Deal of the week: SSDs and next-gen Radeons
AMD made some cuts to Radeon HD 7000-series prices earlier this week. The cuts have since propagated to e-tail listings, and the pickings are plentiful.
The Radeon HD 7950 is now down from $450 to $400, and you can nab a stock-clocked XFX model with bundled copies of Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Dirt 3 for $399.99 before shipping. At the lower end ...
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Intel hypes unimpressive ultrabook battery life
The PC hardware front is pretty quiet today, perhaps because everyone's observing the unofficial stoner holiday. To fill the dead, hazy air, Intel has released a new ultrabook commercial titled House of Flying Laptops:
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Gainward puts 4GB of RAM on a GeForce GTX 680
Graphics card makers have a history of putting entirely too much memory on low-end cards. Extra video RAM can come in handy when rendering complex scenes at extremely high detail levels and resolutions, but far too often, it's paired with budget GPUs that have insufficient horsepower to generate smooth frame rates at those settings. Thankfully, Gainward's latest offering puts extra memory on a card that might be able to use it: Nvidis's newest GeForce. The Phantom GeForce GTX 680 is now available with 4GB of RAM, double the memory of the reference design.
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Diablo III beta opens to the public today
If you weren't planning to start your weekend early, well, now you might be. Blizzard Entertainment says that, in order to help "stress test" its servers ahead of Diablo III's May 15 launch, the game's beta will be open to the public from 12:01 PM PDT (3:01 PM EDT) today until 10 AM PDT (1 PM EDT) Monday.
In other words, just about anyone with a Battle.net account should be able to spend all weekend playing Diablo III . The only exception Blizzard mentions is players located in ...
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AMD: Trinity, Brazos 2.0 launching this quarter
At the Consumer Electronics Show, AMD told us to expect its next-gen Trinity APU in the "middle of the year." That's a pretty loose time frame, and we've often heard it applied to products that have slipped into the late summer or fall. But maybe it won't happen this time. Here's what AMD CFO Thomas Seifert stated during the company's results announcement call yesterday:
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How TR gets (some of) its squeaky-clean product photos
If you follow our intrepid Editor in Chief on Twitter, you might have read his tweets about a little misattribution mishap a couple of months back. In short, another site mistakenly copied one of the photos from my Radeon HD 7800-series review and attributed it to AMD, even though I'd snapped the shot myself. Here's what Scott said at the time:
The attribution error was soon ...
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AMD posts net loss for the first quarter of 2012
Well, AMD had another one of those quarters. You know, the kind where it loses several hundred million bucks. According to the official results release, this latest loss can be chalked up to a "limited waiver of exclusivity for certain 28nm APU products from [GlobalFoundries]," which cost AMD a whopping $703 million.
If you ignore that and other write-offs (including the $6 million the firm spent on ...
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A quick look at Intel's DZ77GA-70K motherboard
Rumor has it Ivy Bridge is just around the corner. The Z77 Express motherboards designed to accept Intel's new hotness are already selling online, and we took an in-depth look at three of 'em last week. Since then, Intel's own enthusiast-oriented Z77 board has made its way into the Benchmarking Sweatshop. There hasn't been time to run the DZ77GA-70K through our exhaustive motherboard test suite because it's been busy with, ahem, other things. However, I've spent enough time with the board to get a reasonably good sense of what it has to offer.
DZ77GA-70K doesn't exactly roll off one's tongue, but its Gasper codename isn't much better. Indeed, there is nothing about this board that would ...
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Prey 2 not canceled after all
Well, good news: the rumors of Prey 2's cancellation have been greatly exaggerated. In fact, the game hasn't been canceled at all. It just won't make it into stores this year as planed, Bethesda revealed today. Here's the short statement the company posted on its blog this morning:
I guess you could call my response a mix of disappointment and relief. I was looking forward to playing Prey 2 this year, but if the game really isn't up to snuff, then I'm glad Bethesda took ...
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''It's coming,'' says Nvidia
Oh my; it appears some new graphics hardware is on the way from Nvidia. Who would have thought?
Okay, so it's no secret that Nvidia is going to have to release the rest of its 600-series GeForce lineup sooner or later. We may be close to the next ...
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