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EVGA Announces Supernova 1300 G2 Power Supply with 10 Year Warranty

Posted 06/18/2013 at 9:05am | by Paul Lilly

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EVGA goes for the gold.

Could you take full advantage of a 1,300 watt power supply (PSU)? Talk about making others totally envious! Assuming you need a herculean PSU, EVGA aims to deliver with its new Supernova 1300 G2, a monster unit that's 80 Plus Gold certified to deliver up to 90 efficiency under "typical loads" and backed by a generous 10 year warranty to boot. This could be the last PSU you buy for a long, long time.

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Intel's Desktop Processor Roadmap Through First Half of 2014 Leaked Online

Posted 06/13/2013 at 5:41pm | by Paul Lilly

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Ivy Bridge-E is right around the corner.

Processor roadmaps must be slippery little suckers because it never seems like AMD or Intel are very good about holding onto them. Instead, we're frequently treated to early, often unauthorized glimpses of what each semiconductor has in store, and this time it's a look at what Intel is planning. The latest leaked roadmap shows Intel's processor plans through the first half of 2014.

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Intel Announces S3500 Series Solid State Drives for Data Centers

Posted 06/12/2013 at 12:40pm | by Paul Lilly

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Available in 80GB to 800GB capacities.

Intel this week announced a new line of solid state drives for data centers and cloud computing servers. Dubbed DC S3500, the new series of SSDs are designed for read-intensive applications such as web hosting, cloud computing, and data center virtualization, the Santa Clara chip maker says. The S3500 line is also being billed as a cost-effective replacement for traditional hard drives.

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Club 3D Terminates Relationship with Nvidia, Cozies Up to AMD

Posted 06/12/2013 at 10:14am | by Paul Lilly

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Club 3D officially severs ties with Nvidia.

Perhaps things were getting a little awkward for Club 3D in trying to maintain a relationship with both AMD and Nvidia, two competing GPU makers. Whatever the reason, from this point forward Club 3D is solely in AMD's corner and will no longer be producing video cards with Nvidia's silicon. Club 3D provided an official statement on its decision, noting that it's been a long ride serving both companies, but that it now wants to put all its focus on developing AMD cards.

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AMD Wins Race to 5GHz with FX-9000 Series Processor

Posted 06/11/2013 at 8:51am | by Paul Lilly

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In your face, Netburst!

AMD has a knack for reaching milestones before the competition. The Sunnyvale chip designer is generally credited as being the first to reach 1GHz with its Athlon chip (a claim Intel disputes, by the way, as it was also shipping 1GHz Pentium III parts), and just like it's the year 2000 all over again, AMD is again touting a speed victory by unveiling the world's first 5GHz processor for consumers.

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Video Cards Drop in Price as Supply Issues Ease

Posted 06/07/2013 at 11:51am | by Paul Lilly

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Watch for falling prices.

Over the past several weeks, AMD has been making a conscious effort to help its hardware partners work through any supply issues they may have been dealing with in regards to the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition graphics card. A company spokesman reached out to Maximum PC today to let us know those efforts have begun to "bear fruit," and indeed a quick peek at Newegg reveals one of the lowest prices we've seen for a 7970 GHz card.

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Crucial Launches Ballistix Sport SODIMMs for Laptops and Mini ITX Systems

Posted 06/05/2013 at 10:02am | by Paul Lilly

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Little memory has game.

If the PC market is insistent on moving towards smaller form factors and mobile devices, then kudos to Crucial for following along. The memory maker announced new Ballistix Sport SODIMMs designed to boost performance of gaming laptops, all-in-one systems, and mini ITX setups that require the smaller size memory modules. The new memory kits feature low latencies and are optimized for Haswell, Crucial says.

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AMD Rolls Out Richland Desktop APUs

Posted 06/05/2013 at 4:49am | by Paul Lilly

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One part Piledriver and one part Radeon HD 8000 Series graphics.

System builders have no shortage of new processors to choose from this week. Counter-punching the launch of Haswell, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) on Wednesday rolled out the red carpet for its 2013 Elite A-Series of Accelerated Processing Units (APUs), otherwise known as "Richland," which supposedly offer discrete-level graphics and an easy upgrade infrastructure.

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Corsair's Carbide Series Air 540 and 330R are Seriously Cool

Posted 06/04/2013 at 1:11pm | by Paul Lilly

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One's a cool character, the other's a quiet performer.

Among the many products Corsair chose to unveil at Computex this year, one of the cooler (literally and figuratively) ones is its new Carbide Series Air 540, a high airflow mid-tower chassis with a wider form factor than most traditional cases. It's built that way to accommodate two "side-by-side" chambers and a Direct Airflow Path layout, which is Corsair's way of explaining a design meant to offer exceptional cooling at low noise levels.

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Phanteks Previews Stealthy Enthoo Primo Chassis with Hidden Drive Trays

Posted 06/04/2013 at 8:55am | by Paul Lilly

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Dude, where's my storage?

Phanteks isn't a name that jumps out when you think about computer cases or peripherals. Somehow the company has managed to fly mostly under the radar since it was established in 2007, but if its upcoming Enthoo Primo case lives up to the hype, it will have to get used to sitting in the limelight. The Enthoo Primo is an exercise in stealthy case design, and one of its main features is that it hides your hard drives out of view. It's also the company's first crack at a chassis, as it's been focused on cooling products up to this point.

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