Meizu MX Quad-core launches in June, sports Android 4.0 and arrives in both 32GB and 64GB variants
Meizu is finally releasing details on their next smartphone, the MX Quad-core. The device sports a Cortex-A9-based, 32nm HKMG (High-K Metal Gate) quad-core Samsung Exynos chip, but we don't have any details on clock speed, or RAM. Engadget thinks it'll be the Exynos 4412 that ramps right up to 1.5GHz.
MX Quad-core will sport a Meizu-customized Ice Cream Sandwich OS (Flyme OS), although the company did promise to simultaneously release a vanilla ROM-based handset, but we shall see. FIlling out the specs is a 4-inch 960x640-pixel ASV display, an 8-megapixel BSI camera, and it'll come standard with 32GB at the same price as the current 16GB MX, something quite good from Meizu.
We should expect the smartphone to drop in June with the unsubsidized MX Quad-core starting from ¥2,999 (US$480) in China and HK$3,099 (US$400) in Hong Kong, but there will also be a 64GB version that will be priced at ¥3,999 (US$635) and HK$4,099 (US$530), respectively.
Now that Meizu has a quad-core Exynos chip, will Samsung launch their GALAXY S III with the same one? Something better perhaps?
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Raspberry Pi finally begins to ship, puts a $35 smile on customers faces
After having a few hiccups in the form of a manufacturing eror, then the certification issue, Raspberry Pi is ready to ship! Yes! It's coming! The Raspberry Pi will float out to the first 10,000 pre-order customers, who did so back in February.
The hardware is said to include some decent gaming performance, where it should beat Apple's iPhone 4S and NVIDIA's Tegra 2 SoC. If any of our readers get their hand on the Raspberry Pi, definitely let us know what you think of it, and what you're going to use the device for!
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Telstra and MOG team up, will soon offer Australians unlimited, on-demand access to more than 15 million songs
Until today, music streaming services in Australia have been quite lacklustre, if existant at all. Yes, you could use a VPN or other methods, but its not the same and most people don't know how to do it, which means the masses are left without anything like Spotify, etc. Until today.
On top of the unlimited music, the service offers:
- On-demand streaming: Unlimited, ad-free listening to any artist, album, or song at any time. MOG's HTML5, browser-based player delivers music to you blazingly fast on the web.
- Unlimited downloads: MOG allows users to download and store music on your phone, enabling access to music even when a data connection is unavailable - ideal for jetsetters.
- MOG radio: Best-in-class, personal radio that builds a an endless playlist based on the artist you select. If you want more variety, just move the slider to the right to introduce similar artists to the playlist.
- Personalised recommendations: The "Just for you" dashboard provides music recommendations based on your MOG listening habits and your artist "likes" on Facebook.
- Highest quality audio: MOG streams music at 320kbps, giving customers a high quality listening experience.
- Curated content: Explore all MOG has to offer through its complete guide. From New Releases, Editor's Picks, top Charts, Featured Playlists, and Custom Radio in addition to your own, tagged songs from within the MOG music service, you will find exactly what they're looking for (and more).
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Samuel L. Jackson and Zooey Deschanel star in Verizon's new iPhone 4S commercial, isn't called Siri on a Plane
Apple and Verizon have teamed up and renewed the iPhone 4S ad run with their first celebrity commercial for the iPhone 4S. The TV spots star Samuel L. Jackson and Zooey Deschanel, Jackson's commercial features him acting out of stereotype, where he asks Siri to cancel golf, shop for dinner ingredients, and time his gazpacho.
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Microsoft announce three Windows 8 Editions
We all know Windows 8 is baking very nicely in Microsoft's ovens right now, and they're just some more information surface now in the form of the editions we should expect. Microsoft are going to release Windows 8 in three editions: Windows 8, Windows 8 Pro and Windows 8 RT.
Next up is Windows 8 Pro, which is designed for tech enthusiasts and business/technical professionals. It includes all of the features of Windows 8 as well as encryption, virtualization, PC management and domain connectivity. Windows Media Center is now considered an economical "media pack" add-on for Windows 8 Pro. Finally, we have Windows 8 RT. This is the newest member of the Windows family, which is something Microsoft have been calling Windows on Arm, or WOA.
Windows 8 RT will only be made available as a pre-installed OS on PCs and tablets that are ARM-powered, and will help enable new thin and lightweight form factors with impressive battery life. Windows 8 RT also sports touch-optimized desktop versions of the new Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote.
You can read more about the different editions of Windows 8 to arrive, at the Windows Team Blog.
