ASUS Mars II: Mars attacks!

ASUS Mars II: Mars attacks!

Just before the end of each current graphics generation, ASUS puts the cherry on top of it and demonstrates its sheer technological power by presenting a limited-edition card to take the throne of t...

Cape Verde: Good enough for Juniper succession?

Cape Verde: Good enough for Juniper succession?

As we predicted in a recent article dealing with AMD’s new graphics cards from the HD 7000 series, after the high-end models were presented, miniature chips would follow, replacing the very popular ...

ASUS O!Play: Gigabit on a TV

ASUS O!Play: Gigabit on a TV

“Smart TV”, or in its popular spelling, SmartTV, is something that the leading LCD and plasma manufacturers seem to be emphasising pretty heavily lately, in parallel with the omnipresent 3D technolo...

AMD A8-3870K: The new APU with the

AMD A8-3870K: The new APU with the "K" suffix

Recently, we have devoted much attention to the APU, which is one of the largest inovations that AMD has introduced to the IT industry. Placing a serious graphics system inside a processor is the gr...

AMD Radeon HD7970 & HD7950: Finally!

AMD Radeon HD7970 & HD7950: Finally!

Although we’re a bit disappointed not to have received the new Radeon graphics up to now, we still didn’t have to wait for too long to get one. As usual, this was taken care of by AMD, but chips are...

Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO and TX3 EVO

Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO and TX3 EVO

  As far as accessible coolers of decent performance go, we’ve been enjoying the company of Cooler Master’s Hyper 212 and Hyper TX3 models for a while now. The first mild redesign of both these model...

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Nokia & Microsoft: The Finnish giant in American jeans

microsoft_nokia_intro2.jpgImageWith the release of N95, Nokia was on seventh heaven - with no obstacles in sight, it was resting contentedly on its laurels, basking in the domination it had over any other mobile phone manufacturer. The income was such that the company could afford buying a giant such as Navteq, just because they thought that it would be an excellent feat to offer GPS navigation as a standard feature in mobile phones. Money was being invested boundlessly into the American market, where Nokia has never managed to gain a foothold, and the entire thing went as far as financing films where Nokia phones would exclusively be the ones displayed. The fact that the company had been practically recycling phone models for a while, with no significant innovation taking place as far as user interaction is concerned, went unnoticed to many.

 

 

Intel Cougar Point Bug: The Billion-Dollar Question

cougarpoint_intro2.jpgImageIf you’ve been following our website, as well as other with similar orientation, you can’t have missed all the bombastic announcements concerning Intel’s then-upcoming new CPU generation, codenamed Sandy Bridge, as well as test results for three new CPUs against those from the previous generation, which we’ve recently published. The results were excellent, everything was great, enthusiasts were starting to rejoice over the coming of the new generation, making plans to replace their motherboards and CPUs, and Intel was in a never-better position to cement their position on the desktop and portable desktop market - and that’s when all hell broke loose.

 

IFA 2010: Ontario, Next AMD Netbook Platform - First Impressions

ImageWe were one of the first (very first maybe) to go behind the scene at AMD booth at IFA Berlin and to take a sneak peak of Ontario APU platform while working.  Unfortunately, we can’t share any pictures, but we can assure you that Ontario test platform is alive and kicking. Aside successfully working with Windows 7 OS, it did manage to accomplish several other things, but more on that later on. As it was stated on test motherboard, the silicon used was A0, with integrated UVD (most probably version 3.0). During the test, very small and basic cooling solution was used, but it still managed to keep APU cooled at around normal body temperature even under heaviest loads.

 

 

Sneak Peak To NVidia's Upcoming GPU, GF100 (Fermi)

ImageLast week during CES in Las Vegas NVIDA held a sort of Deep Drive conference where they shared some new info regarding GF 100 – Graphics Fermi. As you have probably concluded by now, it is a codename for their upcoming series of graphic cards. Final name wasn’t reveled, but I think that nobody would be surprised to see something like GTX 360 and GTX 380 on the launch day, similar to 200 series launch. Speaking about launch day, that one wasn’t reveled either, actually, there were no more info other than “It is in mass production now” and “… it will be shipped this quarter”, so we are purely speculating when we say that Cebit time launch and late March availability wouldn’t be so much a surprise.
 

Eyefinity, new chapter for AMD/ATI

ImageAMD is scheduled to very soon introduce their new series of graphic cards named Evergreen. But before that, at AMD press event we had opportunity to glimpse at very interesting feature, called Eyefinity. At it's basic this is multi-display technology, in some aspects similar to already known  Matrox solutions, but without additional costs for box and more software. Together with Directx 11, DirectCompute 11 and Open CL support, this feature should be one of  the focus points, as it enables playing games on multi-display setup, making gaming extraordinary experience.
 

AMD: Stop talking about processors

ImageDuring press event in Munich, Germany, one of the topics was AMD's new branding strategy – “Vision”. New branding names are usually so exciting, but there is a catch now, new marketing scheme de-emphasizes AMD's own brand in favor of what a customer can actually do with the machine. As a result, the OEM brand will become the PC's selling point, meaning that you will sometime in a future buy new branded laptop that will be Vision sticker, but without AMD sticker on it.
 

CeBIT 2009 Day 5: Intel & Verbatim

ImageOn the last day of CeBIT we visited Intel’s and Verbatim’s booth. Both manufacturers prepared some interesting novelties, each in its domain. Intel, as expected, will launch Westmere in Q4 this year, while Verbatim showcased, among other products, eSATA SSD disks.
 

CeBIT 2009 Day 4: ASUS & Biostar

ImageToday is the last day of our visit at CeBIT 2009 and you can expect this report tomorrow. But for today we present you second part of Asus products and our impressions with Biostar’s booth. Although ASUS focused on Eee PC brand, on this year’s CeBIT core components are still their most important product portfolio. So today we will focus on ASUS motherboards, graphics cards and sound cards. On the other side is BIOSTAR with some very interesting products, especially motherboards.
 

CeBIT 2009 Day 3: nVIDIA & ASUS

ImageAs we promised, we are continuing the story about nVIDIA but we will also show you what ASUS prepared for this year's CeBIT. Asus has, with no doubt, one of the biggest booths and most products of their huge product lineup were available to visitors. Their assortment was so huge that we will have to present it from two parts. By this occasion you will see mobile devices from Asus. The second part will be published tomorrow.
 

CeBIT 2009 Day 2: MSI, XFX, nVIDIA & takeMS

ImageOn the second day at CeBIT we visited MSI, XFX, nVIDIA and takeMS booths. This time we will introduce to you, from nVIDIA’s booth, only Sacred 2 with PhysX. More info about nVIDIA you can expect tomorrow.
 
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