ASE Labs posted their Kingston SD/2GB-U Review! Find this and other reviews from around the web by visiting our forums!

” Kingston Technology produces all kinds of memory including RAM for a computer to flash memory. Kingston is pushing harder and harder into the consumer flash market. Kingston sent over their high speed SD flash memory for review and the SD2/2GB-U is really fast. ”

After Toshiba pulled the plug on HD DVD the rumor was that Microsoft was going to offer support for the Blu-ray devices both in Windows and on the Xbox 360.  Now Microsoft is claiming that they’re not presently working on such a device for the Xbox 360:”Xbox is not currently in talks with Sony or the Blu-ray Association to integrate Blu-ray into the Xbox experience,” (Xbox group product manage Aaron) Greenberg told Reuters in an interview.One possible reason why Microsoft isn’t developing a Blu-ray player

The successor to Windows Vista, dubbed Windows 7, seems to have been slated for a release someplace in 2010:In an email, a Microsoft spokesman, confirmed that 2010 was the correct Windows 7 date — three years after the consumer Vista release.  He stated, “We are currently in the planning stages for Windows 7 and development is scoped to three years from Windows Vista Consumer GA. The specific release date will be determined once the company meets its quality bar for release.”Special partners have allegedly

You probably recall that NVIDIA had a fairly recent coming-out party for the GeForce 9800 GX2 at CeBIT, with more than a few cards on display for all to see, including this one from Albatron.  There were also various other sneaks and leaks from other offerings as well of course but we’ve haven’t heard from Asus just yet… operative word there, “yet”.  Asus EN9800GX2, bundled with Company of Heroes Whatever happend to the “manly” graphics card?  Of course, the Ninja Geisha emblazoned

Do we really have to tell you how to celebrate Pi Day?  Why is today Pi Day?  Well, it’s 3/14, right?You could start by learning more about the near-mystical number–3.14 in its most severely abbreviated form, hence the March 14 (3/14) honors–at the official Pi Day site. There you can find out about the history of pi, how to use the number in a classroom to good effect, and how other people are celebrating the occasion.Baker’s Square here we come, for our pi(e) to celebrate the day!

R.I.P. Cyberathlete Professional League:“Effective immediately, the Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL) will cease operations. Therefore, all CPL events currently scheduled for 2008 are hereby canceled.”While we’re sad to see the CPL go, we’re glad that the idea of getting paid to frag people in video games didn’t go out with a whimper.  Instead they are leaving us with a world full of various professional gaming tournaments, leagues and circuits of all sizes.

Palit Microsystems announced the release of the GeForce 9800 GX2 graphics card this morning for those looking for the best money can buy when it comes to gaming performance. With the power of two GeForce 9800 GPUs in a single graphics solution the Palit GeForce 9800 GX2 will exceed the expectations of gamers across the world with the fastest graphics card on the planet!</p

Palit GeForce 9800 GX2 features a 600 MHz core frequency, 256 blistering fast stream processors with 1GB GDDR3 memory operating at 2 GHz. Palit GeForce 9800 GX2 allows the users to switch from the GeForce 9800 GX2 graphics card to the motherboard GeForce GPU when running non graphically-intensive applications for a silent, low power PC experience. Along with the latest PCI-Express 2.0 platform and Microsoft DirectX 10 Shader Model 4.0 technology, Palit GeForce 9800 GX2 features the second generation PureVideo HD technology engine, delivers unsurpassed Blu-ray and HD DVD movie picture quality, and offers full hardware acceleration of high definition movie.

Albatron has sent out the press release on the GeForce 9800 GX2 a bit early and claims to be the first to announce the dual GPU 9800GX2. Two heads are better than one as SLI pundits have proven, but with the 9800GX2, you dont have to fumble with manipulating two cards into your case.

The 9800GX2 has two GPUs tucked into a sleek black case with a single PCI-e 2.0 slot connector. In addition, this card features the latest 65 nm technology assuring the highest processing efficiency, lowest power consumption and the most optimal 3D gaming performance and HD Video playback. The 9800 GPUs on this card are the first to hit the market for this series. Each GPU contains 128 stream processors and boasts a 600 MHz Core Clock. The Shader Clock is rated at 1500 MHz with a Texture Fill Rate of 76.8 (billion/sec). This card comes with a whopping 1 GB (512 MB per GPU) of GDDR3 memory with a Memory Clock of 1000 MHz using a 512-bit (256-bit per GPU) Memory Interface. The memory bandwidth is 128 GB/sec.

Palit Microsystems today announced another graphics card to its 1GB Sonic family, the Palit GeForce 9600 GT 1GB Sonic! Being the first company to release an entire family of graphics solutions with 1 GB of on board memory, Palit extends its 1 GB family with the release of the Palit GeForce 9600 GT 1GB Sonic with 1 GB of memory to future-proof consumers with tomorrows games and astonishing pre-overclocked memory and core speed for todays most demanding games.

Continuing Sonics outstanding reputation for excellent overclocking performance, Palit enlarged the memory size of GeForce 9600 GT from 512 MB to 1 GB. The Palit GeForce 9600 GT 1GB Sonic features 1GB of GDDR3 memory operating at 2 GHz and a stunning 700MHz core speed. This attention to overclocking detail will not only save the users from memory capacity bottlenecks but also provides the astonishing gaming and home entertaining experience.

Intel released a few incremental details about its future graphics chip on Monday, but left a lot of unanswered questions about the company's push into uncharted waters.

Larrabee, a “many-core” graphics processor scheduled for 2009 or 2010, will come with a brand-new set of vector-processing instructions as part of its design, said Pat Gelsinger, senior vice president and co-general manager of Intel's digital enterprise group. Vector-processing instructions are used to improve the performance of graphics and video applications; you may have heard of previous vector-processing implementations such as SSE4.
These new instructions, combined with Larrabee's compatibility with the x86 instruction set, will make life easier for software developers, according to Gelsinger. In addition to regular graphics tasks currently dominated by Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices, Intel wants Larrabee to be able to take on a wider variety of tasks