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Focus on PC hardware news, especially graphic card news and reviews.
ASUS Delivers Maximus V GENE ROG Motherboard
Lately ASUS unleashes its Z77 motherboards in ROG series——Maximus V GENE, the mobo adopts Micro ATX design. The mobo is based on Z77 chipset, 8+4 phase power circuit to support Extreme Ebgine Digi+ II technology (8 phase for CPU while 4 phase for GPU). Additionally it offers 2 phase independent power supply for memory. In [...]
EVGA Introduces Z77 FTW Motherboard
Monday, April 09, 2012 9:57 PM
Intel 7-series motherboard chipsets have arrived, and EVGA also introduces its Z77 FTW motherboard for many enthusiastic players. The Z77-based motherboard adopts EATX design, supports Ivy Bridge/Sandy Bridge processors, employs four DDR3 DIMM memory slots (2133MHz memory supported), six PCI-E x16 slots used for establishing 4-Way SLI or CrossFireX system. Additionally the mobo provides dual-8pin [...]
Intel Officially Announces 7 Series Chipsets
Monday, April 09, 2012 9:56 PM
Though the launch date of Ivy Bridge processors are delayed, but now the matched 7-series motherboard chipsets are officially announced. The first batch of Intel 7-series chipsets are mainly Z77, as well as H77/B75. Z77 is supposed to replace Z68, supports PCI-E 3.0, native USB 3.0, Rapid Start, Smart Connect, Virtu MVP, native SATA 6Gbps [...]
MSI GeForce GTX 680 Twin Frozr III Graphics Card Surfaced
Monday, April 09, 2012 9:31 PM
Here comes another non-reference GeForce GTX 680 from MSI, the card is MSI GTX 680 Twin Forzr III. The graphics card boasts the company’s self-designed Twin Forzr III cooler, the cooler employs two fans, five nickel-plated copper heatpipes, copper base, lots of aluminum cooling fins and metal wind scooper, which is claimed to have a [...]
MOSAID Develops World’s First 512Gb 16-Die NAND Flash Stack
Monday, April 09, 2012 2:43 PM
MOSAID lately announced that they have developed the industry’s first NAND Flash MCP (multi-chip package) with a 16-die NAND stack operating on a single high-performance channel. The 512Gb HLNAND (HyperLink NAND) MCP combines a stack of 16 industry standard 32Gb NAND Flash die with two HLNAND interface devices to achieve 333MB/s output at 1.8V over [...]
Sony PS4 May Use A8-3850 APU and HD 7670 GPU
Monday, April 09, 2012 10:47 AM
Sony PlayStation 4 (PS 4) will use AMD A8 APU and Radeon HD 7670 GPU, as IGN reported. Firstly let’s see the processor, the model is AMD A8-3850, the APU features quad-core, 4MB L2 cache (without L3 cache), default frequency of 2.9GHz and 100W TDP, integrates HD 6550D graphics, but doesn’t support Turbo technology. As [...]
K|ngp|n Gets GeForce GTX 680 to 1957MHz
Sunday, April 08, 2012 9:46 PM
(Click to enlarge) GTX 680 shows us its strong overckocking capability, earlier overclocking player k|ngp|n successfully overclocked a GTX 680 graphics card to 1.9GHz, and now he further broke the record. Recently k|ngp|n pushed the GTX 680 graphics card to 1957MHz, core frequency increased by 591MHz, and TDP improved by 110%. In addition, six-core i7-3930K [...]
Kepler GK104-based GTX 670 Ti Specifications Outed
Sunday, April 08, 2012 9:31 PM
Lately the specifications of GTX 670 Ti is leaked by 3DCenter.org, the card is reportedly to still use the same GK104 as the GTX 680. GTX 670 Ti has die size of 294mm2, 3.54 billion transistors, 4 GPCs, 7 SMX Units, 1344 CUDA cores, 112 texture units, 32 ROPs, 2GB GDDR5 memory with memory interface [...]
Reeven Extreme Cooling Cup to Hit Retail in Japan
Sunday, April 08, 2012 9:05 PM
Marketed by Scythe, Reeven’s extreme-cooling cup is going to launch in Japan, as Hermitage Akihabara reported. Extreme-cooling cup measures 70mm*70mm*160mm，weights 900g, features liquid nitrogen design, aluminum body and nickel-plated copper base. In addition, Extreme-cooling cup supports LGA 2011/1366/1155/1156/775 and AMD Socket AM2/AM2+/AM3/AM3+/FM1 platform, it will hit retail in Japan on April 18th at the price [...]
