Official specs confirm 300-series Radeon rebrands
Remember those 300-series Radeons HP leaked earlier this week? The PC giant named a bunch of unannounced graphics products in a press release about its new desktop and all-in-one systems. Specifications have now appeared on AMD's site, and they suggest that everything from the R9 380 on down is based on recycled silicon.
The specs come from the OEM section of AMD's site, so they describe products intended for PC makers like HP. There's no mention of ...
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Early deal of the week: Asus' ZenBook UX305 for $599
We usually do deals posts on Friday, but this is too good to pass up. The Microsoft Store has a sweet discount on Asus' ZenBook UX305. Less than half an inch thick, this ultra-slim notebook packs a Core M-5Y10 processor, 8GB of RAM, a 256GB SSD, and a 13.3" IPS display with a 1080p resolution. It's a Signature Edition, too, so there's no unecessary software bloat. The asking price usually starts $699, but promo code PCGRAD15 brings the total down to only $599 with free shipping.
For those keeping score, that's less than half the price of the new ...
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Asus' Turbo cooler optimizes the GTX 970 for SLI
Custom twin- or triple-fan GPU coolers, as seen on some of our favorites from MSI, Asus, and Gigabyte, are great in single-card setups. Gang them together in SLI, though, and the top card might be choked for airflow on boards with tight PCIe spacing. Asus' new Turbo GeForce GTX 970 features a blower-style cooler that's specifically designed to get around this problem.
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AMD: Zen chips headed to desktops, servers in 2016
The roadmap for upcoming AMD products has been pretty murky lately, but the company revealed some of its key plans for the next few years at its Financial Analyst Day today.
The zen of Zen
The biggest news has to do with Zen, the new x86-compatible CPU core meant to replace the current Bulldozer family. Today's presentations didn't go ...
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MSI's 990FXA Gaming mobo freshens up with USB 3.1
AMD's 990FX chipset soldiers on. As an astute TR commenter pointed out a while back, this platform is over five years old now. Motherboard makers are continuing to bolster 990FX boards with modern features via add-on controllers, though, and MSI's latest 990FXA Gaming gets USB 3.1 in this way.
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Join us Thursday night to talk Zen and more with David Kanter
We're cooking up a special version of the TR Podcast live stream for this Thursday night at 9:30 PM ET/6:30 PM PT. David Kanter of Real World Tech has agreed to join me on the show, and among other things, we'll be talking about the news we expect to hear shortly during AMD's Financial Analyst Day.
If the rumors are true, we should have some fresh AMD roadmap info to ...
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Xeon E7 v3 boasts Haswell cores, hybrid memory controller
Although Broadwell-based chips are already on the market and Skylake is rumored for next year, Intel's older Haswell microarchitecture is still working its way into new products. The latest is the Xeon E7 v3 series, which is designed for beefy servers with four or more sockets. Known in techie circles as Haswell-EX, this processor has loads of cores, gobs of cache, and a hybrid memory controller that supports both DDR3 and DDR4 memory.
Like the Xeon E5 v3 processor Scott reviewed last year , the E7 is available with up to 18 cores, 36 threads, and 45MB of last-level cache. While the E5 is limited to dual QPI links, ...
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Our latest case review is getting a little hairy
I'm working on a review of Fractal Design's Define S case, and after this morning, I may have to add "does a cat want to get inside?" to our list of testing criteria:
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Oculus says Rift VR headset will ship early next year
We've watched the development of the Oculus Rift ever since its Kickstarter debut in 2012, and we've been waiting with bated breath for a consumer version ever since. Though the wait isn't over yet, there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Today, Oculus confirmed that the consumer version of the Rift will be shipping in the first quarter of 2016, and they shared some pictures of the final hardware. Feast your eyes:
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16-nm NAND infiltrates Intel's latest server SSD
After refreshing its mid-range and high-end server SSDs with updated controllers and 20-nm NAND earlier this year, Intel has now turned its attention to the entry-level tier. The new DC S3510 massages the formula introduced with the S3500,
and like January's updates, subtle tweaks to the SATA-based controller
appear to be part of the package. More interestingly, the S3510 eschews
20-nm NAND in favor of chips built on an even finer 16-nm process.The datasheet confirms the flash has an MLC configuration with two bits per cell, but it's mum on ...
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