ATI Radeon HD 5450

AMD has confirmed its intention to launch ATI Radeon HD 5400 and HD 5500-series product in mid-February 2010, as part of its goal to offer excellent graphics using Microsoft DirectX 11 technology for mass market public.

The HD 5450 is a successor of the previous generation ATI HD 4650/4550/4350, while the HD 5570 is the target market for mid-range. Unfortunately, there is no pricing information at this time. We will keep you informed.

MSI P55-GD85 Motherboard

MSI has officially announced its next-P55 based motherboard: the P55-GD85. This motherboard supports high-end processors LGA 1156 and has four DDR3-2133 memory slots, two PCI-Express x16 slots for SLI or CrossFire configurations, a 7.1 audio channels and a large moon equipped cooling system.

In terms of connectivity ports, it offers two SATA 6.0 Gb / s and seven 3.0 Gbps, an eSATA port, two Gigabit Ethernet ports, FireWire and two USB 3.0 ports. The MSI P55-GD85 is soon to be starting now in Europe for 185 euros (about $ 266).