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be quiet! Releases System Power 9 CM PSUs

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be quiet! Releases System Power 9 CM PSUs

Germany's be quiet! announces the System Power 9 CM series PSUs-- a range aimed at more price-conscious customers featuring semi-modular designs together with the promise of both performance and quietness.

The entry-level PSU series consists of four models in 400, 500, 600 and 700W, and features 80PLUS Bronze level efficiency up to 89%. The 400 and 500W PSUs include x2 PCIe connectors, while the 600 and 700W models offer x4 connectors. All support multiple GPUs, and carry a 120mm fan the company claims is both quiet and temperature controlled.

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InWin Puts "Dot Matrix" Front Panel in 309 Chassis

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InWin Puts

InWin announces a rather unique-looking PC chassis-- the InWin 309, a mid-tower featuring a square cell RGB LED matrix front panel making a 144 pixel (8 x 18) programmable colour LED display.

The company claims the front panel design is "inspired by the beauty of stained glass," which is perhaps a bit of a stretch. That said, customers can program the front panel LEDs via GLOW 2 software complete with customisable functions, a creator mode for own pixel art installations and 12 built-in lighting effects. The chassis even has a built-in mic, allowing the LEDs to react to sounds.

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Gartner: EMEA PC Market Shows Growth in Q2

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Gartner: EMEA PC Market Shows Growth in Q2

The EMEA PC market returns to growth in Q2 2019, Gartner reports, as shipments are up by 1.7% Y-o-Y thanks to "strong" business demand brought about by Windows 10 deployments and PC refreshes from companies and government organisatsions.

The same cannot be said about consumer demand though, since it remains "very weak." According to the analyst mainstream users are not seeing enough innovation outside of gaming and high-end mobile PCs, leading to longer PC life cycles and a "very negative" impact on midtier PC vendors used to selling more to the consumer segment.

From a global perspective, Q2 2019 PC shipments total 63 million units, a 1.5% Y-o-Y increase from Q2 2018 shipments of 62m. Gartner points out demand from the Windows 10 refresh in the business market, as well as "strong" desktop PC growth offsetting a decline in mobile PC shipments. Furthermore, the Intel CPU shortage appears to be easing. The shortage mainly impacted small and midsize vendors, since large vendors took advantage and continued to growing, taking market share from smaller vendors struggling to acquire CPUs.

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Cooler Master Intros MasterCase H100

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Cooler Master Intros MasterCase H100

Cooler Master announces the European launch of the MasterCase H100, a compact mini-ITX chassis customers can configure as a portable gaming rig (complete with built-in handle) or miniature living room PC.

First announced back in May at Computex 2019, the H100 carries a large 200mm RGB fan within a recessed mounting. The front panel and part of the top panel feature Cooler Master Fine Mesh, a means to filter out dust, allows for unrestricted ventilation and makes for easier cleaner and maintenance. In total the chassis measures 312 x 216 x 301mm, with construction in steel, plastic and steel mesh.

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Islay Canyon NUCs Hit the Market

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Islay Canyon NUCs Hit the Market

Intel announces the availability of the NUC 8 Mainstream-G (aka "Islay Canyon") mini PCs, all packing 8th gen Intel Whiskey Lake processors and, thanks to a deal with AMD, optional Radeon 540X graphics.

The range offers 4 models in all, with a choice of low-power Intel Core i5-8265U and Core i7-8565U processors. The chassis remains the standard 12 x 11cm number, and all carry 8GB of soldered-down LPDDR3-1866/2133 DRAM. As mentioned earlier Radeon 540X discrete graphics (codenamed Lexa, based on Polaris architecture) are an option, but customers can also go for Intel UHD 630 graphics.

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Nvidia Intros "Super" GeForce RTX Graphics Cards

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Nvidia Intros

Nvidia announces "Super" editions of the RTX20-series graphics cards-- an update promising a performance boost of up to 25% together with all the features found in the regular versions, such as real-time ray tracing.

Launched less than a year ago, the RTX 20-series graphics cards are the first consumer products from Nvidia based on Turing architecture. The technology features dedicated ray tracing cores for ray tracing acceleration, together with Tensor cores to accelerate AI tasks and game performance and super-fast GDDR6 VRAM.

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Colorful Intros iGame Pre-Built Gaming Desktops

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Colorful Intros iGame Pre-Built Gaming Desktops

Chinese PC maker Colorful announces the iGame Sigma M500-- a line of pre-built desktop computers aimed at customers wanting a plug-and-play solution for both gaming and computing applications.

The Sigma M500 series comes in Basic, Advanced, Prime and Ultra configurations, with specs ranging from 8th to 9th gen Intel Core processors, Colorful GeForce graphics cards, DDR4 memory and SSD storage. All come in a chassis the company describes as "inspired by DIY-built gaming PCs" and claims offer performance, stability and high technical standards.

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A Raspberry Pi 4 for 4K Video

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A Raspberry Pi 4 for 4K Video

The Raspberry Pi Foundation announces a 4th version of the titular micro-PC-- the Raspberry Pi 4, an upgrade promising "PC-like levels of performance," at least for "most users."

The Raspberry Pi 4 carries a 1.5GHz quad-core Broadcom processor (up from 1.4GHz in the previous model), a 500MHz VideoCore VI GPU (up from 400MHz) and up to 4GB LPDDR4 RAM. The result, the makers claim, is a tiny machine able to handle 4K 60fps video through the support for HEVC video, as well as dual-monitor support via dual micro-HDMI ports.

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Cooler Master Goes Silent With Silencio Cases

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Cooler Master Goes Silent With Silencio Cases

Cooler Master announces a pair of additions to the Silencio PC chassis range-- the Silencio S400 and S600, both featuring a minimalist design allowing for minimal noise and maximum thermal efficiency.

According to the company, the two cases refine "long-established strengths of silence optimization and thermal efficiency." To back such claims, Cooler Master says it tested the S400 and S600 using Sorama Cam64, an audio visualisation system allowing one to find and target sources of noise, vibrations and resonance throughout the chassis, leading to construction in materials of varying densities in order to improve on the quality of the "silence."

The chasses feature construction in steel, plastic and "sound dampening material." The sound dampening top cover is removable in order to increase ventilation, while the steel front door features a reversible mounting system capable of opening in two directions. The S400 includes an HDD cage one can shift to the front for more PSU clearance, backwards for additional front radiator space or remove completely in case they are not using HDD storage.

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