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CM Storm Sirus 5.1 USB Gaming Headset Review
Cooler Master has been in the game for a long time, making some of the most impressive gear for your PC out there. I personally recall my first experience with CM was a lovely all aluminum case with a tachometer on the front for system voltage, which at the time was so cool and made the system really stand out.
Turn the clock forward six or seven years and CM have branched out into the world of PC audio with their subsidiary brand CM Storm. And today we are looking at the Sirus 5.1 gaming headset to start out with. And if it's nearly as good as our past experience with CM, look out.
Specifications
Headphones:
Channel: True 5.1 surround soundDriver: F/R/C: 30mm Sub: 40mm
Impedance: F/R/C: 32 Ohms Sub: 16 Ohms
Transducer principle: Dynamic closed
Ear coupling: Circumaural
Ear cushions: Detachable micro fiber
Sensitivity: >105dB
Frequency Response: 10Hz - 20,000Hz
Distortion: Less than 1%
Microphone:
Pick-up pattern: uni-directionalFrequency Response: 100Hz - 10,000 Hz
Impedance: 2.2k Ohms
Sensitivity: -46 dB ±3dB
But moving on and we can quickly look at sensitivity and distortion numbers given and they both seem to be around the area that we would like them to be. However, we would have liked to find out what the signal to noise ratio was for the Sirus headset, but we can be a demanding lot at times.
Control of the system can be done in one of two ways either through the control unit provided with the system or if you have a decent sound card then straight through it bypassing the control unit. Both sets of cables are provided for connection using either method, so there is nothing to worry about there.
Our only concern here is that the user must provide an Internet connection (to download the software) in order to use a piece of equipment they just paid for in full. Now we are all for saving of materials and we know those driver discs only ever get used once, but do we really have to download software now for devices that will only ever receive at most one or two iterations of said user interface, if that? What about a little flash drive with the driver and user guide and anything else needed all ready to go in the box?
General Thoughts
The CM Storm Sirus headset is a really mixed bag of tricks we are afraid, but let us explain. During testing using an ASUS Xonar Xense audio platform with the plain Jane analog connection running in 5.1 we found a lot of 'pick-up' noise to exist between the connections made and the headset. We tried isolating the connections used with electrical tape which did help with the fuzziness, but not the hum.
Switching over to the digital option which is done through USB and things started to get much more exciting - the sound quality is crisp and the control unit is great to use. The headset itself feels nice and heavy and is built with top notch materials. There is no doubt to us that this headset was built to be used in digital mode with the control station. Whether CM agrees or not might be another matter. Do keep this in mind if you plan on buying this product, you'll want to use the USB control unit for sure.
Music and Movies
When mixed through the control station and on screen software music can sound quite nice, with deep powerful low-end and a spacious and warm mid-range. Our only real concern here with music testing was the apparent lack of high-end extension which is a big issue here for us because it is not a hard thing to achieve with such a controlled environment (like a headset) as compared with normal speakers.Testing of movies was a great experience using the Sirus headset. When watching Transformers the movie really came to life - surround elements were well done and the low-end was very powerful and commanding. Other elements such as dialogue also sounded crisp and clear. Make no mistake; this is a great headset for watching the latest movies.
Gaming
This Sirus headset sounds great as a gaming headset with really impressive surround cues as to what's going on up front - and carrying over from movie testing, there is a huge wallop of low-end to keep everyone happy.There is one small concern with gaming which is this; in order to fully take advantage of the latest gaming surround algorithms like EAX 5.0, you really have to sacrifice the lovely little control station for an analog connection to whatever sound card you might use for gaming. And if you simply want a surround headset for gaming that can be easily connected to your favorite sound card... well, you do not need to buy this whole package with the control station included if you get where we are coming from. So in essence the Sirus is a really very nice niche product that really does not fit firmly into any predefined categories.
Final Thoughts
The Sirus does sound fantastic during gaming and movie sessions using the very well designed control station as a source over the analog option and it even sounds great when listening to a high quality music files or streaming a 1080p music track.
It's just that we cannot think of whom to recommend it to because it doesn't really do one thing exceptionally well, but rather just looks really good doing an average job at most things. Better go in and have a test drive first yourself.
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Intel Announces Intel® Solid-State Drive (SSD) 330 Series
Intel Corporation announced today the Intel® Solid-State Drive 330 Series (Intel® SSD 330 Series), a SATA 6 gigabit-per-second (Gb/s) solid-state drive (SSD) that gives consumers a more affordable entry into the accelerated storage performance of SSDs.
