Competition at the ~$250USD Price Point Heats Up
AMD today launched their AMD Radeon HD 6950 1GB (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102921) graphics card, as did NVIDIA their GeForce GTX 560 Ti (http://www.evga.com/articles/00609/). The Radeon, priced at $259 uses the same Cayman Pro core as the 6950 2GB, and performs...
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AMD Puts Out A Beta Catalyst Linux Driver For The Public
Lots of Linux love this week. While NVIDIA puts out beta Linux graphics drivers quite often as a means of soliciting testing prior to declaring a new stable GPU driver update, AMD does not but rather they rely upon their NDA-covered select beta testers to put each Catalyst release through its...
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iPhone 5 and iPad 2 will come with NFC built in, suggests well-connected analyst
Are you ready for the iPad 2 and iPhone 5 already? You'll no doubt be aware of our (well justified) distrust for anything that passes a tech analyst's lips, but this time's a little different. Richard Doherty of Envisioneering Group cites "engineers who are working on hardware" for Apple's latest...
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AMD Slashes Prices of Radeon HD 6800 and HD 6900 Series Products
The prices should be in effect very soon. Prices apart, AMD will also release a new driver that will bring about considerable performance improvements to all Radeon HD 6000 series GPUs. AMD finalized its recalibrated product pricing of Radeon HD 6800 and Radeon HD 6900 series products in the wake...
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Intel Chipset to Finally Embed a USB 3.0 Controller
Finally native USB 3.0 support. Nothing in the PC platform really becomes an industry standard before Intel embraces it. Same is the case with USB 3.0, which, over an year after its entry into the industry, has seen limited market adoption and motherboard integration, driven mostly by 2-port PCI-E...
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Asus M4A87TD/USB3 Motherboard Review @ KitGuru
We recently looked at one of Asus’ high end M4A90GTD Pro/USB3 motherboards that impressed us with its extensive feature set and strong performance. The only drawback of this board was the high price which put it out into the ‘deeper wallet’ category. So we were excited when Asus offered us a...
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Weirdest Zelda Characters
Hyrule is home to more weirdos than you think Lost in a wave of golden Triforces, swords in stones, courageous heroes, and glorious destinies, most people overlook the less obvious, odder side of the Legend of Zelda series. While some of these strange characters are simply impossible to ignore...
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AMD Brazos and Zacate benchmarked
AMD Brazos and Zacate performance is leaking out France with some interesting results. As usual with leaked info, take with appropriate quantities of salt. Here's what Bit-tech had to say about it: The first benchmarks of AMD's Fusion-based chips, the Brazos C-50, Brazos C-30 and Zacate E-350,...
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White iPhone 4 in AT&T's account management system now, too
White iPhone 4 might be real after all. Hot on the heels of cameos in various Vodafone Germany and Best Buy systems, the mythical white iPhone 4 is showing up somewhere else -- and for many of you, this one hits particularly close to home. Turns out any AT&T subscriber can now log in to their...
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AMD's Bulldozer Opteron Sighted? 16 cores, 28MB L3, 3GHz?
An interesting CPU-Z picture has turned up in the discussion thread of a donanimhaber.com (http://www.donanimhaber.com/islemci/haberleri/iste-AMDnin-Bulldozer-islemcileri-icin-ilk-resmi-performans-dokumani.htm) article about a the AMD architecture codenamed Bulldozer: Image:...
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Asustek announces motherboard prices to climb in 2011
Citing a labor shortage in China, rising material costs, and the NT dollar appreciation, Asustek will be raising prices across it's entire lineup of motherboards in the first half of 2011. Price hikes of 5-10% will be average, though some models could see as much as a 15% increase. The price hike...
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Western Digital and hybrid drives, still a no-go
Western Digital makes some very good points about the current state of drive support in the industry regarding SSDs and hybrid drives. When will we see more then just a cursory attempt by the big drive makers into this field? At least in WD's case, don't hold your breath waiting. A few years ago,...
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AMD switching launch order on Llano and Bulldozer?
Seems even AMD may be unsure if Bulldozer is delayed or not. Insider sources told Xbit on one hand that Bulldozer was being held back till a summertime launch, while other sources are telling Xbit that there's no delay involved and the word "delay" is inaccurate. Either way though, everything looks...
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[Linux] Intel Core i5 2500K Linux performance
Michael at Phoronix takes the new Sandy Bridge i5 2500K and puts it through the Linux dance to see if it's got happy feet under it, or two lefties. Check out what he thought of his new dancing partner: The Core i5 2500K is one of the Intel Sandy Bridge processors to launch earlier this month and...
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