Corsair launches the Graphite 600T case at Computex

Alongside new power supplies, CPU coolers and AirFlow Pro

SINCE LAST COMPUTEX, Corsair has become a much more serious player in the case market and its latest addition, the Graphite series 600T, should really give the established players a good run for their money. Also on show was a new range of power supplies, some new CPU coolers and Corsair’s new AirFlow Pro memory cooling solution with activity LEDs.
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Asus shows off new mini-ITX boards at Computex

Atom, ION and AMD

MINI-ITX IS WITHOUT a doubt a hugely popular form factor these days and we spotted three new boards at the Asus booth. Two of them have an Atom processor, one uses ION 2 for graphics and the third is based on AMD’s 880G chipset. All have some rather unique features and selling points, depending on your needs.
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Hydra and onboard GPU get married by Asus

Paired up with X58 to create a unique R.O.G. board

COMPUTEX IS ALWAYS full of surprises, but Asus’s new Immensity motherboard which is part of its R.O.G. series of boards is something that we didn’t expect to see. It’s based on Intel’s X58 chipset and has all the usual trimmings you’d expect on such a board, with two unusual additions – Lucid’s Hydra and an onboard ATI GPU with dedicated graphics memory.
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Nvidia announces nothing at Computex

Hopes you won’t notice

USUALLY AT COMPUTEX companies hold a press release to announce new products. This year Nvidia did announce a lot of things, but we couldn’t quite figure out what was new and none of what was announced appeared to be Nvidia products, although the announcements did somehow seem to involve Nvidia and its products.
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SemiAccurate’s AMD’s Magny-Cours contest video

Blatant and rampant favoritism abounds

EVERY ONCE IN a while comes a magical moment when a lot of disparate things collide in the presence of a video camera. That, and a shocking lack of alcohol, lead to the first SemiAccurate video, an entry in AMD’s “What Would You Do With 48 Cores?” contest.
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First pictures of Gigabyte’s M1125 convertible notebook

Launches in August

ALTHOUGH COMPUTEX DOESN’T start officially until tomorrow, we ran past Gigabyte’s booth to get some more details on the convertible M1125 notebook. It will launch with Core i5 UM processors, although we don’t know which CPU model it’ll have, as the M1125 isn’t set to launch until August.
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How Nvidia blacklists sites like Hardware Secrets

Unethical behaviors to control the media

IT LOOKS LIKE the cracks are starting to spread at Nvidia PR, Hardware Secrets just joined the list of those honest enough to get banned by the company. The real question is how does Nvidia PR decide to blacklist a company? Since you asked, we dug up their internal memos on such things.
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Gigabyte to launch 11.6-inch notebook at Computex

Convertible tablet with Core i processor

THE DAYS BEFORE Computex don’t tend to be as hectic as they’ve been this year, but it might have to do something with the local companies wanting as much attention as possible ahead of the show, as the past year hasn’t exactly been great for most of them. Gigabyte’s notebook division has unveiled a few details on its new 11.6-inch convertible notebook that will be launched at the show, alongside the first picture of the M1125.
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Acer announces new Revo line-up

Doesn’t divulge too many details

THE ORIGINAL ACER Revo was and might possibly still be the best selling ION nettop to date. Now it looks like Acer is getting ready to revamp its Revo product line and it looks like we’ll be seeing quite a lot of new additions that aren’t strictly PC’s as well. Acer has revealed some details about its new products at an event in Beijing, China today, although we’d expect that the nitty-gritty details will be divulged at Computex next week.
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