Thermalright HR-01-775 Passive Cooler

Due to higher processor frequency enabling computers to run even moreintensive business, multimedia, and gaming applications, the LGA775 processorhas been known to generate more heat than any other processors in the CPUmarket. As any PC enthusiasts would know, stability and heat control gohand-in-hand when it comes to building a good quality PC. Intel made a valianteffort in making a semi-efficient heatsink for the LGA775 processor, but letsface it...it just does not cut it! In response to more heat generated by theCPU, the fan RPM turns up higher and higher which translates into louder andlouder noise. Can your ears bare the noise?

Thats where third-party heatsink designer/maker comes in. The challenge was tofind better solutions in cooling the scorcher in the LGA775 core, plus withminimal noise from the CPU cooling fan. Once again, Thermalright has stepped upto take that challenge and introduced the HR-01-775*. HR-01-775 is a passivetower cooler that utilizes the fan that is already installed in your computer.It works side by side with the fan duct system developed exclusively byThermalright. Basically, the fan duct connects the HR-01 to the 120mm outtakefan, thus making the heatsink serve as a portal to the wind tunnel that leads tothe outside environment of the computer, effectively pulling out hot air andcooling the HR-01 (designed with its proprietary through holes for efficientventilation) at the same time. Lab results have shown that HR-01 with the fanduct works just as efficiently and as effectively as having a 120mm heatsink faninstalled to the HR-01.

Feature:

Fanless design for low-noise operation
Proprietary through holes on fins for effiecient ventilation
Multiple heatpipes for well spread heat around aluminum fins
Soldered fins to copper base (nickel plated) to make effective contact
Light weight and easy installation

Technical Spec.:

Dimension:
L110 x W60 x H159.5(mm) Heat sink only

Weight:
525g (heat sink only)

Motherboard Compatibility:
Intel: Pentium-4 LGA775 3.2 GHz and above **

SingTel and Universal Music bring Lady Gaga back to Singapore

Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel) and Universal Music haveannounced that the superstar, Lady Gaga, will be performing an exclusive showcase in Singapore on 7 July 2011 for more than 2000 SingTel customers.

Lady Gaga has been SingTel AMPed’s most downloaded artiste since launch.AMPed offers unlimited free downloads of more thantwo million tracks and is available to SingTel 3G Flexi and iFlexi plan subscribers.Customers can browse and download songs to their hearts’ content, on their mobile devices and PCs, without incurring data charges.

Lady Gaga have garnerednumerous achievements including five Grammy Awards amongst twelve nominations, two Guinness World Records and the estimated sale of 15 million albums and 51 million singles worldwide. She has been included in Times annual ‘The 2010 Time 100’ list of the most influential people in the world as well as Forbes list of the ‘The Worlds Most Powerful Celebrities’ in the world. Her recent release of the highly anticipated follow-up album "Born This Way" has sold over the 1.11 million mark during its first week of sales and has been number one on local CD retail stores and digital music album charts since its release. The album has also achieved sales exceeding platinum status.

More details on this super star showcase and how to secure tickets will be revealed soon.

World Smallest Consumer PC Intel EXPC prototype revealed

Intel has presented their EXPC prototype at Computex 05 during their Keynote session helpd at Taipei's International Convention Hall. Here are some pictures that we took at the Post-Keynote sessions with Intel's Vice-president, Mr Anand Chandrasekher and Mr Jason Chen, Intel Country Manager for Taiwan.

The EXPC will be largely based on Intel's Mobile components like the Pentium M processor and the 855/915GM chipsets, with a proprietary mainboard, lost likely with components like RAM embedded onboard.

TYAN Launched 4-way Board For AMD Shanghai

Taipei, November 13, 2008 - TYAN, an industry-leading server platform provider, today announced at SC’08 that its current line of 23 AMD Opteron™ processor-based platforms and 1 new AMD Opteron™- processor based product will support the new Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processor (codenamed “Shanghai”). Customers can achieve superior performance, low power consumption and low total cost of ownership by upgrading to the new TYAN platforms powered by the enhanced Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor built on 45nm process technology. TYAN platforms that support the previous Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors are socket compatible and will only require a BIOS update to support this next-generation processor.

TYAN offers 23 current and 1 new platforms that will support the enhanced Quad-Core
AMD Opteron™ processor. Customers can upgrade to the new Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processor in TYAN’s current platforms without extra validation costs or additional hardware changes. For new platforms, TYAN launched the TYAN S4992 motherboard that will target high-end HPC and workstation users. For scalable and flexible 2-way solutions, TYAN’s S3992-E, S3970-E, S2927-E, S2915-E, S2912-E, S2932-E, S2937 and S2935 are perfect platforms that meet current and future IT server and workstation requirements. TYAN’s S4989, S4987-E S4985-E, and M4985-E motherboards are 4-way/8-way solutions that are exceptionally proficient in memory intensive and high-cluster IT infrastructures.

For barebones systems, the TYAN VX50-B4985-E-8P, VX50-B4985-E, FT48-B4985-E, TN68-B4989, GT26-B4987-E, TA26-B3992-E, TA26-B2932-E, GT24-B3992-E, GT24-B2932-E, GT24-B2912-E and GT28-B2935will also support next generation Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors.