Ideal for upgrading desktop or notebook PCs, the Intel SSD 330 Series offers the price-conscious PC enthusiast a brand-name SSD that blends performance, Intel quality and value. Offered in the most popular capacity points, 60 gigabytes (GB), 120GB and 180GB, the Intel SSD 330 Series boosts overall system performance and responsiveness for a broad range of applications.
Unlike a traditional hard disk drive (HDD) with spinning disks and moveable parts, SSDs offer a more rugged, low-power storage solution that dramatically improves system performance to keep up with today's I/O-intensive applications. The Intel SSD 330 Series contains Intel 25-nanometer (nm) multi-level cell (MLC) NAND memory. Its SATA 6Gb/s interface doubles the bandwidth of its current SATA 3Gb/s Intel® SSD 320 Series, providing up to 500 megabytes-per-second (MB/s) sequential read speeds and up to 450MB/s sequential write speeds for faster data transfers. Random read performance can go up to 22,500 Input-Output Operations Per Second (IOPS) and 33,000 write IOPS to boost overall application and system responsiveness, significantly outperforming a typical consumer hard disk drive.
Intel offers a broad range of SSD choices within four product families. The Intel SSD 300 Family is aimed at entry-level, mainstream client users. The Intel SSD 500 Family offers more fully featured, higher-performing client SSDs for computer and gaming enthusiasts. The Intel SSD 700 and Intel SSD 900 Families are targeted for data center applications.
The Intel SSD 330 Series comes in a standard 2.5-inch/9.5mm form factor as a replacement to a slower-performing HDD. It can be used in a dual-drive desktop PC configuration to speed up boot times and applications speeds, or as a single-drive notebook upgrade.
Available beginning today at worldwide retailers and online e-tailers, the Intel SSD 330 Series is offered at the suggested channel price of $89 for a 60GB drive, $149 for a 120GB drive and $234 for a 180GB drive. It is also backed by a 3-year limited warranty.
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New iPad Arrives in South Korea & 11 Additional Countries This Week
Apple® today announced the new iPad®, the third generation of its category defining mobile device, will arrive in South Korea and 11 additional countries on Friday, April 20. The new iPad features a stunning new Retina display, Apple's new A5X chip with quad-core graphics and a 5 megapixel iSight® camera with advanced optics for capturing amazing photos and 1080p HD video. The new iPad still delivers the same all-day 10 hour battery life* while remaining amazingly thin and light.
In addition to South Korea, the new iPad also will be available beginning on Friday, April 20 in Brunei, Croatia, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Malaysia, Panama, St Maarten, Uruguay and Venezuela. Beginning on Friday, April 27, the new iPad will be available in Colombia, Estonia, India, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, South Africa and Thailand.
*Battery life depends on device settings, usage and other factors. Actual results vary.
**4G LTE is supported only on AT&T and Verizon networks in the U.S. and on Bell, Rogers and Telus networks in Canada. Data plans sold separately.
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NVIDIA and Partners Transform Entire Content Creation Workflow at 2012 NAB Show
NAB 2012 -- Content creators ranging from 2012 Oscar winners Industrial Light & Magic, a division of Lucasfilm Ltd. (Rango) and Pixomondo (Hugo) to up-and-coming independents such as Bandito Brothers (Act of Valor, Waiting for Lightning) and smaller creative services shops such as Dawnrunner Productions and Digital Spatula are increasing the speed, quality and productivity of their workflows through the adoption of GPU computing featuring NVIDIA® Quadro® and Tesla® GPUs.
"GPU computing is a key component of our innovation roadmap," said Dave Story, chief technology officer of Lucasfilm. "To achieve the breakthroughs we're known for, we constantly evaluate the tools and technology that our artists rely on for uncompromising quality and maximum efficiency. To that end, we're developing our own tools and using commercial software to leverage the immense power available to us through NVIDIA CUDA architecture and both NVIDIA Quadro and Tesla GPUs."
To improve the creation process -- from importing and processing high-resolution camera data through the entire post-production process -- leading software providers are expanding the breadth and depth of their GPU-accelerated product offerings. One example is Adobe® Systems Incorporated, which is demonstrating at NAB a landmark upcoming new release of Adobe® Creative Suite® 6 that uses NVIDIA GPUs to accelerate Adobe Premiere® Pro CS6, Adobe SpeedGrade® CS6, Adobe Photoshop® CS6, and, most notably, Adobe After Effects® CS6, which benefits from a new 3D ray tracing feature that is up to 27 times faster1 on NVIDIA GPUs.
