WHEN IT RAINS, it seems to pour, only this is January in Minnesota, so it is snowing and we are talking about leaks. This time, here is a much closer shot of Orochi/Bulldozer than has been released elsewhere.
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THERE ISN’T MUCH that we didn’t already know about Sapphire’s new P67 after our brief encounter with the board at Intel’s Sandy Bridge launch in Taiwan, but the final version cleaned up pretty good and it got it’s retail name, Pure Black P67. The design remained mostly the same, although the final board has now been fitted with some slightly unusual cooling which makes the board stand out from the competition.
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TOSHIBA HAD SOME innovative flash products on display at CES, from large capacities to small form factors. Visiting them also solved one of the biggest head scratching questions of the show.
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IT LOOKS LIKE things are heating up on the AMD front after a long period of quiet. This time around, someone sent us a picture of a Llano wafer, and we thought we would share.
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IT’S LESS THAN two weeks since Intel officially unveiled its new Sandy Bridge range of processors and retail notebooks are already hitting the (online)stores en masse. However, it seems to be a bit of an odd launch, as we’re mostly seeing high-end 15.6-inch models with only a handful of smaller models being available so far.
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SONY HAD TWO rather hideous laptops on display at CES that caught my attention, one was hideously ugly, the other was a Brazos box. In a stunning turn of events, neither caught fire while we were in attendance.
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WE’D ALMOST FORGOTTEN about this one, but we scored some pictures of Gigabyte’s final revision of the GA-H67N-USB3 mini-ITX board which have been fitted with the same style heatsink as its other H67 and P67 boards. It’s also the first H67 board we’ve seen that sports twin HDMI ports, making for some interesting usage scenarios.
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SO FAR WE’VE looked a range of motherboards for Intel’s new Sandy Bridge processors and the last of the boards this time around is the Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD7 which is at least for the time being, Gigabyte’s top of the line model. It packs just about every feature you could possibly want and then some, although it has a price to match these features.
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Despite the many gadget and tech sites who were dancing about half-sober, clamoring over a spectacular CES show fraught with innovation, I’m going to go ahead and take a different stand. There were intriguing bits to be sure, but overall I left with the opinion that the gadgets in Vegas might as well stay in Vegas this year. Herein I will break down what I felt were the top ten highlights, and the top ten low points at the Consumer Electronics Show this year, just be warned that these are my opinions and don’t necessarily reflect the views of others at S|A or other sentient life forms in general.
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ONE MAJOR PROBLEM with touch screens, at least for the manufacturers, is that most touch screen controllers have relied on USB signalling which has required extra wires not just internally between the touch screen and the controller, but also externally between the display and the system in the case of desktops. IDT has found a clever solution to the problem by using the auxiliary channel on the DisplayPort interface to send the touch screen data over, something that should make it a lot easier to implement touch screen technology.
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ASUS’ WS SERIES of motherboards are meant to be appeal to the entry level workstation market and the latest addition is the P8P67 WS Revolution based on Intel’s P67 chipset. As such this board doesn’t quite fall in the consumer category of motherboards from Asus and as a matter of fact, it’s been designed by the server and workstation motherboard team at Asus, rather than the consumer motherboard team.
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THE PHONE CALL came in out of the blue from a friend that works at a fruity themed company, “You at CES? Want to see something interesting?”. With those words, one of the biggest questions about the iPhone 5 was on the road to being answered.
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AMD HAS MANAGED to drum up a lot of support for its Brazos platform and as of today Fujitsu and Sony has joined the growing group of notebook makers with Brazos powered machines, as both companies have announced 11.6-inch models in Japan. Neither model is available as of yet, but both companies will have their models in the shops within the next two to three weeks.
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CRUCIAL IS STEPPING out from Micron in the branding world, and is doing so by introducing a new drive. Welcome to the new Crucial M4 SSD, it is not the same as the Micron C400.
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AFTER SEVERAL RUMOURS and a lot of speculation we’ve managed to get our hands on what should be close to final specifications of Intel’s Patsburg chipset for its LGA-2011 processors and this is also what the X68 chipset will be based off, although today we’ll be specifically looking at Intel’s solutions for Xeon processors. Intel will launch no less than four different SKUs for Patsburg for its Xeon platform alone, not counting the X68 chipset.
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Although Intel has announced new high-end parts that are slated to launch later this year the i9-7900X is still Intel’s fastest desktop CPU to date.
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In this article we’ll look at the air cooled version of AMD’s Radeon RX Vega 64.
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Today we’ll be looking at AMD’s Radeon RX Vega 56 GPU.
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In this review we’ll be looking at AMD’s other Ryzen Threadripper chip the 1920X.
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