The Japanese graphics card maker ELSA has decided to release an unusual version of the popular GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost graphics card. The ELSA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost S.A.C. comes with Silent Air Cooling technology for very low noise emissions and improved cooling. The ELSA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost S.A.C. comes with a non-reference PCB design that features a dual-slot cooli...
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Gigabyte reveals two more Haswell motherboards
7 May 2013 | PC
Just a few days after presenting a Z87-based motherboard the Taiwanese Gigabyte has readied two new gamer-oriented Haswell motherboards that belong to the company's G1.Killer line. The boards are the Gigabyte G1.Sniper 5 and G1.Sniper M5 with both of them appearing on the market in early June 2013 - just in time for the launch of Haswell. The Gigabyte G1.Sniper 5 is based on ...
Intel to release Ivy Bridge-E in September 2013
30 April 2013 | PC
The arrival of Haswell in June of this year will soon be followed by the official release of the next generation high-end Intel chips – the LGA2011 Ivy Bridge-E generation. The chips were at first expected in Q3 2013 and later moved to Q4 2013 but the actual release has been pushed back to Q3 2013 with the arrival date expected in September of this year. LGA2011 users shoul...
Gigabyte gets ready for Haswell
29 April 2013 | PC
There’s a little over a month till the debut of Intel’s Haswell chip and the LGA1150 platform so motherboards on the new socket have started to appear here and there. Gigabyte also has a new offering – the GA-Z87X-UD3H motherboard. As the name suggests the motherboard is based on the latest Intel Z87 chipset and supports only Haswell processors being LGA1150 only. The m...
First benchmark results of Core i7-4960X Ivy Bridge-E published
26 April 2013 | PC
Intel’s plans for the ultra high-end X79 platform are quite clear nowadays – with the arrival of Haswell in a month and a half the chip giant will retire the current Sandy Bridge-E generation and will introduce the Ivy Bridge-E CPUs. The first tests of the upcoming processors are now available thanks to the efforts of a Chinese enthusiast from the Coolaler.com forum and they show Ivy Bridg...
NVIDIA plans GeForce GTX 780 for end of May
24 April 2013 | PC
NVIDIA has struck back at AMD’s announcement of the Radeon HD 7990 by stating it would release a new card under the name of GeForce GTX 780 at the end of May 2013. The statement has surprised many but prepare for some disappointment – NVIDIA does not plan to introduce an entirely new architecture this year – instead the 7th generation of GeForce cards will count on impr...
AMD reveals Radeon HD 7990 “Malta”
24 April 2013 | PC
Advanced Micro Devices has officially unveiled the long-rumored dual-GPU Radeon HD 7990 graphics card, also known as Malta. The card has been in the news for so long that the tech specs will not be a surprise but here’s a quick list – two Tahiti cores taken straight out of the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition video cards. Thus the GPUs offer a total of 4096 ...
Windows Blue will bring back the Start Button for sure
23 April 2013 | PC
The latest addition to the upcoming Windows Blue expansion to Windows 8 is that the major update will bring the beloved Start button back - for sure! The news has been leaked on the Net by sources close to Microsoft, which claim the information is one hundred per cent true. One of the major complaints regarding Windows 8 is the missing Start Button that has been with us since...
Western Digital offers new hard drives
23 April 2013 | PC
The US hard drive manufacturer Western Digital has been having a great week so far - the company has introduced two new major product lines that are expected to bring more cash for both management and investors. The first major release is the WD XE hard drive – a hard drive in a 2.5-inch form factor with platters spinning at 10 000 rpm and a 3.5-inch hard drive adapter that...
Leak reveals Haswell pricing
22 April 2013 | PC
A leak related to the upcoming Intel Haswell processors, expected in early June 2013, has revealed the expected pricing of the first batch of processors. According to the leak the unlocked flagship Core i7-4770K (4 cores, Hyper-Threading, 3.5/3.9 GHz, 8 MB L3 cache, HD 4600 graphics, 1250 MHz GPU, 84W TDP) will sell for USD 327. The Core i7-4770 (4 cores, Hyper-Threading, 3.4...
Gigabyte presents budget-oriented Hercules X power supply units
22 April 2013 | PC
Gigabyte Technology has presented a new line of budget-oriented power supply units (PSU) for office and home computers – the Hercules X. The new line offers PSU models with nominal power that ranges between 330W and 580W, full compliance with the ATX12V 2.3 standard, protection against overloading, overvoltage, undervoltage and surges, an internal 120 mm intelligent cooling...
