Special designed gaming gear is the new cool in computer accessories, from laser mouses to specially designed keyboards the new trend is turning into an industry and manufacturers are trying to attract the professional gamers for advertising purposes. This is the situation for the Fatal1ty line of computer accessories from Creative. If you don’t already know, Fatal1ty is one of the most renowned gamers in the whole world as it has won an impressive amount of prizes (and money) by competing in a wide variety of games.

However, even if I agree that special keyboards and mouses help, I don’t think gamers have a really big advantage from using the new headset. Yes the sound quality is better, and there is a microphone for team communications, but sound is not as important as speed and regular headsets provide fine enough sound quality.

However if you are interested in finding out more details about the device be sure to check the product’s webpage at Creative.

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Probably everybody knows by now that Commodore, one of the pioneering companies in computing is relaunching its brand
and will present its hardware to customers. I wanted to talk to you on one of its next products, the Commodore xx line of high power computers and I will present you the advertised specifications.

As they are based on the latest Intel Quad core processors (basically 4 CPUsCPUs on the same die) the new computers have under the hood the maximum available computing power for desktops. After the CPU, probably the second most important component is the RAM, and the Commodore xx reaches 4 GB off DDR2 using two modules (2 GB each) of CorsDominator Dominator 2xTwin2×2048-8500C5D modules running at 1066 MHz.

For the best video quality two NVIDIA 8800 GTX graphic cards with 768 MB of dedicated memory are linked together using SLI and extreme audio quality is delivered using the SoundBlasterSoundBlasterXtremeFi X-Fi Xtremed writing optic disks.

The new products are expected to ship starting this April and according to Commodore’s website the specifications are customizable so prices aren’t yet specified but they will certainly won’t be cheap.

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It’ s a pretty well known fact that when it comes to processors you want them kept as cool as possible. But with the increase in computing power, the power consumption and therefore the dissipated heat are becoming a real challenge for cooler manufacturers.

Last week Asus has presented one of its solutions to this problem with the Arctic Square cooler. Designed to remove the heat out of even the newest quad core processors (4 cores on the same die), the new model has the base and fins made out of copper (better, but pricier than aluminum). The heat transfer from the warm bottom to the cooler top is boosted with a 4 heat pipes system. For effective air flow control Asus used a 90 mm blue led fan which makes both the processor and the looks cool.

[For more details visit Asus]

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Last week Intel announced its own SSD (solid state drive) based on NAND flash memory with the Intel Z-U130 Value Solid-State Drive family to compete with similar products. As the cost for NAND memory is rapidly going down the future belongs to this kind of hard drives as they offer both higher data speeds with considerably lower power requirements.

Intel’s product will deliver read speeds of 28 MB/s (megabytes per second) and write speeds of 20 MB/s leading to better performance due to lower access time for files on the hard drive. Another advantage Intel Z-U130 has over the competition is the MTBF (mean time between failure), meaning the average time a hard drive will end working which is supposed to be around 5 million hours.

Available in 4 flavors (1 GB, 2 GB, 4 GB and 8 GB) the Intel Z-U130 has no release date yet and no price has been communicated by Intel either.

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AsusAsus just launched a new series of sexy slim computer chassis to complete its previous products available on the market.

If several years ago the only thing you would search in a computer chassis was good looks. Times have changed as the power consumption has grown for bCPU’sCPU’sGPU’sGPU’sf the chassis.

Based on the mATX design, the slim (140 x 360 x 410 mm) TS-8 includes drives for two optical drives, a 3.5″ drive, two hard drives and four expansion cards. All the products in the line feature a 250W power supply, two front USB ports and two front audio connecmATX each.

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