Jan 18, 2011

1GB Radeon HD 6970 set to launch next month

Brings with it a lower $279 price tag

AMD HAS DECIDED it’s time to have its partners launch more affordable Radeon HD 6900 series cards and oddly enough the top of the range HD 6970 is the first card to be given the 1GB treatment including a nice price cut to go along with it. The new cards are expected to hit retail for around $279, making them more affordable than most Radeon HD 6950 cards with 2GB of memory.
Update: January 18, 2011 changes to story at bottom.
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Jan 17, 2011

Sapphire’s Pure Black P67 gets official

Still called the PB-CI7S42P67 in surname

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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Jan 17, 2011

First Sandy Bridge notebooks are trickling out in retail

Mostly large, high-spec machines

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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Jan 14, 2011

Gigabyte’s mini-ITX H67 board sports dual HDMI

The ideal HTPC board?

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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Jan 14, 2011

Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD7

Review: High-end board with a high-end price

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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Jan 14, 2011
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Top ten highs and lows from CES 2011

Are you peddling iPhone 4 cases? No? Then GTFO!

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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Jan 13, 2011

IDT makes use of DisplayPort AUX channel for touch screen data

Should lead to cheaper and simpler touch screen implementations

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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Jan 13, 2011

Asus P8P67 WS Revolution

Review: A P67 workstation motherboard

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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Jan 12, 2011

Sony and Fujitsu launch Brazos notebooks

Exclusively in Japan, for now

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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