<p><span class="content"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small">At this year&rsquo;s Consumer Electronics Show, NVIDIA had several things going on. In a public press conference they announced 3D Vision Surround and Tegra 2, while on the showfloor they had products o&rsquo;plenty, including a GF100 setup showcasing 3D Vision Surround.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small">But if you&rsquo;re here, then what you&rsquo;re most interested is in what wasn&rsquo;t talked about in public, and that was GF100. With the Fermi-based GF100 GPU finally in full production, NVIDIA was ready to talk to the press about the rest of GF100, and at the tail-end of CES we got our first look at GF100&rsquo;s gaming abilities, along with a hands-on look at some unknown GF100 products in action. The message NVIDIA was trying to send: GF100 is going to be here soon, and it&rsquo;s going to be fast.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small">With that said, while NVIDIA is showing of GF100, they aren&rsquo;t showing off the final products. As such we can talk about the GPU, but we don&rsquo;t know anything about the final cards. All of that will be announced at a later time &ndash; and no, we don&rsquo;t know <em>that</em> either.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3721">Read more...</a></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: small;">Today we are going to talk about five mini-ITX system cases from Cooler Master, Foxconn, InWin, Silverstone and SuperPower. How easy is it to put together a simple computer system inside them? And what about something more powerful? Will the enclosed power supplies be powerful enough for that challenge?</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/other/display/mini-itx-cases-roundup.html">Read more...</a><br /> </span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: small">It looks like we have just got another proof of the world progress theory. First we discussed 2 TB hard drives with 5,400 RPM spindle rotation speed. And today we are going to look at six solutions with faster rotating platters from Hitachi, Seagate and Western Digital.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small"><a href="http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storage/display/2tb-7200rpm.html">Read more...</a></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: small">After a holiday break, AMD&rsquo;s staggered launch of the Evergreen family picks back up today with the launch of the Radeon HD 5670. The 5670 marks the desktop launch of Redwood, the 3^rd chip in the Evergreen family, designed to fit in below the Juniper chip that powers the Radeon HD 5700 series.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small"><a href="http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3720">Read more...</a></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="content">Late last year NVIDIA launched the 2^nd of their 40nm parts, the GT 240. Based upon the GT215 core, the GT 240 is functionally a derivative of the low-end GT 220. Compared to the GT 220 it packs twice as many shader units, twice as many texture units, and support for GDDR5, making it a good deal faster than the GT 220. As a GT 220 derivative, this also means it comes with DirectX 10.1 support and &nbsp;the VP4 video decode engine. </span></span><span class="content"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;">NVIDIA&rsquo;s latest efforts at lowering idle power usage can be seen here, with a 9W idle power usage (only 2W more than the GT 220) while load power is specified as 70W &ndash; 70W likely being chosen to avoid the need for a PCIe power connector. The transistor cost of these extra functional units means that the GT 240 comes in at an estimated 727M transistors, occupying a die area we measure at 144mm2.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;">Unfortunately, not everything got the same boost as compared to the GT 220. Specifically the number of ROPs remains the same at 8, and worse yet the core clock speed is only 550MHz on the GT 240, versus 625MHz (or more) on the GT 220. So not only did the GT 240 not get more rasterizing power to go with its other enhanced abilities, but in fact it&rsquo;s ever-so-slightly slower than the GT 220 when it comes to rasterizing. For the sake of comparison this is also half as many ROPs as on the 9600GT and 9800GT, both of which are also clocked higher.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3709"><span style="font-size: small;">Read more... </span></a></p>