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Perfect Storm of Incompetence Led to Hawaii Missile Warning Mistake
The recent missile warning scare in Hawaii left many people asking questions. While it is easy to blame the person behind the machine who sent out the wrong alert, it appears that it is not entirely their fault. A simple glance at what the computer interface of the control booth…
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Solar Impulse 2 Flies For 62 Hours To California
The Solar Impulse 2 looks to set the record for solar-powered planes, first off completing a five-day flight to Hawaii and now landing in California after 62 hours in the air. The most recent leg is only the ninth in thirteen stages that will take the Solar Impulse 2 around…
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Do AMD Drivers Really Deserve Such a Hostile Reception?
Introduction AMD has a serious image problem with their drivers which stems from buggy, unrefined updates, and a slow release schedule. Even though this perception began many years ago, it’s still impacting on the company’s sales and explains why their market share is so small. The Q4 2015 results from Jon…
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AMD Unveils 32GB FirePro W9100 Graphics Card
With 8Gb GDDR5 modules becoming ever more abundant, AMD and Nvidia have the opportunity to increase the amount of VRAM without having to bump the memory bandwidth. While 8Gb may be well enough for gaming purposes for now, the same doesn’t hold true for professional users. In light of this,…
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XFX Brings Back Blower Style R9 390X
When AMD first launched their R9 290 and 290X GPUs back in 2013, many had mixed feelings for the blower style cooler. While the cooler was one of the best efforts yet from AMD, it was not enough for the hot Hawaii chips, leading to high temperature, throttling and noisy…
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Sapphire Tri-X R9 390X 8GB CrossfireX Review
Introduction Here at eTeknix, we strive to give the consumer the best possible advice in every aspect of technology. Today is no different and we are excited to bring you the CrossfireX review of the Sapphire Tri-X R9 390X graphics cards. Based on the slightly aging Hawaii architecture, performance was expected…
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New Utility lets you Unlock Disabled Compute Engines on AMD GPUs
A new utility has emerged, entitled, “CUINFO” on Overclock.net which outlines how many compute units are enabled on Fiji, Hawaii and Tonga GPUs. The tool is designed to provide information on your card’s capabilities and offer the ability to unlock specific disabled compute units. However, many CUs are hardware locked…
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AMD Hawaii GPUs Returning With Radeon 300 Series
It’s not uncommon for current generation graphics cards to be tweaked, improved and rebranded to become part of the next-generation launch. This time around, it seems that the current line-up of Hawaii GPUs, such as the Radeon R9 290 cards, will be treated to an overclock and the addition of…
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Latest 15.3 Catalyst Driver Reveals AMD Radeon Rx 300 Cards
A few people have apparently taking a closer look into AMD’s latest Catalyst driver, the 15.3 beta. They apparently have found a few new entries leading to the upcoming Rx 300 series of graphics cards. Some information here reveals some bad news for gamers who wanted a new chip in…
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AMD To Update GCN Series With Iceland, Tonga and Hawaii XTX
The next-generation GPU wars based on new graphics architectures and 20/16nm process nodes is not set to begin until early 2015. In the meantime AMD and Nvidia are both having to make do with product refreshes and tweaks based on their existing 28nm GCN and Kepler designs respectively. The latest…
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Shooting Birds with Lasers? Don’t Worry, It’s to Save Their Lives
In what sounds like an epic game of Duck Hunt in real life, the skies of Hawaii are now protected by a grid of thirty focused green lasers. The laser grids are being mounted on the countries electricity poles in a bid to save birds from crashing into the cables.…
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Breaking News: AMD Tonga GPU Details Revealed
The team over at Videocardz.com have gotten hold of some very exciting information about the next set of hardware from the red camp. AMD’s new GPU hardware is set to be called Tonga, part of their ever popular volcanic island series, following on from Hawaii and Vesuvius. There have been…
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First Retail Asus Radeon R9 295X2 Pictured
It looks like the guys over at WCCFtech have got their hands on some images of the new R9 295X2, AMD’s latest dual Hawaii based graphics card which is set to be launched very soon. We’ve already seen images and specifications for the new card, but now we see the…
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AMD Radeon R9 295X2 Stripped Down, New Images Leaked
It looks like the team over at Videocardz are happy to leak even more information on the upcoming Radeon R9 295X2 graphics card. The 295X2 is set to be the latest and greatest card from AMD, featuring two graphics 290x graphics cores and a high end hybrid cooling solution. As…
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New AMD Hawaii FirePro Card Accidentally Leaked
We’re no stranger to seeing hardware leaked before its official announcement, normally with the help of some industry insiders on some obscure forums. However it makes our job much easier when the company behind the product leaks the information all by its self. AMD accidentally posted an announcement about an…
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