Seagate just announced its latest generation Solid State Hybrid Drive (SSHD) – the 750GB Momentus XT – which made me pause and think about the potential implications throughout the enterprise. To be clear, the new Momentus XT is a client drive specifically designed for laptops. But with a 70% performance increase over its first generation model, and while also making a significant bump in capacity, there’s a lot of storage power that the Momentus XT can deliver.

This morning Notcua announced a new series of fans incorporating PWM functionality, something that Noctua fans have lacked in the past. When asked why Noctua, a company who's main focus is on introducing quiet cooling products, is just now getting into the PWM fan market this is what Mag. Roland Mossig, Noctua CEO had to say. 

"Our customers have been asking us for PWM versions of our fans for a long time, but the available PWM fan driver ICs simply weren't up to our quality standards", explains Mag. Roland Mossig, Noctua CEO. "With our NE-FD1, we've now got our custom-designed IC that allows us to build PWM fans that consume less power and remain quieter at low speeds."

With prices ranging from 18.90 to 24.90 USD, they won't be cheap. But I can guarentee they will be of the best quality! 

Click the link below to read the full PR.

Welcome back from the long holiday weekend everybody. I hope you had a great Thanksgiving. Back to the norm that is Gaming News. I have finished Batman: Arkham City, Serious Sam 3 is being played right now, Waves has been garnering attention on Steam, Midweek Madness is back after a crazy Autumn Sale that was on Steam and a laundry basket full of news at the end. Grab your favorite adult beverage, Gaming News starts now.

OCZ is introducing their new SAS 6G enterprise SSD's. With capacitys up to 1Tb and MLA, eMLA, and SLC NAND configurations its hard not to get jealous!

“The Talos 2 SAS solid state drives expand on the original series by offering enterprise customers superior performance, reliability, and density all in a compact footprint,” said Ryan Petersen, CEO of OCZ technology Group. “The Talos 2 enterprise SSDs are optimized for the most demanding storage systems and provide clients with an easy to deploy solution that vastly improves application performance over traditional SAS based HDDs.”

I hope everyone has had a wonderful Tuesday. It’s been raining here for what seems like forever and we are expecting snow later tonight. Because of that it’s hard to not be a little gloomy today, but cheap up! I have a list of reviews for you to check out from around the webs today.

Cases

BitFenix Merc Alpha PC Case Review @ Real World Labs

Cooler Master Silencio 550 @OCinside

Motherboard’s

Sapphire Pure Platinum A75 Motherboard Review @ Neoseeker

PSU’s

NZXT HALE82 850 W Power Supply Review @ Hardware Secrets

NZXT HALE82 750 Watt Modular Power Supply Review @ Hi Tech Legion

Network

QNAP TS-879U-RP High Performance SMB NAS @ Computing on Demand

Synology DiskStation DS712+ NAS Review @ TechwareLabs

Memory

GeIL EVO CORSA 2133MHz DDR3 Review @ Vortez

Storage

Silicon Power Diamond D10 750GB USB 3.0 Portable HDD - BCCHardware

Icy Dock MB981U3-1SA 2.5"/3.5" USB 3.0 SATA & IDE Hard Drive Docking Station @ eTeknix.com

Other

Monsoon Vulkano Flow Review @MissingRemote

CM Storm Sirus 5.1 Headset Review @ Vortez

Samsung SyncMaster SA950 27 Inch 3D LED Monitor Review @ Tweaknews

Samsung 55-Inch Series 8 LED 3D HDTV (UN55D8000YF) @Futurelooks

NZXT introduced their new HALE82 power supply line today. This series is following the previous lineup of HALE90 PSU's. The key difference between the two being their efficiency ratings. The new lineup comes in with a 80+ Bronze Certification. With prices going tome $109.99 to $139.99 (650W to 850W), I'm sure we can expect to see a few of these in budget builds this coming tax season. 

"HALE 82 is a great blend of high level efficiency, premium components, and safe, simple operation" said Johnny Hou, Founder and Product Manager at NZXT. "That coupled with NZXT's game-changing PSU service program make this a truly distinct offering for enthusiasts."

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti with 448 Cores has proven to be a very interesting graphics card from both a price and performance perspective. This card performs nearly the same as a GeForce GTX 570, but costs significantly less. In some of the games we tested the overclocked MSI N560GTX-448 Power Edition actually performed better than the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 reference design card, which was impressive..

Seagate introduced their newest Hybrid hard drive this morning. Here is a list of all of the reviews published so you can get a good look at its performance. 

Seagate Momentus XT ST750LX003 Hybrid 750GB @OCC

Seagate's Momentus XT 750GB @ Techreport

Seagate Momentus XT 750GB Hybrid Drive Review @ Legit Reviews

Seagate Momentus XT Solid State Hybrid @ Benchmark Reviews

You can also read the full press release in the link below!

ROCCAT introduced a new facebook contest they are hosting that celebrated worldwide gaming while focusing on the strange, facinating, and the unexpected in the world. The contest is going until January 2012 ending in a full gaming package being given away. 

Here is how you get entered

Entry in the contest is simple: fans must submit a photo of the ROCCAT™ WTF! logo in a creative, interesting and/or mystical setting – preferably with a notable landmark in the background. Contestants can download the WTF! logo for free at www.facebook.com/ROCCAT. Each week, ROCCAT™ will pick the three best photos and post them on the ROCCAT™ Facebook page, with each photographer winning a one-of-a-kind gaming prize package.

Click the read more to find out more details on how you can win!

Verbatim announced their new Ultra Slim Bluetooth Keyboard is now shipping to retailers. You can find it for as little as $49.99 on newegg right now. 

Sleek, portable keyboard delivers style, mobility and ultimate functionality – in both white and black – for iPad, iPhone, Samsung Galaxy Tab, Motorola Xoom and more

You can read more about it in the following link.

NZXT introduced a new cooler called the HAVIK 120 using a similar design from the larger HAVIK 140. They discribe it as

Compact, high-performance CPU Cooler maximizes CPU efficiency with aggressive heat dissipation and eliminates noise with expertly engineered fan blades

Read the full press release at the link below

City of Industry, CA, November, 14^th 2011 – GIGABYTE TECHNOLGY Co. Ltd., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, today announced the launch of theirlatest X79 series enthusiast motherboard range. Supporting the latest 2^nd Generation Intel® Core™ i7 processor family for high-end desktops (aka Sandy Bridge-E), these new X79 Express Chipset motherboards unite unrivalled desktop PC performance with a new level of hardware flexibility and control. GIGABYTE 3D Power^™ and its all new 3-way Digital Power Engine offers ultimate control of your PC’s power delivery, while GIGABYTE 3D BIOS^™ provides a wholly more intuitive and graphical UEFI BIOS environment.

-- Best Overclocker on ‘Locked’ LGA 1155 CPU Wins a GIGABYTE Z68XP-UD4 --

City of Industry, CA,  November 15^th 2011 – GIGABYTE TECHNOLGY Co. Ltd., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, today announced the winners of the GIGABYTE Locked ‘n’ Loaded contest, hosted on HWBOT.org. To create an even playing field, the Locked ‘n’ Loaded contest featured two stages based on the ability to overclock Intel® Core™ Sandy Bridge processors with a ‘Locked’ multiplier of 31x.  Running from October 1st to October 31^s, contestants were invited to use any GIGABYTE socket LGA 1155 motherboard, using any Intel® Core™ processor (aka Sandy Bridge) to reach the highest possible DDR3 speed and Super PI 32 score: