Month: February 2014
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Sapphire Announces The R7 240 Low Profile Addition To Its R7 Lineup
Sapphire has just announced a new low-powered addition to its R7 series graphics cards, the low-profile R7 240 graphic card dedicated to the everyday user who does not need a performance-packed and more expensive solution at a high price. The Sapphire R7 240 Low Profile is said to be based…
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PC Specialist ‘Vanquish 230XT’ Gaming System Review
Introduction When browsing through the countless pre-built systems that are on offer from the likes of Overclockers UK, Scan, CyberpowerPC and PC Specialist as we have here today; most of the time we find users spending on average around £1400-1600 (~$2300-2700 USD) for their new gaming rig and whilst you…
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Intel Launches Lightening Fast New 730 Series SSD
Intel are looking to take back the performance crown and steal some of the thunder from drives such as the Samsung 840 Evo and OCZ Vector. It hopes to do this thanks to some hefty internal overclocks that have seen the controller bumped up by 50% and the NAND boosted…
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Memory Scaling On The AMD Kaveri A10-7850K APU
Introduction – Memory Scaling on Kaveri AMD’s Kaveri APUs are dependent on system memory. The easiest way to explain this dependency is by thinking of the GPU on the Kaveri APU as a graphics card, but with one significant difference – on its own it has no video memory. The…
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Move Over Mantle! It’s Time For Microsoft To Party
AMD have been stirring up the world of PC gaming in a massive way recently, the launch of their Mantle API is one of the biggest changes to how game engines can access the hardware of a GPU in many years. Designed to run on Radeon graphics cards, as well…
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Samsung Reveals Upcoming Exynos SoCs, Exynos 5244 To Be 34 Percent Faster
Samsung has been silent about its upcoming Exynos SoCs in the past, mainly due to the fact that the technology is going to be behind the 2nd generation of Samsung Galaxy S5 handest. Now with MWC and companies showing off their ‘best of the best’ gadgets and technology, Samsung has…
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 610 and 615 Announced for Q3 2014, 801 Expected This Quarter
Qualcomm has revealed three new SoCs during MWC, the new Snapdragon 610 and Snapdragon 615, both featuring the ARMv8 64-bit 28nm processing technology and the third generation LTE modem for 4G connectivity and dual-SIM support. The last, but not least, Snapdragon revealed is the high-end Snapdragon 801 having several enhancements…
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TransMemory Pro USB 3.0 Flash Drive Delivers Secure 200+ MB/s Read/Write Speeds
Toshiba has introduced a new TransMemory Pro USB 3.0 Flash Drive having large storage capacity of up to 128 GB which also offers secure ultra-high-speed data transferring and sharing. “Featuring the best performance, highest speed, and largest capacity of any Toshiba USB flash drive to date, this storage device offers…
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Compulab’s AMD-powered Fit-PC4 Brings Performance In A Small Fanless Case
Compulab, the Israeli-based system builder, has just announced the addition of the fourth generation Fit-PC, having been built on the nettop platform. The Fit-PC4 is composed out of two variants, the Fit-PC4 Value, and the Fit-PC4 Pro. The Fit-PC4 Value model is powered by an AMD A4-1250 APU, with a…
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New EIZO 27-inch ColorEdge Monitors Display 99% of the Adobe RGB Color Space
EIZO has announced two 27-inch monitors to its lineup, the ColorEdge CG277 and CX271 color management monitors, targeting professionals from digital photography, prepress, video editing, and other similar fields of expertise. The ColorEdge CG277 and CX271 are said to offer a new wide IPS panel range which reproduces 99 percent…
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ADATA DashDrive Air AE800 500GB Review
Introduction Since the first time that I had a wireless hard drive in for review, I had a mixed set of feelings with the concept and the functionality of the devices, though as of late, there have been a large number of improvements seen across the board with better performance,…
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Lian Li DK01 Desk Chassis And More To Be On Display At CeBIT 2014
Lian Li are one of the coolest chassis manufacturers around, ever praised for their mastery of aluminium construction and high-performance, high quality products. Now their engineering boffins will be showing off their latest wares at CeBIT 2014 and the best part of all (in my option) is that I’ll be at…
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AMD’s E8860 Embedded GPU Offers 92% 3D Graphics Improvement and 768 GFLOPs
AMD has announced their first discrete graphics card based on Graphics Core Next architecture, the AMD Embedded Radeon E8860 codenamed “Adelaar”, which is said to advance the visual growth and parallel processing capabilities of embedded applications. Compared to its predecessor, the AMD E8860 is said to deliver 3D and 4K…
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Lenovo Announces The YOGA Tablet 10 HD+ Sporting a 1920 x 1080 Pixel Display
Aside from its battery life, the Lenovo YOGA Tablet 10 has been quite a disappointment in terms of performance and expectations. Nonetheless, the company has just announced that it will try its luck one more time with the announcement of its successor, the YOGA Tablet 10 HD+. The HD+ version…
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Antec Announces the HCP-1300 Platinum Fit For Hardcore Gamers and Bitcoin Miners
Antec has announced a new addition to its High Current Pro Platinum series, the HPC-1300 Platinum PSU, a fully modular power supply unit with a 20+8 pin MBU connector for future needs. It is said to operate at a 94 percent efficiency and reduce electricity bills up to 25 percent…
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