More and more graphics card manufacturers have started to unveil their own takes on Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1060 product, and the latest one to join the fold is none other than PNY. The company has just unveiled its GeForce GTX 1060, which comes with a custom-design PCB while keeping Nvidia’s reference clock speeds  of 1506 MHz core and 1709 MHz GPU Boost. The memory also runs at 8 Gbps, and even though this product will likely perform the same when compared to Nvidia’s reference card, it definitely boasts better aesthetics thanks to its custom cooling solution.

Speaking of which, the cooler includes a custom aluminium fin-stack complemented by two black 70 mm fans. Considering the fact that the card wasn’t overclocked out of the factory, it still relies on a standard 8-pin PCIe power connector. As far as pricing is concerned, we’re looking at asking prices of about $279, which is quite a bit more when compared to AMD’s RX 480.

KEY FEATURES

• Simultaneous Multi-Projection
• VR Ready
• NVIDIA Ansel Support
• NVIDIA G-SYNC™
• NVIDIA GameStream™
• NVIDIA GPU Boost™ 3.0
• Microsoft^® DirectX^® 12 Support
• Vulkan API Support
• Open GL 4.5 Support
• PCI Express 3.0
• Max Digital Resolution – 7680×4320@60Hz¹
• Display Connectors
  • 3x DisplayPort 1.4
  • HDMI 2.0b
  • DL-DVI

Minimum System Requirements

• PCI Express-compliant motherboard with one dual-width x16 graphics slot
• One 6-pin PCI Express supplementary power connectors
• Minimum 400W or greater system power supply²
• 300MB of available hard-disk space
• 2GB system memory (4GB or higher recommended)
• Windows 7-10, Linux, FreeBSDx86
• DVD-ROM drive and Internet connection³

What do you think about PNY’s GeForce GTX 1060 offering?

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Just in case you’re looking for a lightweight, simple-looking USB flash drive that offers generous storage capacities as well as USB 3.0 transfer speeds, PNY has just unveiled the HP x765w flash memory drive. As far as looks are concerned, this product comes with a black and white monochrome design, while its ergonomic body and anti-fingerprint finish ensure protection from scratches and finger stains respectively. The lidless body features a retractable connector and a one-hand slide mechanism that guarantees quick and easy operation, while a loop hole at the base of the drive allows it to be attached to car keys, bags or wallets without any issues.

With a weight of just 8.8g, you’ll definitely need to bind this thing to heavier objects, otherwise you’ll probably just forget about it in your pocket. Available storage capacities range from 16GB all the way up to 128GB, all versions benefitting from USB 3.0 transmission, which enables ten times faster read and write speeds when compared to USB 2.0. Obviously, computers equipped with USB 2.0 ports will also support the HP x765w. And speaking of compatibility, this product works just fine with Windows 7, 8, 10 and Mac OS: 10. 3 and above. The HP x765w is accompanied by a limited warranty of 2 years, and it is also quite affordable, as the 32GB version is currently priced at about £12.00.

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PNY is regarded as one of the leading companies in flash memory products and has an excellent reputation. Recently, PNY entered into an agreement with HP to manufacture their latest storage device, the x765w.  The HP x765w supports the USB 3.0 protocol which provides ten times faster speeds than USB 2.0. The drives will be available in a number of capacities ranging from 16GB to 128GB and come with a 2-year warranty as standard. According to the press release, the pen drives feature an ergonomic design which makes it easier to grip and has an anti-fingerprint finish. This should prevent the product from looking slightly worse for wear after hefty use.

The HP x765w weighs 8.8g, measures 10mm x 21mm x 55mm (HxWxL) and has an integrated strap hole. When it comes to performance, the basic 16GB drive can deliver a maximum read speed of 20MB/s and 70MB/s write while the 32GB-128GB models are guaranteed to offer a minimum 30MB/s read and 75MB/s write.  As you can see, this isn’t the fastest set of speeds available today but HP/PNY appear to be targeting a very competitive price point. Unfortunately, this isn’t known as of yet. Personally, it seems an odd decision to release a USB 3.0 drive when USB 3.1 is becoming more popular. Although, it’s a solid product and will be useful to certain PC users.

