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New Thermaltake HTPC Media Centre case |
| Originally unveiled at Computex 2008, very few details have been revealed about their upcoming line of luxurious HTPC cases. The LUXA2 300 is a larger, full sized HTPC designed for systems utilizing an ATX motherboard and features a 7 inch graphical VFD. Visit the Luxa2 site for more details |
| Wednesday 13th May 2009 |
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OCZ announced its Z-Drive, a PCI-Express based solid state drive that offers up to 1 TB of storage. |
| The Z-Drive's three capacity offerings include 250 GB, 500 GB, and 1 TB. The 250 GB version offers reads speeds up to 450 MB/s, write speeds up to 300 MB/s, and a sustained write speed up to 200 MB/s. The 500 GB version is the fastest SSD of the bunch, providing read speeds up to 510 MB/s, and write speeds up to 480 MB/s; it too also has sustained write speeds up to 200 MB. As for the 1 TB version, its read speed is a bit slower, accessing data up to 500 MB/s. It also sports write speeds up to 470 MB/s, and a 200 MB/s sustained write speed as well. The overall dimensions of all three Z-Drive versions are 245mm x 124mm x 22mm, although the drive looks thick enough to take up two slots. There's also a fan on the bottom of the SSD to keep things nice and cool. |
| Wednesday 13th May 2009 |
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ATI Radeon HD 4890 Graphics |
| Learn how you can quickly and easily boost your PC's graphics capabilities and enhance your gaming experience with the new ATI Radeon HD 4890. With a whopping 1.36 TeraFLOPs of compute power, superior GDDR5 memory, and super-high engine clock speeds capable of nearly 1GHz, the ATI Radeon HD 4890 delivers the best game experience in its class, including support for the latest ground-breaking DirectX® 10.1 titles. |
| Wednesday 13th May 2009 |
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