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PowerColor HD 7850 1GB SCS3 passive is official
PowerColor had already tease their card on Facebook, and now come the time to formalize the first passive HD 7850 on the market: the HD 7850 SCS3.
In terms of features it is important not to expect a factory or other overclocking. We are dealing with a Pitcairn Pro GPU of 1024SP clocked at 850MHz and accompanied by 1GB of GDDR5 1200MHz over 256-bit bus. It is cooled by an imposing radiator with 6 heat pipes of 6mm in diameter, but that is not the only reason for the success of the passive HD 7850. PowerColor also relies on the use of the “Gold Power Kit”, a name that the company gave to the use of high quality components to reduce energy losses and therefore the heat to be...
STEIGER DYNAMICS Leet: stand alone HTPC case
For enthusiasts DIY users, the LEET has come, the “world’s first HTPC chassis optimized for liquid cooling”. It Includes everything you need to have an experience in terms of visual quality with low noise level. It is worth mentioning that this case is handmade and also a great design, perfect for a HTPC.
Here is the press release:
STEIGER DYNAMICS Offers Stand Alone LEET™ Custom Full Aluminum Gaming Home Theater PC Chassis
May 7, 2013 - LOS ANGELES, Calif. – STEIGER DYNAMICS announced that it released to the DIY PC builder market its custom hand-brushed full aluminum LEET™ chassis. The chassis is available for sale in both black and silver on the STEIGER...
Colorful i-Z77EX V20: an affordable ITX motherboard
With this small Mini-ITX motherboard, the i-Z77EX V20, Colorful offers a very affordable Z77 model: 599 yuans only, less than $100. And despite its price, the board is very complete, with, hopefully, a minimum of possible overclocking.
Thus, the board welcomes a PCI-E 3.0 16x port, two slots for memory of 1600MHz (2133MHz in oc), a Mini PCI-E, two SATA 6Gbps ports and two others 3Gpbs and a SuperSpeed header. Finally, only the four-pin CPU connector is available, but the board is derived from the B75 model, we can understand.
At the rear, the connectivity includes two GB Ethernet ports, two USB 3.0 ports, an HDMI, VGA and DVI outputs, two USB 2.0 ports, and the sound through five 3.5...
Six Z77 mini-ITX motherboards reviewed
For a long time the mini-ITX form factor has been confined to small and low-energy configurations, especially in its early stages, such as nettops and mini-servers. But the situation has gradually changed with the LGA775, and then the LGA1156, and two years latter the LGA1155. With the advent of more compact and capable hardware, motherboard manufacturers wanted to lean on to produce more interesting...
RAIDR Express, the PCI-E SSD by ASUS
Briefly introduced at CES, the ASUS RAIDR EXPRESS unfolds a little more on SweClockers. This new PCI-Express SSD takes the form of a PCI-Express card x2 Gen2 (or 1 GB/s in each direction) that integrates a PCI-Express to SATA bridge, two SandForce SF-2281 controller and a Toshiba NAND MLC 19nm.
At first, the 120 and 240 GB versions will be launched, with the performance to 765/775 MB/s...
Gigabyte GA-Z87N-WiFi: a Mini ITX motherboard for Intel Haswell CPU
At IDF, Beijing, Gigabyte has introduced one of its upcoming motherboards: the GA-Z87N WiFi. Observing its reference, some of you have already guessed that it will be compatible with future Intel Haswell processors. This model pulls out of the game being in Mini ITX and offering integrated Wi-Fi module.
During IDF Beijing, Gigabyte has exposed its GA-Z87N-WiFi motherboard which is added to those...
PowerColor prepares a passive Radeon HD 7850
It sounds a little crazy at first, and yet … Power Color seems determined to propose in the near future a totally passive version of the HD 7850 and with standard base frequency of 800 MHz for the GPU and 4800 MHz for the memory: The PowerColor HD7850 SCS3.
The solution passes through no less than 8 heatpipes and aluminum fins. The radiator does not exceed the impressions of the PCB, at least...
Giada N70E-DR: A complete Mini ITX motherboard for NAS
Giada has announced a new small Mini ITX motherboard that might interest those who want to create a home NAS. The N70E-DR, as it is called, offers a Celeron 1007U Dual-Core, which runs at 1.5 GHz and embeds 2 MB L3 and a GMA HD. Besides that, it can host up to 16GB DDR3, and especially a multitude of SATA ports, two SATA III and four SATA II, all featuring RAID 0, 1, 5, 10.
Two Ethernet ports from...
