AT SEMIACCURATE WE never met an NDA we did like and most sites seem to ignore them on a whim to whore views, so now seems as good a time as any to violate a few about the AMD 6900 series. We don’t want to feel like loners. Some of the card’s secrets have leaked by now, but the biggest one, the second switch, hasn’t even made the speculation circuit yet.
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THERMALTAKE HAS A new line of esports accessories called, strangely enough, TT esports By Thermaltake. While this may seem like an odd departure for the company, TT hasn’t slowed down on their traditional mainstays.
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AS CLOSELY AS AMD has guarded its 6900 series graphics cards it wasn’t entirely unexpected that pictures of cards would start to leak ahead of the launch once products started to ship into retail and that’s exactly what has happened now. Some benchmarks have also leaked, but due to the fact that the drivers supplied with the cards aren’t the final drivers, none of the current benchmarks should be taken as gospel.
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OVER THE PAST few days it appears as if the online retailers have gotten their act together and jointly decided to post pricing of motherboard for Intel’s upcoming Sandy Bridge processors. So far we’ve spotted boards on sale from Asus, Biostar, Gigabyte, Intel itself and MSI in various parts of the world, although some of the prices seem to be, shall we say a little bit on the high side.
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RUMOURS ARE STARTING to come in that Apple is considering dumping Nvidia graphics on its entry level notebooks in favour of Intel’s new integrated graphics in the upcoming Sandy Bridge processors. Considering that Apple has to move away from Nvidia’s chipset if it’s planning to bring its entire line of notebooks to the Sandy Bridge platform, then Apple doesn’t have much choice.
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TODAY WE HAVE something a little bit different from or usual content, as we have a Q&A with Terrance Shih who is a PM at VIA Labs. We asked him some questions about VIA Labs, its USB 3.0 product line and how they see themselves positioned in the market, so with no further ado, here’s what he had to say.
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WE NOTICED A drop in temperature, but we weren’t aware that hell had frozen over, again. Lo and behold, Intel has teamed up with AMD, Dell, Lenovo and LG and Samsung’s display divisions to abolish the analogue VGA display interface in favor of more modern digital options and no, we’re not talking about DVI here.
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WE’VE ALREADY COVERED what is most of Intel’s consumer line-up of Sandy Bridge motherboards, but the company is also readying a line of business centric models alongside some more affordable consumer options. These boards fall into Intel’s Executive and Classic series of boards respectively and consist of a total of seven models so far.
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FOR THOSE OF you waiting for the first mini-ITX Brazos boards it seems like the long wait is almost over, at least as long as you don’t mind going with a Gigabyte board that is. A picture along with some details of Gigabyte’s first Brazos mini-ITX board has made its way onto the web and it looks like Intel’s Atom processor just got some serious competition on its hands.
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It’s an early Christmas for the minions of JHH, as Nvidia lifted the NDA on their GTX 570 graphics cards early this morning. The card is essentially the paternal twin of the GTX 480 who decided to keep baking in the oven for a few extra hours compared to its sibling. Read on for a list of our favorite reviews from around the Internets.
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TODAY INTEL FINALLY launched its two new X58 boards, the DX58SO2 and DX58OG, both long coming, although maybe not that much anticipated. Oddly enough, Intel doesn’t seem to be making much noise about the two new boards, at least not on its news site, but the company has sent out a press release to its channel partners which might be more important than telling the media about the new boards.
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GOOGLE ITSELF HAS revealed more details about its upcoming Chrome OS and surprisingly its first Chrome notebook which will be part of a pilot program open to both businesses and the public. This is not the first cloud based OS around, but it’s most likely set to be the one to have the biggest impact once it launches next year.
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TODAY NVIDIA LAUNCHED YET another Nvidia GeForce R-series card, short for rebrand, but that is not the only one. At CES, Nvidia will launch the GF119 along with a whole series of all new rebrands.
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THE MUCH RUMOURED and anticipated Google Nexus S has finally been unveiled by Google, alongside the even much more anticipated release of Android 2.3. The bad news in the first case is that you have to wait until the 16th of December to be able to purchase one and in the latter case that so far only Nexus One owners will be able to get their hands on Android 2.3 initially, well, that’s only bad news if you don’t own a Nexus One.
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IT DIDN’T TAKE long for Nvidia to announce its first mobile GeForce 500-series part and the GeForce GT 540M is what brings its mobile GPU’s forward a generation, or does it? Considering that pretty much all of the specifications are the same as the GeForce GT 435M, bar some adjustments in clock speed, this seems to be yet another rebrand to please its OEM partners, albeit this time it appears to be a China exclusive.
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