Category: Laptop Reviews

May 11

MSI’s overclocked version of GeForce GTX 670

MSI has officially unveiled a new version of an overclocked graphics card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 with 28-nm GPU and GDDR5 memory 2 GB, which has improved performance and energy efficiency, compared to the previous generation.
GeForce GTX 670 uses GPU Boost from NVIDIA, which enables “on the fly”, automatically adjust the clock frequency and to obtain optimum performance in games. When combined with overclocking MSI Afterburner utility can be configured limits increase the supply voltage and clock frequency, which enhances the overclocking, and improve the function of supply voltage can increase the potential of GPU overclocking up to 22%. Full Post…

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May 09

Kingmax SMU25 Client Pro 1 TB SSD Spotted in Japan

Kingmax’ high-capacity SMU25 Client Pro SSD variant was spotted by market scouts in Tokyo’s Akihabara shopping district. The KM01TBSMI25 SSD by Kingmax packs 1 TB of unformatted capacity, but that is traded off for performance. Built in the 2.5-inch SATA form-factor, the KM01TBSMI25 only takes advantage of SATA 3 Gb/s interface, and provides sequential transfer rates of 250 MB/s reads, with 200 MB/s writes. The drive supports all modern SSD features, including Global Wear Leveling, TRIM, NCQ, 40-bit BCH ECC, and 1.2 million hours MTBF. It is sold for a wallet-scorching 120,000 JPY (US $1,500).

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Apr 14

Kinect controls in Mass Effect 3 “happened almost by accident,” says Hudson

BioWares Casey Hudson has the Mass Effect 3 team didnt plan on adding Kinect controls to the game at first, but due to a programmers experimentation, the team realized it would be easy to implement as an additional option.

Speaking with OXM, Hudson said Kinect in ME3 happened almost by accident.

We didnt set out to make Mass Effect 3 a voice-controlled title, he said.

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Apr 04

HP introduced a line of powerful workstations

HP has announced support for multicore processors, upgrading the design and expansion of opportunities for productive line of HP workstations series Z. The series includes models of HP Z420, Z620 and Z820.
According to the description of HP, HP Z820 Workstation is designed specifically to meet the demands of the most demanding users, and solve the problem of virtualization, it is suitable for customers in the oil and gas industry, CAD users and engineers, as well as in the medical community and the entertainment industry. Full Post…

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Mar 28

EVGA GeForce GTX 680 Superclocked Made Official

Only teased last week, EVGA’s factory-overclocked GeForce GTX 680s are becoming a reality, with the first one to get make it out being the GTX 680 SuperClocked. The SC model is based around NVIDIA’s reference design but has a base clock of 1058 MHz (1006 MHz stock), a boost clock of 1113 MHz (1058 MHz), and a memory frequency of 6208 MHz (6008 MHz).

The GeForce GTX 680 SC also packs 1536 CUDA Cores, a 256-bit memory interface, 2 GB of GDDR5 VRAM, a PCI-Express 3.0 bus interface, 3D Vision Surround and SLI support, and dual-DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort outputs.

The ‘vanilla’ GTX 680 SuperClocked costs $519.99 while its backplate-equipped sibling goes for $529.99. Full Post…

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