Revisiting the CM Storm Trigger Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Review
Revisiting the CM Storm Trigger Mechanical Gaming Keyboard
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan Gaming Review Putting NVIDIA's long awaited full implementation of its Keplar architecture through OCC's benchmark suite. Read More ...
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HighPoint RocketStor 5322 Review Looking at the benefits of HighPoints latest storage solution the RocketStor 5322 with Dual dedicated 6Gb/s eSATA connectivity. Read More ...
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Phanteks PH-TC12DX Review Testing the cooling prowess of Phanteks latest tower style CPU cooler. Read More ...
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1D and 2D Nanostructures Combined It can be surprising just how useful a pointed stick can be as people use them to cook and hold food, collect receipts on, and more. Nanowires are something of the equivalent to a stick with their one dimensional structure and numerous abilities. Now researchers at North Carolina State University have found a way to form 2D sheets on 1D nanowire, similar to stuck receipts, but with potentially useful electric properties. To create this compound structure, the researchers started with a germanium sulfide (GeS) nanowire and exposed it to air. This caused nucleation sites to form on the wire due to weak oxidation and when the wire was exposed to a GeS vapor, those sites served as the seed for the nanosheets to grow from. As GeS is a semiconductor, the researchers are looking at this heterostructure for a variety of technologies, including sensors and potentially supercapacitors. Importantly the method of production is inexpensive and can be scaled up for industry, but with luck it will not just be GeS structures made this way. The researchers are hoping they will be able to replicate this structure with molybdenum sulfide (MoS2) which has better electronic properties than GeS. Source: North Carolina State University Read More ...
New Laptop Cooler From Cooler Master Cooler Master seems to have its hands in everything lately, and laptop cooling is no exception. The company is adding the A200 to its lineup of NotePal coolers. Two 140mm fans circulate air over an aluminum cooling surface and fan speed can be adjusted using an included control mechanism. The A200 is able to handle laptops with screens up to 16" in size and an ergonomic height adjustment allows for comfort during use. Source: Cooler Master Read More ...
Flat, Flexible, and Transparent Imaging Device Created Across the planet there are researchers working to create flexible and transparent, polymer-based displays for our devices. Some other researchers however, are working on imaging devices that are also flexible, transparent, and polymer based, as reported by the Optical Society's journal, Optics Express. This new imaging device is definitely clever in its design as it combines multiple technologies. The polymer the device uses is a luminescent concentrator which will absorb light of one frequency and reemitted it at another, lower frequency. When the light is reemitted much of it goes through, making the device transparent, but some of the light is trapped within the polymer, ultimately bouncing around until it comes to an edge where light sensors absorb it. Once absorbed, using algorithms similar to those employed for CT scans, the image of the light hitting the sensor can be recreated. Currently the image sensor is only producing 32x32 pixel images, but the resolution can be increased by using better photodiodes and with more advanced sampling techniques. The sensor material itself contains no pixels; the pixels of the produced image are just the result of the algorithms used to generate an image. By taking more samples of the light striking the sensor in multiple locations, a better detailed image can be created, without having to improve the photodiodes or increase the time required to make an image. Source: Optical Society of America Read More ...
Hardware Roundup: NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan Edition NVIDIA released its latest and greatest GPU yesterday in the guise of the GeForce GTX Titan and we managed to pick up a couple of reviews of the reference version on this card in addition to the pair of reviews done here at OCC. Named after the world's fastest computer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the GTX Titan is coming to market with a MSRP $999. Quoting from the OCC GeForce GTX Titan review:
Basic specifications for GTX Titan include five GPC, 14 SMX, 2688 CUDA Cores (Single Precision), 896 CUDA Cores (Double Precision), 448 texture units, 48 ROPs, 6GB of GDDR5 memory though a wider 384-bit bus, 28nm process, and finally 7.1 billion transistors with a 1536K L2 cache. Base clock speed on the CUDA cores comes in at 837MHz with a boost clock of 876MHz while the 6GB frame buffer is clocked at 6008MHz (1502MHz effective).So read on and decide if this newest offering from NVIDIA is worth the price. NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan @ OCC NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan Gaming @ OCC NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Performance Review and Frame Rating Update @ PC Perspective GTX TITAN: The beast to unseat the best! @ Bjorn3D NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Video Card @ [H]ardOCP Read More ...
Hardware Roundup: Friday Edition Today's roundup gives us an opportunity to check out a gaming laptop from CyberPower in the form of the Fangbook X7-200. This Windows 8 X64 OS equipped laptop is powered by an Intel Core i7-3630QM Ivy Bridge processor, 2x8GB DDRIII 1600MHz Corsair Vengeance memory and a NVIDIA GeForce GTX675MX 4GB GPU. be quiet! is a German company that is a relative newcomer to the U.S. market so, even if you have heard of them, you may not be familiar with the company's power supplies like the Dark Power Pro 10 550W unit reviewed here today. We also have a review on the Aivia Osmium mechanical keyboard from Gigabyte. Input Devices Gigabyte Aivia Osmium Mechanical Keyboard @ Benchmark Reviews Notebokks/Tablets Cyberpower Fangbook @ Bjorn3D Power Supplies be quiet! Dark Power Pro 10 550W Power Supply @ ThinkComputers Read More ...
