Wednesday, August 6, 2014

IT News Head Lines (X-bit labs) 8/7/2014

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Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3 Mainboard Review: For the Gamers, But Cheap
The mainboard has comfortable design, good features set and basic bundle. It has good overclocking power and typical performance. The mainboard has many pros, but we found one very bad thing: power consumption of GA-Z97X-Gaming 3 is too high.

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ARM Preps Second-Generation "Artemis" and "Maya" 64-Bit ARMv8-A Offerings
ARM Readies 64-Bit Cores for Non-Traditional Applications

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AMD Vows to Introduce 20nm Products Next Year
AMD's 20nm APUs, GPUs and Embedded Chips to Arrive in 2015

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Microsoft to Unify All Windows Operating Systems for Client PCs
One Windows OS will Power PCs, Tablets and Smartphones

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PQI Debuts Flash Drive with Lightning and USB Connectors
PQI Offers Easy Way to Boost iPhone or iPad Storage

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Japan Display Begins to Mass Produce IPS-NEO Displays
JDI Begins to Mass Produce Rival for AMOLED Panels

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Microsoft to Fire 18,000 Employees to Boost Efficiency
Microsoft to Perform Massive Job Cut Ever Following Acquisition of Nokia

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Apple Teams Up with IBM to Make iPhone and iPad Ultimate Tools for Businesses and Enterprises
IBM to Sell Business-Optimized iPhone and iPad Devices

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IBM to Invest $3 Billion In Research of Next-Gen Chips, Process Technologies
IBM to Fund Development of 7nm and Below Process Technologies, Help to Create Post-Silicon Future

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Intel Postpones Launch of High-End "Broadwell-K" Processors to July - September, 2015
High-End Core i "Broadwell" Processors Scheduled to Arrive in Q3 2015

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Intel Delays Introduction of Core M "Broadwell" Processors Further
Low-Power Broadwell Chips Due in Late 2014

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The World's Fastest: Gigabyte GeForce GTX Titan Black GHz Edition Review
We're going to benchmark the world's fastest single-GPU graphics card which offers two cooling systems for the user to choose from

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MSI R9 280 GAMING 3G Graphics Card Review: Best Deal
We've finally managed to lay our hands on the graphics card that is potentially the best in terms of price/performance ratio. Today we're going to check out if the Radeon R9 280 is indeed unrivalled in its category

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ASUS Z97-A Mainboard Review: New Look of LGA 1150 Platform
ASUS's new mainboard looks improved with its updated BIOS and modern interfaces. But are all of those improvements really good? And what exactly is the difference between it and the older models? We'll find the answers right now in this review

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Plextor M6e Review: Solid State Drive for PCI Express
We all look forward to SATA Express and M.2 interfaces expansion and appearance SSDs for these interfaces. However, we can buy a SSD for PCIe bus, Plextor have gave us such opportunity already. Is it a good choice or we should wait of introducing of other drives with SATA Express and M.2 interfaces?

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Crucial M550 Solid State Drive Review
Previous Crucial SSDs from M500 family had a great popularity thanks to their moderate pricing. But performance of M500 series wasn't such great. That is why Crucial has developed the new M550 family with renewed controller and firmware and with new approach to NAND selection. And this refresh is very promising.

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Socket FM2+ Mainboards Comparison: Asus A88XM-Plus versus Gigabyte GA-F2A88XM-D3H
Asus A88XM-Plus and Gigabyte GA-F2A88XM-D3H are similar to each other. They are similar by specs and price, made by first-tier manufacturers, based on AMD A88X chipset and have a micro-ATX form-factor appropriated to low-cost systems. But let's take a look to their differences.

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Let's Do Some Math: AMD Radeon R9 295X2 2x4GB Review
Today we're talking about AMD's new graphics card with two Hawaii XT GPUs and a liquid cooling system

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Noctua NH-D15 versus Phanteks PH-TC14PЕ: Great Combat
Austrian Noctua fans were a long waiting of update to flagship NH-D14 cooler. Finally the successor has arrived. Does the new Noctua NH-D15 fully answer to expectations?

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Intel Core i7-4790, i5-4690, i5-4590, i5-4460, i3-4360, i3-4350 and i3-4150 Review. Meet Haswell Refresh!
Intel has updated the list of their Haswell processors. Instead of the old parts it will be offer a new - with slightly increased model numbers and higher frequencies. Does this change deserve our attention? We have tried to understand in this review.

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Athlon 5350 and Sempron 3850 Processors (Kabini) and Socket AM1 Platform Review. Four Cores for Less
AMD decided to refocus its energy-efficient Kabini processors to desktop segment and came up with a new Socket AM1 platform, allowing to build PCs with very low price. But can Kabini APUs fight the Intels Bay Trail-D and energy efficient Celerons?

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ASUS GeForce GTX 780 Ti DirectCU II OC Graphics Card Review
We have reviewed one of the original GeForce GTX 780 Ti and compared it with other graphics cards of this class and competitors. Also we have tested performance dependence of the video memory overclocking.

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AMD A10-7850K (Kaveri) Review: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
AMD Kaveri has united four x86 Steamroller cores and GCN-based Radeon R7 graphics core. It has manufactured by 28-nm process technology and supports HSA specification. AMD believes that due to this cocktail it has an outstanding product, able to compete with Core i5. But according to the results of the tests we have a different opinion.

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MSI Z87-G45 GAMING LGA 1150 Mainboard Review: Let's Game!
This model uses a full set of Intel Z87 features. Besides, it provides additional set of MSI brand technologies. Theoretically it looks good, but lets take a look on practical work. How will it operate during nominal mode and overclocking?

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Intel Readies New Quark "Dublin Bay" Microprocessors
Intel's "Dublin Bay" Chips Due in 2015

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K|NGP|N and Tin Overclock Nvidia's GK110 Processor to 2.0GHz
Top Experts Overclock GeForce GTX 780 Ti Graphics Card's GPU to 2025MHz

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Intel, Dell, Samsung, Others Team Up for New Open Wireless Interconnection
High-Tech Companies to Drive Seamless Device-to-Device Connectivity

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