Gigabyte reveals two Mini-ITX Ivy Bridge boards
Add Gigabyte to the list of motherboard makers with Mini-ITX boards primed for Ivy Bridge. The company has posted pictures of two new models on its Facebook page. One is based on the Z77 Express chipset, while the other uses the H77. The Facebook post is short on details, but we can draw a few conclusions from the pictures. Behold the Z77N-WiFi:
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Inside the second: Gaming performance with today's CPUs
As you may know, a while back, we came to some difficult realizations about the validity of our methods for testing PC gaming performance. In my article Inside the second: A new look at game benchmarking, we explained why the widely used frames-per-second averages tend to obscure some of the most important information about how smoothly a game plays on a given system. In a nutshell, the problem is that FPS averages summarize performance over a relatively long span of time. It's quite possible to have lots of slowdowns and performance hiccups during the period in question and still end up with an average frame rate that seems quite good. In other words, the FPS averages we (and everyone else) had been dishing out to readers for years weren't very helpful—and were potentially misleading.
To sidestep this shortcoming, we proposed a new approach, borrowed from the world of server benchmarking, that focuses on the actual problem at hand: frame latencies. By considering the time required to render each and every frame of a gameplay session and ...
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Sleeping Dogs demo available on Steam
Sleeping Dogs was released last week, and it seems to be pretty popular with critics and gamers. The PC version has a MetaCritic score of 84 with an 8.6 user rating, and the console versions have received similar ratings. PC gamers get a few perks, including DirectX 11 graphics effects and a separate, high-resolution texture pack that weighs in at about 5GB, nearly doubling the size of the installed footprint.
Right now, Sleeping Dogs costs $50 on Steam . If you're apprehensive about taking the plunge, you ...
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Release roundup: Windowed cases, 1200W power, and an OC-friendly mobo
Every week, we gather press releases that slipped through the net of our daily coverage, and we post them in the release roundup. Here's this week's selection:
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Stereoscopic 3D not a priority for EA games
We took our first look at stereoscopic 3D on the PC back in 2009. At the time, we weren't sold on the technology. We revisited the subject earlier this year and found that much had improved. However, problems persisted, particularly with game compatibility and eye fatigue. We remained unconvinced.
Turns out we're not alone. Publishing giant EA isn't too keen on stereoscopic 3D, with COO Peter Moore telling Eurogamer that the technology "just doesn't seem to be a major factor." Moore notes that stereo 3D ...
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Zotac updates Zbox Nano with Brazos 2.0
We loved the Zotac Zbox Nano AD10 when we reviewed it last year. Into a chassis small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, the AD10 packs a Zacate-based E-350 APU, USB 3.0, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Gigabit Ethernet, among other modern conveniences. It's our favorite barebones mini PC—or at least it was. Zotac has updated the Nano with a new model, the AD12, based on AMD's second-generation Brazos platform.
The second coming is just ...
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MSI MPower board provides Go2BIOS firmware shortcut
PCs boot pretty quickly these days, and getting into their firmware interfaces has become somewhat more difficult as a result. With a sufficiently fast system, you have to start hammering the delete key right after pressing the power button to have any hope of making it into the BIOS or UEFI. To save keyboards from unnecessary abuse, MSI's new Z77 MPower motherboard has a Go2BIOS button that takes users directly into the firmware at the next reboot. Go2BIOS works as long as the system's power is connected, MSI says, even if the computer is turned off.
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