Thursday News, May 26th 2011

With a combined total of 6 Billion transistors, 1024 CUDA cores and 3GB of DDR5 memory the latest NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 is simply put the fastest mGPU graphics card money can buy today.


AMD Fusion has been something that a lot of the staff at eTeknix have been raving on about, as it shows what the future is to hold in a very small form factor. We’ve already looked at two Fusion boards in the past which gave fantastic results and fit the market they are suited for very well. Today sees us look at another Fusion based board that seems simple yet effective design from Jetway. We’ve looked at server boards from Jetway in the past, mainly based around the Atom platform, and whilst the features don’t generally scream out,
they usually offer a no frills option to consumers who simply want the main features that the chipset offers with a quiet and low-powered operation. Does the NC85-E350-LF live up to this and how does it rival against the other Fusion boards that we’ve seen in the past?


This month we have seen the release of a handful of ultra fast Solid State Drives, and Kitguru has been on hand to review them in recent weeks. Today we are looking at the latest drive from market leader OCZ, the Agility 3 240GB. The Agility 3 has been released to compliment their recent Vertex 3 and Vertex 3 MAX IOPS drives, offering high performance but at a reduced price point.


Well known and respected memory manufacturer Patriot has released a new generation to their SSD lineup with the Torqx 2 128GB SSD front and center. The Patriot Torqx 2 128GB SSD follows the traditional
2.5″ form factor, but bucks tradition in many other ways going straight for the cutting edge while keeping pricing in the mainstream. 128GB is often considered the price/size sweet spot for SSD drives, allowing
ample room for OS and applications which will take advantage of the speed of the drive.


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