AMD Announces the Official 900 MHZ Edition of Radeon HD 7750

In an effort to be prepared for Nvidia’s GeForce GT 640 approaching launch, AMD has decided to officially design and announce a faster version of the company’s Radeon 7750 video card. The new version will have exactly the same configuration as the “old” Radeon HD 7750, but the “Cape Verde” GPU will be clocked at a high 900 MHz. The card will reportedly join the rest of AMD’s GCN lineup without receiving a different or special name scheme. It will simply be called AMD Radeon HD 7750. Initially, AMD’s Radeon 7750 was designed to perfectly fit the 75 watt power consumption envelope and the GPU has, up until now, been clocked at 800 MHz. Now the company has just relaxed the card’s power constraints and we have the 900 MHz version....

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IO Data Launches Innovative Autonomous Wireless HDD

Japanese company IO Data has just announced the new WNHD-U500 portable hard drive, on its official website. The novelty with this device is the fact that it is completely autonomous. Did you even wanted to bring your library of documents, photos, movies and music with you on your trip? The problem was that coupling an external HDD to more portable devices at once was quite the hassle. All the wires, all the access policies, having to keep one laptop on to have it share the external HDD and a separate power source to feed the storage device were quite annoying. What if you’d have an external HDD that had its own battery and an integrated WiFi adapter? You’d just put it in your car and every phone, tablet or laptop could...

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Buffalo Presents a Thin Wireless Keyboard

Japanese company Buffalo has just introduced a new wireless keyboard that works with just two AAA batteries, on its official website. The new product is called SRKB05BK and is a keyboard with 103 keys laid out in the usual QWERTY standard. Buffalo’s SRKB05BK keyboard might not be the athinnest wireless keyboard, but the company is claiming that the device is very efficient and can last for 6 whole month of usual office use with just two AAA cells. The device weighs 526 grams and that’s about 1.15 pounds. Priced at 90 USD, the Buffalo SRKB05BK is not what we’d all cheap. That’s about 73 EUR for the European buyers, but the usual high quality Japan built is probably worth it. ...

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ASUS Android Plus Windows Teaser at Computex 2012

The maker of the Transformer tablets, computer expert ASUS has just released a teaser video at this year’s Computex teasing a new product featuring two very different features. Many are speculating that this is all about a tablet device that will have a dual boot with Microsoft’s latest operating system, the Windows 8 and Google’s Android ICS. Taiwanese mainboard manufacturer has managed to secure a strong foothold into the tablet market although it’s facing real giants like Samsung and Apple. The company has done this by being on the fore front of technological development and functional innovation. ASUS’s Transformer was the first Android tablet to feature a docking keyboard with additional functionality such as more connectivity options and a battery that doubles the system’s...

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Offline Google Drive, Née Docs, Coming at Google I/O, Finally

Google's head of Chrome, Sundar Pichai, who also leads Google Drive efforts said that an offline version of the service is coming very soon, in five weeks' time. That may either sound great or confusing, depending on who you ask. After all, isn't there an offline version of Google Drive already? They're called "files" and guess what, they can be viewed "offline." Google Drive is a cloud storage and file sync service at heart. It keeps a cloud copy of the files you place in a folder on your computer and also makes them available on the other devices you sync. Disconnect from your WiFi connection and you've still got all of your files right there on your computer. But there is an offline version of Google Drive coming,...

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ECS Previews GTX 680 Black Series Graphics Card

Since we covered the Club 3D Radeon HD 7870 Eyefinity 6 just a short while ago, we may as well write about an NVIDIA high-end card as well. The company getting ready to launch a Kepler-powered video adapter is ECS (Elitegroup Computer Systems). The product in question bears the name of ECS GTX680 Black Series and, though it doesn't push the memory any faster than normal, it does drive the GPU a bit beyond the reference parameters. What we mean by that is that the GK104 chip is clocked at 1040 MHz instead of 1006 MHz, even as the 2 GB of GDDR5 VRAM stick to the stock 6008 MHz. Since we're on the subject, we may as well specify the other relevant specs: a memory interface of 256 bits, 4-display support (dual-link DVI,...

