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Wednesday, November 18, 2015

IT News Head Lines (X-bit labs) 19/11/2015

X-bit labs



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

Read More ...




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.

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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.

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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.

Read More ...




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.

Read More ...




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.

Read More ...




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.

Read More ...




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!

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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.

Read More ...




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.

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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?

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...






Available Tags:Intel , Nvidia , GeForce , GTX , MSI , Gaming , 4G , CEO , ASUS , AMD , FirePro , SSD , Radeon , Samsung , DDR4 , GPU , Gigabyte , Other , LG , 

Monday, July 6, 2015

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

X-bit labs



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

Read More ...




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.

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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.

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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.

Read More ...




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.

Read More ...




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.

Read More ...




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.

Read More ...




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!

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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.

Read More ...




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.

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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?

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...






Available Tags:Intel , Nvidia , GeForce , GTX , MSI , Gaming , 4G , CEO , ASUS , AMD , FirePro , SSD , Radeon , Samsung , DDR4 , GPU , Gigabyte , Other , LG , 

Sunday, May 17, 2015

IT News Head Lines (X-bit labs) 5/18/2015

X-bit labs



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

Read More ...




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.

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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.

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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.

Read More ...




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.

Read More ...




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.

Read More ...




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.

Read More ...




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!

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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.

Read More ...




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.

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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?

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...






Available Tags:Intel , Nvidia , GeForce , GTX , MSI , Gaming , 4G , CEO , ASUS , AMD , FirePro , SSD , Radeon , Samsung , DDR4 , GPU , Gigabyte , Other , LG , 

Monday, March 30, 2015

IT News Head Lines (X-bit labs) 3/31/2015

X-bit labs



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

Read More ...




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.

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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.

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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.

Read More ...




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.

Read More ...




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.

Read More ...




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.

Read More ...




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!

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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.

Read More ...




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.

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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?

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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

Read More ...






Available Tags:Intel , Nvidia , GeForce , GTX , MSI , Gaming , 4G , CEO , ASUS , AMD , FirePro , SSD , Radeon , Samsung , DDR4 , GPU , Gigabyte , Other , LG , 

Sunday, December 7, 2014

IT News Head Lines (X-bit labs) 12/8/2014

X-bit labs



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

Read More ...




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.

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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.

Read More ...




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

Read More ...




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.

Read More ...




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.

Read More ...




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.

Read More ...




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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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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Available Tags:Intel , Nvidia , GeForce , GTX , MSI , Gaming , 4G , CEO , ASUS , AMD , FirePro , SSD , Radeon , Samsung , DDR4 , GPU , Gigabyte , Other , LG , 

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

IT News Head Lines (X-bit labs) 11/6/2014

X-bit labs



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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Monday, October 20, 2014

IT News Head Lines (X-bit labs) 10/21/2014

X-bit labs



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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Available Tags:Nvidia , GeForce , GTX , 

Sunday, October 12, 2014

IT News Head Lines (X-bit labs) 10/13/2014

X-bit labs



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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Available Tags:MSI , GeForce , GTX , Gaming , 4G , CEO , 

Monday, September 15, 2014

IT News Head Lines (X-bit labs) 9/16/2014

X-bit labs



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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Sunday, September 14, 2014

IT News Head Lines (X-bit labs) 9/15/2014

X-bit labs



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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Sunday, September 7, 2014

IT News Head Lines (X-bit labs) 9/8/2014

X-bit labs



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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Available Tags:AMD , FirePro , 

Monday, August 25, 2014

IT News Head Lines (X-bit labs) 8/26/2014

X-bit labs



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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Sunday, August 24, 2014

IT News Head Lines (X-bit labs) 8/25/2014

X-bit labs



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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Available Tags:DDR4 , AMD , Other , LG , 

Saturday, August 16, 2014

IT News Head Lines (X-bit labs) 8/16/2014

X-bit labs



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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Wednesday, August 6, 2014

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

X-bit labs



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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Available Tags:Gigabyte , AMD , Microsoft , Windows , USB , Apple , IBM , iPhone , iPad , Intel , GeForce , GTX , MSI , GAMING , ASUS , Radeon , Wireless , 

Sunday, August 3, 2014

IT News Head Lines (X-bit labs) 04/08/2014

X-bit labs



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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Intel Core i7-5960X "Haswell-E" De-Lidded: Twelve Cores and Alloy-Based Thermal Interface
Intel Core i7-5960X Uses "Haswell-EP" Die, Promises Good Overclocking Potential

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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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Available Tags:Intel , MSI , 

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

IT News Head Lines (X-bit labs) 23/07/2014

X-bit labs



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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Available Tags:Apple , IBM , iPhone , iPad , Intel , 

Monday, July 14, 2014

IT News Head Lines (X-bit labs) 15/07/2014

X-bit labs



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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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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Microsoft to Cease Mainstream Support of Windows 7 in Early 2015
Microsoft Halts Mainstream Windows 7 Support in January

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Intel's Foundry Division to Produce SoCs for Panasonic
Panasonic Outsources SoC Production to Intel Custom Foundry

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Available Tags:Gigabyte , GeForce , GTX , MSI , GAMING , Intel , Wireless , Windows 7 , Microsoft , Windows , Panasonic , 

Thursday, July 3, 2014

IT News Head Lines (X-bit labs) 04/07/2014

X-bit labs



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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Available Tags:ASUS , 

Sunday, June 29, 2014

IT News Head Lines (X-bit labs) 30/06/2014

X-bit labs



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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