The long awaited refresh of the high-end LGA 2011 platform will finally take place in Q3 2013, Hitechreview has learned. In this time period Intel will retire the current Sandy Bridge-E chips by releasing three new LGA 2011 processors based on the Ivy Bridge-E architecture - the Core i7-4820K, Core i7-4930K and Core i7-4960X. All new chips will offer improve...
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Lenovo outs ThinkCentre Edge 62z – a smaller AIO PC
1 April 2013 | PC
Lenovo has introduced a new all-in-one PC that belongs to the ThinkCentre series – but this time the unusual thing is that it comes with a rather small 18.5-inch display. Will it serve your needs – read on to find out! Unlike most other AIO PCs that come with at least 20-inch displays and sometimes ship with even 27-inch screens, the Lenovo ThinkCentre Edge 62z bets on a ...
Windows Blue to have a new name, may integrate Windows RT
1 April 2013 | PC
The rumored Windows Blue upgrade to Windows 8 has been officially confirmed by an official Microsoft blog post on the Internet. The confirmation also brought something new to the table - Windows Blue will almost certainly debut under a new name. The news has come out by none other but Frank Shaw, Microsoft's VP of corporate communications who said that the Blue labeling is an...
VIZIO unveils new PC line-up
29 March 2013 | PC
The US company VIZIO has announced a new line of Windows 8-based PCs that consists of a total of 7 models and is ready to tackle the latest software out there. The new machines come with either 14-inch, 15.6-inch, 24-inch or 27-inch 10-finger capacitive touch displays and offer Intel and AMD processors. Divided in two sub-lines – Thin + Light and All-in-One – the new VIZIO Touch PC...
AMD announces Radeon Sky for cloud gaming
28 March 2013 | PC, PC gaming
AMD has announced a completely new line of Radeon graphics cards – Radeon Sky. The new cards are designed for cloud gaming and are available now. The Radeon Sky line consists of three sub-models – Radeon Sky 900, Radeon Sky 700 and Radeon Sky 500. The Radeon Sky 900 comes with 6 GB of GDDR5 memory accessed over a 384-bit bus and 480 GB/sec of bandwidth, a GPU that runs at...
Oracle debuts 16-core SPARC T5 processor
28 March 2013 | PC
Oracle has introduced what it calls the fastest CPU on the planet at the moment – the SPARC T5 processor, which packs whopping 16 processing cores and a ton of other hardware. The SPARC T5 will power Oracle’s next generation of servers and to do this it comes with two times the number of cores, faster clock speed and a number of specific accelerator devices on board when ...
AMD exhibits dual-GPU Radeon HD 7990 video card
28 March 2013 | PC
At the ongoing Game Developers Conference 2013 AMD has finally unveiled a prototype of the long rumored and highly expected dual-GPU Radeon HD 7990. The card, also known as Malta, has a black PCB and is based on a 28 nm Tahiti XT chip with 2048 stream processors and Graphics Core Next architecture. The HD 7990 prototype also has 6 GB of GDDR5 memory (3 GB per GPU) accessed ov...
Thermaltake unveils Urban S41 mid-tower case
28 March 2013 | PC
Thermaltake Technology, known for making various PC hardware including cooling solutions and chassis, has unveiled its latest mid-tower PC chassis known as Urban S41. The Urban S41 has a very sleek look and comes in pure black all around. Made of SECC steel the chassis is available in two versions – one with a window in the side panel and another without it. ...
Intel plans to release two high performance mobile Haswell chips
27 March 2013 | PC
It seems that by the end of the year Haswell’s true power will have come to notebooks as well. To make that happen Intel plans to release at least two high performance mobile Haswell chips with the first two being Core i7-4850HQ and Core i7-4950HQ. Both chips will be based on the Haswell architecture and will have four cores, 6 MB L3 cache and will have support for Hyper-Th...
Kingston announces black HyperX desktop memory
26 March 2013 | PC
The well-known memory maker Kingston continues to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the launch of the first HyperX memory by launching new DDR3 HyperX memory in all black PCBs. The new black HyperX memory is reserved for the HyperX Beast series and the all-new HyperX black product line – a budget-oriented HyperX memory. The Kingston HyperX Beast is availa...
Windows Blue leaked on the Internet
26 March 2013 | PC
After months of speculation and rumors regarding the mysterious Windows Blue update to Windows 8, the first proof of the existence of this major update is here – Windows Blue Build 9364 has been leaked online! The first reviews of the leaked build strongly suggest Windows Blue will bring a number of enhancements and changes to Windows 8, most of which will deal with the use...