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PNY’s XLR8 range revolves around the highest quality of components and factory overclocks in the company’s repertoire. Previous models such as the PNY GTX 960 XLR8 OC performed admirably and featured a really attractive shroud design. The latest product is towards the higher-end and based on the GTX 1080. The PNY GTX 1080 XLR8 OC combines a reference PCB with a custom cooling solution. Additionally, the graphics card has a factory overclocked 1708MHz core, 1848MHz boost and 8GB GDDR5X memory running at 10,000MHz.

The product’s cooling apparatus has a split aluminium fin-stack heatsink and 8mm thick nickel-plated copper heatpipes which effectively manage the thermal loads. Also, the heatsink is ventilated by three 80mm fans with superb airflow. As expected, the fans switch off during scenarios when the GPU isn’t doing much. In terms of power requirements, the GPU has a single 8-pin PCI-E which should be more than enough to leverage maximum performance. Connectivity-wise, the PNY GTX 1080 XLR8 OC comes with three DisplayPort 1.4, HDMI 2.0b and a dual-link DVI-D. According to PNY, the graphics card will retail for a price of $659.99 in the USA. This is a reasonable price given the factory overclock and I’m hoping to get hold of a review sample in the next week.

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In recent years, NVMe and PCIe drives have been the ones pushing the performance limits. Moving beyond the limits set by ACHI and SATA, the new drives offer dramatically improved performance. To supplement their mainstream SATA SSDs, PNY has announced the new NVMe M.2 CS2030 Series of solid state drives.

As we’ve come to expect of most NVMe PCIe SSDs being released these days, the M.2 2280 form factor is being used. The CS2030 offers up a total of 4x PCIe 3.0 lanes for a total of 32 Gbit/s of bandwidth. For the controller, PNY has chosen the Phison PS5007 and paired it with MLC NAND. This allows for sequential transfer speeds of up to 2,750 MB/s reads and 1,500 MB/s sequential writes. 4K random access performance is rated at up to 210,000 IOPS reads, and 215,000 IOPS writes.

Coming in both 240 GB and 480 GB capacities, the new drives are expected to be priced at $179.99 and $329.99 for the 240 GB and 480 GB models respectively. While they are a premium compared to SATA drives, for those that want the extra performance, they are likely well worth it. They are also backed by a 3-year warranty as well. It will be interesting to see how these drives fare against the current match of NVMe M.2 SSDs.

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After Samsung first introduced 3D NAND several years ago, the rest of the industry has finally caught up. Starting in 2016 and into 2017, many SSD manufacturers have started to update their lineups from planar NAND to 3D NAND and PNY is the latest to join in. The company has just announced their new CS1311b series of budget entry-level SSDs featuring 3D TLC NAND. This follows up on the vanilla CS1311 which uses planar TLC NAND.

Coming in the standard 7 mm-thick 2.5-inch form factor, the CS1311b is the standard SATA III SSD. Featuring just the 128 GB and 256 GB capacities, the drives use Micron’s 3D TLC NAND. The 128 GB drive manages up to 510 MB/s reads and 410 MB/s writes, while 4K speeds are 42,000 IOPS and 82,000 IOPS for random reads and writes respectively. For the 256 GB model, we have up to 560 MB/s sequential reads and 510 MB/s writes, while 4K speeds are 80,000 IOPS and 81,000 IOPS for random reads and writes respectively

As you can see from the image, the SATA form factor is pretty overkill for budget SSDs these days. The PCB with all the working parts takes up less than half of the enclosure. While PNY has not revealed pricing, it will likely come in where the CS1311 currently sits. I suspect that we are seeing a controller update as well from the Phison S10 controller to the Phsion S11, both single core designs,  due to the requirement for LDPC (Low Density Parity Check) 3D NAND support.

