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Richland, Temash and Kabini - the architecture behind Xbox One and PS4 revealed
CPU Chipset | 23 May 2013 | Carl Holmberg
With Intel's new generation of processors and chipsets coming the red team is anything but standing still. During a press conference in London AMD is divulging its solutions for notebooks, and NordicHardware is there to get to know the newcomers Temash, Kabini and Richland.
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Nvidia - "No bundled games for Geforce GTX 780 currently"
Graphics | 24 May 2013 | Anton Karmehed
Nvidia dominates the performance segments of the graphics card market at the moment. The new top model Geforce GTX 780 showed impressive performance in our tests, but will also be priced high. To make things worse Nvidia has confirmed that it will not bundle any games with the card.
Read moreAsrock dips motherboards in water bath
Motherboards | 24 May 2013 | Anton Karmehed
Asrock will launch new Z87 motherboard for Intel's Haswell processors soon and several of the models will be "water-proof". As usual when it comes to electronics and liquids it is all a matter of definition, but Asrock has taken this seriously and released a video that really backs up the statement.
Read moreFractal Design presents white version of Node 304
Cases and Barebones | 24 May 2013 | Anton Karmehed
Fractal Design has presented a new version of the mini case Node 304 where it has used white and lean design for the modular case. Node 304 can despite its mere size house up to six harddrives and three fans, but when it comes to the motherboard you have to settle for mini-ITX models.
Read moreMSI present gaming notebook with Intel Haswell
Notebooks Laptops | 23 May 2013 | Carl Holmberg
MSI recently showed off its first gaming notebook sporting AMD's "Richland" APU and HD 8970M graphics. With Intel's new platform around the corner the Taiwanese manufacturer has no intention of discriminating but presents two 17" gaming notebooks with Haswell processors and Nvidia graphics.
Read moreRichland, Temash and Kabini - the architecture behind Xbox One and PS4 revealed
CPU Chipset | 23 May 2013 | Carl Holmberg
With Intel's new generation of processors and chipsets coming the red team is anything but standing still. During a press conference in London AMD is divulging its solutions for notebooks, and NordicHardware is there to get to know the newcomers Temash, Kabini and Richland.
Read moreSilverstone presents water coolers Tundra TD02 and TD03
Cooling | 21 May 2013 | Anton Karmehed
Closed water cooling systems are more popular than ever, and case builder Silverstone has expanded its cooling series Tundra with two new models. Tundra TD02 and TD03 will tackle the competition with more efficient radiators and water blocks in a new unibody design.
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Toshiba develops unique see-through OLED panel
Displays | 21 May 2013 | Carl Holmberg
Display Week is happening right now and as one of the world's largest manufacturers of panels Toshiba visa is showing off its latest developments. Among the technologies that will be shown at the event we find a see-through OLED panel with some interesting properties.
Read moreGeforce GTX 770 testat, drygt 10 procent kraftfullare än GTX 680
Graphics | 21 May 2013 | Anton Karmehed
Nvidia will in short launch the new graphics cards of the GTX 700 series. Besides the top model GTX 780, we also expect GTX 770 to appear soon, a graphics card that builds on similar components as GTX 680. The first real benchmarks imply that GTX 770 will offer at least 10 percent better performance.
Read moreSamsung reveals 13" 3200x1800 px panel
Displays | 20 May 2013 | Carl Holmberg
Display Week is under way, an event where companies can show off the very latest in display technology. One of Samsung's contributions to this year's event comes in the form of a 13.3" notebook panel with 3200 x 1800 pixels resolution.
Read moreFuturemark announces PCMark 8
Software | 20 May 2013 | Carl Holmberg
Futuremark adds to the popular test suite for PC and announces the next version, PCMark 8. The new suite has new and updated tests, including a new battery test, improved storage benchmarks and support for simulating many popular applications.
Read moreGigabyte 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.
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AMD 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.
Read moreHaswell 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.
Read moreAMD Volcanic Islands: New GPU architecture with CPU traits
Graphics | 08 May 2013 | Anton Karmehed
Volcanic Islands is the code name of AMD's coming graphics circuit architecture and when the first block diagram for the chip leaked it revealed a whole new architecture with obvious CPU influences. Besides thousands of parallel calculation units the circuits also has serial processor cores.
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