OCZ Launches Vertex 4 Series SSDs
Sunday, April 08, 2012 7:13 PM
OCZ lately officially launches Vertex 4 series SSDs which adopt Indilinx Everest 2 controller platform. Vertex 4 still features Intel 25nm ONFi 2.2 synchronization flash memory, have capacities of 128GB/256GB/512GB. 128GB and 256GB models have 512MB cache, while 512GB packs 1GB cache. They deliver sequential read speed of 535MB/s, sequential write speed of 200/380/475 MB/s [...]
Overclockers Pushes Four G.Skill Modules DDR3-2600Mhz at 3062MHz
Sunday, April 08, 2012 6:35 PM
Lately an overclocking player pushed four G.Skill memory modules at 3062MHz, breaking the overclocking record of four memory. The test platform included Core i7-3770K processors, Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H motherboard, Cool Master 1200W power supply, GeForce GTX 680 graphics card and four GSkill DDR3-2666 4GB memory modules. In air-cooled condition, the four memory were overclocked to 1531.1MHz [...]
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 680 OC Edition Pictured
Sunday, April 08, 2012 5:47 PM
Since the release of GTX 680, some non-reference graphics cards—— Gainward GTX 680 Phantom, Galaxy GeForce GTX 680 4GB and GTX 680 Hall of Fame (HOF) Edition as well as Zotac GTX 680 Supreme Edition have been leaked. Recently Guru3D has got another one—— Gigabyte GTX 680 OC Edition. The graphics employs a new triple-fan [...]
Zotac GeForce GTX 680 Supreme Edition Graphics Card Review
Sunday, April 08, 2012 7:38 AM
Introduction In order to manifest their Research and Development strength, many graphics manufacturers are attempting to develop their non-reference GTX 680, when will these graphics card launch? Apart from Zotac GTX 680 Supreme, lately some non-reference graphics cards——Gainward GTX 680 Phantom, Galaxy GeForce GTX 680 4GB and GTX 680 Hall of Fame (HOF) Edition have [...]
Tegra 4 Rumored to be Based on 4+1 Core
Saturday, April 07, 2012 6:08 PM
In Computex 2011, NVIDIA showed the prototype of Tegra 3, so we may see Tegra 4 in Computex 2012, additionally Tegra roadmap leaked by VR-Zone further confirms the prediction. The roadmap suggests that Tegra 4 will be codenamed Wayne and debut in 2012. Based on 4+1 core, the four leaked Tegra 4 processors include T40, [...]
Alpenföhn Gotthard CPU Cooler Debuts
Saturday, April 07, 2012 11:31 AM
EKL lately introduces its new CPU cooler——Alpenföhn Gotthard which comes with a TopFlow design. The cooler employs six 6mm copper heatpipes and a 14cm fan, supports LGA 775/1155/1156/1366/2011 and AMD Socket FM1/AM3(+)/AM2(+) platform. Priced at 57.90 Euro, Alpenföhn Gotthard CPU cooler is supposed to launch at the end of this month or early May. Picture [...]
ELSA Unleashes Gladiac GeForce GTX 680 Graphics Card
Saturday, April 07, 2012 10:36 AM
Japanese company ELSA has focused its attention on NVIDIA Quadro series graphics cards, now it has unleashed Gladiac GeForce GTX 680 based on the NVIDIA’s reference design. The graphics card features 2GB GDDR5 memory with memory interface of 256-bit, core/Boost core/memory frequency of 1006MHz/1058MHz/1502MHz (6008MHz effective), provides two DVI, a HDMI and one DisplayPort connector. [...]
Galaxy Water-cooled GeForce GTX 680 Unearthed
Friday, April 06, 2012 9:11 AM
Earlier Galaxy has exposed its single-slot GTX 680, lately the company’s product manager revealed another non-reference model——Galaxy water-cooled GeForce GTX 680 at Weibo. The graphics card adopts complete full-covered water-cooling heatsink which features single-slot design, water-cooled pipe is set at the top of the graphics. In addition, the Galaxy water-cooled GTX 680 doesn’t employ DVI [...]
NZXT Rolls out FZ Series 140mm Fans
Wednesday, April 04, 2012 10:18 PM
NZXT has announced its new FZ 140mm fans in both LED and non-LED version, which is claimed to be with maximum airflow and efficient speeds. FZ-140mm fans are equipped with 13 blades operating at the speed of 1000RPM (12V/0.15A), features low noise level of 24.54dBA with exceptional airflow at 83CFM, The LED version is available [...]