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Details about PNY’s GeForce GTX 1080 Ti XLR8 Gaming OC video card are now available, showing the company’s custom design for NVIDIA’s latest generation flagship video card. The GeForce GTX 1080 Ti XLR8 Gaming OC uses the XLR8 triple fan design and is a considerably longer video card than most other manufacturer’s designs at 313 mm or 12.36-inches long with a dual-slot height. The PCB itself underneath is the reference NVIDIA design similar to the Founder’s Edition model, having a 7+2 phase VRM for the CPU+memory. The heatsink cooler appears to be fully nickel plated and uses a four-heatpipe design with two sets of aluminum fin arrays.

The PNY GeForce GTX 1080 Ti XLR8 Gaming OC comes out of the box with a base core clock of 1531 MHz and a boost clock of 1645 MHz. It has 11GB of 11Gbps GDDR5X on a 352-bit memory interface with a bandwidth of 484 GB/sec.  The card uses the standard GTX 1080 Ti 6-pin and 8-pin power connector towards the front. For display output, it has three DisplayPort 1.4 connectors with one HDMI 2.0b connector for a maximum resolution of 7680 x 4320 @ 60Hz. The product render shows a DVI connector in the rear IO but this feature is not listed in the official product specifications sheet of the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti XLR8 OC PNY part number VCGGTX1080T11XGPB-OC video card.  Plus if it uses the reference Founder’s Edition GTX 1080 Ti PCB then it definitely lacks a DVI port.

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Introduction

Not all graphics cards are created equally, such as this GeForce GTX 1070 from PNY. It takes the stock card and makes it even faster than before. PNY is well-known for their premium quality aftermarket graphics cards, and the XLR8 OC Gaming delivers faster clock speeds, a powerful cooling solution, a slick design, and hopefully fantastic performance too.

The stock GTX 1070 delivers a 1506/1683 stock and boost graphics clock, while the new card from PNY ups that to an impressive 1607/1797 MHz, quite an improvement, and one that should no doubt deliver improved performance. OF course, extra power is required to do so, with the card pulling a 150W TDP, and while it still uses the same 8-pin connector, the factory overclock does mean more heat, so that triple fan cooling solution should help keep things nice and cool, even when pushing the card to its limits.

Equipped with all the latest features you would expect from a 10xx series card, the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 is a robust chipset, so let’s jump in, take a closer look at what it has to offer, then fire it up on our test bench!

Key Features

• Factory Overclocked
• PNY Silent XLR8 Triple Cooler
• Simultaneous Multi-Projection
• VR Ready
• NVIDIA Ansel Support
• NVIDIA SLI^® w/ HB Bridge Support
• NVIDIA G-SYNC^™
• NVIDIA GameStream^™
• NVIDIA GPU Boost^™ 3.0
• Microsoft^® DirectX^® 12 Support
• Vulkan API Support
• Open GL 4.5 Support
• PCI Express 3.0
• Max Digital Resolution – 7680×4320 @ 60Hz¹
  • 3x DisplayPort 1.4
  • HDMI 2.0b
  • DL-DVI

XLR8 Your Performance

“Enjoy your supercharged gaming experience with PNY GTX 1070 XLR8 Gaming Overclocked Edition. Powered by the new NVIDIA® Pascal™ architecture and optimized with PNY’s XLR8 Triple Fan XLR8 Cooler; Now you can game faster, game silent. This advanced graphics card is created with ultra-fast FinFET technology and supports DirectX 12 features to deliver fast, smooth, power-efficient gaming experiences.” – PNY

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PNY has released information on their GeForce GTX 780 Ti Overclocked edition, which comes with a massive 3-slot / 3 fan cooler. The board has a GK110 GPU holding 2880 active shader cores and a Base/Boost GPU clocks of 980/1046 MHz. You’ll spot the standard 3 GB of GDDR5 VRAM clocked at 7008 MHz, 6-pin and 8-pin PCIe power connectors, and dual-DVI, HDMI 1.4b and DisplayPort 1.2 outputs.

