Building relationships with other companies is one way to give yourself a boost in the technology game and big trade shows like the currently ongoing Computex in Taiwan, are a popular place to announce such alliances. While Gigabyte hasn't done anything quite so formal, it seems from our impressions of …
Read More »Be quiet! demonstrates Silent Base 600 chassis at Computex 2015
At the TechnikPR event at Barcode in Taipei – on the eve of Computex opening its main doors – KitGuru found be quiet’s new PC case, which will hit the market only later this year. The new chassis are more compact than the company’s SilentBase 800 introduced a year ago …
Read More »AMD appoints Intel and LSI veteran to lead computing and graphics BU [UPDATED]
UPDATE: Correcting comments regarding Matt Skynner. Advanced Micro Devices on Monday appointed Jim Anderson on the position of senior vice president and general manager of its computing and graphics (CG) business group. Jim Anderson is a veteran from Intel Corp., LSI and Avago Technologies. Matt Skynner, corporate vice president and …
Read More »Intel begins to ship ‘Skylake’ samples to all PC manufacturers
Intel Corp.’s code-named “Skylake” microprocessors will hit the market only in August or September and right now the world’s largest maker of microprocessors is getting ready for the launch. Intel is currently sampling “Skylake” chips with PC manufacturers and at Computex Taipei 2015 Asustek Computer has demonstrated a system powered …
Read More »Samsung Wireless Streaming Hard Drive Review
While many users these days may have several terabytes of PC storage space, mobile storage is yet to catch up. Many phones come with just 16GB of internal storage, while 128GB is just about as good as it gets. This means most users simply cannot fit their media collections on …
Read More »Silverstone shows three new chassis and answers KitGuru’s questions
Ahead of Computex 2015 in Taipei, KitGuru was given exclusive access to Silverstone’ Technology's headquarters. Centre stage was a series of new case models, which have an interesting common ancestry. Silverstone’s Technical Marketing guru, Tony Ou, was on hand to explain what makes this new line-up of micro-ATX cases special. …
Read More »Nvidia GTX980 Ti Review
Nvidia's Maxwell architecture has dominated the market since last year and today they release their new flagship board – the GTX980 Ti … slotting in above the GTX980 in the high end. The GTX980ti features 6GB of GDDR5 memory and a list of uprated specifications to bring it closer in …
Read More »Shipments of hard disk drives hit multi-year low in Q1 2015
Shipments of hard disk drives tanked significantly in the first quarter of the year due to sharp declines of sales of both PC and non-PC HDDs. Western Digital Corp. retained its position as the largest supplier of hard drives, Seagate Technology came second and Toshiba Corp. was the distant third. …
Read More »Sharkoon unveils DIY kit for external SSD/HDD with USB 3.1 interface
Want to have a high-performance external storage device with USB 3.1 interface, but consider commercially available products too expensive? Sharkoon, a leading maker of PC peripherals, may have a solution! Sharkoon has introduced a special DIY [do it yourself] kit for an external storage device with USB 3.1 interface. The …
Read More »EVGA introduces GeForce GTX Titan X with hybrid liquid cooler
EVGA on Friday introduced one of the world’s first mass-produced GeForce GTX Titan X graphics cards with a hybrid liquid cooling system. The new board will hit the market in June and will be one of the world’s highest-performing single-GPU graphics adapters. For those, who already own a GeForce GTX …
Read More »The name of flagship AMD Radeon revealed: Fury is back
AMD’s next next-generation flagship Radeon graphics card will be the world’s first add-in-board to use stacked high-bandwidth memory (HBM) that will ensure unprecedented performance and will open a number of new doors for graphics adapters. It is rather ironic that for a graphics card that shows the future of GPUs, …
Read More »Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti to cost $799, unless there is a last minute change
An online store from the U.S. has started to take pre-orders on Nvidia Corp.’s upcoming GeForce GTX 980 Ti graphics adapters, which are expected to be introduced next week. If Nvidia does not change the price of the upcoming graphics card at the last minute, then the GeForce GTX 980 …
Read More »AMD refreshes ‘Kaveri’ lineup, touts great overclockability, up to 5GHz clock-rates
Advanced Micro Devices on Thursday formally introduced new accelerated processing units for desktop computers based on the “Kaveri” architecture. The new chips belong to the A10/A8-series 7000-sequence family and have slightly increased performance compared to APUs introduced a year ago. While the new chips have exactly the same design as …
Read More »TSMC to begin building 10nm pilot line in June
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has announced that it will start to install equipment needed to produce 10nm chips in one of its semiconductor fabrication facilities next month. The company hopes to start risk production of 10nm chips late this year. TSMC will start to construct its 10nm pilot line at …
Read More »OCZ readies its first TLC NAND-based Trion SSDs
OCZ Storage Solutions, a maker of solid-state drives controlled by Toshiba Corp., is working on a new family of client SSDs powered by triple-level cell (TLC) NAND flash memory. The new solid-state storage devices will be aimed at inexpensive PCs, they will provide performance comparable to that of advanced SATA-6Gb/s …
Read More »Adata’s and G.Skill’s DDR4 memory modules hit 4GHz with air cooling
