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CoolIT Domino i5 Testing

Back in July this year we tested the CoolIT watercooling kit using a heavily overclocked AMD 7750+ BE. It’s performance really surprised us with it absolutely caning the other coolers in question. However, processors have quickly moved on since July and we’ve got the likes of the Intel Core i7 and recent i5 dominating the market. For this reason, we thought some i5 testing using our trusty CoolIT Domino was in order. Let’s see if the performance from the Domino still survives in this day and age…

Seagate wins hard drive maker of the year… again

Although many analysts thought that Western Digital may have a chance of taking the crown for hard drive maker of the year during the fourth quarter of last year, once again Seagate has managed to fend off its competitors and hold the title.

Intel’s fastest dual-core, the 3.6GHz Core i5 680 coming soon

The new Clarkdale processor will operate at a speedy 3.6GHz, is built using a 32nm process and has a TDP of only 73W – considerably low given the high frequency. It boasts 256KB x2 of L2 cache and has a third level of 4MB cache.

NVIDIA Geforce GTX480 and 470 Prices Revealed

At last the prices for the NVIDIA Geforce GTX480 and GTX 470 have finally been confirmed and they will vary from country to country.The UK price for the GTX 480 is £429, £30 more than we predicted whilst the RRP for the GTX470 is £299.

NVIDIA Geforce GTX480 aims for £400

It’s not a shock that the highly anticipated Fermi chip won’t be cheap but it’s been revealed that it’s not going to be as expensive as we once might of thought.