The tech specs for the GTX 780 Ti are superb, as the product has the full 15 Streaming clusters, thus having 2880 Shader Processing Units enabled. That’s 240 TMUs and 48 ROPs on a 384-bit memory interface of fast GDDR5. NVIDIA in a nutshell having a 45 mm × 45 mm 2397-pin S-FCBGA GK110b GPU with 2880 shader/stream/CUDA processors.

Boost your gaming experience with a stunningly beautiful, quiet design. With NVIDIA GPU Boost 2.0 for maximum clock speeds, PhysX® and TXAA™ technologies for smooth, sharp graphics, and GeForce ShadowPlay™ to capture all your greatest gaming moments, you will experience the ultimate gameplay. Whether you’re playing on stunning 4K monitors at extreme settings, or multiple monitors at 25 x 16, the GTX 780 Ti provides the horsepower to drive all your next-gen gaming visual experiences.

The GeForce GTX 780 Ti Overclocked has a price tag of around $750 / €550 / £460. More details and feature overviews can be found on PNY’s official website here.

Thank you Club3D for providing us with this information.
Images courtesy of PNY

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Over the last few months, evidence has been gathering that storage manufacturers Kingston and more recently PNY have been pulling a bait and switch tactic on their consumers. What this means is that after the initial hardware release and of course the reviews of their products have been written, the companies are then changing the hardware configuration. This has left many customers venting that they’ve been cheated into buying a product they may not have wanted had they known the hardware had been changed. This can be especially true for those who buy their hardware based on reviews, such as the reviews we do here at eTeknix. If we tell you a product gives X amount of performance based on its specifications, then those specifications are secretly changed, then our review is worthless and you as a consumer may end up with an inferior product.

According to a Tweaktown blog post, the new PNY Optima drive should feature the Silicon Motion controller, but the user who bought it later discovered that it features a different firmware and a different SandForce based controller. TweakTown investigated this issue and contact PNY who responded with; “yes we did ship some Optima SSD’s with SandForce controllers, but only if they meet the minimum advertised performance levels.”

Unfortunately minimum performance levels is about as vague as things get, especially when manufacturers usually use the term “up to” for their performance figures. Such as the PNY drives spec sheet which reads “up to 60,000 IOPS”, not to mention the level of change that their testing equipment and methods can mean when recording those figures.

The same can be said for the popular Kingston V300 drive, a product that has been on the market for around a year now, but appears to have been switched from synchronous to asynchronous NAND. The downside of this being that the latter can be slower than the other in certain situation, dependant on the configuration, than the parts that were initially installed in these drives. This is reflected in the charts below, which compares the standard hardware to the asynchronous NAND hardware.

In short, this isn’t acceptable, selling one product under the pretence that it’s actually made of different components is bad for business and I suspect that now the alarm has been rung, more issues like this will soon be discovered, perhaps even from several other brands. If the issue isn’t resolved soon, then it could mean that many of the storage reviews that have already been published, could now be a complete waste of time, or at least require the modified products to be re-tested.

Thank you ExtremeTech, Tweaktown and NordicHardware for providing us with this information.

Images courtesy of Extremetech and NordicHardware.

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Samsung continued its relentless expansion in the SSD market last year as it boosted its market share from 23.2% in 2012 to 28.5% in 2013. The figures produced by analytics firm Gartner reveal some potentially worrying trends for the SSD market. The SSD market is now tending towards an oligopoly as the five biggest vendors increased their market share from 55.4% in 2012 to 65.8% in 2013.

Intel saw a decline in its share falling from 14.7% to 13.1% market share. SanDisk showed huge growth, more than doubling their share from 5 to 11.7% in that 1 year period. Micron also made good progress with their Crucial brand, rising from 3.3 to 6.9% of the market, again that’s more than a doubling.

