XFX AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition with Vapor Chamber Cooling

AMD’s famous “Tahiti” GPU is now making a comeback in the form of the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition video cards. The company’s 4.3 billion transistors chip has been very overclockable from the start, but now that TSMC has refined its 28nm manufacturing process, AMD is able to simply raise the working frequencies and launch a new product. XFX’s new Radeon HD 7970 video card comes with the same 3 GB GDDR5 video memory that we can find on any HD 7970 video card, but this time the new GHz Edition BIOS is clocking the memory at 1500 MHz or 6 GHz effective frequency, elchapuzasinformatico.com reported. The cooling system doesn’t seem to have any cooling heatpipes running through it, but has the cooling fins directly welded to the vapor...

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AMD 1090FX Chipset in 2013 with Steamroller Support

AMD seems to be concentrating on its mobile and server platforms for the moment and the PC desktop domain will only receive the Piledriver enhanced Vishera processors as an upgrade for the AM3+ owners. We have reported here about Vishera’s complete compatibility with today’s AM3+ platform and we already know that the performance boost should likely be around 20% or more like we reported here. The company and the market is very enthusiastic on the computing performance and battery performance of the Trinity processors and they are working on a tablet platform also. The tablet market will finally welcome some real competition from AMD in the form of its Jaguar APU. The desktop platform will remain the same until next...

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Colorful iGame GTX 680, World First Fanless GTX 680 Video Card Details

Colorful a Chinese video card manufacturer seems to be determined to make a strong and lasting impact in the video card market. Fortunately for video card enthusiasts, the company is not willing to do this by using lower prices, questionable quality or high sales volumes, but by using innovative designs and powerful configurations. The company has decided to launch the world’s first fanless Nvidia GeForce GTX 680 graphics adapter and it has been working on the design from some months. Colorful’s innovative design uses a two part cooling system with detachable components that have absolutely no moving parts. The main piece is the principal cooling heatsink that’s directly attached to the video card’s PCB and the GPU. Enthusiasts...

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Windows Phone-Based Nokia Phi, Nokia Dogphone, Nokia Lumia 908 Emerge Again

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is reportedly gearing up for the release of Windows Phone 8 devices, but no specific info on what these handsets would be all about has emerged so far. Of course, we already saw a wide range of rumors regarding the company’s plans for the new platform, including info on a possible double launch in early September, but nothing has been officially confirmed on the matter for the time being. However, it appears that some Nokia devices, believed to be en-route to the market with the Windows Phone 8 platform on board, keep making appearances online. Among them, there are the Nokia Phi, Nokia Dogphone, and Nokia Lumia 908, all three spotted once again at Occasional gamer. These are not the...

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Need for Speed: Most Wanted Video Details

Electronic Arts and Criterion Games have posted a new version of the E3 2012 gameplay video we saw last month of Need for Speed: Most Wanted, this time with commentary from the developer about the mechanics of the racing game. NFS: Most Wanted is a reimagining of the cult classic title from the long running franchise, this time coming from the studio behind the Burnout series, Criterion Games. We already got to admire it through a couple of videos that appeared at E3 2012, but now EA and Criterion have posted a new version of the gameplay footage that was released last month. Besides showing off a race and a cop chase through the streets of Fairhaven City, the trailer also has various details from the developer about the game's mechanics. This new video will certainly alleviate...

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ASRock Fatal1ty 990FX Supports AMP

A little while ago, we brought you the ECS A85F2-A Deluxe motherboard, the first model we saw with support for AMD Memory profile, but ASRock might have just one-upped that company. We say this because ASRock actually has an AMP-ready motherboard up for sale, whereas ECS has only announced that it would ship one this quarter. The mainboard we are talking about is called Fatal1ty 990FX Professional and has been up for order for quite some time. AMD Memory profile RAM is now supported thanks to a BIOS update. "Asrock's flagship board Fatal1ty 990FX professional is the only on-sale motherboard offering AMD AMP memory overclocking kit in the consumer market, stepping to the future memory overclocking now," a statement by Asrock...

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Windows 8 RTM Build 9200 Lock Screen Image

Earlier this week, we had the chance to have a look at what appeared to be the default wallpaper on the upcoming Windows 8 platform, supposedly extracted from a Build 8888. While that build was expected at the time to become the final RTM flavor of the operating system, it appears that Microsoft has made some changes on the matter. When released, Windows 8 RTM will sport build number 9200, a recent report coming from Win8China suggests, citing some internal issues with the first build number. The final Release to Manufacturing (RTM) flavor of Windows 8 is now said to be build 9200.16384.WIN8_RTM.120725-1247. Apparently, Microsoft has already started to compile the build this week, and should have it ready for prime...

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