Last year’s champions returns to win MSI MOA for the second time

Elmor and ME4ME take home the victory for Sweden

THIS WEEKEND MSI’S MOA or Master Overclocking Arena finals took place in Taipei, Taiwan with 20 teams from around the world competing against each other in what wasn’t exactly what we’d call an intense competition, but it turned out to be a fight to the end. MSI gambled and made a last minute change to the gear used by adding its N480GTX Lighting graphics card into the mix which threw a spanner in the wheel for most of the teams.
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Nvidia’s GeForce GTS 450 gets official

Partners unleashes an onslaught of new cards

NVIDIA HAS UNVEILED its latest addition to its 400-series of graphics cards with today’s introduction of the GeForce GTS 450, a card that’s set to be a direct replacement of the GTS 250. Every single Nvidia partner – including a few we weren’t even aware of – have announced cards today and just about all of them have launched both stock cards as well as overclocked versions for a an extra price premium.
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One more AMD graphics card leaks

Barts XT this time around

IT SEEMS LIKE AMD is a leaking ship when it comes to its upcoming Northern Islands graphics cards and with pictures of two models already leaked, what difference is a third one going to make? Well, not too much, although this upper mid-range card does look quite different compared to the Radeon HD 5700-series as it seems to have more in common with the Radeon HD 5800-series, at least design wise.
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HP launches affordable tiny server

For the SoHo market

IN THE SOHO market the NAS has pretty much replaced the server, but it seems like HP has decided to re-introduce the server to smaller offices around the world. The ProLiant MicroServer offers a range of benefits over a NAS and remains cost competitive in comparison to a higher-end NAS solution with  Atom processors. The MicroServer is powered by an embedded dual core AMD Athlon Neo II N36L which should offer even the fastest NAS boxes a serious run for their money.
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ARM announced Cortex-A15 family

Over 5x the performance of current ARM processors

STILL WAITING FOR Cortex-A9 ARM based smartphones to arrive? Well, we’ve got bad news for you, ARM has announced its next generation of ARM based cores, namely the Cortex-A15 family and the company is expecting five times the performance increase compared to its current crop of Cortex cores. However, we suggest that you go out and spend your cash on whatever tickles your fancy now, as the Cortex-A15 core won’t turn up in products until 2012 at the earliest, which might be a bit too long to wait if you’ve been thinking about upgrading your handset.
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Super Talent launches four new USB 3.0 flash drives

Faster than fast

USB 3.0 FLASH DRIVES have been slow to appear in the market, with only a handful or so to have hit retail so far. Super Talent is one of the companies that have been at the forefront of pocket friendly USB 3.0 flash drives and its latest additions are set to stir things up. Much like hard drives and SSDs having a cache, Super Talent has added 32MB of DRAM as a cache on its new Express RAM Cache series of USB 3.0 flash drives.
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