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Five more Phenom II processors get the chop

AMD's Bulldozer took over the reigns of the current beloved Phenom II line up back in late 2011, marking the uneasy transition from 45nm to 32nm. Now AMD is slowly trying to phase out the slower and less popular models Phenom II ...

12 years ago

AMD develop new chipset for Brazos 2.0 APUs

  The Brazos 2.0 platform is AMDs value minded APU series. The 2.0 represents an evolution of the same architecture of the first Brazos, except yielding better results due to process maturity. The older Brazos platform was ...

12 years ago

Gymkhana 5 Ultimate Urban Playground – May Make You Drool

Ok so we're big fans of the Dirt franchise from Codemasters, and anything to do with the franchise in general and that includes the fantastic Gymkhana videos that we see frequently from Ken Block and the team. I mean, how can you not ...

12 years ago

Richland APU to get 28nm graphics upgrade

The current range of Llano and Trinity desktop APUs utilise the 32nm CPU process based on Bulldozer and Piledriver respectively. Whilst the Llano and Trinity GPUs are both from the 40nm process, with Llano being Evergreen powered ...

12 years ago

Nvidia and AMD to stay with TSMC

With Qualcomm deciding to look elsewhere for 28nm production it seems AMD and Nvidia will not take the same decision. Qualcomm left TSMC after it felt TSMC could not keep up with 28nm SnapDragon S4 chip production. Yet Nvidia and ...

12 years ago

Samsung preparing Windows 8 RT tablet for October

[caption id="attachment_36470" align="aligncenter" width="552"] Microsoft's Windows RT based surface[/caption] Microsoft's Surface tablet has cheesed off at lot of OEMs, including Acer, yet the fact they are offering ARM support on ...

12 years ago

Kworld Dark Pyramid D15u+ Speaker Review

Before I got this product for review I had never even heard of Kworld, a company that has been doing the rounds since 1999, they are one of those brand names that just doesn't stick in your mind, if I have used or seen their ...

12 years ago

Kindle Fire 2 to get a better display, shipping October onwards

Amazon's Kindle had a really solid start, yet now sales are starting to drop off as competitors are producing better selling products. As a result speculation now suggests Amazon are already planning a move into a new generation of ...

12 years ago

G.Skill Like, Share & WIN Event

We are keen to push companies that we work with and to obviously give our readers the very best offers in the market and this next one comes from leading memory manufacturer G.Skill. Prizes include a variety of products from the ...

12 years ago

Samsung second only to Apple for profitability

[caption id="attachment_37569" align="aligncenter" width="634"] Samsung's latest innovation in the display market - Quad HD resolution displays[/caption] While the computer industry in general is in quite a mixed state with many ...

12 years ago

Museum of Computing wins national award

ACE’s Museum Accreditation Scheme sets nationally agreed standards for all museums in the UK. To meet the requirements, the museum had to demonstrate that it complies with standards relating to how the museum is governed and ...

12 years ago

Globalfoundries Vows to Ramp Up 28nm Production.

Mike Noonen, the Exec Vice President of worldwide marketing and sales at Globalfoundries has stated in a special blog post which was dedicated to GF's advantages at 28nm node, the three key benefits that the contact semiconductor ...

12 years ago

Borderlands players to be rewards in upcoming sequel

Gearbox has announced that any players of their Borderlands (1) game will get exclusive character customization elements when they load up Borderlands 2 for the first time, where the game will detect their save game. Returning ...

12 years ago

Sapphire Radeon HD 7770 OC Vapor-X 1GB Graphics Card Review

The 7700 series sadly isn't something that has got our blood pumping when it launched, purely because of the market it was aimed at, and the price point that it can in at, though time has been a great healer for this particular ...

12 years ago

Magic The Gathering: Duels of the Planeswalkers PC Review

This week I have been spending some time, well a lot of time, with the latest game from Wizards of the Coast, the people behind the ever popular card based gaming phenomenon Magic The Gathering.  Magic has been around now since ...

