ADATA presents the DashDrive Durable HD710, a new line of external HDDs with USB 3.0 support. They measure 132mm x 99mm x 21.5mm and weigh 220g.
ADATA

Last week news hit the wire that AMD would cut support for its older Radeon HD graphics cards but it turns out support will not be discontinued entirely. AMD send out a clarification to the press about the future of its Radeon HD 2000, 3000, and 4000 series graphics cards, while new cards will continue to receive monthly updates, the older cards will be put on a quarterly driver release schedule.

Unfortunately, this does not apply to Windows 8. Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 owners will be limited to the AMD graphics driver that ships with Windows 8 and will receive no further updates.

AMD will be moving the AMD Radeon

We review the MSI Z77A-GD65 motherboard. The MSI Z77A-GD65 is intended for Intel's 22nm Ivy Bridge processors on Socket LGA1155, and they tend to overclock rather well as we'll show you. Even on air cooling you can reach 5 GHz with a motherboard as used today. Have a peek at what was just released, this is the MSI Z77A-GD65 'Ivy Bridge' motherboard.

We review the Gigabyte Z77X-D3H motherboard. Gigabyte of course will offer a good variety of Z77 products as well and today we review the GA-Z77X-D3H in combination with Intel's new Core i7 3770K processor.

The GA-Z77X-D3H is intended for Intel's 22nm Ivy Bridge processors released moments ago based on Socket LGA1155 however the motherboard also supports Sandy bridge processors like the Core i7 2600K. You can read the review right here.

Galaxy is preparing to launch a new graphics namely the GeForce GTX 680 OC. Codenamed GF-PGTX680-OC/2GD5 DUAL-FAN, the card sports 1536 CUDA Cores, a 256-bit memory interface, a GPU clock of 1100MHz (1176MHz Boost Clock) and a 2GB of GDDR5 memory set @ 6008MHz.

Not to mention, the card is also equipped with a dual-fan cooling system and features DVI-I, DVI-D, HDMI and DisplayPort outputs. The GF-PGTX680-OC/2GD5 DUAL-FAN will go on sale at the end of April for 63,800 Yen (about $789).

Acer has introduced its first Ivy Bridge desktop PCs namely the Predator AG3620-UR21P, Gateway DX4860-UR14P and Gateway FX6860. The Acer Predator AG3620-UR21P features a 3.4GHz Intel Core i7 3770 3rd generation Ivy Bridge processor with an nVidia GT630 graphics, a 16GB of RAM and a 2TB of storage space.

The Acer Gateway DX4860-UR14P is powered by a 3.1GHz Intel Core i5 3450 processor, an Intel HD graphics, a 6GB of DDR3 RAM and a 1TB hard disk drive. And finally, the Acer Gateway FX6860 also offers the 3rd generation Intel Core processor. The Acer Predator AG3620-UR21P and Gateway DX4860-UR14P retails for $1,199.99 and $699.99, respectively. Unfortunately, there is no info on pricing of the Acer Gateway FX6860.

G.SKILL, the worldwide leading high performance memory designer, has announced the new TridentX DDR3 memory kit for 3rd Generation Intel Core Processors and Z77 platform.

The ultimate speed up to DDR3 2800 MHz 16 GB(4 GBx4) & DDR3 2666 MHz 32 GB(8 GBx4)

Designed for overclocking enthusiasts, the TridentX series includes a complete lineup of extreme performance DDR3 memory, starting from 2400 MHz 8 GB to 2800 MHz 16 GB. The following screens show the TridentX 2800 MHz 16 GB kit has successfully achieved DDR3 3320 MHz speed, while the 32 GB 2666 MHz kit has achieved DDR3 2933 MHz speed, both results are with 4 DIMMs fully installed under LN2.

Featuring with a removable top fin design, the new TridentX heat-spreader allows overclocking enthusiasts to have more flexible options of memory cooling systems, as well as to reduce the height to fit with large CPU coolers.

Inno3D preps an all custom version of the GTX 680 based on the iChill series which would feature an iChill

DigiTimes reports NAND flash memory pricing continued to decline in early April, due to low demand visibility and overproduction caused by faster-than-expected production ramp-ups at NAND suppliers. Pricing of NAND flash memory is expected to increase in the second half of the year, when demand for embedded storage in devices like smartphones, tablets, and SSDs will likely boom.

NAND flash prices have been decreasing since 2012 due to sluggish end-market demand, the sources indicated. Suppliers' faster-than-expected production ramp-ups are the other factor causing prices to edge down, the sources said.

Major chip producers have moved to build products using their newer 2Xnm and 19nm process technologies, which boost their output. Demand, however, has failed to catch up with supply.

With chip prices slipping below costs, suppliers are now looking for strategies to maintain price stability, such as to reduce price competition, the sources pointed out.

