Archive for March 2016

Tick Tock Tock Says Intel Now As Well

Published by Hilbert Hagedoorn 27

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The familiar "Tick-Tock" is a model used by chip manufacturer Intel Corporation start started in 2007 to follow every micro-architectural change with a die shrink of the process technology. Based on Moore's Law this been proven to become more and more difficult, it's becoming Tick-Tock-Tock


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SilentiumPC launches Budget Regnum RG1 Pure Black Chassis

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SilentiumPC has released a new chassic called the Regnum RG1 Pure Black chassis.It is a value-oriented chassis with dual-chamber internal layout which dramatically improves both airflow and cable management. Added advantage is how clean and seamless the complete PC system looks with little effort.


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Philips to offer 43 inch 4K UHD IPS monitor

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Are you ready to pull out your wallet and grab deep in there? Philips will release the 43-inch BDM4350UC, a huge version based on the 'smaller' BDM4065UC at 40 inch. It has somewhat the same looks, but just is bigger. The handsome fellah is an Ultra HD screen based on an IPS panel.


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DirectX 12 Adoption Big for Developers Microsoft shares New Info

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Over at GDC (Game Developers Conference) Microsoft talked about the latest advancements in DirectX 12 technology. Principal Development Lead Max McMullen and Program Manager Chas Boyd shared quite a lot of details, there was quite a lot of information that gamers can enjoy.


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Star Wars Battlefront Gets 8GB update

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Star Wars: Battlefront's paid Outer Rim content is now available and DICE has released a new update for it. The big patch brings a host of free content, including spectator mode, Hutt Contracts, a level cap increase and more.


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Review: Be Quiet! Pure Power 9 CM 700W Power Supply

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We review the new 700 Watt Pure Power 9 CM 700W Power Supply from be Quiet! The series has been fiddled and fooled around with and comes with some new tweaks, features and hey now, is an 80 Plus Silver certified product series. With the ever-growing demand of power consumption this is a highly modular, with two 12V rails (for this 700 watt model), highly energy efficient product that remains very silent.

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be quiet! Pure Power 9 CM 700 Watt PSU Review

PSU - Power Supply Units 110 Published by Hilbert Hagedoorn 1

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We review the all new be quiet! Pure Power 9 CM 700 Watt power supply. The series has been fiddled and fooled around with and comes with some new tweaks, features and hey now, is an 80 Plus Silver certified product series. With the ever-growing demand of power consumption this is a highly modular, with two 12V rails (for this 700 watt model), highly energy efficient product that remains very silent.


Buffalo Adds 866Mbps Wireless LAN Repeater WEX-1166DHP

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Buffalo will soon offer a wireless LAN repeater under SKu code WEX-1166DHP. The repeater extends the radio range of the wireless LAN into out-of-reach areas of your home, the WEX-1166DHP comes with two moveable antennas, a WPS button and one wired LAN port, and supports for dual-band WiFi access point (2.4GHz – 300Mbps and 5GHz – 866Mbps).


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AIDA64 v5.70 adds Ray-tracing Benchmarks and Vulkan Support

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AIDA has been updated towards v5.70 and now offers support for Ray-tracing Benchmarks  (AVX, AVX2, FMA supported) and Vulkan. AIDA64 is now capable of displaying hardware monitoring information on RGB LED backlit mice and displays sensor readings for Corsair AXi power supply units.


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ADATA UV210 Flash Drive

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ADATA releases their UV210 USB Flash Drive. Built seamlessly and boasting a champagne gold metallic finish that covers a solid zinc-alloy housing, the UV210 USB Flash drive delivers a stylish statement of simplicity and durability.


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Valve working on solution to run SteamVR on weak GPUs

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I should refive the title a bit, basically Valave wants their SteamVR solution to be able to run on older GPUs from 2012, say a GTX 680. Valve programmer Alex Vlachos spilled beans on the development of the Unity-plugin during a presentation on GDC last week.


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Inside the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge

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Samsung posted a small blog showing what’s inside the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge. While the blog is abit (well huge) advertorial, it's always funny to see technology back to its basics, up-to the PCB. Have a peek after the break.


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Steam Weekly Top Ten March 21st 2016

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Alright, a fresh new week, so let's see what the ten top selling titles on Steam for the week are from Valve:

1.Tom Clancy's The Division
2.Stardew Valley
3.ARK: Survival Evolved
4.Tom Clancy's The Division
5.The Culling
6.Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
7.Subnautica
8.Grand Theft Auto V
9.Factorio
10.HITMAN

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MSI Vortex cylinder Gaming PC available in the USA

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The world smallest gaming cylinder, the Vortex measures only 10.5 inches tall but can blast away bigger systems with an unlocked Intel Core i7 6700K processor, up to 64 GB of DDR4 memory, SSDs in Super RAID 4, and dual NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 GPUs in SLI.


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