Advanced Micro Devices has released a new Socket FM2 processor without an integrated graphics subsystem known as Athlon II X2 340. The chip is the latest in an APU line with no integrated graphics with the first four chips belonging to the Llano platform and two more belonging to the Trinity platform. The Athlon II X2 340 also belongs to the Trinity platform and as such offe...
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ASRock has working Haswell motherboards
5 March 2013 | PC
It seems that Intel’s upcoming LGA1150 Haswell platform will have a warm reception by motherboard makers despite the fact the chip will arrive only in June. ASRock is the first major motherboard manufacturer to exhibit working LGA1150 motherboards at the on going CeBIT 2013 in Germany. The company has presented boards based on the upcoming 8th generation Intel chipsets incl...
MSI to soon release AG2712 AIO gaming PC
4 March 2013 | PC, PC gaming
The Taiwanese Micro-Star International has taken the wraps off a new all-in-one gaming PC known as AG2712 with the event taking place at the on-going CeBIT 2013 in Hannover, Germany. As expected the new device does not compromise on power and might be of interest to gamers and hardware enthusiasts alike. The MSI AG2712 is based on fast Intel Core i7 Ivy Bridge processors and ...
Intel works on Core i3-3245, X99 chipset
4 March 2013 | PC
This year has every right to be a big one for Intel – the company will soon launch a number of innovative products including the new LGA1150 platform, the Haswell architecture as well as the new ultra-high end Ivy Bridge-E platform. Despite all these events the US chipmaker will soon launch two new processors for the current and soon to be retired LGA1155 platform. The firs...
AMD likely to introduce another mid-range graphics card
1 March 2013 | PC
AMD’s intention to introduce a few more Southern Islands graphics cards in order to better compete with NVIDIA will likely lead to the introduction of a new graphics card that sits below the Radeon HD 7750. The upcoming video card will likely be based on Radeon HD 7750 graphics cores (Cape Verde) but will either feature lower clock speeds, a reduced number of stream process...
Xigmatek announces Dark Knight Frostbourne Edition CPU cooler
1 March 2013 | PC
CPU cooler maker Xigmatek has come up with a new processor cooler known as Dark Knight Frostbourne Edition. The new company product is all white, unlike the recently announced all black Dark Knight SD1283 and features three 8 mm-thick aluminum U-shaped heatpipes that make direct contact with the CPU. The fins on the other hand feature Xigmatek’s own Stealth ceramic coating ...
Microsoft ships Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 users
27 February 2013 | PC
The latest tenth version of Microsoft's popular Internet Explorer web browser has become available to users of Windows 7. Up until now the release was only available for Windows 8. People interested in running IE 10 on a Windows 7 machine can now download the browser from Microsoft's web site. The browser comes with support for 95 languages so everyone out there can install i...
Colorful works on factory overclocked GeForce GTX Titan
26 February 2013 | PC, PC gaming
Just a week after the launch of the GeForce GTX Titan market availability is abundant with names such as ASUS, MSI, Gainward, Gigabyte, Palit and other companies selling their own versions of the card. They all share something in common though - stock frequencies. This will soon change with the arrival of Colorful’s factory overclocked GeForce GTX Titan, which will be one o...
Intel to release yet another Ivy Bridge processor
26 February 2013 | PC
Despite the upcoming arrival of Intel’s Haswell chip and the LGA1150 platform the US chip giant plans to release another Ivy Bridge processor – the Core i3-3250. The Core i3-3250 comes with product code BX80637I33250 and specs code SR0YX and is based on a die codenamed Ivy Bridge-M-2. Thus the Core i3-3250 will have two computational cores and integrated Intel HD 2500 gra...
AMD presents FirePro R5000 professional graphics card
25 February 2013 | PC
Advanced Micro Devices has released a new professional graphics card known as FirePro R5000. While there are many other AMD professional graphics cards this one differs from the rest by being able to send video to remote client devices using standard network interfaces. It is exactly this capability that allows the AMD FirePro R5000 graphics card to connect to up to four scre...
Toshiba cuts CPU cache power consumption by 85 per cent
25 February 2013 | Notebooks, PC, Tablets
Toshiba has brought some great news for chip makers and consumers by introducing a new innovative CPU technology that cuts CPU cache power consumption by up to 85 per cent. The new technology is based on using a bit line power calculator (BLPC) and a digitally controllable retention circuit (DCRC) and works by reducing active and standby power consumption in temperatures that ran...