Adata, one of the world’s largest independent makers of memory modules, and G.Skill, a leading producer of enthusiast-class memory solutions for overclockers, this week said that their commercially available DDR4 modules can hit 4.0GHz frequency without use of extreme cooling methods. Engineers from Adata used MSI’s X99 Xpower AC mainboard, …
Read More »Silverstone debuts ultra-small 700W SFX PSU with 80 Plus Platinum certificate
Silverstone, a leading producer of power supply units, computer cases and other PC hardware, is about to introduce the world’s first small form-factor SFX PSUs that can deliver up to 700W of power and which are compliant with Ecos Consulting’s 80 Plus Gold and Platinum guidelines. The Silverstone 700W SFX-L …
Read More »be quiet! Dark Rock TF Review
We have been waiting since March for the be quiet! Dark Rock TF CPU cooler and now the day has finally arrived. Other members of the Dark Rock family use a vertical box cooler design however the Dark Rock TF is laid down horizontally so we can safely say the …
Read More »Be quiet! shows how its PSUs are made
Be quiet!, a leading producer of power supply units, cooling systems and other similar devices, has decided to show its customers how its products are made in a bid to demonstrate why its quality is higher compared to that of its rivals. Manufacturing of microprocessors and computer memory requires state-of-the-art …
Read More »JEDEC finalizes standard for ‘hybrid’ DDR4 NAND memory modules
JEDEC, a leading stanard setting organization, this week announced the first standards for support of “hybrid” memory modules that fit into DDR4 DRAM memory slots, but contain NAND flash memory. Such non-volatile dual in-line memory modules (NVDIMMs) will be used for ultra-high-performance storage devices as well as for ultra-secure DRAM …
Read More »Intel Core i7-6700K ‘Skylake’ test results: 4–8% faster than Core i7-4790K
A web-site has published what it claims to be early benchmark results of Intel Corp.’s Core i7-6700K microprocessor based on the “Skylake” micro-architecture. If the results are accurate, then the new chips will be at least four to eight per cent faster than the current mainstream processors with unlocked multiplier. …
Read More »Nvidia strengthens positions as market of graphics cards shrinks
Nvidia Corp. has managed to increase its share in the market of standalone graphics cards for personal computers, according to Jon Peddie Research. The market of graphics adapters for desktops in Q1 2015 decreased again to a new low in years, which is an alarming sign for developers of graphics …
Read More »Qualcomm teams up with Chinese government for server CPUs
Qualcomm Technologies has reportedly signed a memorandum of cooperation with the Chinese government under which it will develop server-class microprocessors. The chips will eventually be used inside Chinese servers, which will ensure a steady revenue stream for Qualcomm. Under the terms of the document signed by Qualcomm and the authorities, …
Read More »Colorful could become world’s second largest maker of graphics cards
Colorful is not a brand name that is well known in Europe and the U.S. because the company’s primary focus market is China. However, this manufacturer of graphics adapters may well become one the world’s largest suppliers of appropriate products this year in terms of unit sales, only behind Palit …
Read More »Win an Asus GTX 980 and three games with Dabs
If you have been following KitGuru for a while, then you have probably noticed that we like to keep our readers informed of competitions and giveaways floating around the web. We have a pretty good one to let you know about today as DABS is giving away an Asus STRIX …
Read More »Intel: We know how to produce 7nm chips
Intel Corp. will likely start making central processing units using 10nm fabrication process next year, but the company is already hard at work developing an even more advanced process technology. According to Intel, it already knows well how to produce chips at 7nm node. “After 10nm, comes 7nm [manufacturing technology] …
Read More »DRAM prices hit new lows in May – report
Prices of dynamic random access memory have been declining rather rapidly this year because of weak demand for personal computers and tablets. According to a media report, DRAM prices are the lowest in about 26 months. DRAM sport prices dropped around 9 per cent in the second quarter of 2015, …
Read More »Biostar demonstrates Intel Z170 mainboard for ‘Skylake’ processors
Biostar has published the first image of its Intel Z170-based mainboard for Intel Corp.’s upcoming processors code-named “Skylake”. The motherboard will be hit the market later this year and will be demonstrated at Computex trade-show next month. Biostar’s Gaming Z170X4 mainboard for LGA1151 processors is equipped with 12-phase voltage regulation …
Read More »Samsung vows to start 10nm chip production in 2016
Samsung Electronics this week announced that it will start high-volume production of semiconductors using its 10nm manufacturing process by the end of next year. The company also showcased a wafer processed using the technology for the first time. Samsung Foundry did not reveal a lot of information about its 10nm …
Read More »Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti: Specifications and photos revealed
As the launch of Nvidia Corp.’s GeForce GTX 980 Ti graphics card is approaching, more details about the upcoming add-in-board get revealed. Two web-sites have published specifications of the new enthusiast-class graphics solution from Nvidia as well as the first photos of the reference GeForce GTX 980 Ti adapter. As …
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