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Club 3D’s Radeon HD 7870 Eyefinity 6 Graphics Adapter

NVIDIA may have finally enabled its graphics cards to handle more than 2 monitors at a time, but AMD still has the advantage of experience in the field of multi-display setups. Club 3D's newest video card shows that well enough. Club 3D has officially introduced a video card called Radeon HD 7870 Eyefinity 6 and equipped with the CoolStream High Performance Cooling Technology. The company claims this is the first Radeon HD 7000 series board to feature 6 mini DisplayPort connectors. This isn't any Eyefinity technology we're talking about either, but Eyefinity 2.0, the one with Stereo 3D support, universal bezel compensation and new display configurations. That's right, with the Club 3D Radeon HD 7870 Eyefinity 6, owners...

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 Graphics Card Almost Here

The entry-level GeForce 600 series cards are just rebranded 500 series models, but this may change when NVIDIA finally brings out the GeForce GT 640. According to CPU World, the Santa Clara, California-based company will bring out the GT 640 during Computex 2012 (June 06-09). Of course, it would be more accurate to use the plural, since there will be six versions of the GT 640 for some reason. But here is where things get a bit confusing, as each card has its own clock speeds, CUDA core number, memory capacity and VRAM interface. If we were to guess, some GeForce GT 640 cards will indeed rely on the GK107 GPU, but some will be powered by rebranded Fermi. The GT 640 “series” has two entry-level versions, two mid-range...

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Wireless Charging Reference Designs Announced

Having electronics devices recharge their own batteries is the sort of Sci Fi dream that few would be opposed to, so Freescale decided to contribute to making it reality. The step currently being taken by the industry is the one where wireless charging is implemented. That is, having batteries somehow recover their energy by interacting with Wi-Fi or other electromagnetic waves. It's not exactly the same as independent energy recovery, but close enough. At any rate, Freeescale has introduced reference designs for the wireless charging of tablets, smartphones and multi-cell battery packs. The tablet platform should work for portable healthcare devices too. It consists of a transmitter mat and a receiver embedded inside...

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Need for Speed: Most Wanted Reboot Officially Coming from Criterion

After plenty of rumors and leaks, Electronic Arts has officially confirmed that a new Need for Speed title is coming from developer Criterion Games, in the form of Need for Speed: Most Wanted. The NFS series has been around for quite some time and, even if it came out in 2005, Most Wanted represents one of the high points of the series. For this year's iteration, EA tasked Criterion, the studio behind the Burnout series and 2010's NFS: Hot Pursuit, with creating a new version of the classic game titled simply Need for Speed: Most Wanted. As of right now, EA only confirmed the game and released the first image that you can admire above. More details are set to be revealed next week, on June 4, at 1PM PST when EA is set...

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Windows 8 RTM Confirmed for Late July, Final Flavor in October

Microsoft made available for download the Release Preview of its Windows 8 operating system, which is the final pre-release flavor of the operating system. We already had a look at some of the main enhancements included in this release, but we should wait for more of them in the upcoming development milestones. Apparently, we won’t have to wait too long for them to arrive. Microsoft’s Steven Sinofsky mentioned in a blog post on Building Windows 8 that the RTM version of Windows 8 will arrive in two months’ time, which means that late July is the timeframe to look for. As soon as the platform is released to manufacturing, hardware partners will start applying the final touches to their Windows 8 devices, and should have...

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World’s First AMD Trinity Motherboard Announced by ECS

Well-known Taiwanese motherboard manufacturer ECS has just announced the company’s first AMD FM2-compatible motherboard. This is most likely the first AMD desktop Trinity motherboard announced. ECS’ new baby is baptized A85F2-A Deluxe and is built around AMD’s A85 FCH chipset. We’re used to call the mainboard’s control processor “chipset.” This comes from back in the day, when all mainboards had two controllers each. One was the NorthBridge that was controlling the link between the CPU, RAM and video card and the other was the SouthBridge that took care of the expansion slots, the USB, and HDD controllers etc. Nowadays, motherboards come with a single chip controller. AMD’s FCH denomination is short for “Fusion Controller...

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Behold the Teaser for MSI's Big Bang ZPower

Micro-Star International hasn't released its first Intel Z77 Express chipset-based motherboard yet, but it is getting close to the time when the curtains are parted. The name of the mainboard will be Big Bang ZPower, or at least that's what the folks at TechPowerUp think. Speaking of which, they are the ones who somehow got a hold of two teaser photos. Said pictures reveal the existence of an intricate heatsink design, a PCB similar to the Z77A-GD65 and three PCI Express slots. Owners will have Pericom PCIe lane switches to select between single-slot x16 mode, x8/x8 mode or x8/x4/x4. Needless to say, overclockers and people who want 3-way multi-GPU setups will be the primary targets of this piece of hardware. The...

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