"I use After Effects every day, and 90 percent of my work is post-production with a heavy dose of motion graphics mixed with tons of video editing," said Steve Taylor, senior creative director of Digital Spatula. "By using the new 3D ray tracing capability in After Effects, running on an NVIDIA Maximus-equipped workstation, I'm getting so much more done in less time, freeing me up to be more creative and thoughtful about the project. I'm no longer interrupted by having to switch to a second 3D application to create compelling, animated 3D text and logos. Not only is it powerfully fast, efficient and easy to use, but After Effects CS6 also gives me more time to focus on delivering higher quality productions."
NVIDIA Maximus Technology
One reason content creators choose NVIDIA GPU technology is the immediate business value that comes from achieving both high-performance parallel processing and graphics on the same system, often in the same workflow.
NVIDIA Maximus technology combines the power of NVIDIA Quadro professional graphics and NVIDIA Tesla parallel processing in a single workstation, enabling customers to, for instance, create motion graphics while rendering effects in the background -- with no impact to the artist's interactivity.
"Maximus literally saved the day for us," said James Fox, chief executive officer of Dawnrunner Productions. "We had a client ask us for overnight changes on a job that had taken us 32 hours to render. There was no way we could pull that off. We had just gotten our Maximus system and decided the only way to meet the deadline was to put it into production right then and there. We used it to run Adobe CS5.5 and Autodesk 3ds Max and completed the job with time to spare. No way could we have done that without Maximus technology."
At the 2012 NAB show, a number of companies are introducing support for NVIDIA Maximus technology, including Adobe, Blackmagic Design (DaVinci Resolve), Chaos Software (V-Ray RT), Cinnafilm (Dark Energy), eyeon Software (Fusion), GenArts (Sapphire) and Quantel (Pablo).
"Blackmagic Design is excited to support NVIDIA's new Maximus configurations for Windows with DaVinci Resolve," said Grant Petty, chief executive officer of Blackmagic Design. "By combining a single NVIDIA Quadro and Tesla GPU with Resolve, customers will be able to enjoy incredibly high performance color correction features, such as the ability to process an uncompressed RGB HD resolution video with five layers of real time color correction and image blur at 24fps. With a single Quadro and four Tesla GPUs, colorists using Resolve are able to color correct more than 20 layers of HD video in real time."
"We've seen the adoption of GPU computing more than double by software vendors in just one short year from NAB 2011 until today," said Greg Estes, industry executive, media and entertainment for NVIDIA. "It's pretty clear that customers across the content creation spectrum are embracing NVIDIA CUDA as the architecture of choice for GPU computing, and our software partners are seeing that they can grow their business by being on the forefront of this trend."
NVIDIA Quadro and Tesla GPUs both feature innovative NVIDIA CUDA® architecture, and NVIDIA Quadro GPUs feature unique stereo 3D capabilities, support for low-latency SDI video I/O, and support for multiple displays of up to 4K resolution from a single system.
A partial listing and descriptions of the various innovations leveraging NVIDIA GPU technology that are on display at NAB 2012 include:
Adobe (Booth SL2624) is demonstrating its upcoming Adobe Creative Suite 6 Production Premium software accelerated with NVIDIA Quadro pro graphics, including NVIDIA Maximus technology, to accelerate Adobe After Effects CS6, Adobe Premiere Pro CS6, Adobe SpeedGrade CS6 and Adobe Photoshop CS6. Adobe will highlight its new NVIDIA GPU accelerated 3D ray tracing feature in After Effects CS6. It simplifies and accelerates the motion graphics workflow like never before with a powerful new 3D compositing pipeline that employs ray tracing for uncompromised image quality. Creative pros can now incorporate extruded and beveled text and shapes directly within After Effects CS6, integrate their rendering with its native layers and eliminate the traditional time-consuming back and forth with external 3D tools. Adobe's new "Ray trace 3D" renderer leverages the NVIDIA OptiX ray tracing engine for rendering realistic materials, accurate reflections, soft shadows, depth of field and motion blur. The new ray tracing becomes truly interactive, delivering final frames up to 27x faster when using NVIDIA GPUs, as compared to dual hex-core CPUs alone.1 Adobe Creative Suite 6 software continues to feature the NVIDIA CUDA-accelerated Mercury Playback Engine in Adobe Premiere Pro, providing up to an 8x performance boost2 for fast video editing. Adobe After Effects CS6 and Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 is also being demonstrated in the NVIDIA booth (SL9215).
