ASUS starts shipping B3 revisions of Sandy Bridge boards
ASUS starts shipping motherboards with the new B3 revision of Intel P67 chipset, solving the notorious SATA 3.0 Gbps port bug. ASUS boards for enthusiasts are also equipped with Energy Processing Unit (EPU) dedicated chip which monitors and manages power consumption to improve efficiency, ensuring that ASUS P67 motherboards maintain a streamlined energy footprint.
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CeBIT 2011: AMD is pushing Radeon HD 6990
We were among a few lucky ones that were allowed to touch a new dual GPU beast from AMD, and as expected, we were impressed. As you can see on pictures, ventilation is changed, as the fan is moved to the center, and now is sucking air and pushing it out of the case at one side, and back to case on the other side. Grid for air ventilation on a case side is now full size of the board as all the video output connectors are moved out of the way. This change and elimination of obstacles on the other side made new cooler much more efficient and quieter, despite the fact it is using the same fan as the one on the AMD Radeon HD 5970.
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Seagate releases 3TB Barracuda XT hard drive
Seagate, being the world's second-largest hard drive maker, has begun shipping its beefiest Barracuda-branded internal HDD yet, the 3TB Barracuda XT which comes in a 3.5-inch form factor, works at 7200 RPM and has a SATA 6.0 Gbps interface. Seagate's new 3TB drive also boasts 64MB of cache, has 4K sectors, and requires the use of the free Seagate DiscWizard software so as to allow access to all its bytes on systems running Windows XP.
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CeBIT 2011: Intel press conference
In the morning of oppening day of this year’s CeBIT, Intel held a press conference regarding lots of new things that they are bringing in this year. Besides the new Core generation of processors and Sandy Bridge microarchitecture, there were a lot of new interesting concepts. For example, there was a live demo of full HD Starcraft II gaming on Intel next gen CPU graphics, with a lots of frames per second to spare. Intel joined forces with a lot of companies all over the world so they can put the power of Intel CPUs to the right use.
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CeBIT 2011: The Cooling Masters
As expected after this year’s CES, there were a lot of new products at Cooler Master's boot. One of the first cool stuf that you can see are two moded cases, one with round shape which is made out of leather and plexiglass, and the other which is made out of one and a half case, just so you can get three separate radiators for custom water cooling system and quad SLI graphic system.
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CeBIT 2011: Llano to hit the shelves in second part of the year
At CeBIT 2011, AMD had a few interesting news to share. Most of the stuff is under NDA but we managed to scrap few bit of info we can share with you. First, we had the opportunity to directly compare two similar laptops, one based on Intel second generation core CPU clocked at 2GHz and integrated GPU solution, and second based on unannounced Llano platform coming to shelves in second part of the year. During the demonstration, focus was on multitasking demo where at the same time both systems run Final Fantasy benchmark, 1080p Big Buck Bunny video playback and Excel spreadsheet calculation.
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PS3 banned in Europe
Sony encountered a major setback yesterday after LG landed a preliminary injunction banning the PlayStation 3 from sales in Europe. A civil court in The Hague ruled that any PS3s imported into the continent have to be confiscated by government officials for at least the next 10 days. The Guardian claimed that the Netherlands, often a point of import for all of Europe, had already taken tens of thousands of PS3s and that Sony stood to see hundreds of thousands of the consoles blocked from reaching shelves. LG is embroiled in a patent dispute over Blu-ray that has extended worldwide, including Europe and the US, and has used the PS3 as a leverage tactic to push for a settlement. The complaint itself was a response to Sony suing LG over phone patents.
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Intel releases SATA 6Gbps compatible 510 Series SSDs
Following a pretty long wait, Intel has finally launched its next-generation solid state drives known as the 510 Series, which have a SATA 6.0 Gbps interface (their predecessors, the X25-M G2s are SATA 3.0 Gbps) and utilize 34nm NAND Flash memory chips. The new drives come in a 2.5-inch form factor, have TRIM support, a MTBF of 1.2 million hours, they are backed by a three-year warranty and are capable of a random 4kB read/write performance of up to 20,000/8,000 IOPS.
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CeBIT 2011: MSI pre-opening press conference
We used to look forward to these press conferences prior to opening of CeBIT, because it's a great opportunity to see new stuff. With this MSI conference it was a bit different, but we managed to grab a few interesting informations. Besides new line of gaming notebooks, which they clame to be the fastest one alive we also saw their new line of tablets, one powered by one of the AMD Brazos APUs, which was really a surprise after AMD clamings that they will not enter this market. The revelation of the Intel new Z chipset, and MSI motherboard based upon it was also announced, as well as their new Big Bang Marshal 83 motherboard based on Intel P67 chipset that utilizes no less then eight x16 PCI Express slots (no, it is not a mistype). As always, AMD was one of the topics, and MSI announced that their new motherboards that will have support for Buldozer based CPUs will be equiped with black AM3 socket, which will be their recognition sign.
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CeBIT 2011: Affordable AMD Brazos laptop by Acer
Right now we are in Hannover, Germany as a one of biggest IT shows, CeBIT, is about to begin. Being true to our self, we couldn't help and made a stop at Saturn, just to check if there is something interesting on sale. Acer made this detour worthwhile as they had eMachines laptop with AMD E-350 platform inside.
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