US hard drive maker Seagate has announced the first shipments of 4 TB hard drives to consumers. The new drives are available now in the US where they cost USD 190 for a bare drive. Based on the latest Seagate technologies the new 4 TB consumer hard drives belong to the company’s Desktop HDD.15 series and feature four platters with 1 TB of capacity each. The platters spin at...
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First ARM Cortex-A57 chip produced
3 April 2013 | PC, Tablets
ARM and TSMC have jointly announced the creation of the first ARM Cortex-A57 64-bit processor built on 16 nm FinFET technology. The Cortex-A57 is a huge step forward for ARM as the chip is the highest performing ARM processor today and the first produced on 16 nm FinFET technology. The new processor will soon power the next generation of tablets, servers and computers. ...
Corsair exhibits Obsidian 900D high-end chassis
3 April 2013 | PC
The famous hardware and memory maker Corsair has exhibited a new PC chassis that promises everything galore - please meet the Obsidian 900D. The new computer case packs all the features even the most dedicated hardware enthusiasts would ever need. It is huge – but provides all the space needed for your beloved hardware. The Obsidian 900D has enough space for XL-ATX motherbo...
ASUS exhibits high-end P9X79-E WS motherboard
2 April 2013 | PC
Just in time with the first news on Intel’s Ivy Bridge-E generation the Taiwanese ASUS has revealed its latest X79-based motherboard – the P9X79-E WS. The new motherboard is fully compatible with all Socket LGA2011 processors and comes with eight DDR3 memory slots for up to 64 GB of DDR3-2400 memory. Another striking feature is the presence of seven PCI-E x16 expansion sl...
Silicon Power unveils two new SSD lines
2 April 2013 | SSD
SSD maker Silicon Power has added two new SSD series to its product list - the 2.5-inch Velox V55 and Slim S55. The Velox V55 line targets desktop computers and comes in an aluminum chassis, which measures 100 x 70 x 9 mm and weighs 79 grams. As expected the new SSD line fully supports the SATA 3.0 revision that allows for data transfer speeds of up to 6 Gbit/sec. Available i...
NVIDIA announces GeForce 700M series for notebooks
2 April 2013 | Notebooks
The graphics chip maker NVIDIA has officially introduced five new graphics solutions for notebooks that all fall under the new GeForce 700M series. The list of chips includes the high-end GeForce GT 750M, GeForce GT 745M and GeForce GT 740M while the GeForce GT 735M and GeForce GT 720M will serve the mainstream and budget market segments. All new chips support GPU Boost 2.0 a...
AMD Trinity APUs lower clock speeds when under load
2 April 2013 | PC
The popular hardware web site X-bit Labs has recently discovered an unannounced peculiarity of the latest Trinity APUs by AMD - when under load the chips operate at a clock speed that is even lower than the nominal one which negatively affects performance. The peculiarity was noticed by the X-bit Labs staff when testing the latest Trinity chips against Intel Ivy Bridge proce...
Cooler Master introduces B and V series of power supplies
1 April 2013 | PC
Cooler Master has introduced two new lines of power supply units (PSU) that target different segments of the market. The B series has been designed for budget-oriented systems and offers three new models - B500, B600 and B700 (500, 600 and 700 watts of power respectively). The line offers protection against over-voltage, under-voltage, overload and short circuits. In addition...
First details on Intel Ivy Bridge-E
1 April 2013 | PC
The long awaited refresh of the high-end LGA 2011 platform will finally take place in Q3 2013, Hitechreview has learned. In this time period Intel will retire the current Sandy Bridge-E chips by releasing three new LGA 2011 processors based on the Ivy Bridge-E architecture - the Core i7-4820K, Core i7-4930K and Core i7-4960X. All new chips will offer improve...
Lenovo outs ThinkCentre Edge 62z – a smaller AIO PC
1 April 2013 | PC
Lenovo has introduced a new all-in-one PC that belongs to the ThinkCentre series – but this time the unusual thing is that it comes with a rather small 18.5-inch display. Will it serve your needs – read on to find out! Unlike most other AIO PCs that come with at least 20-inch displays and sometimes ship with even 27-inch screens, the Lenovo ThinkCentre Edge 62z bets on a ...
Windows Blue to have a new name, may integrate Windows RT
1 April 2013 | PC
The rumored Windows Blue upgrade to Windows 8 has been officially confirmed by an official Microsoft blog post on the Internet. The confirmation also brought something new to the table - Windows Blue will almost certainly debut under a new name. The news has come out by none other but Frank Shaw, Microsoft's VP of corporate communications who said that the Blue labeling is an...