With Micron, SanDisk and Samsung all doing so well, who lost out? Well aside from Intel, Toshiba has also taken a fairly sizeable hit. However, the real losers are the “others” category: that’s SSD manufacturers who mainly rely on (all or some) parts produced by other vendors. These brands include Kingston, OCZ (now defunct and owned by Toshiba), Corsair, G.Skill and PNY among many others. Of course OCZ are now part of Toshiba meaning that they make their own NAND and controllers but many other brands will be forced out of the market by the “big boys” like Samsung, Intel, SanDisk, Micron and Toshiba who can all make the majority of their own parts such as the controllers, NAND, DRAM cache and firmware required for an SSD product. The advantage of making it yourself mean you have a stable reliable supply and can produce it for the cheapest cost, not to mention certain vendors may simply stop supplying parts to rival companies when things really hot up. We’ve already heard rumours that Micron may stop selling its NAND to rival SSD vendors, or reduce supply at the very least.

Image #1 courtesy of Samsung, image #2 and #3 courtesy of Gartner

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PNY Technologies announced the launch of the Duo-Link OTG USB Flash Drive today, available in both 16GB and 32GB capacities. The micro-sized, cap-less swing design of the Duo-Link OTG USB Flash Drive holds both a micro-USB connector and a USB connector that allows users to easily transfer media and files to and from an Android device and PC.

The On-The-Go USB Flash Drive can connect to an Android mobile device and PC or laptop. The Micro-USB connector easily plugs into any Android device while the USB connector plugs directly into any available USB port. The built-in Micro-USB connector allows you to quickly transfer or store music, photos, movies, videos, files and more. Users can also play music or videos directly from the new PNY Duo-Link. The flash drive was designed to free up space on an Android phone and/or save files from a PC or laptop onto the phone. The cap-less, all-in-one design is small enough to connect to an Android device for portable on the go usage.

Specifications

• Interface: USB 2.0
• Storage Capacities: 16GB & 32GB
• Weight: 0.02LB
• Product Dimensions: 30mm x 10mm x 5mm

PNY offers a one-year warranty on all their USB Flash Drives and that includes the Duo-Link OTG. The drives are available now for purchase at select e-tailers, retailers, PNY.com, and through authorized PNY distribution partners. At the time of writing, the 16GB model is listed for $14,99 and the 32GB model for 24.99 on PNY’s own website.

Thank you PNY for providing us with this information.

Image courtesy of PNY.

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PNY has shared the information on the new LEGO USB Flash Drive. This is great news for me, or rather my three nephews. They have been pestering me since they heard about this the first time around Christmas, and I haven’t been able to get them for them yet. That has changed now and the LEGO brick USB stick is available in 16GB size for $12.99. That is actually not a bad price considering it is LEGO branded. Each LEGO USB Flash Drive also comes with an additional LEGO brick for “extra building fun”.

• Includes one LEGO USB Flash Drive and one LEGO brick
• The LEGO USB Flash Drive has a capless, sliding design
• The included key-fob easily attaches to the key ring for on the go storing and fun
• The LEGO USB Flash Drive and additional LEGO brick are compatible with all LEGO brick toys for endless fun

Specifications wise the stick is USB 2.0 and there are no official speed descriptions. This most likely means that it will be around 7-10MB/s write and read speeds. It is compatible with most PC & MAC laptop and desktop computers with an available USB 2.0 port. The stick measures 1.20 x 0.50 x 0.22 inch and has an operating temperature of 0° to 60° C and a storage temperature tolerance of -25° to 85° C. It comes with a One-Year Warranty and free technical support.

For now the drive only appears to be available in blue, but I’m sure that will change. Specially considering the first image above.

Thank you PNY for providing us with this information.

Images courtesy of PNY.

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PNY Technologies has officially announced the limited edition HP v231w USB flash drive to coincide with the Chinese New Year. What 2015, the Year of the Goat, will do for Goat Simulator, I do not know. But what I do know is that PNY has released this specially designed flash drive crafted with gold housing and finished with electronic plated durable metallic casing makes HP v231w a unique and high-quality flash drive.

