Monday, July 6, 2015

IT News Head Lines (X-bit labs) 7/7/2015

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LG's Unique Ultra-Wide Curved 34" Display Finally Hits the Market
LG 34UC97 Available in the U.S. and the U.K.

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Intel Core i7-5960X Extreme Edition, Core i7-5930K and Core i7-5820K Processors Review
Some times ago Intel has announced the new generation CPUs for high performance and high sophisticated PCs. This is Haswell-E. Thanks to it a performance-hungry enthusiasts get the new processor microarchitecture, DDR4 support and eight cores in one chip. Also the platform and processor socket are changing. We take a look at all these essential transformations.

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Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Graphics Card Review
Our first look at Nvidia's new flagship card featuring a Maxwell 2.0 GPU.

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MSI GeForce GTX 970 Gaming 4G Graphics Card Review
We have taken a look to one of a gamers' dream graphics card based on new Nvidia Maxwell chip. And it's unbelievable, but we cannot find any drawbacks in MSI GeForce GTX 970 Gaming. And now we will try to convince you of its advantages.

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Lisa Su Appointed as New CEO of Advanced Micro Devices
Rory Read Steps Down, Lisa Su Becomes New CEO of AMD

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Nvidia Quadro K5200, K4200 and K2200 Professional Graphics Cards Review
Nvidia has updated its professional product line-up, promising more onboard memory and up to 40% more performance at the same prices and within the same TDP as before. We are going to test the new graphics cards in comparison with AMD's FirePro W9100 and W8100.

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Intel Core i7-4790K and Core i5-4690K Processors Review
The Devil's Canyon processors unveiled this summer push the performance bar to a new level for the LGA1150 platform. What's more, Intel says packaging optimizations make the Core i7-4790K and Core i5-4690K a real treat for overclockers.

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ASUS Z97-Deluxe Mainboard Review
This mainboard looks good, easy to tweak, provides excellent performance at nominal mode and with CPU overclock. And it's simple good platform, because it's a flagship mainboard designed and manufactured by large and well-known company.

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AMD FirePro W9100 Professional Graphics Card Review
AMD is going to significantly increase its market share in the professional graphics segment. To do this, the company had updated its FirePro series lineup. In this review we take a look at the new flagship video card for CAD/CAM, based on the Hawaii GPU, the FirePro W9100.

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Crucial MX100 Review: An SSD for the Masses
Crucial has dropped the price per gigabyte of SSD storage below the $0.5 mark and it is not a sale of old products. We're talking about a promising new model with high performance, excellent features and good reliability. What's the hitch? Let's find out right now!

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AMD Has No Plans to Reconsider Recommended Prices of Radeon R9 Graphics Cards
AMD Will Not Lower Recommended Prices of Radeon R9 Graphics Solutions

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Samsung Begins to Produce 2.13GHz 64GB DDR4 Memory Modules
Samsung Uses TSV DRAMs for 64GB DDR4 RDIMMs

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AMD Quietly Reveals Third Iteration of GCN Architecture with Tonga GPU
AMD Unleashes Radeon R9 285 Graphics Cards, Tonga GPU, GCN 1.2 Architecture

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Chinese Inspur to Sell Mission-Critical Servers with AMD Software, Power 8 Processors
IBM to Enter Chinese Big Data Market with the Help from Inspur

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Former X-Bit Labs Editor Aims to Wed Tabletop Games with Mobile Platforms
Game Master Wants to Become a New World of Warcraft

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Energy-Efficient Core i5-4670S and Core i5-4670T Processors Review: Haswell Served Cold
LGA 1150 desktop processors lineup divides not only by families with different performance classes. They have some other grading - by projected power dissipation. Ordinary desktop processors have the most spreading, but there are many models with S and T letters in name which have artificially lowered TDP. Two examples of such CPUs we have reviewed.

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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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MSI Z97 MPOWER Mainboard Review: Inflexible Power
MSI mainboards don't seem to have improved much with the transition from Intel's Z87 to Z97 chipset. Although they have actually got better in some aspects, there are some "buts" that prevent us from calling the tested model perfect

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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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Khronos Group to Follow DirectX 12 with Cross-Platform Low-Level API
Khronos Unveils Next-Generation OpenGL Initiative

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Avexir Readies 3.40GHz DDR4 Memory Modules
DDR4 Could Hit 3.40GHz This Year

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AMD to Lower Prices of A-Series APUs for Back-to-School Season
New Prices of AMD A-Series APUs Revealed

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AMD to Cut Prices on FX-9000, Other FX Processors: New Prices Revealed
AMD to Make FX Chips More Affordable, Discontinue Low-End Models

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LG to Introduce World's First Curved 21:9 Ultra-Wide Display
LG Brings Curved Displays to Gamers, Professionals

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AMD Readies FX-8370, FX-8370E Microprocessors
AMD Preps Two New "Mainstream" FX Chips

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HGST Shows-Off World's Fastest SSD Based on PCM Memory
Phase-Change Memory Power's World's Fastest Solid-State Drive

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Microsoft's Mobile Strategy Seem to Fail: Sales of Lumia and Surface Remain Low
Microsoft Still Cannot Make Windows a Popular Mobile Platform

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