Sevral sites tested Seagate Momentus XT hybrid drive

judging by an early review posted by sevral sites, the new drives are worth every penny and cent, except for euro cents, which are now almost worthless thanks to Greece's recently ousted government. The reviewer praised the Momentus XT in every conceivable way. They are faster than HDDs, cheaper than SSDs and in RAID 0 they can catch up with SSD drives as well. Basically, they combine the best of both worlds.

Nvidia's upcoming dual-GPU card will end up with the GTX 490 brand.

As we previously reported, Nvidia canceled the original dual-Fermi D12U-50 because it was a bit too complex and generated as much heat as a medium yield nuclear warhead. Hence, Nvidia apparently chose to use GF104 cores for its new dual-GPU card. Despite this, the rumoured GTX 490 will end up with a 375W TDP.

3DMark 11 with MSI

It looks like MSI will be one of the names that we will see in FutureMark's 3DMark 11. According to what MSI had to show at its pre-Computex event, MSI's logo will be present in at least one part of the 3DMark 11 benchmark.

In addition, MSI also pretty much confirmed that the new Futuremark 3DMark will be all about DirectX 11. MSI was also keen to point out that the new 3DMark 11 will be bundled with MSI hardware, most likely graphics cards, once it appears on the market.

MSI coming with external gpu solution

MSI has another interesting product up its sleeve and although it isn't innovative it is still enough to draw some pretty good attention, the Graphics Upgrade Solution, aka GUS.

MSI's GUS is an external graphics card interface that connects to the notebook via Express card interface and has support for PCI-Express x16 graphics cards. According to MSI, the GUS is capable of boosting the graphics performance of the notebook by over 19 times. We guess that MSI compared it to Intel's integrated solution rather than dedicated mobile graphics card that can be found in a lot of notebooks.

Nvidia version 257.15 beta

Nvidia has rolled out its newest Geforce graphics card driver, version 257.15 beta. The new driver feature PhysX 9.10.0222 driver and supports Geforce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, 200, 300 and 400 series graphics card including the upcoming GTX 465 and regular ION GPUs.