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Corsair Updates Its Builder Series PSUs with Three CX V2 Models

Corsair has just announced it has updated its popular entry-level and midrange Builder series of power supply units with the addition of three new CX V2 models which can provide between 430 and 600 Watts of power. The Builder Series CX V2 is the successor to the current CX family of PSUs and offers 80 PLUS certifi...

4 May 2011
09:07 GMT

Vengeance DDR3 Memory Line from Corsair Grows by Three

It wasn't so long ago that Corsair announced that its Vengeance series of high-tier memory was going blue, but it looks like the company did something more with the line, namely add some new members to it. Corsair is one of those companies whose products have garnered it wide acclaim from many organizations ...

30 March 2011
02:37 GMT

Corsair Intros Windowed Side Panel Kit for the Graphite Series 600T Chassis

Corsair is continuing to release new accessories for its computer case models as the company has just announced the availability of a windowed side panel for the Graphite Series 600T PC chassis. The replacement side panel features an impact-resistant acrylic plastic clear window for showing off components when the...

23 March 2011
06:49 GMT

Corsair's Latest Force GT SSD Is Red and Speedy

It appears that Corsair is not slacking off at all when it comes to new product releases, and it looks like it has even started to break out of the regular color schemes one usually expects its storage devices, in this case solid state drives, to adopt. Corsair has been called, by some, the best maker of PSUs and...

5 March 2011
04:30 GMT

Corsair Intros USB 3.0 Upgrade Kit for Obsidian Series Cases

Corsair has just announced the introduction of a USB 3.0 upgrade kit that works with their Obsidian full-tower PC cases and enables users who own USB 3.0 compatible motherboards, or add-in cards, to route two of the available ports to the front of the case. The upgrade kit is compatible with the Obsidian 800D and ...

3 March 2011
08:35 GMT

Corsair Pushes Flash Voyager Flash Drives to USB 3.0

Given its important status on the portable storage solutions' market, Corsair has decided that it's a good idea to reveal a brand new product series at CeBIT 2011, one of the fist line of new products to make their way to the market being USB 3.0-enabled Flash Voyager flash drives.Without a doubt, just abou...

1 March 2011
07:57 GMT

Hydro Series H6 Liquid Cooler from Corsair Starts Selling

With CeBIT now underway, companies from around the world are, basically, coming out in force, unveiling various things for different markets, like Corsair just revealed that a certain cooler would soon start selling.As end-users may know, the CeBIT 2011 trade show, taking place in Hannover, Germany, has already star...

1 March 2011
07:17 GMT

Corsair's Vengeance Turns Blue, DDR3 for Enthusiasts

Finally it seems that the IT market is getting back to its old, periodically-updating self, as even Corsair has come out and issued a press release detailing its newest high-end memory products.Corsair has received many awards over the years, most of them for its high-quality memory products and power supplies.That ...

1 March 2011
05:44 GMT

Corsair Force Series SSDs Coming to CeBIT, Write at 500 MB/s

With CeBIT 2011 coming closer, makers of storage devices have begun to announce what they will put on display at the expo, and Corsair has now joined the likes of OCZ in previewing its SATA 6.0 Gbps SSDs.With solid state drives, the better the controller chip is the faster the units become, overall.In fact, since sp...

24 February 2011
10:54 GMT

Corsair Also Moves Its SSDs from 34nm Chips to 25nm

OCZ may have been the first out with the announcement that it was moving its SSDs to 2Xnm process technologies, but Corsair is not really that far behind, having made a similar decision.Advancing to a new manufacturing process, for solid state drives, means improvements to pretty much every feature, except (maybe) d...

19 February 2011
03:39 GMT

Corsair Enthusiast Series TX Are 80Plus Rated PSUs

Corsair seems quite eager to retain its position as top-tier memory and PSU maker, so it issued a press release in which it details its newest collection of power supplies, the so-called Enthusiast Series TX.From the name, one can easily guess that they are not intended for just any consumer, although they aren'...

16 February 2011
08:51 GMT

Corsair's Dominator GT Series Becomes World's Fastest Memory in the MaxxMem Benchmark

Corsair's high performance Dominator GT memory series has just added another title to its belt, as one of the company's DDR3 memory kits has just managed to break the MaxxMem benchmark world record with the help of an Intel second generation Core processor. This feat was achieved by extreme overclockers ...

