Gigabyte AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition Graphics Card

Taiwanese company Gigabyte has decided to jump on AMD’s Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition wagon and has just launched a new video card using the new BIOS and the well-known and powerful WindForce 3x cooling system. The new addition to Gigabyte’s AMD Radeon video card product line is GV-R797TO-3GD. The card features the same AMD “Tahiti” GPU that contains 4.3 billion transistors. AMD’s Tahiti has proven to be a very capable and overclockable chip and it’s no wonder that the company decided to simply clock it at 1000 MHz and paper launch a new product. Now the paper launch is becoming a reality and Gigabyte’s new card features a 1 GHz GPU and GDDR5 memory clocked at 6000 MHz working on a 384-bit bus. The WindForce3X cooling...

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SilverStone HE01 300W Tower Super Cooler

Taiwanese company SilverStone, well-known for its high quality cases and power supply units has also been known for its powerful computer cooling solutions. SilverStone has just launched a new super cooler able to dispose of 300 watts of heat. The new addition is a processor cooler in the popular tower configuration. The company is touting the ability of cooling any processor with a TDP of up to 300W. This is an extraordinary claim from SilverStone, but it seems quite achievable as the huge 1100 grams (2.42 pounds) heatsink is cooled by a very capable 140 mm fan. The fan used by SilverStone for their HE01 super cooler is not like your average 140mm fan. Usually, such fans have a height of 25 millimeters, but SilverStone’s HE01...

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Firefox OS Three Main Components: Gonk, Gecko and Gaia

Firefox OS may be a big thing. It has a chance of becoming the third big mobile player. It's biggest asset is its complete reliance on web technologies. All of the built-in apps are HTML5 apps and so will be the third-party ones. Here's how it works. Firefox OS is made up of three big parts. At the very bottom is the part that handles the hardware, codenamed Gonk. Gonk is made up of a Linux kernel, based on the modified version supplied with the Android Open Source Project. On top of that, it's running a custom-built HAL (hardware abstraction layer) and several other low-level components. Most if not all of these are based on existing and tried open-source libraries and tools.  Gecko is the application platform layer. It...

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Galaxy Pre-Overclocked GeForce GF 640 2GB Video Card

Well-known video card manufacturer Galaxy has decided to double the video memory on its Nvidia GeForce GT 640 video cards and now is offering both, a 1 GB model and a 2GB model of its factory overclocked GC series video cards. The initial GC series GeForce GF 640 graphic adapter from galaxy featured a slightly overclocked GPU, but strangely it had the memory settings a bit under the reference default of 900 MHz. The 1 GB Galaxy GeForce GT 640 video card was working at 950 MHz / 891 MHz GPU/MEM frequency settings and the manufacturer is touting the same frequencies for the new model featuring double the memory. The card is powered by a GK107 GPU that features 1.3 billion transistors and has a modest 65 watts TDP and thus...

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Synology DiskStation and RackStation with WD Red HDDs

Not long ago, Western Digital launched the first line of hard drives specifically made for home and small office network-attached storage devices. Called WD Red NAS 3.5-inch HDDs, they have now been adopted by Synology. The latter has added the WD30EFRX (3 TB), WD20EFRX (2 TB), and WD10EFRX (1 TB) as options to its DiskStation RackStation lineups. Synology tested the HDDs for stress endurance and compatibility. In the end, it pronounced them compliant with members of the x12, x11, x10, x09, and x08 series. More info on the HDDs is found at the link we posted above. Meanwhile, those interested in the NAS themselves can go here (a recent DiskStation), here (RackStation) or on the company's website. Don't be misled...

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Firefox OS Now Available for Testing on Desktops

For the past year or so, Mozilla has been working on its own mobile operating system, which went official several weeks ago as the Firefox OS, and which is now available for testing purposes on desktop PCs. Fully-based on web technologies, the new platform is expected to open the doors to cheaper smartphones being launched on the market, starting with the next year. The platform comes with support for all usual features on smartphones today, including dialing, messaging, internet browsing, web gaming, photo taking, video watching, music listening and the like. The team behind Firefox OS, previously known as Boot2Gecko, has just announced a series of advancements in their pursue towards making the platform available commercially. “The...

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Samsung GT-S3752 with Dual-SIM and QWERTY Keyboard Leaks

Although Samsung is currently focused on Android smartphone market, the company also plans to release several feature-phones in the following months. Samsung GT-S3752 is a simple mobile phone that features a QWERTY keyboard with dedicated ChatON button. The handset sports a small 2.4-inch standard display and a sub-par 2-megapixel rear camera. Surprisingly for a basic feature-phone, Samsung GT-S3752 comes with Wi-Fi support, but also embeds a microSD card slot for memory expansion (up to 16GB). Last but not least, the phone is powered by a 1,000 mAh Li-Ion battery and features support for IM and social networking services, including MSN, Yahoo, Google Talk, Facebook, Twitter and ChatON. Unfortunately, we don't have...

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ECS First to Support AMP (AMD Memory Profile)

We've seen and heard a lot about Intel XMP-certified memory profiles, but there has been a distinct lack of modules and kits certified for AMD's equivalent, AMP. The AMD Overdrive utility has had a tab dedicated to special configuration of Black Edition Memory Profile-enabled RAM for years. Unfortunately, only now is it about to see any use. ECS (Elitegroup Computer Systems) has become the first company to implement support for it, on the A85F2-A Deluxe motherboard. The AMD Memory Profile technology allows supporting DDR3 to be reliably enhanced so that they can perform beyond the standard JEDEC (Joint Electron Devices Engineering Council) specification. ECS's press release implies that at least one or several AMP-ready...

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AMD Jaguar-Based Kabini and Temash APUs Next Month, Not Next Year

The folks over at Hexus have provided some information that makes us glad to have been wrong about a certain estimate we made last week, regarding AMD's future APU generation. What we said, based on the murmurs on the web at the time, was that the Jaguar-based Kabini accelerated processing unit (APU) was scheduled for release next summer. The new report moves the launch from summer to the first quarter of 2013 (January-March) and promises that the first introduction to the technology will happen much sooner than even that. Kabini is based on the Jaguar core, and so is Temash. Had they truly been slated for a summer 2013 release, the technology preview probably would not have happened before CeBIT (March) or CES (Consumer...

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