Just two weeks ago, we reported how problems with Marvell’s SATA 6GB (88SE9123) had led motherboard manufacturers to delay certain P55-based products. Now, Asus has reportedly pulled its P6X58 Premium motherboard altogether. As originally conceived, said board would have featured both USB3 and SATA 6GB as major selling points; it’s possible Asus killed the board rather than ship a premium-class product with just one differentiating feature.   An Asus spokesperson told The Inquirer that the board was

Corsair launches ultra-high performance Dominator GT family for AMD Phenom II ProcessorsUltra low-latency CAS 6 memory kit delivers maximum performance on AMD’s Socket AM3 platforms Fremont, CA, July 29th, 2009 – Corsair, a worldwide leader in high-performance computer and flash memory products, today announced the new Dominator GT line of ultra-high performance DDR3 memory modules, designed specifically for AMD Phenom II processor-based platforms using Socket AM3 motherboards.The new 4GB (2 x 2GB) Dominator

AMD Phenom II X2 550 and Athlon II X2 250 @ iXBT Labs and other reviews from around the web can be found by visiting our forums!

“Physically, Phenom II X2 core is a quad-core Phenom II die. Rejected quad-core dice are locked down to obtain processors with fewer cores and maximize yield. Athlon II, it turn, has the Regor die with two physical cores and no L3 cache. As a result, this die is only 117.5 mm, while Deneb takes up 258 mm. It will be interesting to see how the lack of L3 cache affects performance of the K10 core.”

After nearly a year of meteoric growth and exploding unit sales, the netbook market—or at least netbook OEMs—may finally be pausing to catch its breath. With Intel delaying the launch of its next-generation Atom platform (codenamed Pinetrail) until 2010, neither Asus nor Acer are planning new product introductions for the second half of the year. The pause makes sense given the differences between the current Atom platform and its successor. Pinetrail will sport an SoC (System-on-a-Chip) flavor of Atom (codenamed

A few months back NVIDIA “released” the GeForce GTS 250 priced at just around $150. The reason behind the quotations in the previous statement is that the GTS 250 is not exactly something new. While a lot of NVIDIA’s R&D dollars have gone into their higher-end products such as the GTX 285 and GTX 295, to satisfy their mid-level needs they turned to an old stand-by: rebranding a previously higher-end card. In the case of the GeForce GTS 250, we’re pretty much looking at the same specifications that we saw

It’s apparent that Foxconn will compensate the family of a worker who committed suicide after an iPhone prototype he was responsible for went missing.  Sun Danyong, 25, jumped from his high-rise apartment last week after officials of Foxconn, which makes Apple’s iPhones and iPods, questioned him about the whereabouts of the missing prototype.  He accused the Foxconn officials of beating him, which they eventually denied.However, Hon Hai Precision, Foxconn’s parent company, suspended

As you probably know, Apple’s iPod shuffle created quite a stir when it was introduced with no screen and no buttons. How are you really supposed to control it, after all? Of course, Apple’s innovative (and hampering, in some ways) solution was VoiceOver, a system that enables owners to shout commands and have it respond accordingly.Unfortunately, this svelte workaround presents a problem: you can only use the headphones which Apple ships with the shuffle, as no other headphones have that VoiceOver chip built

It’s official: T-Mobile will launch its version of the HTC Touch Pro2 in the U.S. on August 12. 

The T-Mobile HTC Touch Pro2 will replace the already-retired Wing in the T-Mobile WinMo family.  Features include 802.11g Wi-Fi, a tilting 3.6” WVGA touchscreen display, GPS and a 3.2MP camera.

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The recently released Corsair Hydro Series H50 CPU water cooling kit is aimed at bringing water cooler to the mainstream computer user. Will the much anticipated successor to the old Nautilus 500 system have enough spunk to get the job done against more than a dozen other Intel Core i7 coolers on our LGA 1366 test platform?

It’s a problem faced by far too many netbook buyers these days: what do you do when you need access to an optical disc? The vast majority of 8″, 9″ and 10″ netbooks arrive today without an optical drive to speak of. Just a few years back, it was practically unheard of to see a notebook sans a DVD drive; today, it’s almost a given if the machine is around 13″ or smaller. In order to give those who still spin the platters a chance to beef up their recent netbook purchase, Pioneer is introducing the industry’s