10 February 2011
08:40 GMT

Cooler Master Set to Debut New Water Cooler in Q1 2011

Lately, water cooling has become mainstream even for users that aren't into extreme benching and overclocking, so, during the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show, Cooler Master showcased a new cooler that caters to those users looking for an easy to install and maintain solution. Known internally under the code na...

12 January 2011
03:38 GMT

CoolIT Announces Partnership with Corsair, Drops Out of Retail

Over the years CoolIT has been providing some of the nicest CPU and GPU water-cooling solutions available on the market, but now the company seems to be pulling out of the retail space as it will focus on its new partnership with Corsair, providing R&D for the Fremont-based company. This report comes from the Legi...

6 January 2011
05:37 GMT

Corsair Pushes Its Own SATA 6.0 Gbps SSDs, the Performance Series 3

Corsair did what all other companies attending CES 2011 did and started to officially release its various products, such as a certain collection of solid state drives compatible with the latest SATA interface.Since the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show has finally started, all attending companies, natural...

6 January 2011
04:43 GMT

Corsair Ready to Officially Launch Its First Speaker System

Over the last few years, Corsair has diversified its product portfolio to include a lot more than computer memory modules, the Freemont, California-based company preparing to launch a new line of gaming speakers in early 2011, the first product to make its appearance being the 2.1 channel SP2500.Although specialized ...

3 January 2011
13:31 GMT

Corsair Dominator GT Series of DDR3 Gets New High-Speed 4GB Member

With all the new graphics cards coming out, and with new CPUs just around the corner, Corsair figured it would probably be best to update its high-end memory line, this time with the addition of a kit faster than 2,000 MHz.As end-users no doubt know already, Advanced Micro Devices, along with partners like Gigabyte,...

15 December 2010
03:03 GMT

New 90GB and 180GB Force Series SSDs Outed by Corsair

Corsair seems to be quite keen on establishing itself as a household name on the SSD market, and for this reason, it keeps pushing out new and improved products at a fairly constant rate, the latest to join the fold being two brand-new Force series SSD units. As TCMagazine reports, what we're talking about he...

2 December 2010
08:15 GMT

US Experiences the Effect of Corsair's Vengeance DDR3

It seems that Corsair is ready to unleash its Vengeance upon the entirety of the United States, having just issued a press release in which it provided the details on all of its new memory kits, as well as their prices.While the official release has only now been made, the Vengeance DDR3 that Corsair has been prepar...

30 November 2010
08:31 GMT

Corsair Presents Its Vengeance DDR3 of up to 12 GB

It appears that Corsair really wants to keep getting named best memory manufacturer, as it has just put together a whole collection of new memory kits, composed of six members.Those keeping track of such developments will have learned that Corsair was just named best PSU and memory maker yet again.Needless to say, t...

24 November 2010
06:25 GMT

Corsair Still Best Maker of PSUs and Memory

Each year, the readers of Custom PC magazine and bi-tech.net hold a vote to see which companies are the best at what they do, and it seems that this year's titles for best memory and PSU manufacturer go to the same company, Corsair that is. Since a company's success depends highly on how it is received and...

23 November 2010
08:54 GMT

Corsair Graphite Series 600T Mid-Tower Case Now Selling

As it happens, Corsair showed off a mid-tower enclosure back in June and it seems that the company has finally gotten around to making it commercially available, which means that stores across the world should soon start selling the Graphite Series 600T.Even though Corsair is most famous for its high-end memory and ...

7 October 2010
10:50 GMT

Corsair Sends Out the Builder Mainstream PSUs

Having already released a fair number of power supplies for the high-end and enthusiast market, Corsair is now catering to the needs of mainstream system builders by bringing forth the Builder Series of PSUs. Once again paying mind to the energy efficiency aspect, Corsair designed the Builder Series, currently compo...

30 September 2010
02:38 GMT

Corsair's Gaming Series of PSUs Grows by Three

PSU and memory maker of high repute Corsair has just announced that its has expanded its gaming-oriented lines of power supplies, aptly dubbed Gaming Series, with three new models, each with 80Plus certification and tri-color LED fans.Once again eager to play the power efficiency card, Corsair has expanded its Gamin...

14 September 2010
10:05 GMT

Two DDR3 Clock Speed World Records Shattered by Corsair Memory

Makers of memory products have been playing with the higher limits of DDR3 clocks for some time now, but it is professional overclockers that truly make such devices shine, and it seems that Corsair's Dominator GTX6 has just broken two world records in the hands of a certain Matthias Zronek.Some time ago, Corsa...

