Archive for November 2014

NVIDIA Tesla K80 dual-GPU Compute Accelerator

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The Tesla K80 dual-GPU is the new flagship offering of the Tesla Accelerated Computing Platform, the leading platform for accelerating data analytics and scientific computing. It combines the world's fastest GPU accelerators, the widely used CUDA parallel computing model, and a comprehensive ecosystem of software developers, software vendors, and datacenter system OEMs.


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MSI GTX 970 Gaming Water Block Available Soon

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EK created a liquid cooling block for the popular MSI GTX 970 Gaming graphics card (review here). EK-FC970 GTX TF5 - with TF5 standing as Twin Frozr V (5) abbrevation - is a high-performance Full-Cover water block, co-developed with MSI engineering team. 


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27" 5K Dell UP2715K in December at less than $2000 USD

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As reported earlier, Dell will be releasing a  27" 5k (5120 x 2880) resolution display. New info suggest that the UP2715K is expected to retail for under $2000 USD and it will be available in December already. I don't know, it is an awful lot of pixels on 27".


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Far Cry 4 - Day-One PC Updates Revealed

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According to the changelogs, there will be two patches (the second patch may be released after the game's launch). Far Cry 4 releases next week, and you can view the complete changelogs of these two PC updates below.


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Steam's Weekly Top Sellers November 17th 2014

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And here we are again, with theten top selling titles on Steam for the week as reported by Valve. I am surprized that COD AW in not on top.

1.Football Manager 215
2.Far Cry Franchise Pack
3.Assassin's Creed Unity
4.The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
5.Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
6.Valkyria Chronicles
7.Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
8.Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
9.Far Cry 4
10.This War of Mine

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AMD Awarded $32 Million for 'Extreme Scale' High-Performance Computing Research

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AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that for the third straight year it was awarded research grants for development of critical technologies needed for extreme-scale computing in conjunction with projects associated with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Extreme-Scale Computing Research and Development Program, known as "FastForward 2." 


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Alphacool Offers Laing DDC Pumps

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Here's a name that we haven't heard from a while. Alphacool is expanding its pump series with another highlight. In order to find an optimal and high quality base for the new pump Alphacool fell back on proven technology from Laing.


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NEC X841UHD S-IPS Display is at 3840 x 2160 with 60 Hz

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NEC Display Solutions of America, a leading provider of commercial LCD display and projector solutions, announced today the X841UHD display, an 84-inch ultra-high-definition (UHD) model delivering stellar picture clarity and four times the resolution of full HD.


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MSI Officially announces GTX 970 GAMING 4G GOLDEN EDITION

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MSI is pleased to announce a special and limited edition GAMING graphics card powered by NVIDIA's GTX 970 GPU. The new MSI GTX 970 GAMING 4G GOLDEN EDITIONfeatures increased clock speeds and improved cooling performance thanks to an all copper heatsink and heatpipe with anti-oxidation treatment.


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Assassin's Creed Unity not running well on AMD hardware

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And though this is a console port, Ubisoft blames AMD for the technical issues in Assassins Creed Unity. Kinda weird since all the consoles run an AMD APU eh ? AMD Radeon users report texture issues, low frame rates and overall glitching problems. Ubisoft claims the issues are related to select AMD CPU and GPU combinations, which points to a lack of testing on AMD hardware. So all of the sudden its AMD's fault ... 


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Just Cause 3 Shots and Info

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Avalanche Studios, Square Enix and GameInformer have revealed the first official screenshots for Just Cause 3. Just Cause 3 takes place several years after the second entry. You might not be able to tell from these screens, but Rico has been significantly aged since his last outing.


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NVIDIA To Launch GRID based On-Demand Game Streaming Service

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Nvidia will be  launching a cloud gaming service called Nvidia Grid alongside the upcoming update. Grid allows owners of either Nvidia Shield device to stream Windows PC games from the cloud, and from now until June 30, 2015, it will be available in a "preview period" for free.


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Review: GSKILL Phoenix Blade 480GB PCIe SSD

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We benchmark and review the G.SKILL Phoenix Blade PCIe based SSD today. So how does 2,000 MB/s maximum read and write performance sound? Yes Sir, or 245K IOPS? That's the kind of performance G.SKILL offers to the performance aficionados in the year 2014.

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GSKILL Phoenix Blade 480GB PCIe SSD Review

Memory (DDR4/DDR5) and Storage (SSD/NVMe) 378 Published by Hilbert Hagedoorn 17

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We'll be testing the GSKILL Phoenix Blade PCIe SSD today. Let me just quickly throw some numbers at you that will get a smile on your face, so how does 2,000 MB/s maximum read and write performance sound? Yes Sir, or 245K IOPS? That's the kind of performance GSKILL offers to the performance aficionados in the year 2014.