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Gigabyte presents Z87 motherboard
Motherboards | 20 May 2013 | Carl Holmberg
With the launch of Haswell around the corner motherboard makers are starting to show off their coming plans for the platform. Next up is Gigabyte. Just like Asus it has presented boards for enthusiasts, gamers and regular consumers, and models with 802.11ac Wifi and Thunderbolt.
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Gigabyte presents Z87 motherboard
Motherboards | 20 May 2013 | Carl Holmberg
With the launch of Haswell around the corner motherboard makers are starting to show off their coming plans for the platform. Next up is Gigabyte. Just like Asus it has presented boards for enthusiasts, gamers and regular consumers, and models with 802.11ac Wifi and Thunderbolt.
Read morePC sales down 20.5% in Western Europe in Q1
Systems | 17 May 2013 | Anton Karmehed
The PC market is stagnating and this is very clear from the computer sales figures just released by Gartner. Compared to the same period last year PC sales is down by 20.5 percent in Q1 2013. This is the biggest quarterly drop ever registered by Gartners.
Read moreAsus goes for gold with new Z87 motherboards
Motherboards | 16 May 2013 | Anton Karmehed
Asus has presented its entire motherboard family based on the Intel Z87 chipset and while we recognize a lot of the product names and the functions; there are plenty of news. Among other they have a gold inspired color theme on the standard series and 802.11ac Wifi in the top models.
Read moreAMD announces Radeon HD 8970M - new mobile flagship
Graphics | 15 May 2013 | Carl Holmberg
AMD expands its 8000 series of mobile graphics circuits, this time with a new flagship called HD 8970M. The card targets enthusiasts and the performance top with its Graphics Core Next architecture, 1,280 streamprocessors and Turbo Boost up to 900 MHz.
Read moreMSI Z87 Mpower in pictures - focus on overclocking
Motherboards | 15 May 2013 | Anton Karmehed
One of the newcomers of next month by MSI will be the motherboard Z87 Mpower, which with its new socket LGA1150 will be ready for Intel's Haswell processors. The motherboard focuses on enthusiasts with many dedicated functions such as measuring spots for voltages and troubleshooting LEDs.
Read moreAMD - "Geforce GTX 770 is just a renamed GTX 680"
Graphics | 14 May 2013 | Anton Karmehed
Nvidia has not even launched the new graphics card series GTX 700 before competitor AMD is said to "attack" the launch in its own product slides. In what is said to be leaked presentations from AMD the company shows how Radeon HD 7970 GHz will outperform the renamed Geforce GTX 770.
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Haswell control its voltages through FIVR
CPU Chipset | 14 May 2013 | Anton Karmehed
Intel is coming closer and closer to delivering complete SoC solutions for desktop PCs, and with Haswell the chip maker breaks new ground. Intel has installed a voltage regulator into the processor that is both more efficient and fifty times smaller than modern VRM chips.
Read moreSamsung hits 1 gigabit per second in 5G tests
Science Technology | 13 May 2013 | Anton Karmehed
Samsung is launching one 4G phone after another, but it has no intention of stopping there. Right now it is doing tests for the next generation mobile net, and says it is already up to speeds above 1 gigabit per second. This is 10 times faster than current 4G nets.
Read moreCorsair not worried about Intel's new power saving modes in Haswell
Power supplies | 10 May 2013 | Anton Karmehed
Corsair follows competitor Enermax and presents a compatibility list for its power supplies. The units support Intel's new power saving modes in processor architecture Haswell. This comes after reports of stability problems at extremely low currents, something that is not a problem for Corsair.
Read moreNvidia presents strong fiscal report
Graphics | 10 May 2013 | Carl Holmberg
Even giants like Intel have lost momentum on a market that is moving from traditional computing and more toward mobile computing like tablets and smartphones, but Nvidia continues to keep up the pace and even outperform previous reports, with 30% increase in profit and record margins.
