Archive for "Tuesday, May 31, 2011"

Official AMD Llano Fusion A-Series APU’s Benchmark Performance

In a few more weeks, the Intel Sandy bridge will face a new challenger, the AMD LIano. AMD LIano is the new processor series that is based on AMD Fusion, integrating the graphics processor into the same package of the processor. So, how does the AMD LIano performs against the Intel Sandybridge? We take a look at two comparison running different processors on INTEL and AMD platform for 3DMark Vantage and PC Mark Vantage. In both tests, The AMD A-Series APU’s were pi ... »

ASUS Mars II Dual GF-110 based Graphics Card

Jere are some exclusive pictures of ASUS’s upcoming Dual GF-110 based Graphics card, which is about as long as a Radeon HD 5970, a couple of inches higher, and three slots thick. Powered by Dual Geforce GTX 580 chips and based on a custom designed PCB its a card meant only for Extreme Hardware Enthusiasts. Its cooler sticks to the black+red color scheme in use with ASUS ROG products for a while now, and uses an intricate cutout design. The shroud suspends two 120 m ... »

Verbatim 2.5-Inch Durable Aluminum Casing SSDs

Verbatim has launched three new 2.5-inch solid state drives for European market, which comes in three models 64GB, 128GB, and 256GB of storage capacities. New Verbatim SSDs have a durable aluminum casing that shock resistance, improved responsiveness, and an extended battery life, which is suitable for notebooks and netbook. It is able to delivers speeds up to 250 MB/s for read and 220 MB/s for write. In additional, these Verbatim SSDs are providing faster boot times ... »

Asus Danushi Bay LGA 2011 & LGA 1366 CPUs Motherboard

Asus showcased a new concept designed motherboard codenamed “Danshui Bay” at its Computex 2011 booth, that pairs together an LGA 2011 socket with an LGA 1366 socket. The beastly motherboard is part of ASUS ROG (Republic of Gamer) Series lineup which are Hardware manufactured for Hardware Enthusiasts. It’s unclear whether if the board will use separate Northbridge/Southbridge chipsets for both platforms which would be linked together, The Number of PCI-e x16 slots ... »

BlackBerry Apollo (Curve 2011) Video

A new hands-on video showcasing the non-touchscreen devices Apollo has been posted by Vietnamese site Tinh te, giving us a near 8-minute preview of the newest member of the Curve family. Stylistically, it does feel a little stale and looks identical to just about every other BlackBerry out there. The site has shared some of the Apollo's specs, which include a 480x360 display, 800MHz Marvell Tavor CPU MG-1 processor, 5-megapixel camera, and BlackBerry 7 all in a frame th ... »

Asus Eee PC X101 Meego Netbook at Computex

The EeePC X101 is arguably the company's thinnest netbook yet, weighs under 950g and only 17.6mm thick -- It's available in four colors (White, Black, Red, and Brown), two of which were available on display at Computex 2011. The subtle textures applied on top of the plastic puts it in the same league as some of the best-looking netbooks on the market. The EeePC X101 doesn't have an extensive netbook feature set, although it does include two USB ports and a Micro SD slo ... »

ECS X79R-A Intel X79 LGA 2011 Motherboard

With more than three months to go until Intel makes official its high-performance Sandy Bridge-E processors and X79 chipset, ECS has showcased an LGA-2011 motherboard, based on the upcoming PCH, which is known as the X79R-A. The motherboard features four DIMM slots which work in a quad-channel mode and support DDR3 speeds of up to 2600MHz, depending on the number of DIMM sockets populated (2600MHz only supported in dual-channel mode). To the left of the memory socket ... »

EVGA GTX 570 HD Classified Graphics Card

EVGA has announced to release a new GeForce GTX 570 based card which would be known as the “GTX 570 HD Classified” Series GPU. Being part of the Classified series, The GPU offers vast room for overclocking and stability due to the custom designed 10-layer printed circuit board along with a 6 Phase VRM design which uses a 6+8 pin power connector configuration. Additional modifications were also brought to the power delivery systems, as the card now carries a 6+8 pin ... »

Asus UX21 Thinnest Core i7 Laptop at Computex

At Computex, today ASUS has unveiled officially its excitingly thin ultra-portable Laptop, which beats almost everyone in the line in both performance, design and thickness. Dubbed ASUS UX21 the Laptop is coming with an aluminum alloy shell with a unique spun finish on the polished surfaces and (weighs 1.1kg / 2.4lb). Measuring a mere 17mm at its thickest point, the needle-thin UX Series nonetheless packs impressive specifications, with the latest 2nd generation Intel C ... »

Samsung Galaxy S III in 2012 & Galaxy Tab 4G in 2011

Still, with the Samsung Galaxy S II just out the doors few weeks back, Samsung has just confirmed that it is already working on a Samsung Galaxy S III for 2012 as well as working on a 4G version of the company's Tab for later this year. After setting the milestone of selling more than 1.3million handsets in the first month, the Samsung Galaxy S II is likely to become of one the phones of the year 2011, and continues the Samsung's success of its first Galaxy S smartphone th ... »