Download AMD Catalyst 12.7 Official BETA for Windows XP 32 and 64-bit

Download AMD Catalyst 12.7 Official BETA for Windows 7 32 and 64-bit

A quick hands on with this one, Antec released HDTV Bias Lighting Kit last week.

You know when you have that new huge 55" LED TV and in the evening when it gets dark you can see a little LED wash / clouding on the black screen. It is a common problem these days.

Some people are very bothered by it, other not at all. It is a problem that can be fixed to a large extent by placing or pointing a light behind the screen. The visuals will change dramatically as your eyes will compensate that black level and contrast. This actually is the reason why Philips has released Ambi-light TVs initially.

Antec has a very simple solution at hand for roughly 30 USD/EUR, they took some of the brightest LEDs they could find, connect it towards the USB port of your television and when you power on, you have light. An adhesive coating on the LED strip will make it stick towards the back of the television. The LEDs will power up and down with activation of the HDTV, but should you wish to deactivate the  LEDs, you can simply turn it off with an convenient on/off switch.

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• Cable: 51.1
  

Download AMD Catalyst 12.7 Official BETA for Windows XP and 7 32 and 64-bit released 25th of June 2012.

Build Info:
DriverVer=06/25/2012, 8.981.2.1000
8.981.2.1-120625a-141547E-ATI
CCC: 2012.0626.231.2450
D3D: 9.14.10.0924
OGL: 6.14.10.11740
OCL: 10.0.938.1

This hotfix driver resolves the random black screen issue seen with the online game QQ Dancer

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AMD Catalyst 12.7 Official BETA Win XP
AMD Catalyst 12.7 Official BETA W7

All common cards starting at series 5000 are supported. We have a support thread open over here in the forums.

Say hello to our KFA2 GeForce GTX 670 EX OC review, in this article we'll look at a really pleasant offering from KFA2.

The product is a factory overclocked, custom cooled, custom designed PCB GeForce GTX 670, yes this is the EX OC edition. You can check out the full review right here.

Samsung Electronics America Inc., a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, today announced that it is now shipping its award-winning Series 9 LED desktop monitor. The culmination of over five years of global market leadership in monitors, the new 27-inch Series 9 incorporates the best that Samsung has to offer, including its exclusive Natural Color Expert technology, which provides a richer viewing experience for graphic artists, photographers, designers and anyone else with a sense of style working with photos and video content.

Starting at $1,199.99, the Series 9 will be available through an exclusive prelaunch with NewEgg from June 1

Following the acquisition of Link_A_Media by SK Hynix, the latter firm debuts its first consumer solid state disk.
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Zalman has introduced the ZM1250, a new 80Plus Platinum power supply with a large 140mm silent fan and modular cabling.
It features such things as a large 140mm quiet fan, modular cabling with a large number of molex and SATA plugs. It's also compliant with ATX v2.3, SSI-EPS v2.93, and ErP Lot6 2010. The ZM1250 uses a dual rail design, 45W & 65W, with the 65W rail powering the eight 6+2 pin PCIe power connectors, two of which are fixed and six are modular. The 45W rail powers the 24 pin ATX motherboard connector and the CPU/EPS connectors, which are not modular.

AMD is working on three new FX series chips; the 8350, 6300 and 4320. The FX 8350 is a new eight-core model with unlocked multiplier and 16MB cache, clockspeeds are still unknown but they should be higher than the FX 8150. This part is coming in Q3 2012 as fud reports today:

The FX 6300 is a six-core, basically a faster iteration of the 3.8GHz clocked FX 6200 and it

Ben Rudolph shows off an early build of Windows Phone 7.8 running on a Nokia Lumia 900. The new start screen includes resizable tiles, bringing a whole new level of customization to your smartphone experience.

The announcement of Microsoft's Surface tablet was followed by rumors that the software giant may also be working on its own Windows Phone 8 handset, but this rumor got officially denied by a Microsoft executive:
A Microsoft executive said the company has no plans to manufacture its own company-branded smartphones, denying reports to the contrary that emerged after Redmond last week roiled the PC hardware industry by unveiling its own tablet computer.

Asked in an interview if Microsoft planned to apply that strategy to the smartphone market, Greg Sullivan, senior marketing manager for Windows Phone, said, "No, we do not."

Microsoft has revealed that hardware makers building Windows Phone 8 devices include HTC, Nokia, Samsung, and Huawei. "We have a strong ecosystem of partners that we are very satisfied with," Sullivan said Friday. Source: Information Week

Dell today announced the immediate availability of new displays that combine performance and value to enable customers amazing viewing experiences. The six new displays join Dell

Several years ago Google researchers began constructing an articial brain consisting of 16,000 processor cores. The simulation was exposed to 10 million randomly selected YouTube video thumbnails over the course of three days and after being presented with a list of 20,000 different items, the artificial brain began to recognize photos of cats using a "deep learning algorithm", despite is was never fed information on distinguishing features that might help identify one. Google fellow Jeff Dean explains the simulation basically invented the concept of a cat. Full details at Wired.

