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GeForce GTX 285 has hit the store shelves in Hong Kong. This will come as quite a surprise to many, as Gigabyte's first GeForce GTX 285 card has hit the retail market as of January 2nd, at least in Hong Kong. The pricing from two separate shops are HK$3399 and HK$3200, which roughly equates to €296 and €314, or $439 USD and $412 USD. We have a dedicated thread on all things GTX295 and GTX285 here
Nvidia has also released the GeForce 185.20 beta drivers for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 build 7000. It has only been a few hours since XFastest have released the new GeForce 185.20 beta drivers, including a new release of Nvidia's PhysX engine 8.11.18. Yet what's particularly noteworthy is that these new drivers contain an Ambient Occlusion setting that can be set to Low, Medium, High and Off.
Discuss the drivers here
G.Skill International Co. Ltd has unveiled their new Perfect Storm series of triple channel DDR3 2000HMz CL7-8-7 performance memory. The “Perfect Storm” series is new from G.SKILL and is equipped with a powerful air-cooling fan to provide outstanding temperature performance, creating the ultimate G.SKILL product that infuses incredible reliability, stability, and extreme performance for all enthusiasts.
Anandtech is looking at a new Intel X58 motherboard from Foxconn called; Blood Rage. Much of the initial crowd "pop" reaction to Foxconn's Blood Rage is related to pictures of the motherboard that have been on the forum based cha-cha-cha circuit for several months now. We'll be the first to tell you, good looks do not necessarily make a great motherboard. But we have to admit, a passing glance at the Blood Rage is compelling enough to create the desire of at least taking a deeper look into what makes this thing tick.
Another news post and another LG announcement. At this rate LG won't have anything new left to announce at CES2009 next week, lol. But anyway, LG will officially demo worlds thinnest LED-backlit LH95 LCD TV. The TV is supposedly only 24.8mm (.98 inches) thick, which would indeed give LG the coveted title. Of course, style over substance is something to be booed when it comes to expensive HDTVs, but the LH95 does not disappoint. With a 4ms response time, 240 Hz Trumotion panel and a staggering 2,000,000:1 contrast ratio, the thinnest set on the block will be easy on the eyes in more ways than one.
Already having the highest capacity hard drive on the market, Seagate has plans to release a new 2TB hard drive. Kicking off a new series of drives, the Barracuda 7200.12 500GB HDD is codenamed ST3500410AS and features a 16MB buffer with 3.0 Gbps SATA interface. Its singular platter not only makes it more economical/cheaper to manufacture, but technically it should run with lower access times as well. But the particularly exciting thing about this drive is that it shouldn't be too long now before we see mention from the company about a quad platter version coming; equating to a whopping 2TB capacity.
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