TechConnect Magazine has reported that GIGABYTE will be releasing a new 1GB version of the HD 4870.

The new card will be named the GV-R487D5-1G, feature a dual slot Zalman cooler, DVI, HDMI and Display ports for connectivity.

No word on pricing yet.

Two websites are reporting that NVIDIA will launch two brand spankin' new graphics cards on the first day of the International CES in Las Vegas on January 8th next month.

The first is set to be the 55nm successor to the GTX 280 - the GTX 285 sees a die shrink, increased clock speeds, and probably reduced operating temperatures while still becoming most likely the fastest single GPU graphics cards on the market at that time.

OCZ along with many other storage makers are holding tight onto a piece of the solid state storage market, knowing full well it is the way of the future. We've even started to see flash drives with eSATA connectivity of late which boost transfer speeds far beyond the aging USB 2.0 standard.

Now OCZ turns its attention to notebooks with a new family of ExpressCards called the Slate series.

In case you missed it, yesterday Foxconn issued out an announcement in excitement of the world record DDR3 memory overclock achieved from their mighty X58 based Blood RAGE motherboard.

A very talented Taiwanese overclocker got hold of this very impressively kitted out board and chucked a Core i7 920 processor onto it along with some of of A-DATA's highly overclockable DDR3-1333 memory modules. The result was astonishing.

If you are thinking about buying one of the new "Green" Mac Books there is some information you might want to know about first.

It seems that the new chipset used in the latest Mac Books is rather picky about RAM. According to Tuaw.com (The Unofficial Apple Weblog) Apple customers are complaining about high failure rates with 3rd party RAM upgrades.

Apple has a long history of only supporting its own upgrades (Samsung). This leaves many of these customers in the dark and pretty much out of luck.

After teasing all of us for a few weeks, CoolerMaster has finally released the full scoop on the black Cosmos bundle they have been preparing.

This new bundle is going to be sold under the name Black Label Limited Edition and features more than just a black Cosmos case.

When you shell out the $600 for this beauty you are also going to receive a Black Label Hyper Z600 cooler and a UCP power supply (listed as a "Powerful PSU Unit"). Each case will have the Black Label logo on a metallic plate as well as a serial number.

EA and 2K Games have both licensed nVidia's PhysX technology for use in their game titles.

The announcement, made this morning, come after a few months of build up by the green team surrounding what you can do with PhysX on their GPUs.

This also dovetails in with the upcoming Mirror's Edge game that should be hitting the market very soon.

For some time now Dell has been shipping some of their PCs and notebooks as Red marked models, which means their accompanying operating system is a special Red edition of Microsoft's Windows Vista Ultimate.

The operating system itself is identical to the normal version of Vista in almost every way; however, the Red labeling is a brand licence which indicates that the affiliated company partnering the OS with their products are donating part of the revenue made from the sale to a good cause; that being for the Global Fund to help fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

Many people have been following the story on the Australian Government's plan to put in a Filtering Firewall similar to the one that China currently employs.

This plan has to be about as unpopular as they get, even Child Advocacy agencies do not think it is a good idea while many Australian ISPs are fighting it.

Now it seems the people are showing their displeasure, in the form os 80,000+ signatures on a petition and $30,000 + dollars in donations to one of the main organizations fighting the plan called GetUp.

YouTube has been providing the world with videos of just about everything for so long that it has just about become its own verb like Google.

But the videos have never really been high quality but more of the "webcam" style shots heavy on the pixels with an extra side of grain.

Now it looks like YouTube might finally be taking the wrapper off of its long awaited HD Video selection. According to an article over at Techcrunch.com the words "Watch in HD" are starting to appear below some videos.