The amount of dual-band products (you know, those that support both 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands) is slowly growing, but already a pair of companies are thinking about the next big thing: tri-band. Atheros and Wilocity have both been eying that 60GHz stuff that the WiGig Alliance is pushing around these days, and now they’re announcing a collaboration to “build tri-band wireless solutions that combine the ubiquity and coverage of WiFi with the multi-gigabit performance of the Wireless Gigabit Alliance’s 60GHz technology.” The new gear would enable all sorts of backwards compatibility, and while there aren’t too many details being shared just yet on exactly what kind of kit is in the pipeline, we do know of one particular tidbit.
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Atheros and Wilocity embrace ‘tri-band’ wireless wares, 60GHz wireless PCIe
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We know, you’re probably scoffing at those mortals still using “fans” to “cool their gaming rigs,” but unless you’ve thrown down the cheddar on a swank liquid cooling solution, you’ll probably find yourself at least mildly interested here. NZXT has taken a break from the mice and keyboard routine to break out a rather unique piece of kit in the Sentry LXE
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NZXT’s Sentry LXE touchscreen fan controller turns you into Storm, minus the cheese
It seems like we’ve been talking about external graphics cards forever , but how many do you recall that look quite as raw and ready as this? The Graphics Upgrade Solution, set for a full unveiling at Computex , is MSI’s latest answer to the eternal problem that is gaming on the move
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MSI Graphics Upgrade Solution seeks an ExpressCard slot to call home
Hoping Intel’s 32nm Sandy Bridge CPUs will unify your computing world next year? Bit-tech reports they may also drain your pocketbook.
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Intel’s 2011 CPUs require new motherboards, start saving those pennies now?
While Fusion-io’s PCI-Express SSDs garner glowing reviews and deplete wallets accordingly, OCZ hasn’t been so lucky — even as its similar Z-Drive boasted seriously speedy sequential transfer speeds that made it desirable for video editing and the like, it was tested and found wanting in consumer applications. This time, OCZ is playing to its strengths and marketing its next batch of Z-Drives directly to the professional market. Boasting banks filled with hot-swappable NAND modules, OCZ claims the Z-Drive R2 can be serviced and upgraded in the field — and with two full tiers of flash memory woven together in a 2TB, eight-way RAID 0 configuration on their premium Z-Drive p88 model, the company claims you’ll see 1.4GB/s (yes, that’s gigabytes per second) read and write speeds
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OCZ’s Z-Drive gets swappable NAND sticks, ludicrous speed in second incarnation
Like it or not (and honestly, why would you not ?), USB 3.0 is upon us, and we’re guessing it’s just a matter of time before every single USB peripheral in the entire world is equipped with SuperSpeed support. Exaggerations aside, there’s still a good chance that you’ll snap up an item or two over the course of your life that could benefit from hastier transfer rates, and that’s where Green House comes in
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Green House delivers USB 3.0-friendly PCI Express interface card
Seagate didn’t bother serving up a gaggle of new wares at CES this year, but judging by its release shot out today, it’s hoping to make a serious splash in the SSD market a bit later on.
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Seagate teams with LSI to enter PCIe-based SSD game
Matrox has been distancing itself from the consumer market for awhile now , but even we couldn’t resist this one.
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Specializing in PCI Express-mounted flash storage, Fusion-io has managed to not only survive in these tough economic times, but garner additional investments from some clearly impressed onlookers. Loathe to be left out of the loop, Samsung — the world’s biggest NAND flash manufacturer and also Fusion-io’s chief supplier — has thrown some cash at the young startup company, and declared that the pair are now officially dating.
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Samsung invests in Fusion-io, takes relationship to ‘a new level’
Man, talk about a letdown. It’s hard to put into mere words just how excited we were about the OCZ Z-Drive when we saw an early prototype shell way back at CeBIT, and now that it’s shipping out to affluent users, we’ve got a remarkably thorough review explaining that it’s probably not the dream device we were all hoping for
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OCZ’s Z-Drive PCI-Express SSD gets exhaustively reviewed
