“80Plus gold” power supplies are announced for some time from numerous manufacturers, managed on the market, it has so far however, no single model. At Computex 2009 in Taipei we tried the reasons for this closer to explore. Because to Computex, for example, cooler master has a “80Plus gold” certified PSU presented and exhibited, the UCP900. This achieves an efficiency of 87.5 percent with 20 percent last, 90,05...

The global semiconductor market to nearly 31 per cent, or $ 70.7 billion has grown over the past year. This is the result, the market research company Gartner comes in his recent study. This, in particular the producers of DRAM and NAND Flash chips due to the high demand could rise. Still, Intel took first place but with clear ahead of Samsung. The American company was able to increase its income in comparison with the previous year by more...

Microsoft will offer the Media Player 8 for the new operating system Windows XP. He will no longer work under Windows 95, 98, me or 2000. If you so wish to take advantage of the latest streaming technology, one is forced to upgrade to Windows XP from Microsoft. The software giant justified this step that some features of Media Player 8 only with Windows XP are to accomplish. This is for example the CD burning and DVD playback. Why these...

In 2009 without doubt this should be so far strongest for the State drives solid. The products are always high-quality, capacity increase steadily. To do this, even the price, at the same time increasing availability falls appropriately. The Foundation for the success of the SSDs is laid. In 2008 still dominated by small models was marked, revealed at the end of the year, which is different. The “vaporware” came really slowly in...

Although these days any modern PC with AGP or PCI Express interface is equipped and at times even an integrated graphics solution from ATi, nVidia or Intel can access, let it not take PNY, to present a graphics card of the underperforming GeForce 6200 series specifically for the endangered PCI bus. The graphics card is equipped with 256 MB of memory, which is probably connected with a 64-bit wide – extremely weak when compared to...