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Intel Broadwell-E details conveniently leaked

Earlier, it was mentioned that Intel has a 14nm based Broadwell-e to succeed the 22nm Haswell-E HEDT processors. Now it is known that there are four Broadwell-E SKUs. According to the information leak,...

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Zotac Premium Edition 240GB SSD Review

Yes! Zotac has SSDs now, too. How about that, huh? The solid-state drive business has many competitors. It will be interesting to see what Zotac Premium Edition 240GB SSD stands. Zotac might be a new...

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Samsung to make 14nm AMD CPUs and GPU Cores

It’s official that Samsung will be fabricating cores for AMD, starting with Zen Series CPU and Artic Islands GPU. It is also now known that AMD’s article Islands based cards will be using 14nm FinFETs....

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AMD might be working on Zen APU with HBM

AMD’s upcoming Zen architecture and its currently used High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on Fury series Radeon cards will be used in the company’s upcoming APU. A recent information was found via a paper as...

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AMD shows-off its upcoming Wraith CPU Air Cooler

Not many things are being said about stock CPU coolers in general, unless they’re used to make aftermarket CPU cooler look much better, whether its AMD or Intel. Things may change to a point that folks...

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Prime95 workload causing Intel Skylake CPUs to freeze

It is recently discovered that the sixth-generation Intel Skylake processors have a bug which can be triggered when running Prime95. The issue was initially discovered in December 2015 where testers...

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Nvidia Pascal GP104 core may use GDDR5 (or GDDR5X) instead of HBM

In a previous report, it was reported that Nvidia will be using HBM (High-Bandwidth Memory) over GDDR5. But according to the information found in a shipping manifest from Taiwan to Bangalore, the unit...

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JEDEC updates HBM for bigger memory stacks and faster transfer speeds

JEDEC recently updated its HBM (High-Bandwidth Memory) recently. The new JESD235A standard will allow two-high, four-high and eight-high TSV stacks with each having the capacity between 1GB to 8GB....

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AMD takes a jab at SYSmark 2014 benchmark, deems it unreliable

After an attempt (failed one at best) to discredit tech reviewers at one point, including a brief Twitter battle between HardOCP and Roy Taylor (hence deactivating the account following the backlash),...

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Gainward Phantom GTX 970 GPU Review

Gainward Phantom GTX 970 is an interesting card- not an observation based on performance considering at the end of the day it’s a Nvidia GTX 970. But because of a different cooling design which not...

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Seagate gets a Class-Action Lawsuit over High Failure Rates

Seagate gets slapped with a class-action lawsuit due to high failure rates with its 1.5TB and 3TB hard drives (both internal and external). Seagate’s recent financial report pointed a nosedive in its...

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Gigabyte G1 Gaming GTX 980Ti SOC GPU Review

A particular Gigabyte GTX 980 that I reviewed earlier made a good impression. It was a good quality, good packaging and pretty large copper plate for the GPU core and thicker heatpipes. Gigabyte G1...

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Kingston DataTraveler Mini 128 GB USB 3.0 Review

Kingston DataTraveler Mini provides large storage space in a thin form factor. The DTMini USB 3.0 is a capless flash drive with an aluminium housing with a lanyard/keychain loop on the other end. The...

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VESA DisplayPort 1.4 spec allows 8K at 60 Hz

VESA has recently announced the DisplayPort 1.4 standard whose features are very suited for ultra high-end electronics. This is the first DP standard to use VESA’s Display Stream Compression technology...

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Microsoft shows off the power of DX 12!

The teaser video is made using a combination of DX 12 enabled games while doing a side-by-side comparison with DX 11 functions. Unlike certain videos in the past which would look like an...

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ROTR update includes DX 12, VXAO, in-game benchmark

The Rise of the Tomb Raider gets a Patch #5 version 1.0.638.6. What’s noteworthy is that this patch has two major implementations. The first includes DX12 support, provided you are using Windows 10...

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Nvidia may showcase Pascal GPUs in May

It’s a known fact that Nvidia will be showing off its Pascal architecture based graphic cards within this year. The rumour that’s circling around is that the card will be called as the ‘GTX 1080’, and...

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Gigabyte G1 Gaming GTX 980 Ti Graphic Card

The Gigabyte G1 Gaming series graphic cards are pretty awesome cards with some serious air cooling design. Performance wise, its a GTX 980 Ti factory overclocked card. Likey likey? Click the following...

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Coolermaster Silencio FP 120 PWM Performance Edition Fan Review

At first sight, the Coolermaster Silencio FP 120 PWM fan is made for the crowd that doesn’t want bells and whistles followed by LED lighting of any kind. But after using it for a couple of months, that...

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Upcoming Nvidia cards will be named as GeForce X80 Series

With one week left for the Nvidia GPU Technology conference, it is now conveniently leaked that the upcoming graphics will be named as the GeForce X80 series. The last news about the upcoming flagship...

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