Jon Peddie Research (JPR) made an announcement today that might come as a shock to many of our readers. You likely know that AMD Fusion and Intel Sandy Bridge processors are coming out in the Continue reading “JPR Says New Intel & AMD CPU’s Will Cut Discrete GPU Market in Half by 2014”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Sep. 13, 2010 at 12:24pm
Intel Corporation revealed today several significant design features for the company’s 2011 2nd Generation Intel Core processor family at the Intel Developer Forum. The new and enhanced features will further extend Intel’s chip performance and Continue reading “Intel Details 2011 Processor Features – 32nm Sandy Bridge”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Sep. 13, 2010 at 11:55am
Intel has recently released an improved version of the Intel Solid-State Drive Toolbox and it is now available for Intel SSD users. New features include a System Configuration Tuner to help users configure their system Continue reading “Intel SSD Toolbox Software v2.0 Released With Secure Erase and More”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Sep. 13, 2010 at 11:23am
PNY Technologies has just announced their XLR8 Performance Edition GeForce GTS 450 1024MB GDDR5 video card. The PNY GTS 450 is available now for purchase at select e-tailer starting at $129 and looks to be Continue reading “PNY Unveils XLR8 GeForce GTS 450 Graphics Card”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Sep. 13, 2010 at 10:00am
NVIDIA today announced the latest addition to its Fermi-class of graphics processing units (GPUs), the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 — which was designed to deliver the best DX11 price/performance in the $129 USD price category. Continue reading “NVIDIA Releases The $129 GeForce GTS 450 1GB Video Card”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Sep. 13, 2010 at 9:51am
This week in San Francisco, AMD will unveil the first North America public demonstrations of its AMD Fusion Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) codenamed Zacate, a new dual-core, 18-watt TDP processor containing discrete-level graphics capabilities on Continue reading “AMD to Demonstrate Fusion APU codenamed ‘Zacate’ This Week”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Sep. 12, 2010 at 8:31am
Zalman just sent over an e-mail letting us know that their latest multipurpose fan that has unique shark fin blades is now available! These unique looking fans feature an ELQ (Ever Lasting Quiet) bearing and Continue reading “Zalman Shark Fin Blade 120mm Case Cooling Fans Released”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Sep. 10, 2010 at 4:39pm
This week at IBC 2010 in Amsterdam, AMD is introducing the newest member of the ATI FirePro family, the ATI FirePro V9800 the most powerful professional graphics card AMD has ever created, featuring support for Continue reading “AMD Introduces ATI FirePro V9800 Professional Video Card”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Sep. 10, 2010 at 11:25am
Gigabyte Technology has posted revenues of NT$3.76 billion (US$117.54 million) for August 2010, down 9.65% sequentially and 5.82% from a year earlier. Shipments of motherboards reached about 1.5-1.65 million units in August, bringing total shipments Continue reading “Gigabyte Ships 12.5 Million Motherboards So Far This Year”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Sep. 10, 2010 at 11:15am
Security experts warned Thursday of a fast-spreading e-mail worm, the first large outbreak of this type in nearly a decade. The worm appears in e-mail messages with the subject “Here you have,” and contains what Continue reading “Virus Alert: ‘Here You Have’ E-Mail Worm Spreading Quickly”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Sep. 9, 2010 at 8:44pm
ATI Catalyst 10.8b HotFix Drivers were released last night, so be sure to grab them if you need them! This Hotfix is mainly for the PC game Tom Clancys H.A.W.X so if you dont play Continue reading “ATI Catalyst 10.8b Hotfix Video Card Drivers Released”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Sep. 9, 2010 at 2:07pm
Apple just released a statement about apps made specifically for Apple’s mobile devices that many of our readers might find interesting. It sounds like apps made specifically for Apple’s mobile devices and downloaded from the Continue reading “After 6.5 Billion Download On the App Store Is Apple Now Allowing Flash?”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Sep. 9, 2010 at 12:18pm
ARM recently introduced the Cortex-A15 MPCore processor that delivers a 5x performance improvement over todays advanced smartphone processors, within a comparable energy footprint. In advanced infrastructure applications the Cortex-A15 processor running at up to 2.5GHz Continue reading “ARM Unveils Cortex-A15 Mpcore Processor – 5x Faster Than Current Smartphones”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Sep. 9, 2010 at 8:16am
MSI today announced that the CR420 is the newest member of the MSI Classic series of notebook computers and packs the all-new 2010 Intel Core i5 processor. The 14-inch notebook has a classic look to Continue reading “MSI Classic Series CR420 Notebook Launched”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Sep. 9, 2010 at 6:44am
EVGA has announced a new NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 video card called the GeForce GTX 460 FTW, that has had the performance cranked up a few notches! At 850MHz Core Clock, 1700MHz Processor Clock and Continue reading “EVGA Announces GeForce GTX 460 FTW Video Card”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Sep. 9, 2010 at 6:34am