The AMD Radeon HD 7990 codenamed “New Zealand” has surfaced, with TechPowerUp having posted an image of the reference design along with a GPU-Z screen cap of the graphics card’s specifications. In an interesting twist, Continue reading “AMD Radeon HD 7990 Surfaces; Specs Confirmed”.
In what must surely look like a bad April Fool’s joke but isn’t, GAME Group has been saved from administration, just a week after it was placed there – very good news for most of Continue reading “GAME Group Saved!”.
iFixit has been searching high and low for a better way to get inside the new iPad. Their current method requires industrial strength suction cups, a heavy-duty 1500 watt heat gun, a dozen plastic spacers, Continue reading “New iPad Opening Tool – iPad Fubar by Stanley”.
Have you ever heard of a gaming lawnmower? They do not exist today, but Mionix plans on changing that with the release of the Antheia 2000 riding mower. Mionix has managed to stick a sweet Continue reading “Mionix Introduces the Antheia 2000 Gaming Lawnmower”.
According to Digitimes, hard disk drive (HDD) prices will be dropping in Taiwan’s retail channels near the end of April. The price drop, which is expected to be around 10%, is to help promote sales Continue reading “HDD Prices to Drop By 10% In Taiwanese Market”.
It would appear Micron Technology, along with Toshiba Corp, are not the only ones looking to acquire Elpida Memory. SK Hynix Semiconductor has entered the ring with the following statement to the Korean stock exchange: Continue reading “SK Hynix Submits Bid Interest For Elpida Memory”.
Intel’s Ivy Bridge processors have seen a couple delays so far, but the launch date of April 29th has been confirmed with chips available for purchase, according to CPU World. April 8th of course will Continue reading “Intel Ivy Bridge Launch Confirmed: Chips Available For Purchase April 29th”.
Earlier this month MSI launched the companies AMD Radeon HD 7970 based Lightning series video card, the R7970 Lightning. The MSI R7970 Lightning is clocked at 1070 MHz on the core and 1400 MHz on the memory (5600 MHz effective). This is an impressive 15.7% clock increase on the core and a mediocre 1.8% on the memory. Read on to see how this $599 video card performs against the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 and take a look at how far we overclocked it!
Details of Sony’s next generation Playstation, codenamed “Orbis”, have surfaced. According to Kotaku, the console is planned to release during the 2013 holiday season. In an interesting twist, “Orbis” latin for circle, ring, or even Continue reading “Rumor: Sony Playstation 4 Codenamed Orbis – Details Surface”.
According to a Chinese Commercial Times report, it would appear ASUS will be gradually reducing its holdings in Pegatron Technology. ASUS, who holds a 24.5% stake in the company, will start releasing its holdings starting Continue reading “ASUS To Gradually Reduce Holdings In Pegatron Technology”.
A new report from international market research firm Newzoo is highlighting the ever-increasing popularity of mobile gaming. According to the Mobile Games Trend Report, the number of Americans who play video games on their smartphone, Continue reading “Number of U.S. Mobile Gamers Reaches 100 million”.
It looks like the cheaper Kepler cards are going to start appearing in May. NVIDIA will release two GK107-based cards, one with GDDR5 memory (GTX 650) and the other GDDR3 (GT 640) and will likely Continue reading “Cheaper Keplers On Way: GT 640, GTX 650, GTX 660”.
Palit has released a premium non-reference GTX 680 graphics card for enthusiasts looking for that something extra in their cards. Called Jetstream, the cooler features three LED-lit PWM fans, with the middle one being 90mm Continue reading “Palit GTX 680 2GB Released: Overclocked, Great Cooling and Noise Performance”.
AMD’s HD 7970 competition in the form of NVIDIA’s GTX 680 came last week and the new contender is faster (mostly) more efficient, quieter. Impressively, it does all this at $499 instead of the $549 Continue reading “HD 7970 Holds its Price Against Cheaper, Better GTX 680”.
EK Water Blocks has posted a great installation video that shows how to install their EK-FC680 GTX water block on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 graphics card! If you are curious how hard it is Continue reading “How To Install a Water Block on the GeForce GTX 680 Video Card”.