Picking up on the most commonly occurring images featured on YouTube, the system achieved 81.7 percent accuracy in detecting human faces, 76.7 percent accuracy when identifying human body parts and 74.8 percent accuracy when identifying cats.

SOE has released their full theater presentation online for your enjoyment. Embedded above, you can now watch PlanetSide 2 developer Brian Bosch walk us through the E3 PlanetSide 2 demo.

The video goes in-depth with the three factions fighting for control on Auraxis; The Terran Republic, New Conglomerate and Vanu Sovereignty. Bosch also takes us on a tour of the vehicles in the game, some of the customization options as well as information on how clans work in PlanetSide 2.

A quick hands on with this one, Antec released HDTV Bias Lighting Kit last week.

You know when you have that new huge 55" LED TV and in the evening when it gets dark you can see a little LED wash / clouding on the black screen. It is a common problem these days.

Some people are very bothered by it, other not at all. It is a problem that can be fixed to a large extent by placing or pointing a light behind the screen. The visuals will change dramatically as your eyes will compensate that black level and contrast. This actually is the reason why Philips has released Ambi-light TVs initially.

Antec has a very simple solution at hand for roughly 30 USD/EUR, they took some of the brightest LEDs they could find, connect it towards the USB port of your television and when you power on, you have light. An adhesive coating on the LED strip will make it stick towards the back of the television. The LEDs will power up and down with activation of the HDTV, but should you wish to deactivate the  LEDs, you can simply turn it off with an convenient on/off switch.

Unit Dimensions:

• Cable: 51.1
  

Say hello to our KFA2 GeForce GTX 670 EX OC review, in this article we'll look at a really pleasant offering from KFA2. The product is a factory overclocked, custom cooled, custom designed PCB GeForce GTX 670, yes this is the EX OC edition.

QNAP hits back by showing off their newest 2-bay NAS server, the TS-269 PRO. Designed for SMB / SOHO users, this entry-level NAS server is equipped with an Intel Atom D2700 processor, a 1GB DDR3 RAM, two SATA HDD bays, 2x Gigabit Ethernet, 2x USB 3.0 ports, 3x USB 2.0 ports, 2x eSATA ports and supports for multiple RAID setups (0,1) as well as JBOD. The TS-269 PRO will start shipping from late June for unannounced price yet. [QNAP]

Lian-Li Industrial Co. Ltd, today announces a brushed aluminum EATX supported chassis with a front placed PSU

AMD introduced the Embedded G-T16R APU and extended the platform availability of the G-series APUs through 2017:
AMD (NYSE: AMD) today introduced the latest entry to the AMD Embedded G-Series processor family with the AMD Embedded G-T16R Accelerated Processing Unit (APU). The AMD G-T16R is targeted at very low power, small form factor and cost-sensitive embedded designs that require a combination of x86 compatibility and graphics. The optimized design of the AMD Embedded G-T16R sips power, with power consumption of just 2.3 watts on average or 4.5 watts thermal design power (TDP).

Embedded product designers are taking to the industry

Details about Google's rumored Nexus 7 tablet have been published over at Gizmodo Australia. According to the site, this 7" tablet will offer a 1280 x 800 pixel IPS screen, a NVIDIA Tegra 3 1.3GHz quad-core processor, 1GB RAM, a 1.2MP front camera, and up to nine hours of battery life.

The base model will offer 8GB of storage for $199 while the 16GB model is expected to go for $249.
The leaked document also says that the device will be the first to run Jelly Bean, the new version of Android. Details are scarce on Jelly Bean, but the slides tell us that Google will handle operating system updates from now on, which could address the fragmentation problem. We aren

That's right, Radeon 7870 GPUs as TPU reports today:

ASUS is said to be prepping the ARES 2, a dual Radeon HD 7870 graphics card:
ASUS ARES 2 will back two 28 nm "Pitcairn" GPUs with all components unlocked; likely factory-overclocked speeds beyond those of the HD 7870 GHz Edition; and a total of 4 GB of GDDR5 memory (2 GB per GPU system).

The card will draw power from two 8-pin PCIe power connectors, and will have a TDP of around 300W. It will take advantage of AMD ZeroCore CrossFire, with which it powers down the second GPU when not gaming, or with light 3D loads that the first GPU can munch on. With the monitor idling for a set amount of time, both GPUs power down. It's likely that ASUS will use a triple-slot cooling solution, despite the fact that the HD 7870 is a generally cool GPU.

