Wednesday, June 19, 2013

IT News Head Lines (X-bit labs) 6/20/2013

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AMD Unveils Server Strategy and Roadmap
AMD Adds Berlin, Seattle and Warsaw Processors into Roadmap

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Nvidia Set to Radically Change Business Model, License Graphics Cores to Others
Nvidia Takes ARM, Imagination Technologies Route, Intends to License Kepler Graphics Tech

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Oculus VR Raises $16 Million in Funding from Venture Capital Funds
Venture Capitalists Invest into Oculus VR Virtual Reality Platform

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Accelerators and Co-Processors Set to Dominate Big Data at High Performance Computing Sites
IDC: Intel Xeon Phi and Nvidia Tesla Running Neck to Neck to Supercomputer Leadership

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Microsoft and Best Buy to Open Up Over 600 Windows Stores
Microsoft and Best Buy to Open Up Stores-Within-A-Store

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Intel Haswell-E to Pack Eight Cores, Quad-Channel DDR4 Memory Controller
Intel Preps Series Performance Boost with Next Year's Enthusiast Desktop Platform

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Microsoft Enables Office 365 for Apple iPhone, But Not For iPad
Microsoft Unleashes Office for iPhone, Keeps iPad Office-Free

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Ubisoft: No More Nintendo Wii U Exclusive Games Until More Consoles Are Sold
Ubisoft Wants Broader Installed Based of Wii U to Justify Exclusive Titles

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Zotac GeForce GTX TITAN AMP! Edition 6 GB Graphics Card and TITAN in 2-Way SLI Configuration Review
Today we are going to talk about the fastest mass production GeForce GTX TITAN graphics accelerator with air cooling as well as the results of a pair of TITAN cards in a 2-way SLI configuration.

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Choice of Champions: Asus ROG MATRIX 7970 3 GB Graphics Card Review
New Asus graphics accelerator can be called a true apogee of the Radeon HD 7970 evolution. It is hard to believe that there could ever be any faster or more advanced graphics accelerators before the HD 7000-series epoch comes to its logical end.

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Samsung 840 Pro and Samsung 840 Solid State Drives Review
Samsung currently offers very interesting solid state drives. Some boast outstanding performance, others - are built with inexpensive TLC NAND and come with a very appealing price tag. And our tests prove all of this: we are ready to discuss what we saw when we got our hands on a Samsung 840 Pro 256 GB and Samsung 840 250 GB drives.

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AMD A10-6800K Review: Richland - Desktop APUs from 2013
AMD decided to refresh their Socket FM2 platform and release a new generation of hybrid processors for it based on Richland design. This is exactly the one that earned the "Elite Performance APU Platform" title in the mobile segment.

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Intel Core i7-4770K CPU Review. Intel Haswell for Desktops: Ruin of Our Hopes?
After a very long and anxious wait we can finally take a close look at one of the fourth generation Core processors for desktops, which is based on the new Haswell microarchitecture. Significantly higher performance, better energy-efficiency, excellent overclocking - all this isn't the case. What happened?

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GELID The Black Edition CPU Cooler Review: Man in Black
As many as seven heatpipes, dual-array heatsink, two fans - will the new GELID cooler become a super-cooler today? Let's find out.

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Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H Mainboard Review: Not So Complex LGA 1155 Mainboard
There are a lot of mainboards out there with a variety of onboard controllers and an extensive list of functions. Of course, there are simpler and even more affordable mainboards, but perfection like Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H is a very rare occurrence among them.

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Thermalright Archon SB-E X2 Super-Cooler Review: Evolution Apogee
Let's take a closer look at the most efficient single-array tower cooler out there designed for six-core Intel processors.

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OCZ Vertex 3.20 Solid State Drive Review: Version 2, Revised.
OCZ decided to re-release their previous hit - Vertex 3 solid state drive. The new SSD revision uses the same LSI SF-2281 controller, but different flash-memory manufactured using more advanced 20 nm production technology. Have they managed to create yet another eye-catcher? Let's find out from our new review.

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Asus P8Z77-V LK Mainboard Review: One of Asus' Simplest Designs
This mainboard will suit perfectly for a contemporary system, it doesn't boast anything extraordinary, but also doesn't have any functionality limitations of any kind. There are more complex and more expensive, as well as simpler and more affordable products out there, while Asus P8Z77-V LK is a regular mainboard, most optional solution, the so-called "golden medium".

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Kingston SSDNow V300 Solid State Drive Review: SandForce with New Fixings
You may have the impression that solid state drives on LSI SF-2281 controller have already been studied and tested inside out. However, Kingston managed to come up with a product that turned out genuinely surprising in the most positive way.

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NZXT Kraken X60 Review: The Best Liquid-Cooling System
Finally! A mass production liquid cooling system with realistic price tag outperformed not only the best air cooler, but also some of the best of its predecessors.

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ASRock Z77 Extreme11 Mainboard Review: LGA 1155 Mainboard for Users with Many Drives
This mainboard has unprecedentedly rich functionality, including unique support for a large number of SATA drives. Besides, it has a number of other advantages and very few drawbacks with one of them standing out among the rest.

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NZXT Kraken X40 Compact Liquid Cooling System Review: New Level of Cool?
Larger radiator and a large 140 mm fan, fortified pump and longer tubing, user-friendly software for management and monitoring - will that be enough to outperform the best air cooler?

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Noctua Demonstrates World's First CPU Cooler with Active Noise Cancelling Technology
Noctua and RotoSub to Launch Cooler with Noise Cancelling Technology in Mid-2014

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CoolIT Calls for Liquid Cooling Technology Standards for Servers
CoolIT to Present at International Supercomputing Show

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