Pricing Information Leaked for AMD Radeon 300 Series
WCCF Tech has obtained pricing information for the upcoming Radeon 300 series graphics cards. The site was able to "confirm these prices directly through our own sources," and refutes an earlier leak from Sweclockers that saw much higher prices expected. The prices range from $107 for the low end R7 360 2GB to $389 for the R9 390X 8GB. With the updated pricing structure the cards should be better able to compete with offerings from NVIDIA from a price per dollar perspective. Full pricing information can be seen by following the link.
Source: WCCF Tech
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XFX Leaks Radeon R9 390X Double Dissipation Information
XFX has taken matters into its own hands and leaked a photo and some information ahead of the launch of the Radeon R9 390X Double Dissipation Edition. The picture showed up on the product page for the R9 290X and as of this writing the picture is no longer found on the page, meaning it was probably an accident. The photo revealed that the card includes a free copy of Dirt Rally, 8GB of GDDR5, and a cooler with seven heat pipes. The card looks similar to pictures of the R9 390 standard edition that were shown off in early April.
Source: Videocardz
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Six Games Inducted Into World Video Game Hall of Fame
The first group of games to be inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame, at The Strong, has been announced. The games are Pong, Pac-Man, Tetris, Super Mario Bros., DOOM, and World of Warcraft. These six games beat out other titles such as The Legend of Zelda, Minecraft, The Oregon Trail, and Space Invaders. I doubt any of these games require an introduction as each one has shaped the video game industry by bringing in new technology and/or new gamers, and influenced society as a whole. Even people who have never played a video game in their life probably know about some of these.
Nominations for next year's induction will be accepted until March 31, 2016.
Source: The Strong, National Museum of Play
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Hardware Roundup: Monday, June 8, 2015, Edition
A new week is upon us, and we have some items for you to consider on this Monday. There is a review of the In Win 707 full tower case, a more traditional looking case that can pack in a ton of hardware. We also have the OCZ Vector 180 480GB SSD, which uses a Barefoot 3 controller for some quick performance without breaking the bank. A wish list for Windows 10 looks at the mobile side of Microsoft's upcoming OS and what it hopefully accomplishes in order to compete against Android and iOS. Lastly there's a new case mod inspired by Mad Max, with the post-apocalyptic looks to boot.
Cases
In Win 707 @ ThinkComputers
Storage/Hard Drives
OCZ Vector 180 480GB SSD @ LanOC Reviews
Mobile
Windows 10 Mobile Wish List @ TechSpot
Miscellany
Case Mod Friday: Project CLUNK @ ThinkComputers
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Tweak Found to Improve Witcher 3 Performance on Some NVIDIA GPUs
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is one of the most anticipated games this year and can be visually stunning, if you have the hardware to push the pixels. You can find the OCC review here: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Review. Since its release, people have been searching for tweaks to get the most out of their systems, and a new one was found for improving performance on NVIDIA GPUs with Kepler and Maxwell cores. Apparently if you remove the APEX_ClothingGPU_x64.dll file from "bin/x64" in the game's directory, it can help boost framerates. This comes at the cost of some PhysX effects, but depending on what they do, the trade-off may be worth it for you.
Of course, you need to be careful about removing any game files, so make sure you keep a copy of the file somewhere, in case something goes wrong, or change the file's extension, leaving it in the folder.
Source: TechJeep
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Graphene Films for Improving Power Plants
Even some of the most advanced power plants in the world still rely on transferring heat with steam to produce power, like old steam engines. By finding ways to better improve this heat transfer, the efficiency of power plants can be improved, potentially to very significant effect. Now researchers at MIT have found a way to increase heat transfer by a factor of four, by applying graphene to condensers.
The heat from many power plants, whether they are coal, oil, or natural gas fired, or even nuclear, is used to generate steam for turning turbines, which then create electricity. After spinning the turbines, the steam will enter condensers to convert it back into water, and restart the process. By improving the speed at which the steam condenses into water, the efficiency of the power plant itself can be improved. To that end, many have been investigating ways to apply superhydrophobic materials to the condensers, so that once droplets form on them, the droplets fall off sooner, making room for more. Typically these are polymer coatings, which can completely fail in just hours, so the MIT researchers decided to try out graphene, which does have some hydrophobic properties. The result was a four-fold increase in heat transfer in the condenser for two full weeks, without any degradation.
With further development, the researchers feel they could reach 5 to 7 times improved heat transfer. Even at just four times better transfer, a power plant's efficiency could increase by 2-3%, which may not seem like much, but could still amount to millions of dollars, per plant, per year.
Source: MIT
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