Chaos Group is constantly working to ensure it creates the best tools for customer workflows. Its industry-leading V-Ray rendering engine now offers support for NVIDIA CUDA architecture. With CUDA, V-Ray RT is now capable of better harnessing the speed and performance of NVIDIA GPUs. This provides higher reliability and performance, and more rapid GPU support than before while providing the responsive experience users have come to rely upon in V-Ray RT.
Cinnafilm Inc., the world leader in GPU-based Standards Transcoding, noise reduction and film simulation, is demonstrating its Dark Energy Professional image texture management and optimization software platform in the NVIDIA booth (SL9215), showing how professionals can accelerate its full potential using NVIDIA Maximus technology.
Elemental Technologies (booth SU10012), a leading supplier of video solutions for multiscreen content delivery to any IP connected viewing device, is demonstrating a high-performance solution for live event production in the NVIDIA booth (SL9215), featuring the new Elemental Live 150 Series powered by dual NVIDIA Tesla GPUs. The Elemental Live 150 Series packs high performance video processing and throughput in either a rack mount or desktop form factor, allowing live event producers to output streams for multi-camera angle viewing.
eyeon Software Inc. offers a complete line of image processing and management applications that utilize NVIDIA GPU technology to provide massive processing power for VFX finishing of feature films, stereoscopic and broadcast production. The eyeon Software Fusion 3D renderer is now running on CUDA architecture, offering incredibly fast performance and cementing Fusion's reputation as one of the fastest, most comprehensive postproduction applications available.
GenArts, Inc. (booth SL2205) provides robust visual effects tools to the industry's leading artists across every major host application. Its popular Sapphire line of plug-ins, which are GPU-accelerated to leverage NVIDIA CUDA architecture, now support NVIDIA Maximus technology. Industry pros who rely on Sapphire to streamline their workflows can now look forward to the highest levels of productivity while creating visual effects within their video editing or compositing software.
Harris (Booth N2502/Diamond 2/N3400), which serves government and commercial markets in more than 150 countries, is demonstrating new features in both its Inscriber G8 and TitleOne AE live graphics systems. Inscriber G8 is built for high-end graphics creation, and utilizes the NVIDIA Quadro 4000 professional GPU with NVIDIA CUDA technology to significantly reduce channel hardware density for a greatly reduced footprint (2RU), lower power consumption and improved performance and clip playback scalability for the execution of high-caliber, complex 3D graphics and animations. The TitleOne AE improves on previous-generation TitleOne graphics systems by adding a high-performance NVIDIA Quadro 600 professional GPU and enhanced processing for maximum flexibility, offering sophisticated graphics creation features for real-time single-channel HD/SD or SD-only 2D-in-3D graphics.
Marquise Technologies (booth SL9109) creates high-end solutions for the post-production industry. At NAB, the company is demonstrating a new real-time debayering engine, Mosaic, for use with ARRIRAW, Phantom and Adobe DNG Converter, accelerated and processed exclusively with NVIDIA Quadro professional GPUs. By harnessing the tremendous processing power of NVIDIA GPUs and CUDA architecture, Marquise Technologies is able to use increased computational complexities in its proprietary debayering algorithms without the fear of bandwidth or processing bottlenecks. This adds additional accuracy when bringing an image from the RAW realm into the RGB world, all in real-time.
Perceptive Pixel (booth SL1629MR), a recognized leader in interaction design, is demonstrating its 27-inch professional-grade, ultra-high-resolution, multi-touch desktop LCD in the NVIDIA booth (SL9215). NVIDIA Quadro GPUs and SDI capture cards help Perceptive Pixel deliver state-of-the-art multi-touch interaction, providing the best possible graphical touch experience.
Quantel (booth SL2415) is an international leader in content creation systems for broadcast, post, and digital imaging, with systems installed at broadcast facilities and post houses worldwide. Its new Pablo color correction software takes advantage of multi-GPU processing, ushering in the next generation of non-linear color correction. Quantel will be demonstrating new Pablo accelerated with NVIDIA Maximus technology, which enables the highest frame rates and most productive finishing workflows -- it's a perfect color correction and finishing solution for colorists working with HD, 2K, 4K and stereoscopic 3D video and film.
Additionally, NVIDIA GPUDirect for Video technology is being demonstrated during the 2012 NAB show by AJA Video Systems, Bluefish444 (in booth SL9309), Deltacast (in booth SL8006), and Matrox (in booth SL5115).
