KFA2 GeForce GTX 580 MDT X4 EX OC Card Has Multi-Display Support

Anyone looking for a graphics card with multi-monitor support but are NVIDIA loyalists may want to check out the new device that KFA2 created. AMD used to pride itself in its Eyefinity technology and how it allowed a PC's desktop to spread across three displays, or six in the case of Eyefinity 6. NVIDIA doesn't precisely have something similar, although its cards can do the three-panel maneuver when there are two or more of them in SLI (in 3D too). Still, there are some video cards, based on NVIDIA GPUs which, on their own, do pretty much what Eyefinity does. They are made by KFA2 and belong to the MDT series, where MDT stands for multi-display technology. The latest and greatest member of this very series has made its official debut just...

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 Packs 4.3 Billion Transistors – Report

AMD’s Tahiti XT graphics core, which stands at the heart of the soon to be released Radeon HD 7970, features a whopping 4.3 billion transistors, according to a recent report to hit the Web. This is almost twice as much as Intel’s recently launched Sandy Bridge-E chips which feature 2.27 billion transistors. What’s inside it you ask? Well, a massively parallel architecture of course that packs 32 so called Compute Units to deliver a total of 2048 streaming processors. Some other hardware logic is also packed inside the chip, like dual geometry engines, a render back end, some L2 cache and a 384-bit wide memory controller, but as you can see from the slide provided by OBR Hardware, the largest part of the GPU is occupied by the Compute Units.  The...

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Samsung Galaxy Y Pro DUOS Confirmed with Dual-SIM

It looks like the Galaxy Y Pro with dual-SIM is a real device and not just a rumor. As we reported one day ago, the phone was shown in an ad, which suggests that the handset might go live this month. The folks over at GSMArena have been tipped on this dual-SIM variant of the Galaxy Y Pro yesterday, but except for the ad that was sent via email no other details have been leaked. However, several live pictures showing the alleged Samsung Galaxy Y Pro have just been published by GSMArena, which confirmed that the phone features dual-SIM support. Although no other info on the phone’s specs sheet have emerged yet, we can safely assume that it will come with the same features as the original Samsung Galaxy Y Pro...

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RIM Explains BlackBerry Users How to Remove Carrier IQ

With all the Carrier IQ rumors that have been coming and going these days, it is important to know exactly how you can detect the software on the phone, but also how it can be removed. Although many carriers and handset manufacturers came forward and said that they did not pre-load the Carrier IQ software on their handsets. However, there as some carriers which confirmed that they use the software to improve customers’ experience, but that this is only present on some of the phones in their portfolio. Research In Motion stepped forward two weeks ago and stated that it does not include the Carrier IQ software on any of its smartphones. On the other hand, T-Mobile USA, one of the carriers that uses Carrier IQ “to improve call quality,” pre-loaded...

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CyberpowerPC Bundles Select Laptops with Intel WiDi Adapters

CyberpowerPC, a well renowned maker of custom gaming desktop PCs, gaming notebooks, and workstations, has just announced that for a limited time only it will bundle its select laptop computers with Netgear's Push2TV 2.0 adapter with support for Intel’s WiDi technology. Paired together with notebooks that support Intel WiDi, this adapter enables users to stream 1080p video content wirelessly to a big screen TV. The laptops that are part of this promotion are the Xplorer X6-9100 and Xplorer X6-9200 both featuring Intel’s second generation Core processors, also known as Sandy Bridge. The CyberpowerPC Xplorer X6-9100 is built around a 15.6-inch 1920x1080 Full HD display and a Core i7-2670QM processor. The fast Intel CPU is seconded by 8GB of...

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Cray Delivers XMT Supercomputer Powered by Its Own 128 Thread CPUs

Noblis, an organization that provides expert technical and advisory services in systems engineering, science and tech, program management, as well as other fields, has just announced that its center for applied high performance computing has just received the addition of a new Cray XMT supercomputer. This makes CAHPC the first facility in the United States, outside of a federal laboratory or academic facility, to house a Cray XMT supercomputer.  When it developed the XMT system, Cray focused on delivering a scalable massively multithreaded platform with a shared memory architecture for large-scale data analysis and data mining. As a result, the system is purpose-built for parallel applications that are dynamically changing and require...

