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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ALTHOUGH IT’S NOT the first time a motherboard manufacturer – or computer accessory manufacturer for that matter – has teamed up with a professional PC gamer to flog its wares, we have to wonder what ASRock was thinking when they teamed up with Fatal1ty, aka Johnathan Wendel. As much as he was one of the best professional gamers out there in first person shooter games, he’s become more of a brand than a gamer these days and in all honesty, we can’t say that we think he’s a great brand.
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IT LOOKS LIKE AMD is having difficulties with their ability to supply 6950s, they just cut AIB allocations. Luckily that is not the only news about the 6900 series today.
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THE GEFORCE 570 isn’t expected to launch until next week Tuesday, but pricing of the new cards are already starting to leak out around the world. The price spread seems to be quite wide depending on the model and how much the card in question has been overclocked, although considering the price premium; it might make more sense to overclock the card on your own.
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In the spirit of the season, Rambus Inc. is giving out another round of subpoenas to all of its friends in the tech industry. Most interesting among the defendants perhaps is nVidia, who only months ago signed a licensing agreement with Rambus to end an ITC blockade of its products, (virtually their whole portfolio), which infringed on Rambus’s patents. Round 2, or 3, or 400ish… Ding!
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IT’S BEEN A LONG time since Zotac last had a new AMD mini-ITX board in its line-up, but today the company launched two new models, both using AMD chipsets which is a first for Zotac. The 880G-ITX and the M880G-ITX are quite similar if you just compare features, but the two couldn’t actually be more different.
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EARLIER TODAY WE attended the launch of three new U-series notebooks from Asus and with the U-series being Asus’ “super mobility” series of notebooks, our expectations were set fairly high, especially after yesterday’s leak of the U36. To be fair, the U36 didn’t disappoint in the flesh, but the other two models, the U31 and U41 are fairly run-of-the-mill models considering the category Asus has placed them in.
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WORD BACKING UP our exclusive story about Intel and Nvidia settling their patent feud is finally starting to trickle out. As we said over two weeks ago, this case is settled and both sides are just waiting for the ink to dry.
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If IBM has its way, QPI and HyperTransport are about to look about as fast as your mom’s 56K modem. It seems that copper interconnects are simply not good enough anymore, and IBM researchers have developed a way to incorporate nano-scale CMOS optical devices onto the same slab of silicon your old-and-busted electron based transistors are fabbed on. This allows chips to use pulses of light to communicate with each other rather than electrical signals to achieve some mind boggling bandwidth numbers.
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NORMALLY I DO not bother with preliminary numbers, but sometimes you have to go with what you have. This time, the die size of the NVidia GF110/GTX580 is such a hot topic we will sacrifice a little precision to get you the info.
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THE IVY BRIDGE server code names are starting to leak out of Intel central at long last. This one is a high end server part with some interesting connotations.
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FOR THOSE OF you that are fans of Intel’s own brand motherboards and that are waiting to upgrade their system until Sandy Bridge launches, we can today unveil some of Intel’s upcoming consumer level motherboards. But before that takes place, Intel should also have a pair of new X58 boards in the market, although to live up to its roadmap, Intel only has 30 days to get these two models out.
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A DAY AHEAD of the official launch, Asus’ new U36 notebook has made its way online courtesy of no less than three leaks, one of them being by the company itself. The company might very well unveil more new models tomorrow and either which way, we’ll be at the launch event to bring you the full details.
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For all the marvelous feats that modern “smart” phones can perform, I am constantly amazed by the constant stupidity of my own handset. Why, for instance, is there no option to disable the ringer during a calendar event for a class or meeting? Why does it tell me I have 300,000 updates to install and not give me a single button to “Install All”? Why does it not have a telescoping handle and constant vibrate mode for impromptu back-rubs? Luckily it would appear that Nokia and other developers for iToys and RoboPhones are working on fixing at least some of these important issues.
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ACER IS A COMPANY that isn’t shy to mix and match things when it comes to its computers, but its latest addition to the Revo family of low power computers is something that made us take notice when we saw the spec at a quick hands on earlier today, It’s got an AMD Athlon II Neo CPU and Nvidia ION graphics. Sadly we didn’t have too much time to play with the media centric system, but we did manage to snap a few shots of it.
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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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