Archive for November 2015

Star Wars Battlefront - Game Bundle with R9 Fury

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Following a ripple in the force, AMD has announced that starting November 17th , qualifying purchases from participating retailers of an AMD Radeon R9 Fury  graphics card will receive a free copy of Star Wars Battlefront.


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Radeon R9 380X gets caught on camera

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There are multiple leaks on the web today showing photos of the upcoming Radeon R9 380X. The upcoming graphics card from AMD is spotted with brands from ASUS, XFX, and Gigabyte.


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Acer Adds B346CK 34-Inch Widescreen IPS LCD Monitor

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Acer launches a new 34-inch widescreen LCD monitor, the B346CK. Fitted with an IPS panel, this new 34-inch LED-backlight monitor supports a native resolution of 3440 x 1440 pixels and provides 1000:1 contrast ratio (100 million:1 DCR), 320 cd/m2 brightness, 6ms response time and 178/178 degree viewing angles.


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Samsung 950 PRO M.2 SSD review

Memory (DDR4/DDR5) and Storage (SSD/NVMe) 378 Published by Hilbert Hagedoorn 20

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In this review we test the new M.2 super fast Samsung 950 PRO Series M.2 SSDs. These new M.2 units use the nvm express (NVME) protocol and that means storage technology at hyper fast speeds while remaining competitive in pricing. Samsung will shock and awe you with these puppies.


Star Wars: Battlefront Beta PC graphics performance review

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In this article we benchmark the Star Wars Battlefront - multiple graphics cards are being tested and benchmarked. We have a look at performance with the newest graphics cards and technologies. We'll also look at frametimes, graphics memory and a thing or two more.


Steam Weekly Top Ten November 17th 2015

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It's that time again, here are the ten top selling titles on Steam for the week as reported by Valve:

1.Fallout 4
2.Football Manager 2016
3.Call of Duty: Black Ops III
4.Fallout 4 Season Pass
5.Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
6.ARK: Survival Evolved
7.Grand Theft Auto V
8.Rocket League
9.Call of Duty: Black Ops III
10.Steam Controller

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Patriot Memory BLAST SSDs Announced

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Patriot Released a new line of SSDs, and it's a BLAST. Coming in four different storage capacities: 120GB, 240GB, 480GB and 960GB, these slim 2.5-inch SSDs (7mm thick) are equipped with TLC NAND Flash memory chips, a SATA 6.0 Gbps interface, a quad-core, 8-channel Phison S10 controller, TRIM support, SMART support and built-in ECC function.


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Samsung Galaxy S7 Premium Gets 14-Core GPU, 4K Display

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According to a new rumor that circulated on Friday, a Samsung Galaxy S7 Premium Edition is being planned by Samsung, and will be offered only in South Korea. This super spec’d version of Sammy’s flagship phone is said to feature a 4K display, and a dual-lens camera module made by Sony.


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Scythe Adds Fuma Twin-Tower CPU Cooler

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Scythe announces the availability of it's new Fuma Twin-Tower CPU-Cooler. The new model combines a compact Twin-Tower design with total height of mere 149 millimeters and impressive cooling performance. 


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AMD Launches Boltzmann Initiative - HSA porting CUDA-based applications

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AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) announced a suite of tools designed to ease development of high-performance, energy efficient heterogeneous computing systems. The “Boltzmann Initiative” leverages HSA’s ability to harness both central processing units (CPU) and AMD FirePro™ graphics processing units (GPU) for maximum compute efficiency through software. 


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ASUS RT-AC5300 Tri-Band WiFi 802.11ac Router does up-to up to 5334Mbps

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That's nearly a standaline computer ? ASUS releases their new tri-band WiFi 802.11ac router, the RT-AC5300. Powered by a 1.4GHz dual-core processor coupled with a 512MB RAM, it operates at a combined speed of up to 5334Mbps, with two 5GHz bands that reach up to 2167Mbps each and one 2.4GHz band that reaches up to 1000Mbps.


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AMD Takes Back Market Share from NVIDIA in Q3 2015

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Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry's research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, announced estimated PC graphics add-in-board (AIB) shipments and suppliers' market share for Q3'15. Two big introductions came in the third quarter. AMD released their Radeon AIB lineup: the Fury series, powered by it new high-bandwidth memory (HBM), and the company's brand new Fiji GPU.


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BIOSTAR Hi-Fi H170S3H Motherboard with DDR3 memory

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The BIOSTAR Hi-Fi H170S3H features Hi-Fi Audio, Hi-Fi Power and 3D Hi-Fi to fully maximize your listening experience. Native support for PCI-E M.2 allows you to arm yourself with high-speed M.2 storage and choosing H170 gets you more USB3.0 ports along with native PCI-E RAID0 and RAID1 support. The board supports DDR3 memory so no need to change DIMMs when you upgrade your PC.


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Sharkoon BW9000 Series Mid-tower Chassis

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The solid Sharkoon BW9000 ATX Midi Tower scores with its elegant design and impressive functionality. Tool-free installation of nearly all components saves time and allows effortless assembly of individual PC systems.


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Delid your CPU with the Delid Die Mate

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Wanna replace that thermal insulation material inside your processor the easy way, and not with razor blades ? Well der8auer has designed THE easy solution for you. You place your CPU into a specially designed block, tighten the screws, turn the bottom screw until you hear a snap and back and boom, your CPU is delidded.


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Intel Core i7-6950X Broadwell-E has 10 Cores and 20 Threads

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Asia based xfastest was able to get their hands on some new info regarding the enthusiast lineup of Broadwell, yes Broadwell-E. In their item they mention four new Broadwell-E processors, the flagship being the Core i7-6950X that would get 10 physical CPU Cores hyper-threaded towards 20 Threads!


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Synology Launches 2-bay DiskStation DS716+ NAS

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Synology announced the release of DS716+, an 2-bay NAS server powered by a quad-core CPU and Btrfs file system. DS716+ is aimed at SMB in need of a reliable, high-efficient storage and application server.


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Samsung to release budget 750 EVO SATA3 SSD

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First off, I am wrapping up our 950 PRO review at the moment. We had a bit of a problem securing a sample. That review will be up next week. Now that said, Samsung is planning to release a more 'budget' EVO SSD, the 750 EVO model.


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