12 years ago

Windows 8 Preview users can get $39.99 upgrade to final version

Microsoft recently announced that Windows 7, Vista and XP users with a legitimate license would all be able to upgrade to Windows 8 for just $39.99. Meaning those with cracked copies of Windows or older than XP operating systems ...

12 years ago

Kalypso Media Confirms Presence and Line-up at Gamescom 2012

Kalypso Media today unveiled their plans for Gamescom 2012 in Cologne. Occupying approximately 300 square meters of floor space in both the business and consumer exhibition halls, Kalypso will be presenting their key titles for ...

12 years ago

Nvidia preparing a GTX 670 SE, GTX 660Ti and GTX 660

We've already had the GTX 690, GTX 680 and GTX 670 graphics cards from Nvidia, all based on the GK104 28nm Kepler architecture. But it seems Nvidia will milk GK104 for another two graphics cards before it releases the GK106 based ...

12 years ago

Downloaded games can be resold rules EU court

The problem with most digitally downloaded games is that once bought digitally you then own them for eternity. They cannot be sold as they are registered under your name for the particular account of the company you bought them ...

12 years ago

Elpida saved through a Micron takeover

Memory giant Micron has confirmed that is buying its financially ruined competitor Elpida in a deal worth $2.5 billion. Elpida's demise has been well publicised. Despite working on some of the most innovative solutions in the ...

12 years ago

Acer founder says Microsoft should stick to software

The founder of the computing company Acer, Stan Shih, has made a public statement about Microsoft's recent entrance into the PC hardware market. Microsoft's Surface tablet has sparked controversy with a lot of OEMs as they believe ...

12 years ago

Amazon working with Foxconn to launch Smartphone

Amazon is reported to be working with the Chinese manufacturing giant Foxconn to develop its first smartphone. Rumours late last year suggested Amazon would do such a thing and that they would be equipping their smartphone with ...

12 years ago

New Thinner PlayStation 3 on the way

[caption id="attachment_38133" align="aligncenter" width="450"] A previous PlayStation 3 slim down that occurred in 2009[/caption] Even with the next generation of Xbox and PlayStation consoles on the horizon it seems Sony still ...

12 years ago

AMD HD 7990 due in July

Speculation about the HD 7990 was rife for quite a long period of time until the news of the HD 7970 X2 dampened the flame. Now it seems speculation is flaring up again as VR-Zone report that AMD's dual GPU monster is inbound for a ...

12 years ago

Gigabyte launch their Thunderbolt motherboards

We saw the first Thunderbolt supporting motherboards arrive quite a while ago from ASUS. Now it is Gigabyte's turn to hop on board with the Thunderbolt revolution. Gigabyte have gone all out with their Thunderbolt integration by using ...

12 years ago

Torrent traffic has increased since Pirate Bay blockade

The Pirate Bay blockade, which the media industry hailed as a landmark event for the prevention of copyright infringing downloads, seems to have had the reverse effect intended. By elevating the Pirate Bay to fortune and fame, more ...

12 years ago

Sharkoon T28 Mid-Tower Chassis Review

Today we're taking a look at the T28 mid-tower PC chassis from Skarkoon, which we're very please to say is somewhat of an exclusive as we are the first to actually get our hands on this case here in the UK.   Sharkoon have been ...

12 years ago

ASUS and Gigabyte compete with extended motherboard warranty periods

Both ASUS UK and Gigabyte UK have contacted eTeknix informing us the source for this story is factually incorrect and as far as they know these changes in product warranty and repairs are false. Motherboard manufacturers have been ...

12 years ago

Kaspersky Lab discovers yet another major Mac OS X Backdoor virus

Kaspersky Labs has discovered a Mac OS X Backdoor that is used to connect the user's machine to a command and control centre based in China. Once connected into the command and control centre the hackers can access all the users ...

12 years ago

Colorful preparing new 9 heatpipe “Shark Bionic” VGA cooler

Colorful are a graphics card company renowned for their unique designs and attention to detail. Their latest VGA cooler certainly lives up to those very high standards. The new Shark Bionic VGA cooler will first debut on the ...

12 years ago

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