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WD® VelociRaptor® Hard Drive Reaches New Performance Peak With 1 TB Model
Western Digital® (NYSE: WDC), today announced it is now shipping the new WD VelociRaptor® 1 TB hard drive, the latest addition to its award-winning drive family, the largest capacity 10,000 RPM hard drive on the market today. Designed for high-performance PCs, Mac® computers and professional workstations that require a balance of high performance and capacity, the WD VelociRaptor drive is a favorite among enthusiasts and creative professionals. The WD VelociRaptor will also come in capacities of 500 GB and 250 GB.
"WD is committed to providing customers with the best performing and most reliable SATA hard drives and our WD VelociRaptor family of drives underscores that promise," said Darwin Kauffman, vice president and general manager of WD's enterprise storage. "With ever-increasing demand for greater capacity, the new 1 TB WD VelociRaptor drive delivers the ultimate combination of speed and storage for the power user."
The WD VelociRaptor 2.5-inch hard drive comes in the IcePack(TM) enclosure, a 3.5-inch mounting frame with built-in heat sink - a factory customization that fits the drive into a standard 3.5-inch system bay and keeps the powerful drive extra cool when installed in a high-performance desktop or workstation system.
Features of the WD VelociRaptor hard drives include:
Super speed - SATA 6 Gb/s interface and 64 MB cache optimize the 10,000 RPM WD VelociRaptor.
Higher capacity - WD VelociRaptor SATA hard drives employ Advanced Format Technology to achieve capacities up to 1 TB.
Rock-solid reliability - Designed and manufactured to workstation standards to deliver stellar reliability in high workload environments.
Ultra-cool operation - Consumes less idle power and uses similar active power as the previous generation WD VelociRaptor while offering greater capacity and performance.
Rotary Acceleration Feed Forward (RAFF(TM)) - Optimizes operation and performance when the drives are used in vibration-prone, multi-drive chassis.
NoTouch(TM) ramp load technology - The recording head never touches the disk media ensuring significantly less wear to the recording head and media as well as better drive protection when in transit.
Environmentally conscious - In addition to being RoHS-compliant, this generation of WD VelociRaptor is also a halogen-free design.
Price and Availability
WD VelociRaptor hard drives are available now at select distributors, resellers and e-tailers, and come with a five-year limited warranty. Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) for the WD VelociRaptor 1 TB (model #: WD1000DHTZ) is $319.99 USD, the 500 GB version (model #: WD5000HHTZ) is $209.99 USD and the 250 GB version (model #: WD2500HHTZ) is $159.99 USD. More information about WD VelociRaptor hard drives including terms of the limited warranty may be found on the company website at http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=20.
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HWBOT New Record! ASRock 'Fatal1ty X79 Professional' Creates The World's Highest Score of PCMark 05 - 55334 Marks.
Stepping to future overclocking with ASRock's unbeatable X79 Overclock KING Motherboard Series. World's top3 motherboard manufacturer, ASRock Inc., today proudly announced that Intel's Sandy Bridge-E platform Core i7 3960X processor was overclocked to 5.4GHz and created 55334 marks, the world's best PCMark 05 results, with the company's 'Overclocking Genius' motherboard - Fatal1ty X79 Professional.
HWBOT, a worldwide recognized overclocking ranking organization which is opened to everyone for uploading excellent OC results. Globally praised Hong Kong IT media, HKEPC, submitted the best PCMark 05 results with 55334 points on 15th April to HWBOT with ASRock top-end X79 Professional motherboard, SAPPHIRE 7970 DUAL X VGA card, CORSAIR DOMINATOR GT (CMGTX8) 4 x 2GB 2400MHz memoryand Raid array with 8 x CORSAIR FORCE GT 120GB SSD.
Managing Supervisor of HKEPC OC Laboratory Department, Mad Tse, commented "The great honor of this achievement would be given to ASRock outstanding R&D team as well. Thanks for providing 4 customizable BIOS versions in the past 3 days. I've never received this kind of high performance service before! I'll say, with the premium mobos and new standard service, getting superb overclocking from ASRock motherboard has never been easier!"
Director of ASRock Performance RD Dept, William Yu, said "ASRock is all excited about this masterpiece! To get the best RAID performance, we released the special BIOS which optimized the data sequence of PCI Express! The BIOS also allows CPU to become optimized to accommodate extreme amounts of overclocking."
To embrace unlocked power of your rig, all you need is to build up a strong PC with excellent components. Thanks to the partnership between HEKPC, ASRock, Corsair and Sapphire!
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