Focus on PC hardware news, especially graphic card news and reviews.
ASUS Delivers Maximus V GENE ROG Motherboard
Lately ASUS unleashes its Z77 motherboards in ROG series——Maximus V GENE, the mobo adopts Micro ATX design. The mobo is based on Z77 chipset, 8+4 phase power circuit to support Extreme Ebgine Digi+ II technology (8 phase for CPU while 4 phase for GPU). Additionally it offers 2 phase independent power supply for memory. In [...]
EVGA Introduces Z77 FTW Motherboard
Monday, April 09, 2012 9:57 PM
Intel 7-series motherboard chipsets have arrived, and EVGA also introduces its Z77 FTW motherboard for many enthusiastic players. The Z77-based motherboard adopts EATX design, supports Ivy Bridge/Sandy Bridge processors, employs four DDR3 DIMM memory slots (2133MHz memory supported), six PCI-E x16 slots used for establishing 4-Way SLI or CrossFireX system. Additionally the mobo provides dual-8pin [...]
Intel Officially Announces 7 Series Chipsets
Monday, April 09, 2012 9:56 PM
Though the launch date of Ivy Bridge processors are delayed, but now the matched 7-series motherboard chipsets are officially announced. The first batch of Intel 7-series chipsets are mainly Z77, as well as H77/B75. Z77 is supposed to replace Z68, supports PCI-E 3.0, native USB 3.0, Rapid Start, Smart Connect, Virtu MVP, native SATA 6Gbps [...]
MSI GeForce GTX 680 Twin Frozr III Graphics Card Surfaced
Monday, April 09, 2012 9:31 PM
Here comes another non-reference GeForce GTX 680 from MSI, the card is MSI GTX 680 Twin Forzr III. The graphics card boasts the company’s self-designed Twin Forzr III cooler, the cooler employs two fans, five nickel-plated copper heatpipes, copper base, lots of aluminum cooling fins and metal wind scooper, which is claimed to have a [...]
MOSAID Develops World’s First 512Gb 16-Die NAND Flash Stack
Monday, April 09, 2012 2:43 PM
MOSAID lately announced that they have developed the industry’s first NAND Flash MCP (multi-chip package) with a 16-die NAND stack operating on a single high-performance channel. The 512Gb HLNAND (HyperLink NAND) MCP combines a stack of 16 industry standard 32Gb NAND Flash die with two HLNAND interface devices to achieve 333MB/s output at 1.8V over [...]
Sony PS4 May Use A8-3850 APU and HD 7670 GPU
Monday, April 09, 2012 10:47 AM
Sony PlayStation 4 (PS 4) will use AMD A8 APU and Radeon HD 7670 GPU, as IGN reported. Firstly let’s see the processor, the model is AMD A8-3850, the APU features quad-core, 4MB L2 cache (without L3 cache), default frequency of 2.9GHz and 100W TDP, integrates HD 6550D graphics, but doesn’t support Turbo technology. As [...]
K|ngp|n Gets GeForce GTX 680 to 1957MHz
Sunday, April 08, 2012 9:46 PM
(Click to enlarge) GTX 680 shows us its strong overckocking capability, earlier overclocking player k|ngp|n successfully overclocked a GTX 680 graphics card to 1.9GHz, and now he further broke the record. Recently k|ngp|n pushed the GTX 680 graphics card to 1957MHz, core frequency increased by 591MHz, and TDP improved by 110%. In addition, six-core i7-3930K [...]
Kepler GK104-based GTX 670 Ti Specifications Outed
Sunday, April 08, 2012 9:31 PM
Lately the specifications of GTX 670 Ti is leaked by 3DCenter.org, the card is reportedly to still use the same GK104 as the GTX 680. GTX 670 Ti has die size of 294mm2, 3.54 billion transistors, 4 GPCs, 7 SMX Units, 1344 CUDA cores, 112 texture units, 32 ROPs, 2GB GDDR5 memory with memory interface [...]
Reeven Extreme Cooling Cup to Hit Retail in Japan
Sunday, April 08, 2012 9:05 PM
Marketed by Scythe, Reeven’s extreme-cooling cup is going to launch in Japan, as Hermitage Akihabara reported. Extreme-cooling cup measures 70mm*70mm*160mm，weights 900g, features liquid nitrogen design, aluminum body and nickel-plated copper base. In addition, Extreme-cooling cup supports LGA 2011/1366/1155/1156/775 and AMD Socket AM2/AM2+/AM3/AM3+/FM1 platform, it will hit retail in Japan on April 18th at the price [...]