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Zalman Outs CNPS20LQ Liquid Cooler Designed by Asetek

After leaving the water cooling scene a couple of years back, Zalman has now returned with a new closed loop solution dubbed the CNPS20LQ that is compatible with a large series of sockets from both Intel and AMD. The design that the CNPS20LQ is based on is actually made by Asetek, a company that is well known for developing liquid cooling solutions of this type, and includes a water block and pump assembly that goes on top of the CPU and a 120mm radiator with a pre-fitted fan. Inside the radiator there’s also a small reservoir that is filled with a liquid specially designed so that it wouldn’t require any special maintenance. To distinguish its solution from other products based on the Asetek design, Zalman has branded the water block of...

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RIM to Launch BlackBerry 10 Devices in Late 2012

Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion is getting ready for the release of a new set of smartphones, which will be powered by its next-generation mobile OS, the BlackBerry 10 platform, yet it appears that they will not be launched until late 2012.  During the latest investor call, RIM’s co-CEO Mike Lazaridis confirmed the delay, explaining that the availability of a specific chip for these devices is what causes it.  Apparently, the chip will be available in production quantity only in mid-2012, which means that the Blackberry 10 smartphones will not arrive until several months after.  The company also says that there is now viable alternative to this, and that users will just have to wait a bit longer before these...

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More AMD Radeon HD 7970 Details Emerge

With the launch of the Radeon HD 7970 now brought forward to December 22, more info regarding this card showed up on the Web which covers the graphics card’s overclocking and cooling performance as well as its video output options. All the info was taken from AMD’s media presentation for the Radeon HD 7970 which was partially published by Donanim Haber just a few hours ago. Taking a look at the reference design of the card, the first thing that one notices is that AMD has chosen to keep the black and red color scheme used for their previous Radeon cards, although this time has opted for a more curvy design. However, the plastic shroud covering the card isn’t the only thing that was changed as a series of modifications were also brought to...

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AMD Pulls Radeon HD 7970 Launch Date to December 22

In a surprising turn of events, AMD has decided to bring forward the Radeon HD 7970 launch which is now supposed to arrive on December 22, instead of January 9, 2012, as previously believed. VR-Zone has learned of this change from unnamed sources, who also said that this will be a limited launch (read that paper launch), with availability starting on January 9, 2012. The launch date of the Radeon HD 7950 was not changed, so this GPU will arrive in the second week of January. AMD’s Radeon HD 7970 is based on the Tahiti XT core and a recent leak revealed that it would feature 32 Compute Units, for a total of 2048 streaming cores, 128 texture units, 32 ROPs and a 384-bit wide memory bus. This will be connected to 3GB of GDDR VRAM working at...

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Leaked iPad 3 Parts Surface via Chinese Retailer

A Shenzhen (China) - based online seller of electronics and replacement parts has obtained a “Microphone Mic Flex Cable Ribbon Replacement for iPad 3.” It’s no surprise that such leaks are becoming more abundant with the iPad 3 launch drawing closer. Analysts estimate the third-generation tablet will be on shelves in February. Back to the Chinese leak, the new part is quite different from the one used in current-generation tablets. Mike explains over at Cydia Blog that, “The new part, when compared with iPad 2, shows a different arrangement in internal circuitry, hinting a major re-design. The tail end of the part makes a 'U-turn', whereas the iPad 2's Microphone Mic Flex Cable makes almost 90-degree turn both ways.” TVC Mall’s website sells...

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Sony Ericsson Logo Ditched from London HQ

Sony Ericsson is almost a thing of the past. The Japanese giant already bought Ericsson’s stake out in the joint-venture and stated that it will ditch the Sony Ericsson brand by mid-2012. Well, it looks like things are pretty clear, as the folks over at Slashgear have gotten word that the Sony Ericsson logo from the company’s London headquarter has been pulled down completely. While the motives are still unclear, we can assume that the rebranding of the company has just started, though Sony officially confirmed that the first phones with its own brand will be out on the market only next year. Spotted by the UK analyst Ben Wood, it appears that this is a permanent change rather than a temporary sign issue, so we should expect more situations...

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 Tessellation Performance Apparently Huge

Looks like a slide showing the tessellation performance of the long-awaited AMD Radeon HD 7970 graphics card has finally appeared. According to it, the card loads better than the Radeon HD 6970 in pretty much every instance particularly the games S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat and Crysis 2. The Unigine Heaven benchmark difference goes ahead and beats the above comparisons by quite a bit too. All in all, AMD is suggesting that the Radeon HD 7970 is about 50% better than its predecessor. We suppose a faster GPU would indeed return a visible performance rise, but we don't know what to think about the 50% figure. Not that we wouldn't like to see such a boost, far from it, but these are, in the end, AMD's own slides, so we'll go ahead and wait...

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