Radeon HD 7970 & 7950 Water Blocks from Aqua Computer Now Available

The Radeon HD 7970 and HD 7950 may not be available in retail yet, but Aqua Computer has already started selling a water block for AMD’s high-performance graphics cards. Dubbed the AquagrATIx 7900, the water block uses a full coverage design meaning that it covers not only the GPU, but also the GDDR5 VRAM and the card’s VRMs. As you can clearly see from the picture above, as well as the one in the gallery bellow, the Aqua Computer’s water block is made out of copper with a stainless steel cover, while the terminal is made out of a material called Delrin. All these make for a particularly good looking water block if you ask us, that is available right now for €89.90 incl. 19% VAT, which is right around the $116 USD mark. The...

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Asus Transformer Prime GPS Issues Explained

Since its introduction, the Transformer Prime has received a lot of complaints about its more than unimpressive GPS performance, so recently an Internet publication has started an investigation to find out what causes these problems, its conclusions showing that a design fault of the tablet is to blame. As AnandTech has discovered, the problems with the GPS reception of the Prime seem to be caused by its aluminum construction which prevents the radio waves sent by satellites to be accurately received by the tablet. While the sheet of metal that is used for the Prime isn’t very thick, aluminum is very good when it comes to blocking radio waves, and Asus has placed the GPS antenna right behind such a panel. According to AnandTech, this causes...

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Arctic Outs Accelero Xtreme 7970 VGA Cooler for Radeon HD 7900, HD 7800 GPUs

Now that AMD has finally released its Radeon HD 7970 graphics card, third-party cooling specialists can announce their solutions for AMD’s next-gen GPUs and one of the first companies to do so is Arctic which was just introed the Accelero Xtreme 7970 for HD 7900- and HD 7800-series video cards. Despite its newly found compatibility with AMD’s high-end graphics core, the Accelero Xtreme features pretty much the same design as the previous Arctic solutions launched in this range. This means that Arctic Cooling has employed the same overall design which relies on three 92mm fans for dissipating the heat draw from the GPU and into an aluminum heatsink that covers the card attached to it. All throughout this massive heatsink run five 6mm thick...

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Fujifilm’s Upcoming Interchangeable Camera Pictured

Fujifilm is getting ready to follow on the footsteps of the X10 and the X100 with a new retro-looking interchangeable lens camera that was just pictured in a couple of leaked images. The new arrival will be called the LX10, or possibly the X PRO 1, and little is known about it apart from the fact that Fujifilm touts it by saying its "resolution and low noise will surpass the 35mm full size sensor," which definitely sounds good to my ears. As Photo Rumors reports, the new camera is expected to be showcased at the PMA show next week and officially announced in February. Until then you can take a look at the leaked pictures of the Fujifilm camera, as well as to a mockup put together by Jonker Burger, in the galley bellow this post....

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Nikon D4 DSLR May Launch on January 6

Nikon’s highly anticipated full-frame D4 digital SLR camera may land on January 6 as the company has already started sending out invitations to the press for a product unveiling event that is scheduled to happen this Friday in Hong Kong. The exact product that will be launched during this event was not revealed, but Nikon Rumors believes that this will be the full-frame D4 DSLR together with a new AF-S 85mm f/1.8 prime lens. With the launch of the D4 and that of the upcoming D800, Nikon wants to once and for all separate its pro DSLR cameras into two distinct segments, the former coming with a low MP count, high fps, and high ISO while the D800 will shift towards high MP count, low fps, and lower ISO. As some leaked specs published in the...

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AMD’s Entry Level Radeon HD 7000 Desktop GPUs Are HD 6000 Rebrands

AMD’s Turks, Caicos and Cedar graphics cores used initially for some HD 6000 and HD 5000 series graphics cards will soon make a return as Radeon HD 7000 models despite these lacking the company’s new GCN architecture. As SweClockers reports, instead of making any changes to these GPUs, AMD has decided to release them apparently without any modifications whatsoever in the OEM space under the HD 7000 designation. The new lineup will include five new graphics cards, the fastest of these models being the Radeon HD 7670 and HD 7570, which are both based on the Turks core built using the 40nm fabrication process. As many of you know, the Turks GPU packs 480 stream processors, 24 texture units and 8 ROP units as well as a 128-bit wide memory bus...

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Holo Theme Becomes Standard on All Android 4.0 Devices

Along with the Android 3.0 operating system version, Google introduced the Holo theme family that is present on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich as well.  Developers who already came up with software for the new operating system have already encountered this feature, meant to ease the application building process for them. Starting with the new Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system, Google is making the Holo theme mandatory for all devices.  Thus, it should provide developers with the possibility to come up with apps that would run on a variety of devices without too much of an effort.  Variation in system themes made it difficult for developers to deliver apps compatible with a multitude of devices. Google says that...

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RIM Cancels BlackBerry 10-Based Milan

Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion has reportedly cancelled one of the yet unannounced BlackBerry 10 handsets, the Milan. The handset vendor has been long rumored to be planning the release of some appealing new devices powered by the upcoming platform, and the said BlackBerry Milan was one of them.  The handset was suggested to be on its way to the market with a sliding QWERTY keyboard, similarly with RIM’s BlackBerry Torch smartphones.  Codenamed BlackBerry Milan, the unannounced device was supposed to take full advantage of the QNX-based BlackBerry 10 OS.  However, it seems that RIM has decided to put aside plans for launching this device; at least this is what a recent article on n4bb states.  While there...

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1 Million Webpages Infected by Lilupophilupop SQL Injection Attack

About a month ago, researchers from the Internet Storm Center (ISC) noticed an ongoing SQL attack and dubbed it lilupophilupop because it redirected users to a domain with that name, but since at the time there were only 80 or so infected webpages, no one gave the incident much thought. Now, the number of victims increased to 1 million pages. “Sources of the attack vary, it is automated and spreading fairly rapidly. As one of the comments mentioned it looks like lizamoon which infected over 1,000,000 sites earlier this year,” ICS’s Mark Hofman said at the beginning of December. “The trail of the files ends up on "adobeflash page" or fake AV. Blocking access to the lilupophilupop site will prevent infection of clients should they hit an infected...

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 Doesn't Have Hidden Cores

Not long ago, there was a big leak that spilled the beans on Sapphire's whole Radeon HD 7970 lineup.  There was something weird about the sheet of paper pictured there.  Namely, the number of stream processors was crossed out, being different from the one AMD advertised.  While Advanced Micro Devices clearly says the card has 2,048 shaders, Sapphire's leak put the number at 2,304.  Reports now say that AMD's senior PR executive Chris Hook denied the existence of hidden cores on the high-end graphics adapter.  Thus, either this was a typo or the paper was part of AMD's test to see which of its partners leaked product specifications to the press.  It's a good thing for AMD that this wasn't another case of giving...

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