The Taiwanese ASRock has unveiled a rather interesting mini-ITX gaming computer at the just finished CeBIT 2013 exhibition in Hannover, Germany. The unnamed mini-ITX computer is based on the ASRock Z87-E motherboard and as the name of the motherboard suggests the computer uses the still upcoming LGA1150 form factor and the Haswell processor. The machine also features a 6-phas...
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AMD to soon launch two new Vishera processors
11 March 2013 | PC
AMD’s October 2012 launch of the new AMD FX Vishera core saw the arrival of just four processors – the AMD FX-4300, FX-6300, FX-8320 and FX-8350. The company later promised it would soon launch more models but this has not happened so far. Still two more Vishera-based processors have surfaced at an online shop suggesting AMD will soon launch them on the market. According to t...
Intel plans new Ivy Bridge Pentium processors
11 March 2013 | PC
The upcoming arrival of the LGA1150 platform and the first batch of high-end Haswell processors will soon prompt Intel to strengthen its budget and mid-range product list before the coming of budget-oriented Haswell chips. Thus the company will soon launch four new Pentium models on the Ivy Bridge architecture. The four chips are as follows: Pentium G2030 (dual-core, 3.0 GHz,...
Transcend comes up with 32 GB DDR3 LRDIMM memory module
11 March 2013 | PC
Transcend, one of the world’s famous makers of computer memory, has officially announced the arrival of its latest product – a load-reduced DDR3 DIMM memory module with capacity of 32 GB. Load-reduced DDR3 DIMM memory (LRDIMM) is used in high-performance servers, where it serves to reduce the load on the server memory bus thanks to a specially designed...
NVIDIA plans Quadro K6000 professional graphics card
7 March 2013 | PC
Just a day after the release of four new Quadro Kepler-based graphics cards, NVIDIA has announced its intention to launch a new high-end Quadro professional graphics card that will replace the last year’s Quadro K5000. Known as Quadro K6000 the card will use the GK110 core currently found in the GeForce GTX Titan graphics card but will have 2496 working stream processors ou...
Gigabyte presents Z87 motherboard
7 March 2013 | PC
Following ASRock the Taiwanese Gigabyte Technology has presented its first high-end LGA1150 motherboard at the just finished CeBIT 2013 in Germany. The Gigabyte GA-Z87X-OC is a high-end Z87-based motherboard desighed for overclockers. The board comes with an 8-phase VRM power system and sports four DDR3 memory slots for up to 64 GB of DDR3 SDRAM. The GA-Z87X-OC offers three P...
AMD’s Kaveri APUs will support GDDR5 memory
7 March 2013 | PC
One of AMD’s strategies for survival in these difficult times has always been compatibility and offering more for less money. This is of course great for the end user and it looks like this strategy will continue for the time being. According to the latest information coming out of AMD the company’s upcoming Kaveri APUs will support two types of system memory – DDR3 and...
ASRock displays first LGA1150 boards at CeBIT 2013
7 March 2013 | PC
ASRock - the third largest motherboard maker - has presented at CeBIT 2013 its first working LGA1150 motherboards, namely the entry-level ASRock B85M and the high-end Z87 Extreme6 motherboard. Starting with the budget-oriented offering the B85M is based on the Intel B85 chipset and features the compact micro-ATX form factor. Being small in size the motherboard comes with just...
HP launches Ubuntu-based desktop computer
6 March 2013 | PC
Hewlett-Packard has surprised the Linux community by launching a new Pavilion all-in-one desktop computer that has been specifically designed for running Ubuntu Linux. Known as HP Pavilion 20-b101ea the AIO PC isn’t exactly a powerhouse so it is highly unlikely it will appeal to gamers. The machine is powered by AMD’s E1-1200 APU with two Bobcat cores at 1.4 GHz and built...
NVIDIA widens Kepler-based Quadro card line
6 March 2013 | PC
NVIDIA has decided to finally include more Kepler-based graphics cards to its professional Quadro line after last year’s launch of the K5000. The company has now released four more Kepler Quadro solutions - the Quadro K4000, Quadro K2000, Quadro K2000D and Quadro K600. All aforementioned solutions are equipped with NVIDIA's SMX technology which brings increased computationa...
First specs of Radeon HD 7790 surface
6 March 2013 | PC
AMD’s plans to keep on making new Southern Islands graphics cards have resulted in rumors of Radeon HD 7990, HD 7790 and HD 7730 models. While these offerings are still some time away AMD has released some of the Radeon HD 7790 specs at CeBIT 2013 in Germany. According to this preliminary information the future Radeon HD 7790 will have 896 stream processors and will be base...