MIT Builds its own UHD TV Chip As televisions grow in size and the technology involved with video media improves, the resolution of televisions also grows too. Soon we may be seeing ultrahigh-definition (UHD) TVs hitting store shelves with four times the pixels of modern Full HD televisions with 1080 lines. With four times the pixels, UHD televisions need to be able to do as much as four times the work to process a signal, which is why advanced processing chips are being developed, and now MIT has designed one. To keep the amount of data needed down, High-Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is being used to encode UHD video streams, and this codec, like others currently in use, operates on the principle that most of the pixels in an image do not change during a scene. That means only one frame, the key frame, needs to be completely encoded for a scene, while motion data and correction information is what defines the changes throughout the scene. An HEVC chip needs to be able to take in this information and very quickly process it to create the UHD video stream, which is why MIT designed its with multiple efficiency-increase technologies such as simplifying a 32x32 matrix to just 32 unique numbers, instead of 1024 values, and addressing pixel data within memory in squares, instead of rows which separate pixels above and below each other. Designed by MIT, fabricated by TSMC, and funded by TI, the new chip is not for commercial use. However, the researchers' work will likely influence others as they build HEVC chips for the TVs and other devices you and I buy. Source: MIT Read More ...
CyberPower Offering Desktops with NVIDIA Titan GPU CyberPower didn't waste much time before offering to put the newest GPU from NVIDIA, the GTX Titan, in its desktop PCs. Starting today the Fang III, Zeus, Gamer Xtreme, and Gamer Ultra systems can be configured with the new card. These systems will be pricey, starting at $1699. Users will be able to choose from the AMD FX, Intel X79, and Intel Z77 platforms to pair with the powerful GPU. Systems with the GTX Titan will support NVIDIA 3D Vision and Surround technology and resolutions up to 2560x1600. Read More ...
OCZ Releases 20nm Vertex 3 OCZ has announced a 20nm version of its popular Vertex 3 solid state drive, which should extend the availability of the SSD as other new drives come out. The 2.5" drive is built with MLC NAND flash and features a 6Gb/s SATA connection. The drive will be available in capacities of 120GB, 240GB, and 480GB. An LSI SandForce SF-2200 processor allows the Vertex 3 to achieve read and write speeds up to 550MB/s and 520MB/s, respectively. Senior VP of Product Management Daryl Lang said, “The Vertex 3 has been a popular SSD series among consumers and implementing the newer, smaller process geometry will not only extend its life, but enables mainstream users with an excellent computing experience at a competitive price point.” Read More ...
'Touching' Infrared Light Potentially one of the hardest things to adapt to is the loss of a limb as it will immediately change your ability to do some many tasks. Researchers are constantly trying to create better prosthetics to return what capabilities they can and now some can be linked to and controlled by one's brain. Researchers at Duke University have recently demonstrated a similar link between a prosthetic and the brain of rats but instead of allowing the rats to control the prosthetics, it was to give them a sense of touch. For many animals, including rats and humans, infrared light cannot be seen, but the researchers sought to change that by attaching an infrared sensor to the brains of rats. When an invisible infrared light was turned on, the rats were aware of it, leading them to go up to it to touch it. Importantly this research demonstrated that the brain was able to work with both this artificial stimulation and the normal whisker touch rats experience. This suggests that the cell types connected to an implant do not need to be specific but can instead of a broader range, thanks to the plasticity of the brain. While the ability to sense the infrared light is definitely interesting, the reason the researchers did this was to study the brain's ability to interface with such implants. Eventually the researchers would like to see a similar implant be used with an exoskeleton to give quadriplegics the ability to move their limbs and sense of touch.
Hardware Roundup: Thursday Edition Even if the company is relatively new, having been founded in 2011, ASUSTOR should be somewhat familiar to enthusiasts as it is part of the ASUS Group. Today we are treated to a review of the company's AS-604T 4-bay NAS server powered by an Intel Atom 2.13GHz dual-core processor. Next in line in the storage department is an article examining solid state drive write performance. Our other hardware item in the roundup today is the X-mini UNO Capsule Speaker. Speakers/Headphones X-mini UNO Capsule Speaker @ ThinkComputers Storage/Hard Drives Taking an Accurate Look at SSD Write Endurance @ PC Perspective ASUSTOR AS-604T 4-bay NAS Server for Home and Small Business @ Madshrimps Read More ...
Hardware Roundup: Wednesday Edition Today we have another review on the Fractal Design Node 304 Mini-ITX case that we also saw in the roundup yesterday. The Cooler Master Silencio 650 is a silent mid-tower case with a clean, simplistic design for those wanting a quiet PC case. We also have a preview of the NVIDIA GeForce Titan video card which incorporates the GK110 GPU. In storage, there are two reviews covering the Samsung 840 120GB solid state drive and the ADATA DashDrive Air AE400 wireless storage device. Cases Cooler Master Silencio 650 @ XSReviews Fractal Design Node 304 Mini-ITX Case @ Benchmark Reviews Storage/Hard Drives Samsung 840 120GB SSD @ [H]ardOCP ADATA DashDrive Air AE400 @ ThinkComputers Video NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Preview - GK110, GPU Boost 2.0, Overclocking and GPGPU @ PC Perspective Read More ...
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