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Rumor: Nvidia Working on Dual GT300 Videocard to Replace GTX 295
You can finally find Nvidia’s dual-GPU GTX 295 videocards in stock at pretty much any e-tailer who carries the part, but if you’ve waited this long, you might want to consider holding out a few more months. According to the latest rumblings, Nvidia plans to replace the flagship part with a dual GT300 card.
Intel Core i5 and New Core i7 Chips Spotted in Retail Channels
While you sit around and wait about another month for Intel’s launch of Core i5 and new socket 1156-based Core i7 processors, PC builders living in China and Taiwan can already purchase the new parts, says news and rumor site DigiTimes.
AMD Ups the Ante in New 785G Graphics Chipset
We don’t often get excited over integrated graphics chipsets, but as far as that segment goes, AMD’s new 785G chipset looks awfully enticing, at least on paper.
TDK Looks to Deliver 2.5TB Drives By Early 2010
It’s been a long time since TDK had bragging rights in the storage wars, but a new breakthrough promises to put them back on top. According to the companies recently released roadmap, a 3.5 inch 2.5TB drive design is currently being tested which will feature a new 640GB platter. This would allow TDK to leapfrog Seagate, Hitachi and even Western Digital who are still working with 500GB platters.
Hitachi Unveils World’s First 2TB 7200RPM Hard Drive
Hitachi can’t lay claim as the first manufacturer to develop a 2TB hard drive — that distinction belongs to Western Digital — but it is the first one to do so with a 7200RPM spindle speed, besting the spindle speeds found on 2TB drives from both WD and Seagate.
BFG Announces Self-Contained, Liquid-Cooled GeForce GTX 285 and GTX 295 Graphics Cards
Setting up and maintaining a liquid-cooling setup isn’t for everyone, and it’s this crowd BFG is targeting with a pair of maintenance-free, self-contained liquid-cooled GeForce graphics cards, the GTX 285 H2O+ and the GTX 295 H2OC.
Intel’s Core i9 “Gulftown” Six-Core Processor Pictured
Getting bored with Core i7 already? That’s okay, because word on the web is that Intel plans to release its six-core Gulftown processor sometime in the first half of 2010, and possibly by Q1.
