The next version of the popular PC Mark benchmark software – PC Mark 8 – will include measurements of power consumption and battery life for the first time ever. When it comes out users will also have the option to measure power consumption on laptops while the benchmark runs or run the benchmark in a loop until the battery gets completely empty for more accurate results....
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Seagate releases Video 3.5 HDD line
21 May 2013 | PC
Seagate has released a new hard drive line that has been specifically optimized for recording video. The new line is known as Video 3.5 and offers up to 4 TB of capacity. According to Seagate the new 3.5-inch line is perfect for use with digital recorders (DVR), set-top boxes (STB) and video surveillance systems. The Video 3.5 line focuses on excellent reliability, large capa...
MSI debuts Radeon HD 7730 graphics card
20 May 2013 | PC
The rumored AMD Radeon HD 7730 graphics solution has morphed into an MSI video card that is based on the expected HD 7730 hardware. Strangely enough AMD has not released this GPU yet but the MSI graphics card seems very real. Anyway budget gamers will find it selling as MSI R7730-1GD5V1. The card sports a compact PCB, a Cape Verde GPU, a dual-slot aluminum heat sink with a si...
Innodisk ships first DDR4 RDIMM memory modules
20 May 2013 | PC
The small Taiwanese memory maker Innodisk has become one of the first companies to ship DDR4 RDIMM (registered DIMM) memory modules to partners. An interesting fact is that Innodisk does not have its own manufacturing facilities but this has not prevented the company from becoming a pioneer on the DDR4 memory market. The memory modules themselves are likely made by Samsung or Hynix. ...
BenQ debuts AIO PC that runs Android
17 May 2013 | PC
BenQ has presented a new 21.5-inch AIO PC that runs Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich right out of the box. The device measures 508 x 360 x 65 mm, weighs around 5 kg and is proudly known as CT2200 Smart Display. On the inside the CT2200 Smart Display is based on a TI OMAP 4430 SoC that has two ARM Cortex-A9 cores at 1 GHz. In addition the machine has 1 GB of RAM, 8 GB of inter...
Mad Catz starts sales of R.A.T.M. wireless gaming mouse
17 May 2013 | PC, PC gaming, Peripherals/Accessories
Gaming peripherals maker Mad Catz has officially started the sales of the R.A.T.M. wireless gaming mouse – the first in a new line of GameSmart mobile gaming accessories. The Mad Catz R.A.T.M. is the first mouse to come with Bluetooth Smart 4.0 technology, a gaming grade laser sensor, leading battery life and high performance. The R.A.T.M. mouse features an adjustable palm ...
Xigmatek reveals Janus CPU cooler
17 May 2013 | PC
Cooler maker Xigmatek has announced the Janus cooler with enhanced design and very broad CPU socket support including the latest Intel LGA1150. The Janus CPU cooler is based on a C-type aluminum fin-array design and has a mirror-polished copper base and six 6-mm heat pipes that transfer heat to the aluminum fin-stack, which is itself cooled by two fans. The top fan is a 10-mm...
ASUS unveils its LGA1150 ROG motherboard line and more
17 May 2013 | PC
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...
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...
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...
