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Seagate just announced the newest product of the Seagate Barracuba 7200.11 product line, Barracuda 7200.11 with 1.5TB capacity. This product marks the largest capacity limit of the hard drive world.

This drive is composed with 4 disks with a single capacity of 375GB. It also has 32MB cache, and max transfer rate of 120MB/s.

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Rising Antivirus, simply the best anti-virus software in China, makes their first move toward international stage as they allow international users to use Rising Antivirus 2008 free of any charge.

Risin Antivirus is known for little resource use and fast virus detection and scan. The free version provides exactly the same functionalities and services as the commericial version.

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The detailed specs of GTX200 Series are released by donanimhaber.com.

Notables:
- GDDR4 is not mentioned but mostly likely will be added by third-party manufactures.
- NVidia added PyxsX physical acceleration support to both GTX 280 and GTX 260 after acquiring Ageia
- NVidia claims that the 2nd gen. Unified Architecture can boost gaming performance by a max of 50%
- MS DirectX 10.1 support is not mentioned.

GeForce GTX 280:
- 512-Bit
- 1GB GDDR3
- 240 Stream Processors
- PhysX Ready
- CUDA Technology
- Pure Video HD technology
- Full MS DirectX 10 Support
- OpenGL 2.1, SLI, PCIe 2.0 Support
- 2nd gen. Unified architecture deliver 50% more gaming performance over 1st generation through 240 sp.

GeForce GTX 260:
- 448-Bit
- 896MB GDDR3
- 192 Stream Processors
- PhysX Ready
- CUDA Technology
- Pure Video HD technology
- Full MS DirectX 10 Support
- OpenGL 2.1, SLI, PCIe 2.0 Support
- 2nd gen. Unified architecture deliver 50% more gaming performance over 1st generation through 240 sp.

To install this plug-in,
1) copy psicon.dll to SystemDrive:\Windows\System32
2) import ps_cs.reg by double click the file then comfirm.

To see the thumbnails, right click then select view then thumbnails.

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After Patching:

All-RoundPC.com

CPU-Z 1.44 Change Log:

• Preliminary support for VIA Isaiah processor.
• Support for all VIA Model D processors: VIA C7-M, VIA C7-D, VIA Eden, VIA Eden.
• Memory timings on Intel 5400A/B MCH (Skulltrail).
• Fix AMD Phenom detection issue on Windows Vista 64.

Exe file properties

• MD5 : 2A86BB1C55F6B99FBA96240572A2EDBA

The Chinese laptop manufacturer Hasee recently released it’s Eee PC killer, Hasee Q540X. This laptop is only available in China, and it shows better sales performance in the Chinese market.

Q540X is priced at 2699 Chinese Yuan, or $359 U.S. which is cheaper than the 4GB Asus Eee PC. The spec of Q540X is also whole lot better than Eee PC. Q54X feathers Intel Celeron M 540 processor(1.86Ghz), 512MB of DDR2 RAM, 80GB SATA HDD, 13.3 Inch Glare WXGA LCD, and Windows XP Home Edition. Q540X also provides 4 USB 2.0 ports, S-Video port, IEEE1394 port, and Express Card Reader. Compare to Eee PC’s Spec and price, Hasee Q540X is definitely a better deal. But the concern is Hasee’s product quality, and costumer service. It is your choice to choose between Eee PC and Q54X.

The MacBook Air, Lenovo ThinkPad X300 is now availabel for pre-order on Buy.com. It is priced at $2725.68 and it feathers 13.3 LED display, 64GB Solid State Disk, Intel Core 2 Duo SL7100 processor, and 4 gigs of ram.

Read the news on gizmodo.com .