OCZ Launches Vertex 4 Series SSDs
Sunday, April 08, 2012 7:13 PM
OCZ lately officially launches Vertex 4 series SSDs which adopt Indilinx Everest 2 controller platform. Vertex 4 still features Intel 25nm ONFi 2.2 synchronization flash memory, have capacities of 128GB/256GB/512GB. 128GB and 256GB models have 512MB cache, while 512GB packs 1GB cache. They deliver sequential read speed of 535MB/s, sequential write speed of 200/380/475 MB/s [...]
Overclockers Pushes Four G.Skill Modules DDR3-2600Mhz at 3062MHz
Sunday, April 08, 2012 6:35 PM
Lately an overclocking player pushed four G.Skill memory modules at 3062MHz, breaking the overclocking record of four memory. The test platform included Core i7-3770K processors, Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H motherboard, Cool Master 1200W power supply, GeForce GTX 680 graphics card and four GSkill DDR3-2666 4GB memory modules. In air-cooled condition, the four memory were overclocked to 1531.1MHz [...]
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 680 OC Edition Pictured
Sunday, April 08, 2012 5:47 PM
Since the release of GTX 680, some non-reference graphics cards—— Gainward GTX 680 Phantom, Galaxy GeForce GTX 680 4GB and GTX 680 Hall of Fame (HOF) Edition as well as Zotac GTX 680 Supreme Edition have been leaked. Recently Guru3D has got another one—— Gigabyte GTX 680 OC Edition. The graphics employs a new triple-fan [...]
Zotac GeForce GTX 680 Supreme Edition Graphics Card Review
Sunday, April 08, 2012 7:38 AM
Introduction In order to manifest their Research and Development strength, many graphics manufacturers are attempting to develop their non-reference GTX 680, when will these graphics card launch? Apart from Zotac GTX 680 Supreme, lately some non-reference graphics cards——Gainward GTX 680 Phantom, Galaxy GeForce GTX 680 4GB and GTX 680 Hall of Fame (HOF) Edition have [...]
Tegra 4 Rumored to be Based on 4+1 Core
Saturday, April 07, 2012 6:08 PM
In Computex 2011, NVIDIA showed the prototype of Tegra 3, so we may see Tegra 4 in Computex 2012, additionally Tegra roadmap leaked by VR-Zone further confirms the prediction. The roadmap suggests that Tegra 4 will be codenamed Wayne and debut in 2012. Based on 4+1 core, the four leaked Tegra 4 processors include T40, [...]
Alpenföhn Gotthard CPU Cooler Debuts
Saturday, April 07, 2012 11:31 AM
EKL lately introduces its new CPU cooler——Alpenföhn Gotthard which comes with a TopFlow design. The cooler employs six 6mm copper heatpipes and a 14cm fan, supports LGA 775/1155/1156/1366/2011 and AMD Socket FM1/AM3(+)/AM2(+) platform. Priced at 57.90 Euro, Alpenföhn Gotthard CPU cooler is supposed to launch at the end of this month or early May. Picture [...]
ELSA Unleashes Gladiac GeForce GTX 680 Graphics Card
Saturday, April 07, 2012 10:36 AM
Japanese company ELSA has focused its attention on NVIDIA Quadro series graphics cards, now it has unleashed Gladiac GeForce GTX 680 based on the NVIDIA’s reference design. The graphics card features 2GB GDDR5 memory with memory interface of 256-bit, core/Boost core/memory frequency of 1006MHz/1058MHz/1502MHz (6008MHz effective), provides two DVI, a HDMI and one DisplayPort connector. [...]
Galaxy Water-cooled GeForce GTX 680 Unearthed
Friday, April 06, 2012 9:11 AM
Earlier Galaxy has exposed its single-slot GTX 680, lately the company’s product manager revealed another non-reference model——Galaxy water-cooled GeForce GTX 680 at Weibo. The graphics card adopts complete full-covered water-cooling heatsink which features single-slot design, water-cooled pipe is set at the top of the graphics. In addition, the Galaxy water-cooled GTX 680 doesn’t employ DVI [...]
NZXT Rolls out FZ Series 140mm Fans
Wednesday, April 04, 2012 10:18 PM
NZXT has announced its new FZ 140mm fans in both LED and non-LED version, which is claimed to be with maximum airflow and efficient speeds. FZ-140mm fans are equipped with 13 blades operating at the speed of 1000RPM (12V/0.15A), features low noise level of 24.54dBA with exceptional airflow at 83CFM, The LED version is available [...]
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