AMD's mobile Radeon HD 7000 series will be revealed tomorrow. Pitcairn (HD 7800 on desktop) will become the Radeon HD 7900M series, Cape Verde (Radeon HD 7700) will be released as Radeon HD 7800M and the Trinity APU will occupy the Radeon HD 7600M and 7700M lines. The parts will debut on April 24, and will be a part of onslaught with NVIDIA Kepler GPUs to win as much notebook discrete design wins as possible. AMD has an advantage over NVIDIA with a record number of Trinity APU and Trinity APU+Lombok GPU design wins. However, NVIDIA won over a large number of Ivy Bridge+Kepler design wins, meaning that the battle will be as tough in 2012 as it was in 2011.

A lot of it relies on just how many discrete parts NVIDIA and AMD can swing to Apple, but according to our sources - this time around, it is advantage NVIDIA.

We review the ASUS Sabertooth Z77. Z77 is of course the Intel chipset predominantly released for Ivy Bridge based processors. The changes for Z77 primarily can be found in native USB 3.0 support as well as an upgrade towards PCie gen 3 PCIe x16 slots. This article is a full review of what you may expect from the TUF series Sabertooth Z77, have peek after which we'll dive right into the photo shoot.

Read the article here.

We review the Core i7 3770K and 3750 Ivy bridge processors alongside Intel's Z77 DZ77GA-70K  motherboard. Will Ivy Bridge be the processor series everything you expected?  Performance wise the all new Ivy Bridge series is not going to stun and shock like the Sandy Bridge series did. In fact clock for clock it is all roughly the very same, with a +0.8% performance offset in favor of Ivy Bridge.

However -- with Ivy Bridge comes increased overclockability, the platform comes with native USB 3.0, we get PCIe Gen 3 for the fastest graphics cards and overall just a really fast processor series.

Read this extensive review here.

You know -- when companies start to send around crowbars ... you do need to wonder why and just pray they're not too angry ;)

Here's what we just received from NVIDIA. That's right, a crowbar with the inscription 'For use in case of zombies or ...' Now the speculation machine certainly starts working this way ! It seems something is coming alright. It may be indicating an upcoming GTX 660 / 670 or 690 release or heck another unspecified product.

Well ... I don't have a clue either but here's what was just delivered :)

Share your opinions here in this thread.

It looks like ASUS's Transformer Pad TF300 Android tablet has finally decided exactly when to make its formal appearance, meaning that mainstream customers can now start gushing.

The Transformer Pad TF300 is what the company describes as a budget Android tablet, not that it is easy to assume this from the price alone. After all, the tag, in the United Kingdom, is of

RunCore introduced the InVincicle, a new SSD with a physical self-destruction mechanism, and the XAPEAR, which allows for complete remote data deletion via your cell phone.

RunCore, leading supplier of high-performance solid-state drives, has just started giving a sneak preview of two soon to be globally available special-use SSDs, the RunCore InVincible with a physical self-destruction mechanism, and the RunCore XAPEAR, allowing for complete remote data elimination through your mobile phone.

The RunCore InVincible SSDs allow you to protect your data from third party access in two ways with a single click. One method is the intelligent elimination of all your data through overwriting the entire disk with. A less subtle method is the physical destruction of your SSD by applying an over-current to the NAND flash memory and thereby rendering these. The RunCore InVincible product series is catering to embedded computer systems requiring high-speed serial switched fabric interconnects for rugged design implementation and more flexible power ranges. Delivering optimized storage options particularly in mission-critical fields such aerospace, military and general industrial applications.

RunCore

We review the Gigabyte Z77X-D3H motherboard. The GA-Z77X-D3H is intended for Intel's 22nm Ivy Bridge processors released moments ago based on Socket LGA1155 however the motherboard also supports Sandy bridge processors like the Core i7 2600K.

Antec is launching a new closed-loop liquid cooler for CPUs called the K

Makers of hard disk drives have been revealing one advancement after another, but they might not be able to keep it up for long. Seagate thinks so at least.  In the past few years, as has become fairly customary on the IT industry as a whole, new breakthroughs have been reached in HDD research and development.

One might say that HDD makers actually had to move faster here, since SSDs are breathing down their neck (or not, depending on one's view). At any rate, HDDs came a long way in a fairly short time, as has their usage, but here lies a hidden problem.

In 2011, the demand for HDD storage was of around 400 exabytes, where one exabyte is a million terabytes. 2012 will see the need for an even higher number, but this doesn't mean that the average capacity will rise.

Seagate says that, with the zettabyte level closing in (2015-2016), the cloud and other businesses will take up most of the sales.

In other words, more drives are needed, but this leads to component supply insufficiency. A single HDD has over 200 parts. More drives mean more heads, ramps and other components, and with the cloud siphoning the majority, client HDDs will have to make do with less.

Long story short, capacity growth for HDDs will not rise all that fast over the next decade, although HAMR (heat-assisted magnetic recording) will come to the rescue in 2016-2017.

"It probably plays out that on the client you start by going to more a single disk solution. [...] So you probably start seeing a reduction in heads and disks for clients, but then you start seeing an increase for cloud," said Steven Luczo in an interview with Forbes.

