SATADIMM SSD - data transfer speed increased up to 520 MB/sec

Last summer, specialists from Viking Modular Solutions - a unit of Sanmina-SCI Corporation, presented SSD SATADIMM. SATADIMM modules have SATA 3 Gbps interface and look like standard DIMM modules.

In beginning of the second quarter of this year, the company has announced the second generation SATADIMM. Structurally, the data storage devices are like DDR3memory modules with height of 25 mm and 18.75 mm (VLP). However they feature new SATA 6 Gbps and SAS interfaces for even faster data transmission rates.

New drives demonstrate performance of 60,000 IOPS on random access read/write operations. Data transfer rate is up to 520 MB / sec. For comparison - first generation SATADIMM had speed of 260 MB/sec.

Manufacturer position their knowhow solution for blade-servers, rack servers sizes 1U, storage subsystems and boards AdvancedTCA (ATCA).

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Gigabyte X58A-OC - first mainboard aimed at overclockers

This week, Gigabyte has officially unveiled the motherboard X58A-OC, details of which appeared in late February. 

According to the manufacturer, X58A-OC - «The world's first motherboard designed from the beginning for extreme overclockers. Gigabyte say that their performance in this area marked "a new category of mainboards for enthusiasts".

In the advantages of the product size ATX producer writes a choice of switching BUS frequency in power system, the presence of buttons associated with the acceleration, and SATA, which is fed with extra power, which improves the stability of multi-GPU subsystems. In addition, the board has two BIOS chips, the choice between which can be made via hardware switch. According to developers, some of the ideas, to create a new board were drawn from discussions at the thematic forums. 

Of course, there were used some traditional methods of increasing stability, used in products that provide acceleration. These, in particular, are polymer capacitors and inductors with ferrite cores. 

Gigabyte X58A-OC is based on Intel X58 chipset (Tylersburg) and is equipped with a processor socket LGA 1366, in which you can set the fastest Intel processors, including the flagship Core i7 990X Extreme Edition. It should be noted that it supports triple-channel DDR3 memory and graphics settings 4-Way CrossFireX and 3-Way SLI.

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CyberPower and iBuyPower include AMD Radeon HD 6990 3D-cards in configuration of gaming PCs

AMD has just introduced a graphics accelerator - AMD Radeon HD 6990, which bears the title of the fastest game 3D-cards of the world as producers of PCgaming today announced that the new product is available in their products. 
CyberPower company added a dual-processor accelerator in a model series Gamer Dragon, Ultra, and Fang EVO.

It is also possible to have two HD 6990 beasts in your PC working in SLI. In case you have opted for two video cards, you get a graphics subsystem with 6144 stream processors and 8 GB of GDDR5 memory.

The most affordable gaming system with CyberPower Radeon HD 6990 is priced at $ 1399. Of course, with the addition of other high-performance components of the price increases rapidly. 

iBuyPower - the other provider of gaming PCs is not far behind. It also offers a model with one or two cards, graphics processors that operate at frequencies of 830 MHz (880 MHz, with the inclusion of an alternative version of BIOS). Effective clock frequency of GDDR5 memory is 5000 MHz.

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Copy & paste with grace and haste

I have forever had trouble with keyboards featuring additional “hard” buttons for speeding up regular software command usage optimization. This can well be just me, but I used to put my computer into sleep every once in a while when I wanted to reach out for the “Esc” because the “Sleep” button was at the top left corner – just where I tend to look for the “Esc”. And I also regularly changed webpage scale instead of changing the volume. This is if I was lucky to be at a webpage. Other unwanted results could vary depending on each particular program which appeared to be active. I do like this one however. It is just an animation, barely a concept, but how hard can it be to make a cool almost army-like rocker on a keyboard to ease up very often used copy and paste hotkey combination?

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