Intel Core i7-3770K - Ivy Bridge and the 3D transistor is here

CPU Chipset - Written by Jacob Hugosson, Anton Karmehed Thursday, 10 May 2012 13:49

Today Intel Ivy Bridge is now official, the worlds first 22 nanometer processor that is built on their Sandy Bridge architecture. Besides the sparkling fresh manufacturing process and lower power consumption, one of it's other features is quite an improved integrated graphics circuit.

VA panels with 120 Hz refresh rate from AUO coming

Displays - Written by Jacob Hugosson Wednesday, 14 December 2011 09:34

Those looking to experience 3D, gamers or movie viewers, need a 120 Hz monitor, but sadly these have all been using TN panels, which are not widely known for their excellent colors or viewing angles. Acer's subsidiary AUO is about to start shipping 3D-capable displays with VA panels.

NVIDIA Tegra 3 - World's first quad-core for mobiles

CPU Chipset - Written by Jacob Hugosson Wednesday, 09 November 2011 09:55

NVIDIA has officially launched the renowned Kal-El - often referred to as Tegra 3, now also so by NVIDIA. Kal-El takes a giant step for NVIDIA and ARM in terms of performance, longer battery times, dynamic clock frequencies up to 1.4 GHz and support for older game controller.

Harddrive prices 2-3 fold higher than normal, time for SSD?

Storage - Written by Anton Karmehed Wednesday, 02 November 2011 09:38

Harddrive prices have gone up fast over the last few weeks and are up to 2-3 times higher than earlier this fall, a number that can get even worse. The heavy floods in Thailand have put factories under water, which is confirmed by pictures from WD's plants.

Lego Star Wars Millennium Falcon

NordicHardware - Written by Fredrik Håkansson Thursday, 01 April 2010 21:02

Today we're going to review the Millennium Falcon by Lego. (I sincerely hope you know that) The Millennium Falcon is a part of the Star Wars collection, which in turn is a franchise owned by George Lucas, who in turn almost managed to ruin the whole saga by "digitally restoring" first three movies by adding extra effects, scenes and other crap that didn't belong there.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 - The wait is over ...

Graphics - Written by Jonas Klar Saturday, 27 March 2010 14:45

NVIDIA has been slipping behind in the now famous DirectX 11 race since the launch last fall and the rumors have been endless ever since. Doomsday prophets have deemed the architecture beyond rescue, while others claim the GeForce GTX 400 series will make the world a better place with less wars, more drinking water and a cure for cancer.

CeBIT 2010 - Picture Coverage

Coverage - Written by Jonas Klar Saturday, 20 March 2010 18:01

CeBIT 2010 may be smaller this year and lost some shine as an electronics event. It is still a huge event that inside twenty or so halls each the size of a football field. You get to meet loads of exciting companies and see some really cool products, but there is never enough time to cover them all. We hope this picture coverage will offer some more easy reading about the event with a lot of entertaining products and manufacturers. It all started in a windy Hannover...

Intel Core i7 980X - 32nm Hexacore is here

CPU Chipset - Written by Jonas Klar Saturday, 13 March 2010 19:25

Barely 18 months ago chip manufacturer Intel released the latest "Tock" in its "Tick Tock"-strategy. The changes it brought includes the today well-known Nehalem and Bloomfield architectures. With four cores and two threads per core most enthusiasts with the money to spend were satisfied with the performance offered. The CPU's were packaged for the 1366 socket, which means a fairly expensive solution with Intel's X58 chipset as the only alternative and three DDR3 channels. At launch the flagship was Core i7 965, today everything changes.

G.Skill F3-16000CL6D-4GBPIS Review

Memory - Written by Andreas Galistel Sunday, 14 February 2010 18:09

Allt sedan Intel introducerade processorer med integrerade minneskontrollers har uppståndelsen kring minnen varit relativt stor. För tidigare plattformar spelade minnesspänningen ingen roll, och många högpresterande kit var specificerade till 2 Volt, ibland ännu mer. Sedan kom Core i7 och skräckscenario efter skräckscenario målades upp, hög minnesspänning skulle döda minneskontrollern och göra din dyrbara CPU obrukbar.

NVIDIA Optimus - Power when needed

Graphics - Written by Anton Karmehed Tuesday, 09 February 2010 21:55

When it comes to notebooks you have to make a choice between battery time and performance. There are solutions for combining integrated graphics circuits with discrete GPUs, where the former is used during light work and the discrete chip is activated when needed.

Danamics LMX - Second Generation Liquid Metal Cooler

Cooling - Written by Andreas Galistel Monday, 04 January 2010 01:00

It has been a long wait. A year has passed since the first liquid metal cooler from Danamics, the first from any company really. LM-10 was a breakthrough in many ways, but foremost it was the first commercially available cooler using liquid metal. There have been several attempts in the past, but none actually reached the market. It's been used out in the industry for many years, but the cost and size of the equipment have limited retail options

2009 – the year of the SSD, Firefox and ultramobility

NordicHardware - Written by Andreas Galistel Thursday, 31 December 2009 18:36

ASUS ROG Showdown at DreamHack Winter 2009: Day 2

Coverage - Written by Anton Karmehed,  Andreas Galistel Sunday, 29 November 2009 02:52

ASUS ROG Showdown at DreamHack Winter 2009: Day 1

Coverage - Saturday, 28 November 2009 00:56

GPU-Z v0.3.6 released, Hemlock identified as Radeon HD 5900

Software - Written by Andreas Galistel Thursday, 15 October 2009 16:28

GPU-Z is one of the most frequently used applications among overclockers and enthusiasts. The program enables users to keep track of their graphics cards. Not just what models, but also clock frequencies, temperatures and voltages. It can all be monitored in realtime and version 0.3.6 brings updated support for AMD Radeon HD 5850 and HD 5700 series, but also NVIDIA's GeForce 100 and 200 series of graphics cards.