8 September 2010
04:42 GMT

Corsair Enters Audio Market, Shows Off the HS1 USB Headset

In addition to top-grade processing, memory and graphics capabilities, gamers also look for matching audio solutions when setting up their gaming system, and Corsair decided to make sure that its entrance into this market segment was noticeable by unleashing its very first headset.What Corsair did was create the CA-...

31 August 2010
10:06 GMT

Corsair 80Plus Gold Professional PSUs Start Selling

Even though it has focused on SSDs and memory products lately, Corsair is still quite bent on preserving its role as major supplier of high-quality power supplies, so it decided to finally start shipping the Professional series of PSUs, currently composed of three models with wattages of 750W, 850W and 1,200W, respe...

26 August 2010
08:52 GMT

Next Week Welcomes Corsair's H70 CPU liquid cooler

Summer may be half over but it is definitely still hot enough for hardware makers to keep pumping out newer and better cooling solutions. Most of them are the 'usual' merger of a heatsink, heatpipes and one or multiple fans. Some, however, rely on liquid to drive temperatures far lower than would otherwise...

2 August 2010
08:59 GMT

Corsair Force SSD Family Receives Three New Members

Corsair seems to have taken a special liking to the ever so popular SandForce controller, because it just decided to expand one of its more prominent SSD series based on it. The line in question goes by the name of Force, no doubt an allusion to the SandForce itself. To be more specific, the company added three new m...

21 July 2010
08:56 GMT

Corsair Reaves Fastest Memory Title with 2625MHz DDR3

Normally, products are divided into three main categories, according to the range of the consumer base that they service. Specifically, devices are described as entry-level or low end, mainstream or mid-end and, finally, enthusiast-level, high end as it were. Corsair, on the other hand, seems to be under the impress...

1 July 2010
10:05 GMT

Price of Corsair Nova SSD Plummets to Under $70

Every once in a while, an IT company or another will claim that they have completed some outstanding achievement or reached some sort of milestone in their area of expertise. CPU and GPU makers will boast of having raised the bar on efficiency or performance, whereas memory makers will show off new clock speeds. Thi...

21 June 2010
04:02 GMT

Corsair Padlock 2 Secure Flash Drive Doubles in Capacity

When the first flash drive was introduced, it opened up a completely new set of opportunities in the field of portable storage. After a long time when floppy diskettes and optical disks were the main means of transferring data, a newer, smaller but more capacious solution drew a great deal of attention and quickly b...

17 June 2010
09:14 GMT

Corsair Unleashes 60GB, 120GB and 240GB SandForce SSDs

The SandForce controller has shown up in the majority of solid state drives unleashed over the past several months, not because of marketing deals or company preferences, but because it genuinely enables a very high level of performance. As such, it is no surprise to hear that a new batch of SF-powered SSDs has emerg...

20 May 2010
08:55 GMT

Corsair Uses AMD Six-Core to Set New Memory Clock Record

Advanced Micro Devices has finally provided the enthusiast market with Phenom II X6 six-core CPUs and a few ways of showing off the quality of such a product are better than breaking a record. This is exactly what Corsair managed to achieve. The company took the high-end Phenom II X6 1095T Black Edition chip and used...

14 May 2010
04:16 GMT

Corsair's Dominator GTX4 DDR3 Reaches 2,533MHz

There is always competition on every segment of the IT market, with hardware makers doing their best to always outdo their competitors in at least one or more ways. On the memory front, this competition usually spawns faster modules. Recently, Patriot and G.Skill got a fair bit of attention after they unveiled memory...

7 May 2010
02:38 GMT

Corsair's Nova SSD Now in 32GB and 256GB Capacities

There has been quite a bit of movement on the solid-state-storage front over the past few months, especially now that SSDs have started catching up to HDDs, at least remotely, in terms of capacity. This progress, as well as the higher reliability, the TRIM command in Windows 7 and the incredibly higher speeds that th...

4 May 2010
10:46 GMT

Corsair Unleashes 64GB Flash Survivor GTR

Corsair may be known for making very fast RAM and SSDs, but it should be noted that it has garnered a similar amount of praise for its products' efficiency and, just as importantly, reliability. In fact, reliability and abuse resistance are the main traits of the company's highly acclaimed rugged hard drive...

20 April 2010
07:35 GMT

Corsair Unveils 16GB and 24GB Memory Kits

Corsair is well know for having, over the years, brought out a significant number of memory products, power supplies and other things that, could be said, went over the top, performance-wise. Now, the company seems to have no problem continuing that tradition, having added, to its famous line of Dominator memory prod...