“Since the release of the Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processor, TYAN’s products have realized the benefits of AMD’s industry-leading technology, to provide server infrastructures with energy efficiency, remarkable performance and superior virtualization capabilities,” said James Sytwu, GM of TYAN Business Unit of MiTAC International Corporation. “This is an exciting day for our customers, as they can now experience the exceptional processing performance that we expect from the new Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processor, all within the same thermal envelope and without dramatic upgrade requirements from prior generations of AMD Opteron™ processors”

“Tyan’s support for the new Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processor will help provide the server industry with leading white-box proficiency,” said John Fruehe, director, Server and Workstation division, AMD (NYSE:AMD). “With the significant core and cache enhancements, increased processor frequency and enhanced power management capabilities delivered by the enhanced Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processor, TYAN’S new server products will enable significant benefits for customers across many different industries.”

The TYAN S4992 is a 4-way high-end workstation server platform that will support HyperTransport™ 3.0 technology or 5.2 GT/s HyperTransport™ technology links between the four CPUs. The S4992 will have a total memory capacity of 256GB DDR2 800/667/533/400 ECC memory, (5) PCI Express Gen. 2 slots, (1) PCI-X 64-bit 133MHz slot, (2) GbE ports, and onboard iKVM features, providing extraordinary computing and networking performance.

TYAN’s current Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processor-ready platforms are widely available in the market. The TYAN S4992 motherboard is currently in customer sampling stage and is expected to be in mass production in Q1 of 2009. Please visit http://www.tyan.com/ for more details and information.

VVIKOO introduces GeForce 8800GT Graphics Card

November 01, 2007 ?VVIKOO, the innovative graphics card branding company, introduces the world’s first Nvidia PCI-E 2.0 graphics card ?Vvikoo GeForce 8800GT to the market. Vvikoo GeForce 8800GT is based on NVIDIA?GeForce?8800GT GPU and GDDR3 512MB memory, offering you the best display quality and the smoothest gaming speed!

Vvikoo GeForce 8800GT first uses PCI-E 2.0 bus whose bandwidth is up to 5Gbit/s and double size compared to the bandwidth of original PCI-E 1.1 (2.5Gbit/s). Also, it is compatible with traditional PCI-E 1.x. With the PCI-E 2.0 support, Vvikoo GeForce 8800GT is able to deliver the better image effect than ever, and the smooth gaming display under ultra-high resolution isn’t just a slogan.

Equipped with NVIDIA?GeForce?8800GT GPU, 112 stream processors, and GDDR3 512MB 256bits memory, Vvikoo GeForce 8800GT is the most exciting product of this year. It supports Nvidia PureVideo HD technology and Microsoft DirectX 10 with Shader 4.0, you will be amazed by the true-to-life image quality with all kinds of effects.

Seagate launches the GoFlex Cinema multimedia drive

Media players are hardly what wed call special these days and you can get some really cheap, if albeit basic models these days that will play pretty much any file format you throw at them. Seagate has been trying to get in to the media player for quite some time and so far the company has come up with some fairly uninspiring solutions, but its new GoFlex Cinema is a rather intriguing piece of hardware.

The GoFlex Cinema is one of the smallest media players in the market, well; it is as long as you dont take into account the size of the GoFlex hard drive which its attached to. The entire setup measures 223x120x44mm and that gives you a sizeable external hard drive available in 1TB, 2TB and 3TB sizes. Unlike Seagates previous attempts at media players the GoFlex Cinema relies on 3.5-inch hard drives rather than 2.5-inch drives. Beyond its media player features it can also be used for copying files directly from a digital camera without the need of a PC. A small remote control that doesnt look overly impressive is also supplied.

The actual media player is a small attachment that goes on what would normally have been the bottom end of a GoFlex hard drive and it sports a mini USB port for file transfers to/from a PC, a standard USB port to which cameras or other USB storage devices can be connected, an HDMI port, an optical S/PDIF out, a pair of RCA audio jacks and a composite video connector as well as a power connector. Theres both an upside and a downside to this. The upside is that the drive that comes with the GoFlex Cinema works with other GoFlex adapters from Seagate, so you can get a USB 3.0 dock to boost the speed when youre copying files from your PC. The downside is that the GoFlex Cinema isnt sold without a hard drive, so if you already own a GoFlex drive, youll have to get another one to get the GoFlex Cinema.

In terms of file support the GoFlex Cinema appears to have just about every format in all standard resolutions supported. Itll play back AVI (Xvid, MPEG 1/2/4, AVC, H.264), MPG/MPEG, VOB, ISO (DVD and Blu-ray), M2TS, MP4, MOV (AVC , H.264), MKV (MPEG 2/4, AVC, H.264), FLV and ASF (VC-1, WMV9) video files as well as MP3, WAV, AAC, MKA, FLAC, WMA, APE and OGG audio files, alternatively audio combined with the video. Theres also support for LPCM, WMA Pro, Dolby Digital and DTS audio, although only pass through for the multi-channel formats. Finally itll display JPEG (up to 20Megapixles), GIF, TIFF, BMP and PNG images and SRT, SSA, ASS and SAMI subtitles.

We cant say much about the UI as Seagate has only posted a single screenshot on its website and even that isnt very clear. Theres multi-language support, but as to which languages are supported seems to vary between the regions the unit is sold in and currently it seems to only be available in EMEA and the details on Seagates website is as such limited to that region. The 1TB model retails for €99 (S$175), with the 2TB model only being slightly more expensive at €129 (S$229) and finally the 3TB model at €179 (S$315). No word on when or if Seagate is planning on launching the GoFlex Cinema outside of Europe, but wed expect it to be available globally.

Source: Seagate