The Taiwanese Micro-Star International has released a new all-in-one PC that goes by the name Wind Top AE2031. This AIO PC will serve as a smaller brother to the already released Wind Top AE2712 but despite its smaller size it packs more than decent hardware. The Wind Top AE2031 comes with Windows 8 preinstalled and features a sensor display for the best multimedia experience o...
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Razer reveals updated Krait gaming mouse
26 November 2012 | PC, PC gaming
The famous gaming peripherals maker Razer has announced an updated version of the budget-oriented Krait mouse that the company released more than six years ago. The updated Krait comes with dimensions similar to the original mouse – 116 x 52 x 36 mm – and weighs 85 grams. The mouse now offers a 4G sensor with 6400 dpi of sensitivity and allows gamers to change the sensitivity o...
Intel prepares new Ivy Bridge CPU invasion
26 November 2012 | PC
US chip maker Intel will soon complete the transition to Ivy Bridge cores in all its CPU lines with the addition of a bunch of new Ivy Bridge-based Core, Pentium and Celeron processors. In Q1 2013 Intel will release five new mobile Core i5 and Core i7 processors - Core i5-3340M, i5-3380M, i5-3437U, i7-3540M and i7-3687U. All of these chips will feature two cores but will suppor...
AMD delays Steamroller to 2014
26 November 2012 | PC
The recent layoffs at AMD have impacted the development of new products at the US chip maker in a negative way – now AMD is forced to delay its new high-performance Steamroller chips to 2014, which will further complicate the market position of AMD. Steamroller is expected to be a 28 nm chip, produced in Globalfoundries’ facilities. It will be based on the general Bulldozer...
Sapphire unveils Edge VS mini computers
23 November 2012 | PC
The company Sapphire, best known for its huge line of AMD-based graphics cards, has released two new mini computers that belong to the company’s Edge VS line – the VS4 and the VS8. The cheaper and slower VS4 version comes with an AMD A4-4355M APU that has two 1.9 GHz cores (up to 2.4 GHz in Turbo mode) and a built-in AMD Radeon HD 7400M GPU. The system also has 4 GB o...
Tahiti LE-based graphics card released to market
22 November 2012 | PC
The rumored Tahiti LE GPU by AMD has seen the light of day in a Club 3D graphics card – the Radeon HD 7870 jokerCard Limited Edition. The new Club 3D video card is based on a 28 nm Tahiti LE video chip that operates at 925 MHz nominal clock speed and at 975 MHz Turbo clock speed with the VRAM memory running at full 6000 MHz. The GPU itself has 1536 stream processors...
be quiet! launches new PSU line
22 November 2012 | PC
German PSU maker be quiet! has launched a new line of power supply units – the System Power S7 family of PSUs. Perfectly suited for the needs of all professional PC system integrators the new line offers PSUs that range from 300W to 700W of power. The 300W, 350W and 400W models come with 80 Plus Bronze certification, while the more powerful 450W, 500W, 600W and 700W...
Radeon HD 8550M graphics card seen in ASUS laptop
22 November 2012 | Notebooks, PC
The next generation of AMD HD graphics cards is still somewhere in the future – or so AMD says – but some sharp eyes have seen the yet unannounced Radeon HD 8550M graphics card installed in a certain ASUS laptop – the ASUS VivoBook U38DT-R3001H – that you can now pre-order online. There’s very little information on this graphics card in particular except tha...
Buffalo to offer 16x Blu-Ray burners
22 November 2012 | PC, Peripherals/Accessories
The US company Buffalo will soon release two new Blu-Ray burners that operate at 16x speed. Designed to meet the needs of power users working with large files the two drives will feature the same internal hardware but will offer two different interfaces – SATA for BRXL-16FBS-BK model and USB 3.0 for BRXL-16U3 model. The drives burn data on BD-R disks at 16x speed and fully ...
Noctua launches new 140 mm fans
21 November 2012 | PC
Noctua, a well-known Austrian maker of cooling solutions, has launched a new line of 140 mm fans that complement the recently announced A-series of premium quality quiet fans. The newly announced NF-A14 FLX, NF-A14 ULN and NF-A15 PWM 140mm fans feature Noctua’s novel AAO frames as well as the series’ signature Flow Acceleration Channels for reduced boundary layer separation...
Mozilla releases Firefox 17, adds Facebook support
21 November 2012 | PC
We’ve all become accustomed to almost monthly releases of Mozilla’s Firefox browser but the latest version – Firefox 17 – released just a few days ago comes with an interesting new feature – integrated support for social networks. Firefox 17 now comes with a social sidebar and toolbar notification buttons. The browser also offers integrated Facebook chat, meaning you can ...