The cooler promises very quiet operation and according to Sandia it can be manufactured at a cost of less than $10. A LED cooling firm has already signed a license and Sandia is in talks with four chip cooling companies to discuss business partnerships.
The cooler unit spinning at 2,000RPM above your expensive CPU may sound a little hazardous but the company say that very tight manufacturing tolerances aren

Ubisoft announced that Far Cry 3 will be released on November 29 in EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) and on December 4 in the U.S. Far Cry 3 will be available for X360, PS3 and PC. As usual, the reason of this delay is that Ubisoft needs more time to further polish it.

In Far Cry 3, players step into the shoes of Jason Brody, a man alone at the edge of the world, stranded on a mysterious tropical island. In this savage paradise where lawlessness and violence are the only sure thing, players dictate how the story unfolds, from the battles they choose to fight to the allies or enemies they make along the way. As Jason Brody, players will slash, sneak, detonate and shoot their way across the island in a world that has lost all sense of right and wrong.

"We're taking more time to create the best possible gameplay experience," said Dan Hay, producer at Ubisoft. "Far Cry 3 is a huge offering and we want every element of this insane, action-packed adventure to be of the highest possible quality for the players."

We review the HIS Radeon HD 7770 GHz edition. HIS recently released an updated Radeon HD 7770 1GHz edition with their own custom model. They use their own custom 4-layer PCB and equipped it with a dual slot all silent cooling solution. We'll walk you through the standard reference technology and then place our focus on the HIS Radeon HD 7770 GHz edition.

Read the review here.

How cheap can these things really get ?  ITOne Digital Company today introduced a new affordable Android tablet for the Chinese market. Priced at just $49, the gadget features a 7-inch capacitive touchscreen display, a 1.2GHz processor, a 512MB RAM, a 4GB of internal memory and a microSD memory card slot for storage expansion.

The tablet is powered by the latest Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system. [ubergizmo]

Belkin released two new advanced wireless routers namely the AC1000 DB and AC1200 DB. These Wi-Fi routers feature Broadcom

Details and photos of Zotac's GeForce GTX 670 Extreme Edition over at Asian tech site Expreview. This new overclocker-friendly model will only be available in Asia though accordin to TPU:

The card ships with out of the box clock speeds of 1111 MHz (GPU base), 1202 MHz (GPU Boost), and 1652 MHz (memory actual), or 6.60 GHz (memory effective). It draws power from 6-pin and 8-pin PCIe power connectors, and conditions power using a 13-phase VRM that consists of noise-free chokes and PowIRstage DrMOS chips by International Rectifier. Power is further conditioned by a trio of multi-phase FPCAPs, and tantalum capacitors. Like the GTX 680 Extreme Edition, the card features the entire overclocker-friendly feature-set, including OC+ Module, dual-BIOS with LN2-friendly BIOS, voltage measurement points, temperature and phase loading LEDs.

Cooling the beast is the same swanky cooling solution as the one found on the GTX 680 Extreme Edition. Staying within the confines of 2 expansion slots, the cooler packs a large aluminum fin heatsink that spans the entire length of the card, which uses five 8 mm-thick nickel-plated copper heat pipes that draw heat from the copper GPU base, to the aluminum fin stack. The heatsink is then ventilated by a pair of 92 mm fans.

Google accidentally revealed the existence of Android 4.1 "Jelly Bean" on its Google Play store. According to the Google Play product listing for the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, the next version of Android will be Jelly Bean. Droid-Life managed to catch the mistake and capture a screenshot before the description was corrected.

For a short time Thursday, shoppers could add the unlocked Galaxy Nexus to their shopping cart on the Google Play store and see the description during the checkout process. The short text blurb described the Galaxy Nexus as "the first phone with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean" before the information was quickly removed.

The mistake raises expectations that Android 4.1 may be launched at next week's Google I/O conference.

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The Tech Report charts the evolution of SSD prices since early 2011, you can check out the charts over here.
To get a better sense of the SSD picture, we've analyzed a mountain of pricing information dating from early 2011 to Tuesday. The folks at Camelegg graciously provided the data, which we've sliced, diced, and compiled in pretty graphs. Camelegg tracks prices at Newegg, which should give us a good sense of what's going on in the overall market.

Deep Silver has announced that a playable demo for Risen 2: Dark Waters is now available via Steam allowing you to try out this Risen sequel developed by Piranha Bytes.

Wednesday 21st June 2012 - Hampshire, UK/.. Rig your ship and fly your pirate flag - Deep Silver today announced the release of the PC demo for the pirate RPG "Risen 2: Dark Waters"!

The demo allows players to experience the beginning of the game - the world is in turmoil, the Titans have devastated everything in their path with unstoppable force. Only the city of Caldera, where the headquarters of the Inquisition are located, offers a place of refuge for the people. It is repeatedly attacked by sea monsters, and supply ships are sunk en route. Nobody knows how long the walls will hold; food and weapons are gradually running out. The nameless hero sets out on a mission to put an end to the sea monsters once and for all.

During his adventurous journey he not only faces new and immense challenges, he also meets old acquaintances who help him on his quest.