.
Intel Core i5 750 Core i7 870 Review Monday, September 7, 2009 @ 11:05PMAt launch there will be three different socket 1156 processors code named "Lynnfield". The i7 870 and 860 with the i5 750 one step down. The P55 chipset and Core i5/i7 socket 1156 combo is meant to bring Nehalem technology down to the mainstream level.
Fujitsu Esprimo Q1500: Core 2 Duo and Blu-ray in a laughably small form factor Sunday, September 6, 2009 @ 12:34AMMy my, we've seen heatsinks bigger than this latest Esprimo Mini PC from Fujitsu. The Q1500 might look like your run-of-the-mill underpowered nettop , but its makers have successfully crammed a mobile Core 2 Duo CPU and a slot-loading Blu-ray drive inside to make one hell of an appealing little goer. 4GB of memory and a 320GB hard drive fill out the generous spec, and yes, there's a HDMI out as ...
Hardware Roundup: Tuesday Edition Tuesday, September 1, 2009 @ 7:09AMIn today's roundup we'll start off by checking out a pair of CPU coolers. The DeepCool Killer Whale heatsink features six 6mm heatpipes mated to a solid copper base. The Kingwin Kingwin XT-1264 (also reviewed by OCC here ) uses four 6mm heatpipes in a direct touch design. Both heatsinks use a 120mm fan for cooling, so which one is the better performer? We'll let you decide by checking out the ...
Corsair High Density DDR3 Memory for Core i5 and Core i7 CPUs Launched Friday, August 28, 2009 @ 3:36AMCorsair announced a new set of high density products for Intel Core i5 and Core i7 processors. These DIMMs are available in dual and triple channel configurations and are specifically tuned for Intel CPUs. The 8GB and 12GB module kits feature Corsair...
ASUS P7P55D Deluxe Preview Sunday, August 16, 2009 @ 11:19PMAs Intel's upcoming launch of the Core i5 processors rapidly approaches, the P55 chipset board previews are coming out of the woodwork. Whereas the i7 is aimed squarely at the hardcore enthusiast, the i5 is aimed more at the midrange since that's really where you make your money anyhow.
New heatsink material analysed Monday, August 10, 2009 @ 3:06AMPaul Taylor THE INQUIRER Daily Wibble Graphite, the new rave
MSI P55-GD80 - Pictorial Preview Saturday, August 8, 2009 @ 9:59PMIt must be snowing in Texas today as we finally have another P55 board to preview without it coming from Gigabyte or ASUS. Today's star is the MSI P55-GD80, which is designed to compete directly against the ASUS Deluxe and Gigabyte UD5 series. We have been very impressed with MSI as of late with the AMD based 790FX-GD70 plus the uATX form factor X58M...
This Week on Geek - 1, 2, 3, 5, 7 years ago today Friday, August 7, 2009 @ 12:17PMNormally on This Week on Geek we go back to a chosen year and pick out the top news stories from that week in history, but this time we have a slight change of plans. Just for a change of pace, we’ll be checking out Geek.com stories from 1, 2, 3, 5, and 7 years [...]
AC/DC power conversion ICs have low-profile Monday, August 3, 2009 @ 12:40PMPower Integrations announced an ultra-low-profile package called eSIP-L for its TOPSwitch-HX family of AC/DC power conversion ICs.
Gigabyte GA-EP55-UD4P Preview Friday, July 31, 2009 @ 12:57AMFirst seen at Computex 2009, P55 chipset-based motherboards have been showing up in sneak peaks everywhere. So on that count, OCC is delivering a quick look at an upcoming board to be used with the Intel Core i5 "Lynnfield" mainstream processors.
Xigmatek Dark Knight-S1283V Review Wednesday, July 29, 2009 @ 10:26PMA good heatsink is an essential part of any rig you build. Skimp on the heatsink and you have no overclock. Spend too much, and you just wasted money too. This is where Xigmatek comes in with Dark Knight. The Dark Knight is already an attractive offer at a price of around $40. And why is that?
ASUS M4A785TD-V EVO - 785G Preview Friday, July 24, 2009 @ 5:57PMWe recently previewed the 785G chipset and had to stop testing as the early beta drivers were not mature enough to provide a full performance analysis. We have since received two updated sets of drivers and are glad to report that significant progress has been made in enabling a variety of features missing in the first set. However, a full NDA is in effect...
Trusted Resource for the Working RF Engineer Thursday, July 23, 2009 @ 3:14PM[Components] Transistors And Amplifiers Make Power Gains High-frequency transistors are reaching new power levels and supporting the design of solid-state amplifiers with tube-like output capabilities.
PowerColor Expands Go! Green Videocard Offerings Tuesday, July 21, 2009 @ 11:34PMPowerColor today announced it has added another card to its Go! Green series of videocards with the addition of an HD 4670 card to the lineup. The HD 4670 joins the Go! Green HD 4650/4350 cards announced last month . PowerColor is claiming the Go! Green series consumes up to 38% less power than competing graphics cards and performs up to 36% better in benchmark tests. In addition to the lower ...
AC/DC Power Supply measures only 6 x 4 x 1.54 in. Tuesday, July 7, 2009 @ 7:56AMDesigned for getting fitted in 1U enclosures, 250 W AC/DC power supply, CCM250 delivers full output with convection cooling over input voltages from 90-275 Vac, and 200 W from 80 Vac, in ambient temperatures of -10 to +50°C. Unit provides up to 300 W for 500 ms for short-term peak power. Featuring 5 V standby rail, remote on/off switching and power fail signals, unit can be used for control of ...
Sun Fire X4275 Wednesday, July 1, 2009 @ 8:29PMSun Microsystem's Sun Fire X4275 is an excellent all-rounder, although we'd love it if the noise could be cut down a little more.