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Gigabyte Releases GA-970A-DS3 AMD-Based Motherboard

Gigabyte has stealthily introduced a mid-range motherboard designed for central processing units (CPUs) from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). The new platform from Gigabyte features the AM3+ CPU socket and is part of the Ultra Durable 4 Classic series. It bears the name of GA-970A-DS3 and, though its price is still s...

7 February 2012
03:10 GMT

CES 2012: ECS Unveils Mainstream H77 Black Series Motherboard

Since it dropped by the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, ECS didn't bring just one product, but several, one of which is the mainstream H77 Black Series motherboard. We have already talked about the Z77H2-AX Black Deluxe motherboard that Elitegroup Computer Systems brought over to CES 2012. It ...

12 January 2012
11:00 GMT

Scythe Mugen 3 CPU Cooler Lands in Europe

Quite soon, AMD will unveil its newest collection of APUs, so there will be a whole new set of CPUs ready to get a better than average cooler, something that Scythe might be betting on now that its Mugen has reached Europe. Scythe has definitely managed to make a name for itself on the worldwide market, being the...

25 June 2011
05:41 GMT

MSI CX640 and CR640 Mainstream Notebooks Now Shipping

Micro-Star International, like all other suppliers of PCs, has multiple sorts of notebooks, including high-end, mid-end and low-end, and it looks like the mainstream level now got a little better supplied.Since there aren't any more chipset issues to cause problems, notebooks based on the Sandy bridge processor...

18 April 2011
10:09 GMT

USB 3.0 Headed to Mainstream, Over 1 Billion Chips Expected to Sell in 2013

Now that USB 3.0 is finding it increasingly easy to show up on practically any PC platform, the SuperSpeed standard really is expected to become mainstream, although likely not within the next two years.As end-users know, the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 standard has been gaining traction a bit more quickly this year (it is t...

23 February 2011
08:07 GMT

Antec One Hundred Gaming Case Aimed at the Budget-Conscious Masses

Since it would have been wrong to let CES 2011 pass by without doing anything, Antec decided to reveal a certain enclosure that mainstream gamers are sure to take note of, one dubbed the One Hundred.Unlike many cases released recently, which came with myriads of convenient but not altogether necessary elements, Ante...

10 January 2011
07:02 GMT

Intel Delivers Two Mainstream Sandy Bridge Desktop Processors

While the 2600 and 2500 series of CPUs are no doubt the strongest and most overclockable of the CPUs that Intel has unleashed, the more accessible and likeliest to sell best are still the mainstream parts, the so-called Core i5-2400 and 2300 series.While enthusiasts are distracted by the aura of excellence emitted b...

3 January 2011
03:27 GMT

Mainstream Notebooks Get 500GB HDDs, Netbooks Switch to 320GB

While there is a sort of 'blueprint' as to what kinds of components a PC may have to make it fit into a particular market segment, it appears that the standard storage space is in for a change.Until now, the so-called mainstream hard disk drive option for laptops was the 500 GB capacity.Basically, mid-end ...

24 November 2010
11:19 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

Gigabyte Unveils Very Affordable PSUs

Gigabyte has already said its piece today on the market of small form factor and low-cost PCs and components. Still, with consumers' voracious appetite for more being what it is, there is always room for one extra addition. Gigabyte thought it would make several such additions and, thus, did not hold back in its...

4 August 2010
04:47 GMT

NVIDIA Cancels Mainstream Fermi Video Cards

The Fermi architecture that NVIDIA has finally unveiled after many months of delays and problems will likely go down in history for having combined traits that aren't usually compatible with each other. On the one hand, Fermi is the fastest architecture that NVIDIA brought out. On the other, its high TDP, operat...

19 June 2010
04:27 GMT

Acer Also Shows Off Aspire 5625 and 4625 Mainstream Notebooks

Of all the PC suppliers that have adopted AMD's latest platforms, Acer seems to be one of the most active companies, if not the most active one, at least on the mobile PC front. After being the first to unleash a netbook based on AMD's new technology, along with an ultrathin, the PC maker is now moving on t...

12 May 2010
09:52 GMT

MSI Unveils New C-Series Laptops in the U.S.

In its attempt to increase its market share in the notebook space, MSI has just announced a couple of new products in its growing line of portable PCs. Launched by the company’s US division, the five new laptops are part of its C-series and include the 16-inch CX600, CR600-013 and the CR600-017, while the CX700...

14 August 2009
02:46 GMT

Intel 34nm-Based SSDs Benchmarked, Appreciated

As you have probably found out, Santa Clara, California-based Intel has announced early this week the introduction of its much-anticipated 34nm-based solid state drives. Despite previous rumors, the transition to the more efficient process technology has affected only Intel's mainstream X25-M series. As expected...

23 July 2009
10:33 GMT

Two New Samsung Phones Spotted, Eltz and Marcel

It seems that Samsung is going to make a little bit of a show at the Mobile World Congress next week in Barcelona, given the fact that more than a dozen new handsets the company has in the works have recently leaked to the web. Two of the yet unannounced devices that the Korean phone maker plans to unveil are the Sam...

10 February 2009
10:10 GMT

Blu-ray Players Become More Affordable

It seems that during the recent few weeks, the average retail price for mid-level Blu-ray players has been on a descending road. These devices looked rather expensive for most users until a few months ago, and couldn't be called mainstream really, but things seem to be going on a different path lately. What this...

17 October 2008
03:35 GMT

AMD Unveils Radeon HD 4550 and HD 4350

Advanced Micro Devices announced today the introduction of the ATI Radeon HD 4550 and ATI Radeon HD 4350 graphics cards, the latest ATI Radeon HD 4000 series graphics line up additions. The new cards are meant for the mainstream market level, and they are able to provide considerable gaming and HD multimedia performa...

30 September 2008
06:29 GMT

Quad-Core Processors Are Here, But They're Not for Everybody

Quad-core processors slowly started to make their way to the market, and a quick glance at the current offerings might let the customer the impression that they are the next average chips around. However, the supposition is far from being accurate, as the quad-core powerhorses are still out of the users' reach.T...

20 March 2008
07:58 GMT

Quad-Core CPUs to Become Half of Mainstream by 2009

If you are considering having an upgrade in the near future, among the things that score high on your list of components is the CPU. Basically, it can give you the biggest performance boost, or it can seriously set you back a couple hundred dollars, or both. But according to one of the most famous companies that obse...

19 April 2007
06:39 GMT


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