JEDEC, the official “lawmaker” in the field of computer memory, has officially finished working on the DDR4 memory standard. The new memory standard has now been published and is accessible to all interested companies and people. “The publication of the JEDEC DDR4 standard represents the culmination of years of dedicated effort by memory device, system, component and module produ...
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Intel prepares ultra low power Atom processors for servers
26 September 2012 | PC
In case you are looking for a CPU for your new home server Intel might have something that’s just right for this occasion – three new Atom processors that feature ultra low power consumption yet pack some muscle. The CPUs in question are the Atom S1220, Atom S1240 and Atom S1260. All of them are codenamed “Centerton” and again all of them come with sub-10W TDP, which is somethi...
Enermax launches first company liquid CPU coolers
25 September 2012 | PC
Enermax, so far known for its power supplies, fans and coolers, has decided to offer something new out of the company’s factories – the first Enermax liquid CPU coolers. The new Enermax products are three and belong to the ELC series. Right now there are three liquid coolers only – the ELC120-TA, the ELC-120TB and the ELC240. All of them come equipped with a patented Enermax technolo...
Samsung releases Series 840 SSDs
24 September 2012 | PC
The Samsung Series 830 SSDs have gotten their successor – the newly released Samsung 840 SSD line, which for the first time ever arrives with TLC NAND memory. The Series 840 SSDs will in fact be divided in two lines – the 840 Pro line for more advanced users and a regular 840 line for regular users but for the most part the two sub-lines are the same. The entire 840 line comes with the...
AMD works on Radeon HD 8000 flagship
24 September 2012 | PC
A few days ago some information regarding the first members of the Sea Islands family, aka Radeon HD 8000, made it to the Internet detailing the Radeon HD 8870 and Radeon HD 8850. Now there’s more information on the new graphics card family – but this time it details an even more powerful card! Apparently AMD is working on a Radeon HD 8000-series beast that right now has no name but we...
GeForce GTX 650 Ti specs validated
21 September 2012 | PC
Well, it seems like the graphics card market will soon see a new Kepler entry – the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti. While the card is still a few weeks away, final specs of the GTX 650 Ti have been confirmed. The video card, expected to ship on October 9, will be based on the GK106 core with the GPU running at 960 MHz with no Boost clock increase. Despite this the core will have 576 strea...
AMD desktop Piledriver prices leaked
21 September 2012 | PC
The online hardware store BLT has, perhaps on accident, leaked the prices of the upcoming Piledriver-based AMD FX processors. The Piledriver architecture is to succeed the current Bulldozer this fall and AMD hopes that the Piledriver hardware updates will improve the overall CPU performance after Bulldozer’s performance failed to impress when the architecture was released. Still, do ...
Intel’s NUC to become available next month
21 September 2012 | PC
A few months ago Intel unveiled a rather interesting small form factor computer – the Intel NUC, which stands for Next Unit of Computing. Then this device vanished – until now. Well, the latest info on the Intel NUC says the device will become available next month. In case you wonder what’s inside the NUC – here’s a hint – the NUC is a 4-inch by 4-inch mini PC that houses an In...
Intel’s Haswell chip to revolutionize overclocking
20 September 2012 | PC
Intel’s latest generation Haswell architecture is only expected to arrive sometime in 2013 but even now the chip promises to deliver a number of new and exciting technologies. Apart from offering an improved internal architecture, an increased number of execution ports, extremely low power consumption and better graphics, Intel Haswell will also bring new tools for CPU overclocking that will all...
Hynix develops GDDR3 with reduced power consumption
20 September 2012 | PC
The Taiwanese memory maker Hynix has developed the industry’s first 20 nm 4 Gb GDDR3 memory that consumes less power than the previous generation of GDDR3 RAM. The new GDDR3 works at just 1.35V voltage, which is 30% less power compared to the previous generation 30 nm 1.5V GDDR3 memory. The new memory also runs at 1800 MHz and processes up to 3.6 GB of data per second with the help of a ...
Lian Li prepares giant PC chassis
18 September 2012 | PC
The Chinese company Lian Li, known for making various PC accessories and PC cases, has prepared a new giant PC case, known as PC-D8000. The new case is expected to debut in the next few weeks. (more...)...
