MSI Computer Corp., today announced that it has stopped shipments in North America of Sandy Bridge products following Intel’s announcement of a design issue in the recently released Intel® 6 Series chipset. The company is quickly responding to this issue by working with retailers, distributors and channel partners to stop all shipments, MSI is also [...]

GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY has received an official announcement from Intel indicating the Intel 6-Series chipset design error and has implemented a silicon fix. Please see this link for more information: http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/sb/CS-032263.htm As the No.1 motherboard manufacturer, GIGABYTE will make its best effort to recall boards that were built on the mentioned chipsets from our distributors with minimum disruptions. [...]

Intel on January 31, 2011 announced the detection of a design error in the new Sandy Bridge-based Intel 6 Series support chip, also known as Cougar Point. The shipment of existing Sandy Bridge products has been suspended by Intel , and the production of an updated support chip has commenced. The design error affects only [...]

ZOTAC  International, a leading innovator and the world’s largest channel manufacturer of graphics cards, motherboards and mini-PCs, today introduces a new graphics card for mainstream users seeking a performance kick – the new ZOTAC  GeForce  GT 440 series graphics cards with 512MB and 1GB DDR5 memory. Powered by the high-performance NVIDIA  Fermi architecture, the ZOTAC  GeForce [...]

OCZ Technology Group, Inc., announces the latest Z-Drive R3 PCI-Express SSD solution for enterprise and OEM clients. Showcased for the first time at CES 2011, the Z-Drive R3 updates the existing lineup with greater performance, reliability, and design flexibility with a new compact footprint for server applications, and is the first SSD to officially deploy [...]

Cooler Master Announces Elite 371 Value Gaming Case The two words budget and case rarely come true when put together, but Cooler Master has mastered this by designing affordable chassis without compromising on quality. The new Elite 371 builds upon Cooler Master expertise and delivers high-end features in the affordable market space. Cooler Master believes [...]

MSI today officially announces the first mainboard Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) powered platform, the MSI E350IA-E45. Powered by an E350 APU with 1.6 GHz dual-core CPU and DirectX 11 Radeon HD6310 graphics, the E350IA-E45 offers all the features you could expect in the ultimate Home Entertainment Platform: excellent Thermal Design and stability thanks to Japanese [...]

The PCS++ HD6950 allows unlocking of shaders allowing extra performance TUL Corporation, the parent company of PowerColor, is announcing a dual mode setting design in the HD6950 series: the PowerColor PCS++ HD6950. The PowerColor PCS++ HD6950 features a dual BIOS setting, allowing a bump in performance with factory overclocking to at 880MHz core speed and [...]

Fractal Design, has kicked off the launch of the Fractal brand and products in the United States at CES 2011.  This Swedish based company has won multiple awards for its brilliantly designed premium cases for desktop PCs. For more details on Fractals upcoming case series, you can see the Hardware Canucks CES 2011 coverage. Fractal [...]

Let’s play a little game of spot the differences. Antec has announced this morning its V2 version of the Antec Six Hundred case, which for those keeping score at home, makes four cases that have received “updates” and of course new prices so far this year. Press Release: In its 25th anniversary year, Antec, Inc., [...]