AMD’s long term graphics card partner Sapphire has showed the company's first Radeon HD 7790 Dual-X graphics card. The new product is based on a 21.5 cm long PCB and cooling designed by Sapphire and includes an aluminum fin-stack heatsink cooled by two 80 mm fans. The card has two DVI connectors as well as HDMI and DisplayPort and draws power from a single 6-pin PCI-E power...
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Updated GeForce GTX 650 Ti may feature GPU Boost, wider memory bus
18 March 2013 | PC
The upcoming launch of AMD's Radeon HD 7790 graphics card has forced NVIDIA to counter the new threat with a faster version of the current GeForce GTX 650 Ti graphics card. The first specs have already surfaced - but there's more to the picture it seems. The still unnamed future graphics card is now said to feature GPU Boost - a feature that the regular GeForce GTX 650 Ti...
CyberPowerPC unleashes LAN III gaming PCs
18 March 2013 | Gaming, PC
CyberPowerPC has released a new line of gaming PCs known as LAN III. There is a total of four models all housed in box-sized chassis and despite the more than decent hardware all models come at unusually low prices and sport liquid cooling solutions. The first in the line is the Mini-A model which starts at just USD 439 - and for this much money you get an AMD A4-5300 APU cou...
Corsair releases DDR3-3000 memory kit
15 March 2013 | PC
US manufacturer of high-end memory Corsair has officially released an 8 GB (2 x 4 GB) DDR3 memory kit that runs at 3000 MHz. The new memory belongs to the company’s Vengeance Extreme memory line and works at 12-14-14-36 latencies at 1.65V. The memory also comes with low profile heat spreaders with a special coating and for all the overclockers Corsair even provides a flask ...
NVIDIA to counter HD 7790 threat with new product
15 March 2013 | PC
AMD’s efforts to produce faster and better market positioned graphics cards based on the Southern Islands family have not only led to the upcoming April 2013 arrival of the Radeon HD 7790 graphics card but also to the future release of a new NVIDIA video card that will battle Radeon HD 7790’s market invasion. Indeed, in order to counter the HD 7790 threat NVIDIA now plans...
Intel to release limited number of Haswell chips
15 March 2013 | PC
The infamous Haswell bug that leads to problems when working with data stored on USB 3.0 devices will very likely force Intel to release limited numbers of the chip when it get officially launched in June 2013, an analyst close to the company has said. “Haswell for desktop (Denlow platform) looks set to launch with cautious volume in June using the faulty C1 stepping, and t...
AMD updates product logos
14 March 2013 | PC
The arrival of AMD's Richland APUs has brought something new to the table - updated AMD logos for pretty much all company products. Starting with Richland AMD has updated the logos for its products with the change affecting the Radeon brand, the AMD FX processors, AMD memory, chipsets and other company products. As before the company bets once again to black and red with the ...
Giada releases Android-based mini PC
14 March 2013 | PC
A company that goes by the name of Giada has launched a mini PC that runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich right out of the box and sports an ARM processor. The device is known as Q11 and measures just 191 x 155 x 26 mm. Powered by Allwins A10 Cortex-A8 processor at 1 GHz, the Q11 has 1 GB of DDR3 SDRAM and an internal 8 GB NAND flash drive for storage. Users can expand the int...
AMD launches Richland APUs
13 March 2013 | PC
Advanced Micro Devices has officially launched four models of Elite A-Series Accelerated Processing Units also known as Richland. The new chips are manufactured on 32 nm technology and feature either two or four cores that run between 2.1 GHz and 2.9 GHz of nominal clock speed, updated AMD Turbo Core technology, L2 cache that reaches 4 MB and an integrated AMD Radeon 8000-series ...
Intel will fix Haswell’s bug with a new chipset revision
13 March 2013 | PC
Much to the dislike of Intel the upcoming 4th generation Core processor, codenamed Haswell, has become known with a USB 3.0 bug. The issue occurs when a Haswell-based system goes to S3 sleep state at the same moment when data, residing on USB 3.0 devices, gets requested. Later when waking up from the S3 state the system may not be able to keep working with the same USB 3.0 da...
Microsoft hints of Windows 9 in job posting
13 March 2013 | PC
A job posting for a position at Microsoft has revealed some quite interesting facts including that Microsoft has already started working on Windows 9. While the name of the upcoming OS is hardly a surprise, the news of the work is something fresh. Microsoft has been tight-lipped on the matter so far but the job posting changes all this. Here’s what it says: “We utilize cu...