Read moreWD and Sandisk present world's thinnest SSHD
Storage | 09 May 2013 | Anton Karmehed
Western Digital has teamed up with memory maker Sandisk to develop what it calls the world's thinnest SSHD - Solid State Harddrive. WD Black SSHD is a hybrid between a mechanical drive and SSD that measures only 5mm in profile, and promises the best of two worlds.
Read moreEnermax promises full support for Intel Haswell
Power supplies | 08 May 2013 | Carl Holmberg
It was recently revealed that Intel's coming processors for the 4000 series may be require currents lower than power supply standards dictate. In the light of this Taiwanese Enermax has released a press release where it says all of its power supplies of the high- and mid-end assortment will be fully capable of delivering the low currents required by Haswell.
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AMD present memory kit with focus on graphics and RAMDisk
Memory | 08 May 2013 | Carl Holmberg
As a relatively new actor in the memory business AMD has focused on system memory for enthusiasts, but the reception has been lukewarm. The company has announced the new memory kit RG2133, which offers high clock frequency and RAMDisk profiling.
Read moreAsrock water-proof motherboards for Intel Haswell
Motherboards | 08 May 2013 | Anton Karmehed
Motherboard maker Asrock has an odd ace up its sleeve before the launch of Intel's Haswell processors and LGA1150 platform. Asrock plans to water proof motherboards to withstand leaking water cooling, condensation or the odd energy drink spill.
Read moreNvidia Geforce GTX 780 and GTX 770 pictures
Graphics | 08 May 2013 | Anton Karmehed
We have already learned many interesting details for the coming Nvidia GTX 700 series and now it turns out the cards are not only similar on paper, but also physically. The story is told in pictures of the two new top models Geforce GTX 780 and GTX 770.
Read moreNZXT launches clean and quiet H630
Cases and Barebones | 08 May 2013 | Anton Karmehed
NZXT launches the new miditower H630 where it has premiered an anonymous look. A clean and minimalistic design a focus on low noise with large fans and noise dampening material directly from factory.
Read moreSeagate launches SSDs for retail and business
Storage | 07 May 2013 | Anton Karmehed
Seagate has been taking a slow approach to memory-based SSD storage, just like competitor WD. Seagate has decided to shift gears and launch no less than four different SSD units for retail, businesses and servers. All in extremely thin 2.5" formats and PCI Express.
Read moreIntel introduces Atom Silvermont for mobiles
CPU Chipset | 07 May 2013 | Anton Karmehed
Intel has already tried to grab a slice of the mobile chip market, but with the Silvermont architecture Intel wants more than just a slice. Intel promises to deliver everything you may wish for in its new Atom processor; the first Atom architecture developed directly for mobile products.
Read moreNvidia Geforce GTX 780, 770 and 760 Ti - another rebranding?
Graphics | 06 May 2013 | Anton Karmehed
Nvidia will soon roll out a new graphics card series for the performance and premium segments. Geforce GTX 700 series is mostly a new name for the current GTX 600 series since all of these are based on the current Kepler chips.
Read moreAsrock preparing several Z87 motherboards with 802.11ac Wifi
Motherboards | 06 May 2013 | Anton Karmehed
Asrock has a whole armada of motherboards ready to launch alongside of Intel's new Haswell platform on June 4th. Now that the new Intel Z87 lineup has been revealed we can conclude that one of the new things for this series is the focus on wireless networking and the new 802.11ac standard.
Read moreMSI launches mechanical keyboards: GK and CK series
Peripherals | 03 May 2013 | Carl Holmberg
The market for mechanical gaming keyboards is attracting actors that are normally not connected to these products, including component maker MSI. The company has presented the new CK series with a simple, stylish layout and the backlit GK-601 for hardcore users.
Read moreGigabyte scraps 3D bios, Dualbios for Haswell
Motherboards | 03 May 2013 | Anton Karmehed
Gigabyte is the second largest motherboard maker in the world, but it has not been very successful in switching from the traditional BIOS interface to UEFI, and its 3D BIOS has been harshly criticized. With Haswell and the new 8 series of motherboards it will try to reclaim honor through the clean DualBIOS.
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