The Taiwanese tech giant ASUS has unveiled a large number of LGA1150 motherboards for the upcoming Intel Haswell processors, expected in just a few weeks. The massive announcement includes the high-end Republic of Gamers (ROG) line, motherboards that belong to the ASUS "The Ultimate Force" (TUF) line and classic LGA1150 motherboards. All new ASUS LGA1150 products are based on the Intel Z87 chi...
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ADATA presents DashDrive UV150 memory sticks
16 May 2013 | Peripherals/Accessories
The popular memory and storage device maker ADATA has introduced a new line of USB 3.0 memory sticks under the trade name DashDrive UV150. The new USB memory sticks measure 58 x 18 x 11 mm and weigh just 9 grams. The new USB drives feature a cap that goes backwards when the drive is in use. There’s also a hole at the bottom that allows the user to attach a cord and handle i...
GeForce GTX 780 to be less powerful than expected
16 May 2013 | PC
The latest information on the upcoming GeForce GTX 700 series of graphics cards, expected by the end of May 2013, claims GeForce GTX 780 will be less powerful than initially believed. The future graphics card will come with 2304 stream processors only, down from the initially reported 2496 CUDA cores. In order to do so NVIDIA will disable another SMX unit in the GPU. As known...
Microsoft confirms Windows Blue add-on
16 May 2013 | Featured, PC
An executive working for Microsoft Corporation has officially confirmed that the company’s flagship products – Windows 8 and Windows RT – will soon receive a major update in the form of Windows Blue. The upcoming update will be distributed free of charge and will add additional features to both operating systems as well as a number of fixes much like Service Packs did in the past. Moreov...
AMD intros Radeon HD 8970M graphics chip
16 May 2013 | Notebooks, PC gaming
AMD has introduced the latest and greatest company mobile graphics chip known as Radeon HD 8970M. According to AMD, the new chip is currently the world's fastest mobile graphics solution. The Radeon HD 8970M does not feature a new graphics architecture but thanks to some improvements and better software support the HD 8970M definitely offers performance benefits. Based on the...
HP leaks some AMD Kabini specs
14 May 2013 | Notebooks
The AMD Kabini chips were detailed at CES 2013 in January but the most important specs remained a mystery. Well, it seems HP has leaked information on some Kabini processors so read on to find out what AMD has in store for us! According to HP AMD has at least four Kabini APUs – E1-2500 (dual-core, 1.4 GHz, 1 MB L3 cache, Radeon HD 8240), E2-3000 (dual-core, 1.65 GHz, 1 MB o...
Report: GeForce GTX 680 could be flashed to GTX 770
14 May 2013 | PC
The upcoming GeForce GTX 700 line of graphics cards, expected at the end of May 2013, will bring just minimal architectural and performance changes to the table, being most likely based on refreshed Kepler cores. While this may be bad news to some hardware enthusiasts, certain Kepler users may have a reason to rejoice – a new report claims current GeForce GTX 680 cards can easily become GeFo...
SMART releases server DDR3 that increases capacity by 50 Percent
13 May 2013 | PC
The US-based SMART Modular Technologies, Inc., a maker of memory modules, flash memory cards and solid state storage devices has announced the availability of 24 GB CoolFlex RDIMMs. This DDR3 memory operates at 1333 MHz at 1.35V and is especially suitable for servers that need plenty of memory. The really unique feature of this memory is that it allows memory configurations t...
Thermaltake starts sales of LifeCool II notebook cooling
13 May 2013 | Notebooks
The popular PSU and cooler maker Thermaltake has started the sales of its latest laptop cooling solution dubbed LifeCool II. The new laptop cooler comes with a tapered profile and offers the following dimensions – 23.5 x 319.2 x 54.3 mm for total weight of 677 grams. It uses a special soft pillow for easy placement of a mobile computer as well as an aluminum plate for heat ...
Chinese web site sells Intel Haswell processors
13 May 2013 | PC
There are exactly 22 days left until the official launch of Intel's Haswell processor and the LGA1150 platform but hardcore hardware enthusiasts and Intel fans can already obtain Haswell processors thanks to the efforts of a Chinese web site known as Taobao. The offer seems completely legit as Taobao has photos of Core i5 and i7 Haswell processors proudly sitting in genuine I...
AMD’s Kabini APUs won’t run Windows XP, Windows Vista
10 May 2013 | PC
Windows XP has become the most successful Windows version ever with nearly 20 per cent of all PCs still using it nearly 12 years after its release. Despite the huge popularity of Windows XP this OS will be fully incompatible with the upcoming AMD Kabini APUs, along with the failed Windows Vista operating system. Kabini will not support Windows XP officially, which means that ...