The USB 2.0 drive doesn’t just carry your files, it also kinda protects them with the durable casing that is both water and dust-proof. There should be a right fit for everyone with capacities ranging from 16 to 64GB.

The 4.5 gram light HP v231w measures 4.5 x 12.2 x 34.6 mm and will be released as a limited edition that is HP compatible and branded. Support is listed for Windows 2000/ XP / Vista, 7, 8, Mac OS: 10.3 and above, but I can not see why anything with USB port shouldn’t be able to use it. It comes backed by a two-year warranty within the date of purchase.

Thanks to PNY via TechPowerUp for providing us with this information

Images courtesy of PNY

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There’s little in the way of innovation in the 2.5″ SSD market right now, but many manufacturers are pushing hard for lower prices, better efficiency and many more minor improvements in 2015, making this the perfect year to update your storage. PNY have brought along their latest storage drives, that offer all of the latest features, as well as some great new designs that will no doubt look great in any desktop system.

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PNY Technologies announced a new line-up of high-performance Solid State Drives for enterprise, client, and consumer storage solutions. The EP7000 Series is designed for enterprises, the CL4000 Series is designed for client OEM business environments, while the CS2000 series is geared towards enthusiasts and the CS1000 is the budget series.

“PNY’s new range of Solid State Drives is a result of the company’s renewed focus on delivering innovative, high-quality SSD products to address the growing needs of the storage market,” said Vinny Girardi, Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Storage Solutions & New Products group at PNY. “This new series of solid state drives are highly reliable, as they have gone through rigorous validation and testing, ensuring they meet the stringent requirements specific to the enterprise and client markets. This new line-up of SSDs will truly make life simple for our customer base!”

The CS1000 series is the next generation of Optima SSDs and will be available as both 2.5-inch and m.2 form factors with capacities ranging from 120 to 480GB. The CS2000 series is the next installment in the XLR8 series and comes as 2.5-inch form factor with capacities up to 960GB. The CL4000 OEM series is the next generation of Prevail SSDs that feature DEVSleep and other power saving features at a balanced performance ratio, and capacities from 80 to 980GB in the 2.5-inch size. Lastly, the EP7000 enterprise series comes as 2.5-inch with 120GB to 480GB and features such as hardware power fail support, RAID configurations, AES-256 bit, hardware encryption and compression.

PNY offers a three-year warranty on the CS2000 and CS1000 while the EP7000 and CL4000 Series enjoy a five-year warranty and will be available for purchase by Q2 2015.

Thanks to PNY for providing us with this information

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PNY

We’re here at the PNY booth at Computex 2017, and they’ve brought along a nice range of their latest products for us to see. First up, we have their new GTX 1080 Ti XLR8 Gaming Overclocked Edition. It uses their custom triple fan cooler design. We see this cooler design on pretty much all of their current gaming cards, including their GTX 1080 seen below it.

Further down, we’ve got even more XLR8 hardware, with their CS2211 SSD, and SD2830 M.2 SSD, and DDR4 memory. Not specs on show, but it’s good to see they have a whole matching ecosystem of matching hardware; awesome for colour coordinating your build.

As you can see, sticking with XLR8 hardware in one build looks pretty slick.

Quadro

Not content with just covering the gaming market. PNY also caters to the professional market. They had on show their Quadro GP100 cards with NVLINK.

The latest Tesla P100 GPU, always a stunning piece of hardware to see in person.

New Arrivals

Their new CS2030 M.2 PCIe SSD, and CS1311b 2.5″ SSD. The M.2 is the most exciting though, offering blazing speed thanks to the use of NVMe.

Their new high-performance SSD, the Optima HERA. These come in up to 1TB, and offer competitive performance for desktops, gaming systems, and workstations.

Prices and Release Date

The prices are all over the place at the moment. It’s best to check with your local retailers for accurate pricing, as most of these products should already be on the market.

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Budget Friendly SSDs!

PNY Technologies is known as one of the leading flash memory producers across the world. Of course, it goes without saying that their latest offering, is something to be excited about. Introducing the CS1311 SSD that is not only fast but also budget friendly.

