Friday, April 27, 2012

IT News Head Lines (VR-Zone) 27/04/2012

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RS Components previews Raspberry Pi in Singapore
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Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi has gotten a lot of media attention when it was launched just two months ago. Today, VR-Zone was one of the media to have the opportunity to attend a preview of the credit-card size computer and find out what it is capable of.


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HTC Reportedly Working on Facebook Phone
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According to DigiTimes, HTC is working in cooperation with Facebook on a smartphone, to be launched in the third quarter of 2012 at the earliest.


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Sprint to Continue with Unlimited iPhone Data Plans
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According to Dan Hesse, CEO of Sprint Nextel, Sprint will continue to offer their unlimited data plans for the iPhone even if the next incarnation of the device gets LTE.


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G.Skill Trident X 8GB 2666MHz CL11 Kit (F3-2666C11D-8GTXD) Review
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One of the benefits of the new Ivy Bridge based processors is the much touted IMC improvements over Sandy Bridge, allowing for memory overclocks north of 2600MHz+ if all conditions are right (RAM dexterity, motherboard electrical traces, power design, bios firmware...). G.Skill seized the opportunity and released their new Trident X series of XMP 1.3 compliant DDR3 memory modules, which have been a constant feature over the past few weeks in breaking world frequency and efficiency records. Today we review their 8GB (2 x 4GB) kit, which is rated 2666MHz @ 11-13-13-35 2T.


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Exclusive: Intel's Lynx Point chipset models revealed
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With Ivy Bridge announced, albeit note quite here yet, we thought it was time to take a look at next year's motherboard chipsets for the Shark Bay platform. Intel's upcoming LGA-1150 Haswell CPUs will be quite different from the current Sandy Bridge/Ivy Bridge CPUs and Intel will as such have to offer a range of suitable chipsets to go with these changes and so far we've only known the new chipsets as Lynx Point.


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Nvidia launches three new OEM GeForce 600-series models, in five SKUs
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Oh joy, Nvidia has gone and complicated its OEM graphics card line-up something terribly, as the company has announce three new GeForce 600-series models, yet there are no less than five new cards using three different GPUs. Talk about a slap in the face for consumers that buy branded computers, especially as three of the new SKUs are all the same model.


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Is Intel cheaping out on the IHS thermal interface for Ivy Bridge?
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There's no denying that Intel's Ivy Bridge CPUs are running hotter than expected, especially during overclocking and so far no-one has really managed to figure out what's going on, but now reports are coming in that it might be related to the thermal compound Intel is using. If this really is the case is something that will take further investigation, but for now it looks like it at least could be part of the reason why Intel's new chips run so hot.


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Apple to unveil iOS and OS X updates at WWDC in June
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Apple will hold its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in early June, where it will unveil details about the future of iOS and OS X.


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GIGABYTE Z77X-D3H Motherboard Review
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Gigabyte's Z77X-D3H is one of the company's mid range offerings supporting the brand new Ivy Bridge range of processors. We are now allowed to show results with Ivy Bridge processors and can bring you a full review of this affordable Socket 1155 motherboard with a i7-3770K processor.


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Crysis developer calls for next-gen console used game ban
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Crytek, the developer behind the popular Crysis first-person shooter series, is calling for next-generation consoles to block used games, describing the idea as “absolutely awesome.”


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