6 April 2010
08:51 GMT

Corsair's Flash Voyager Mini Now in 32GB

Corsair may not have the cheapest products on the market, but its focus on premium, high-performance peripherals and components for personal computers has definitely paid off, as it is obvious from the many awards and positive reviews that its PSUs, memory and flash storage products have gained. If anything, this pos...

24 March 2010
09:27 GMT

Corsair Shows Off High-Performance CPU Coolers

Corsair may not have the cheapest of hardware in the world, but it definitely lays emphasis on quality, a fact proven repeatedly by the various awards and certifications that its products have gained over the years. The company is largely recognized for its PSUs and especially memory products, but this does not stop ...

9 March 2010
06:54 GMT

Corsair's Force SSDs Get Priced

With the rapid and rather widespread adoption of the SandForce controller in solid state drives, it was not exactly surprising to hear of Corsair entering the fray. Not long ago, the company announced the Force series, SSDs based on multi-level cell NAND flash chips, operating on the SATA 3.0 Gbps interface. The two ...

6 March 2010
05:49 GMT

Corsair Joins SandForce Bandwagon, Intros Force SSDs

SandForce controllers have bee used in a rather large number of solid state drives from a variety of companies, such as OCZ, A-Data, Team Group, OWC and Viking Modular Solutions. Eager to enter the competition, Corsair has announced that it is now offering SandForce-based SSDs as part of the new Force Series. Through...

4 March 2010
08:18 GMT

Corsair's Nova and Reactor SSDs Already Shipping

The Nova and Reactor Series of solid state drives were introduced by Corsair at the beginning of the month and it seems that the company was quick to finish up preparations. The memory, storage and PSU specialist has revealed that these two product lines have already been made available and are ready to impress with ...

26 February 2010
09:30 GMT

Corsair's Padlock 2 Flash Drive Has 256-Bit Hardware Encryption

Seeing how all levels of the IT industry are relying more and more on digitally stored data, Corsair has been working on a solution meant to provide any and all end-users with an easy-to-use way of transporting sensitive files without any concerns regarding the security of the stored information. Known as the Corsair...

18 February 2010
09:41 GMT

Corsair Intros 700D High-Performance Computer Chassis

Measuring 609 (H) x 609 (L) x 229 (W) mm, Corsair's latest creation in the area of computer cases is a a steel-wrought full tower chassis with an aluminum faceplate. Designed as a high-performance case aimed at enthusiasts, the chassis is known by the name of the Corsair Obsidian Series 700D. This full tower bui...

18 February 2010
05:05 GMT

Corsair Further Expands Storage Line with 512 SSD

Corsair is handing out, or preparing to hand out, flash memory-based products one after another these days. Not so long ago, two lines of solid state drives, the Nova and Reactor series, were revealed and, even more recently, the company unveiled the 128GB Flash Voyager GTR pen drive. Still, it seems that such a line...

3 February 2010
06:19 GMT

128GB Flash Voyager GTR from Corsair Debuts

For a while, Corsair has been serving consumers worldwide with high-quality flash drives, such as the 128GB Flash Voyager GT pen drive that was, for a time, hailed as one, if not the fastest pen drive. This title is now going to a different product, also released by Corsair, known as the 128GB Flash Voyager GTR. Whil...

3 February 2010
02:59 GMT

Corsair Preps SSDs, Nova and Reactor Series

Corsair already has a decent lineup of solid state drives whose speeds drastically outmatch those delivered by hard drives. Still, the hardware-solution developer hasn't exactly been aggressively focusing on developing SSDs. Nevertheless, this seems ready to change now that the company has been revealed to be ju...

2 February 2010
04:32 GMT

Corsair's Dominator GTX1, the Fastest XMP-certified DDR3

Corsair has a history of releasing ultra high-end memory modules and kits for the most hardcore of enthusiasts and its Dominator GTX memory modules are its greatest DDR3 memory solution to date. These modules are individually hand-screened and tested on multiple Intel P55 chipset platforms. While this already ensures...

21 January 2010
11:04 GMT

Corsair Intros TRIM Firmware Update for P-Series SSDs

Corsair's award-winning Performance Series P64, P128 and P256 solid-state drives just got an upgrade now that the leading high-performance and flash memory maker has finished work on the special TRIM firmware. This firmware will add Windows 7 support for the TRIM command, through which SSDs can be kept for long ...

21 December 2009
09:39 GMT


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