Low Cost, High Speed

The CS1311 comes in 4 variants, in 4 price ranges. The 120GB costs only $59.99, 240GB is $99.99, 480GB is $189.99 and the spacious 960GB will set you back $349.99. However, the low-cost does not reflect on the quality of the drives. Operating at 20x Faster than a conventional HDD, the CS1311 is very capable, perfect for a system upgrade to speed up slow boot times. Furthermore, the drives deliver read and write speeds of up to 550 MB/s alongside random IOPS read and write upto 90,000 IOPS.

Good Looks for Less

The CS1311 comes in a very sleek, modern and contemporary chassis. A full black, textured coating with red accents and aluminium front, make for a very premium feeling drive. Even despite the lower price tags, the unit certainly looks like a much more premium, higher cost SSD. The drive is ultra-portable coming in at 2.5″ form factor at only 7mm deep. Shock proofing is present too and is a very welcome addition. Combine all of this with a low-power function that enables the CS1311 to consume less power than a standard HDD with minimal heat output and zero noise operation. You are left with an incredibly capable, attractive little SSD that will prove a fantastic addition to your setup.

Where to get Yours?

PNY take great pride in presenting to you, the CS1311. An SSD that fits the budget range with premium range features. What’s more, is that they provide a competitive 3 year warranty with each drive too. You can purchase one for yourself here.

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PNY XLR8 GTX 1080 Ti

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphics card series has been with us for some time now, and that means we’ve got plenty of aftermarket products from many of the top gaming brands around the world. The latest we have in the eTeknix office is the PNY GeForce GTX 1080 Ti XLR8 gaming OC graphics card. This new card comes with a reasonable factory overclock, taking the graphics cards boost speed up to 1645 MHz, and it keeps all this performance in check with its new triple fan cooler and a full-length aluminium back plate.

This isn’t the craziest GTX 1080 Ti we have seen to date, but it does seem like a big upgrade in terms of cooling performance over the reference model and that means it should run cooler, quieter, and harder for longer while you are gaming. This is especially true since PNY say the new cooler performance three times better than their previous generation cooler. The only downside to this design is but it doesn’t appear to have a 0 RPM operation mode, a feature that is often lacking on PNY graphics cards; at least on the ones we have tested in the past.

Fast and Silent

“The latest addition to the ultimate gaming platform, this card is packed with extreme gaming horsepower, next-gen 11 GBps GDDR5X memory, and a massive 1GB frame buffer. PNY’s GeForce GTX 1080 Ti XLR8 Gaming Edition offers fast performance and silent operation.” – PNY

Specifications

Obviously, this graphics card includes all the features you would expect of a 1080 Ti. It still features 3584 CUDA cores, 11GB of VRAM, SLI support, and much more. Those who are eager to run the cards in SLI will be happy to know that it’s a strict deal slot design, so it shouldn’t conflict in motherboards that have tighter spacings.

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Larger Capacity Option for the Budget-Conscious

PNY is announcing the launch of a new 960GB capacity option for their budget CS900 SSD line. The CS900 uses a SATA 2.5″ form factor drive with TLC NAND inside. In comparison, PNY also offers their mainstream CS2211 SATA 2.5″ drive series which uses MLC NAND instead. The CS900 features  sequential read speeds up to 535MB/s and sequential write speeds up to 515MB/s.

“Storage technology has changed dramatically in no time. A few years ago it was unimaginable to develop a consumer-friendly SSD with almost one terabyte of memory. That’s why we’re proud to announce the newest addition to our CS900 family. The CS900 with 960GB meets today’s requirement for large storage space and lightning-fast data transmission alike,” says Oliver Talon from PNY.

How Much is The CS900 960GB SSD?

The drive is now available via Amazon.co.uk for £216.00. PNY also offers the CS900 series in 120GB (£46.52), 240GB (£72.18), and 480GB (£135.77) capacities. Each SSD also comes with a free Acronis Migration software and is covered with a 3-year warranty.

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