The current 3rd largest motherboard maker in the world – ASRock – has extended the warranty period of its latest flagship motherboard – the Z87 OC Formula – to rather unseen five years, which means the company is more than confident in its motherboards. The ASRock Z87 OC Formula is a solution based on the Intel Z87 chipset and fully supports the latest Intel LGA 1150 ...
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ASUS releases VivoBook S551LB notebook
19 June 2013 | Notebooks
In case you soon see a device known as VivoBook S551LB in your local computer store don’t be surprised – the VivoBook S551LB is the latest ASUS notebook out there. The VivoBook S551LB comes with a 15.6-inch display at 1366 x 768 pixels and features an aluminum chassis that is just 21 mm thick. The entire device weighs 2.4 kilograms and includes a dual-core Intel Core i7-4...
Cooler Master unveils Storm Havoc gaming mouse
19 June 2013 | PC gaming, Peripherals/Accessories
The Taiwanese Cooler Master has proudly introduced a new gaming mouse known as Storm Havoc. The new company product offers extreme precision and advanced internal technologies, which will make the Storm Havoc an interesting solution for every gamer. The latest Cooler Master gaming mouse comes with an Avago 9800 laser sensor that offers up to 8200 dpi of sensitivity. The sensi...
AMD discloses information on upcoming server chips
19 June 2013 | PC
The days of the famous Opteron server processors are long gone and AMD needs something new in order to compete with Intel’s high performance Xeon processors. Fortunately for AMD and its fans the US company has a new strategy and new server chips that will soon see the light of day. AMD’s new server strategy includes key technologies that answer today’s server computing needs. The new ...
Specs of AMD Radeon HD 8970 leaked online
18 June 2013 | PC
The first specs and pictures of the upcoming AMD Radeon HD 8970 graphics card have made it online. The pics show a typical AMD graphics card in red and black that looks almost like a regular HD 7990 video card but the magic is inside the new hardware that the HD 8970 will come with. The new AMD card will be based on a 28 nm GPU known as Curacao XT. Based on GCN 2.0 architectu...
Pioneer releases external Blu-Ray burner with BDXL disk support
18 June 2013 | Peripherals/Accessories
The Japanese manufacturer of PC peripherals Pioneer has released a new Blu-Ray burner that natively supports BDXL disks. The device, known as BDR-XS05J, also boasts a slot-loading mechanism, thickness of just 20.3 mm and low weight of 330 grams. The Pioneer BDR-XS05J supports USB 3.0 and offers 4 MB of internal cache memory as well as burning of BD-R, BD-R LHT, BD-RE and DVD-...
NVIDIA confirms GeForce GTX 760 specs
17 June 2013 | PC
NVIDIA has officially announced the specs of the upcoming GeForce GTX 760 graphics card ending all speculation as to what the card would offer. The announcement comes around ten days before the actual GTX 760 launch. Here’s what NVIDIA has in store – the GTX 760 will be based on the GK104-225 GPU and will offer 1152 CUDA cores, 96 texture units and 32 ROPs, which makes th...
Intel describes Haswell-E, future LGA 2011 processors
17 June 2013 | PC
Much to the surprise of Intel fans, the acclaimed US chipmaker has shared details on the upcoming high-end Haswell-E processors – given Intel’s high-end is currently ruled by Sandy Bridge-E processors and their successors, known as Ivy Bridge-E will come only this fall. The Haswell-E family will be built on 22 nm technology and will come with six or eight cores with suppo...
More information on Sony Xperia ZU now available
17 June 2013 | Smartphones, Tablets
Hitechreview reported on the upcoming Sony Xperia ZU phablet some time ago but now more accurate and detailed information has become available online. According to the latest reports on the Sony Xperia ZU the upcoming phablet will come with IP58 certification making it water resistant and dust proof. The device will also feature a 6.44-inch IPS sensor display at Full HD resol...
Noctua exhibits cooling fan with noise canceling technology
17 June 2013 | PC
Noctua – one of the leading designers and manufacturers of personal computer cooling – has demonstrated the world’s first CPU cooler with active noise canceling (ANC) technology. Active noise cancellation (ANC) is a method of eliminating unwanted noise by actively creating anti-sound that cancels the overall noise. Since noise is composed of alternating compression and ...
GeForce GTX 760 to be released in a few weeks
14 June 2013 | PC
By the end of June 2013 NVIDIA will have released a new GeForce GTX 700-series graphics card. This time it will be the cheaper and a bit slower GeForce GTX 760 video card – expected either on June 25 or on June 27. The GTX 760 will follow the reference NVIDIA design and will be built on the GK104-225-A2 GPU with 1152 stream processors. The new product will also offer 2 GB o...
