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Leadtek releases GeForce GTX 285 info

Leadtek releases GeForce GTX 285 info

4 hours ago CES 2009: This morning, Leadtek has pre-announced Nvidia's GeForce GTX 285, ahead of its official unveiling next week. [1]

SanDisk announces G3 series SSDs

SanDisk announces G3 series SSDs

4 hours ago CES 2009: SanDisk has this morning announced its third generation family of solid state drives at CES. It claims they're the fastest MLC drives ever. [5]

Sony CEO demos flexible OLED technology

Sony CEO demos flexible OLED technology

4 hours ago CES 2009: Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer demonstrated the world's first flexible OLED technology today during his keynote at CES. [4]

Ballmer announces Windows 7 Open Beta

Ballmer announces Windows 7 Open Beta

10 hours ago CES 2009: Ballmer's first CES keynote focused on Windows 7, Windows Live and some new developments in the world of Xbox 360. [10]

Apple limps away from MacWorld

Apple limps away from MacWorld

7th Jan 2009 Apple's last MacWorld keynote was frankly full of disappointments and no shows - the most interesting news came from outside the keynote arena. [20]

MSI intros ultra thin 13.4" Menlow-based netbook

MSI intros ultra thin 13.4" Menlow-based netbook

6th Jan 2009 CES 2009: MSI has introduced the X-Slim X320 13.4-inch netbook, which measures just 1.98cm at its thickest point. [5]

Seagate unveils first Barracuda 7200.12 hard drive

Seagate unveils first Barracuda 7200.12 hard drive

6th Jan 2009 CES 2009: Seagate has released its two-platter Barracuda 7200.12 1TB hard drive, pushing platter densities to a massive 500GB. [18]

Intel says no to Nvidia's Ion

Intel says no to Nvidia's Ion

26th Dec 2008 Intel kills the season of goodwill and decides that it won't sell its Atom CPUs without the chipset bundled. [34]

Kingston sells 4GB of DDR2-800 for £13!

Kingston sells 4GB of DDR2-800 for £13!

24th Dec 2008 UPDATE: Play.com changed the price to £27.99 Sorry! [9]

Mod of the Year 2008 kicks off tomorrow

Mod of the Year 2008 kicks off tomorrow

23rd Dec 2008 Before you head off for Christmas, we've got an absolutely stonking competition for you that runs right through the festive period. [19]

Nvidia notebook drivers now available directly

Nvidia notebook drivers now available directly

18th Dec 2008 Nvidia has made a surprise revelation this afternoon: it now offers upgradeable notebook graphics drivers for download directly from its website. [10]

XFX jumps into bed with AMD

XFX jumps into bed with AMD

16th Dec 2008 XFX is now an official AMD partner and will produce ATI graphics cards starting from early 2009. The company will also remain an Nvidia partner as well. [24]

AMD culls jobs in the UK

AMD culls jobs in the UK

16th Dec 2008 We have learned from several anonymous tipsters that AMD has culled a large portion of its workforce at its UK headquarters in Frimley today. [1]

Seagate drops warranties to three years

Seagate drops warranties to three years

15th Dec 2008 Seagate has made moves to reduce the warranty offered on consumer-grade products to three years from the current five, starting from 3rd January 2009. [15]

AMD says PhysX will die

AMD says PhysX will die

11th Dec 2008 Godfrey Cheng, Director of Technical Marketing in AMD's Graphics Products Group, has said that PhysX will die if it remains a closed and proprietary standard. [63]

Khronos Group releases OpenCL 1.0 specification

Khronos Group releases OpenCL 1.0 specification

11th Dec 2008 The Khronos Group has released the first version of the OpenCL specification right on schedule - AMD, Intel and Nvidia are on board. [12]

Ex-Evesham employees throw lifeline to customers

Ex-Evesham employees throw lifeline to customers

10th Dec 2008 Following the collapse of Evesham Technology in 2007, a group of ex-employees have teamed up to offer support to former customers. [5]

EA and 2K Games license Nvidia PhysX technology

EA and 2K Games license Nvidia PhysX technology

8th Dec 2008 Electronic Arts and 2K Games have announced that they will both license Nvidia's PhysX technology across all of their worldwide studios. [25]

OCZ Introduces its eSATA flash drive

OCZ Introduces its eSATA flash drive

5th Dec 2008 A 32GB flash drive the size of your finger that works at 90MB/s? OCZ's new Throttle seems to have the answer. [15]

Cooler Master shares more "Black" details

Cooler Master shares more "Black" details

4th Dec 2008 Cooler Master has revealed some more details about the Black Edition bundle we revealed last month. [20]

AMD's Phenom II X4 920 & 940 processors listed

AMD's Phenom II X4 920 & 940 processors listed

1st Dec 2008 Way ahead of schedule, More Computers here in the UK has already listed AMD's next generation Phenom II processors. [3]

YOYOTech drops Cooler Master UCP 900W price

YOYOTech drops Cooler Master UCP 900W price

28th Nov 2008 Following our UCP 900W review, YOYOTech has dropped the unit's price by £20. And that's before Alistair Darling's VAT cut comes in! [28]

AMD's 45nm CPUs are designed to overclock

AMD's 45nm CPUs are designed to overclock

21st Nov 2008 AMD's new 45nm Deneb CPUs are apparently designed for overclocking should hit 4GHz easily and 6GHz with extreme cooling. [37]

Packard Bell enters netbook market

Packard Bell enters netbook market

20th Nov 2008 Packard Bell last night pulled the curtains back on its entry into the netbook market at an event in Central London. [21]

EVGA's X58 should give Asus some stress

EVGA's X58 should give Asus some stress

20th Nov 2008 EVGA's latest X58 design should give Asus' Rampage II Extreme a run for its money in the extreme overclocking stakes. [10]

Kanguru announces eSATA pendrive

Kanguru announces eSATA pendrive

20th Nov 2008 Kanguru has announced the availability of a rather novel pendrive featuring both USB 2.0 and eSATA 3Gb/s connectivity, with a surprising difference in performance between the two. [10]