"When you look out at 2016-2017, then you have a next generation technology called HAMR

Despite the fact that Intel's upcoming Ivy Bridge based Core i3 processors aren't expected to arrive until early June, pricing for three of Intel's upcoming models have now made an appearance at several online retailers. We don't know Intel's pricing for these models, but at least the pricing available should give us a good indication as to how Intel is planning to position the new models in the market.

The three models in question are the Core i3-3220, Core i3-3225 and the Core i3-3240. Several European online retailers has priced the Core i3-3220 at around

Shuttle Computer launched barebones featuring Intel Z77 Express chipset, ready for 3rd generation "Ivy Bridge" Core processors in the LGA1155 package, while retaining support for every LGA1155 "Sandy Bridge" processor launched till date. Shuttle also launched an Intel X79-based mini PC barebone, which supports Core i7 "Sandy Bridge-E" processors.

Called the SZ77R5, the Z77 barebone features four DDR3 DIMM slots supporting 32 GB of dual-channel DDR3-1600 MHz memory, expansion slots that include one PCI-Express 3.0 x16, one PCI-Express 2.0 x4 and one mPCIe; two SATA 6 Gb/s, two SATA 3 Gb/s ports, one eSATA 3 Gb/s, and one mSATA; four USB 3.0 ports, gigabit Ethernet, and 8-channel HD audio. Its chassis features two 5.25" and one 3.5" drive bays, front-panel that includes two of the four USB 3.0 ports, a USB 2.0 port with "fast charging" (high current), and front-panel HD audio. To power the machine, a 500W 80 Plus-compliant PSU is included. The SZ77R5 measures 332 x 216 x 198 mm (WxDxH). It will be priced around 37,800 JPY (US $465).

The Sandy Bridge-E barebone is called SX79R5, its chassis is just as big as that of the SZ44R5, with the same chassis features. It's the motherboard, where all the changes are. The LGA2011 socket is wired to four DDR3 DIMM slots, supporting 32 GB of quad-channel DDR3-1600 memory, it is wired to two PCI-Express 3.0 x16 and one mPCIe slots. Two SATA 6 Gb/s, two SATA 3 Gb/s, one eSATA 3 Gb/s, and one mSATA make for the storage connectivity. Other features include two gigabit Ethernet interfaces, 8-channel HD audio, four USB 3.0 ports (two on front, two rear), and a number of USB 2.0 ports. The SX79R5 is priced the same as the SZ77R5.

Mozilla has now finalised the next version of their popular internet browser, Firefox 12 and is ready to download, although as of yet it hasn't been officially publicised. For those curious to see what's changed from version 11, which was released less than six weeks ago, here's what's new:

Windows: Firefox is now easier to update with one less prompt (User Account Control) Page Source now has line numbers Line breaks are now supported in the title attribute Improvements to "Find in Page" to center search result URLs pasted into the download manager window are now automatically downloaded The column-fill CSS property has been implemented Support for the text-align-last CSS property has been added Experimental support for ECMAScript 6 Map and Set objects has been implemented Fixed where WebGL performance may be degraded on some OS X hardware
Just in case there are those still using Windows 2000, Windows XP RTM or XP Service Pack 1, Firefox 12 will be the last version of the browser from Mozilla to officially support those operating systems. Windows XP SP2 and above will only be supported in the next version of Firefox.

AMD announced on its blog that its A-series APUs (Trinity) began shipping last quarter. The chip designer says Trinity and Brazos 2.0 systems will be available globally soon.

The 2012 AMD A-Series APU helps improve on virtually every aspect of our current A-Series APUs while doubling the performance-per-watt over our previous generation. It enables Brilliant HD, amazing productivity and accelerated applications across a spectrum of form factors

Project CARS is currently slated for a March 2013 release. Go check it out!

Pre-Alpha footage - Build 192
John Player Special - Project CARS Trailer - DX11 PC
Livery by GarStef72
Music Magnum Proelium by Walid Feghali

The people at reddit sent an email to Newell, asking him to elaborate. His response? "I can see how the wording caused some confusion there. Yes, we are announcing something with a three in it." We all know that Valve loves to tease their fans, but this is just too much. So many questions can be asked from this statement, and it could apply to so many games: Half Life 3, Portal 3, Left 4 Dead 3, even Team Fortress 3. But does this statement mean only one "three"-related game?

Two websites have emerged: atramental-plateau.com, and black-aperture.com. The "Atramental-plateau" website shows Half Life's Black Mesa logo on a black background, and highlighting the black text underneath the logo reveals "E3 2012." The "black-aperture" website shows only ".../3."

We review the ASUS Sabertooth Z77. Z77 is of course the Intel chipset predominantly released for Ivy Bridge based processors. This article is a full review of what you may expect from the TUF series Sabertooth Z77, have peek after which we'll dive right into the photo shoot.

We review the Core i7 3770K Ivy bridge processor alongside Intel's Z77 motherboard. Will Ivy Bridge be the processor series everything you expected? Go find out in this extensive review here at Guru3D.