Nvidia GeForce GTS 650 is Only 3% Faster than GTS 550 Ti

Nvidia’s new Kepler architecture has proven to be quite a success among gamers and this is owed to the fact that the GPU is very efficient, relatively cool and overclockable, next to the impressive performance it brings. During the initial launch, many mid- and low-end cards based on the new architecture were announced, but not so many managed to reach users, as Nvidia is first waiting to clear the old Fermi-based stock. Slowly but surely, the Kepler GPUs are replacing the Fermi architecture in the company’s lineup and now GeForce GTS 550 Ti’s replacement is close to launch, as VideoCardz report. This card that will replace the popular GTS 550 Ti is called GeForce GTS 650 and is powered by the GK107 Kepler GPU. Compared...

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Team Group UHS-1 Xtreem Series Memory Cards

We don't know when, where and for how much money you'll be able to buy one of Team Group’s newest memory cards, but we do know everything else worth knowing. Called SDHC UHS-1/Micro SDXC UHS-1, they are made for tablets, phones and driving recorders. As suggested by the UHS-1 specification, the transfer speeds are significant: up to 40 MB/s reading, 10 MB/s writing. Speaking of which, random read IOPS are of up to 500, while writing is done at 150. Furthermore, the data retention is of over 10 years and the power source of 3.3v. All in all, the newcomers are about three times better at writing than products of the same class, or at least three times faster at scribing bits. Real-time communication apps and boot...

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ADATA XPG Gaming v2.0 Series DDR3 2400G Memory

ADATA is probably in a good mood after its results of last month, and there aren't many better ways for such an IT corporation to celebrate a job well done than a new and mighty piece of hardware. We say ADATA is likely in good spirits due to recent findings that suggest it has good product shipments and high revenues in June 2012. The company is working hard to ensure the third quarter is at least as productive, although this newest product might not help as much as one would think. We aren't implying that there is anything wrong with it, far from it, but high-end hardware tends to not reel in many users, due to its price. Still, the XPG Gaming v2.0 Series DDR3 2400G DRAM modules will serve just fine as enhancers...

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CyanogenMod 10 Preview Builds Available for Samsung Galaxy S III

As soon as Google announced the availability of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, the CyanogenMod team promised the availability of CM10 based on the new platform release. CM is one of the most popular custom software for Android devices out there, and many are already eagerly waiting to get it on their units. For some Galaxy S III users, the wait is over, though with a caveat. Only preview builds of CM10 can be downloaded at the moment, and they are buggy. However, things have started to move in the right direction, and more stable builds are expected to become available in the not too distant future. In the meantime, those who would like to grab the early software release should head over to this thread on XDA-Developers for...

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Here Are Some Intel Core and Pentium Series CPUs Set for September Release

If Intel isn't launching anything, the press and Internet will look into what products it will soon or eventually produce, such as Core and Pentium series CPUs. Last week, for example, we saw how Intel's Core i7-3630QM and i7-3632QM were set for Q4 launch. Now, we are going to detail seven more central processing units, five of which belong to the Core i3 series and two of which are Pentium chips. All of them have four things in common: the thermal design power (TDP), the architecture (Ivy Bridge), the number of cores (two) and the cache memory (3MB). Everything else is different enough to justify the distinct product and series names. The Pentium G2100T 2 and Pentium G2120 lack hyper-threading and run at 2.6...

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Galaxy Overclocked GeForce GTX 670 with 4GB Memory

In the fight to convince the user to pick a certain product from the store shelf instead of a competing brand, Chinese video card manufacturer Galaxy is preparing a factory overclocked version of Nvidia’s GTX 670 GPU. The new card is called Galaxy GeForce GTX 670 GC Edition 4GB and just like its name says, it comes with 4 GB of GDDR 5 video memory. As Overlockers.ua report, The GPU frequency has been increased from Nvidia’s reference default of 915 Mhz with 1006 MHz boost to a 980 MHz with a 1084 MHz boost. The memory frequency has unfortunately been left at the same 6008 MHz data rate level, but the user is free to try and overclock them further. The cooling system is comprised of two 92-mm fans blowing air through a cooler...

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Raspberry Pi Restrictions Lifted, True Mass Availability

The Raspberry Pi, that very small critter that somehow manages to browse the web and play 1080p video, finally has no supply problems. Raspberry Pi is an ARM-based system the size of a credit card. It was envisioned as a platform for Linux programming, but it caught on with the public in such a way that the press has been keeping its eyes on it like a hawk. It helped that the device can turn any TV into a Smart TV, as long as the display has an HDMI input. That said, the product sold out on several occasions. Even we had to wait for many weeks before our order reached us. Huge pre-orders played a significant part in the lack of availability. About 350,000 models were requested, even with a limited number of Raspberry...

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Sapphire Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition Toxic 6GB

Advanced Micro Devices, by pushing the Radeon HD 7970 to 1 GHz, managed to oust the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 from its top spot, performance-wise, but Sapphire took things further. We'd say that the new board is one step ahead of the curve, if it weren't more accurate to replace step with mile-long leap. The name of the Sapphire Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition Toxic 6GB really says it all: 6 GB GDDR5 VRAM are present (the exact amount is 6,144 MB), instead of “just” 3 GB. The product is a fairly peculiar invention, and not because of the hardware per se, but due to the circumstances of its appearance. Advanced Micro Devices actually took the world by surprise. The HD 7970 GHz edition came out of left field for most, and had...

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Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 Coming Next Month

Nvidia’s Kepler architecture is a very efficient design that allows the flagship card to achieve results equal or even better than AMD’s Tahiti cards, despite the fact that AMD’s chip has half a billion transistors more and a 50% wider memory BUS. Usually, the chip designer wants to use all its chips, regardless of whether some functional units suffer from errors. Such a chip has those particular units disabled and it is sold as a lower performing model. This happens because yields are not perfect and the fabless company cannot pay for the whole wafer and throw out half of the chips. When Nvidia’s Kepler came into being, chip yields were particularly good and the company actually did not have enough chips to fulfill...

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