Colorful iGame GeForce GTX 660 Ti

Chinese video card manufacturer Colorful has surprised the video card enthusiasts lately. The company has been introducing impressive products with innovative designs and powerful, original cooling systems. We’ve already presented the Colorful Shark Bionic cooling system and the card pictured today uses the same cooling solution. Although we don’t know the official name of the new card, the GPU on it is clearly Nvidia’s GK104 and the memory setup tells us we’re dealing with a GeForce GTX 660 Ti. Even without knowing the official name, most enthusiasts can definitely say that this is going to be part of Colorful’s iGame series. The PCB shows that we’re dealing with a 4 + 2 phase power line and that most of the PCB components...

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Corsair Ultra-Fast CMFSL3 USB Stick

USB flash drives that are really capable to take full advantage of USB 3.0 wide bandwidth are still quite rare these days and USB 2.0 thumb drives are still being launched by various manufacturers. Lucky for us, Corsair is concentrating on performance and quality and thus the company is getting ready to launch yet another impressive USB 3.0 flash drive. The new drive is officially called Corsair Flash Voyager Slider CMFSL3 and it comes in 64GB, 32GB, 16GB, and 8GB capacities. The design can easily be called cool and also has a clear and useful functionality as it is a cap-less design that will allow the user to forget about worrying that he might lose the cap. Corsair Flash Voyager Slider CMFSL3 touts impressive read speeds...

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AMD FirePro APU Breaks Intel Xeon E3 in First Official Benchmarks

The world’s fifth fabless IC designer, American company AMD, is finally enjoying the fruits of its ATI buyout from six years ago. AMD is now in the privileged position to sell workstation FirePro APUs that are perfectly tailored for the professional market. Getting enough user-friendly applications that put Trinity’s GPU compute abilities to good use in the average desktop PC is quite hard these days. Practically there aren’t enough such applications on the market to allow the user to take full advantage of the APU graphics performance and also allow AMD to charge a price premium for this. In the professional workstation market, the scenario is completely different. Here AMD’s FirePro APUs based on the Trinity design can...

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iPhone 5 Resolution at 640 x 1136

iOS 6 scales perfectly to the rumored taller resolution of the next-generation iPhone, according to tests run by people playing around with the latest beta seeded by Apple this week. After making the discovery described in the above paragraph, 9to5mac could also confirm that the iOS Simulator (an emulator app included with Xcode) does not correctly display five rows of icons at resolutions other than 640 x 1136. In other words, this is pretty much all the evidence we need to confirm the next iPhone’s resolution. There has been a lot of debate as to whether the iPhone 5 will boast a bigger display or not. Many believe it’s simply a given. Competitors have an army of huge smartphones waiting for the iPhone 5 to poke its head out...

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Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard Center 1.1.500.0 for Windows 8

Owners of a Microsoft mouse and keyboard can get the most out of their hardware via a dedicated application that the Redmond-based software giant has made available for them, namely the Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard Center. Currently available for download as version 1.1.500.0, the application provides a variety of customization options when it comes to using the Microsoft hardware on a Windows PC. People will be able to set the mouse and keyboard to work according to their specific needs, or to change them in accordance with the settings of various applications. The software is available with support for both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 8, and features an interface tailored specifically for the platform. It...

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More Windows 8 ISOs RTM Leaked, Microsoft Blocks Its Activation Server

The series of leaked Windows 8 builds continues with new ISOs available online, including Windows 8 RTM for China. We’ve already seen Enterprise flavors of the platform leaked to various sharing websites, including the N version of the final build, and an original x64 build, but it seems that this is not all. Both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 8 Pro emerged online, WindowsBlogItalia reports, along with the x86 Windows 8 Enterprise RTM ISO. At the same time, info on leaked Windows 8 RTM for China also emerged, in both flavors as well. For what it’s worth, it was somehow expected that Windows 8 would leak online shortly after reaching the RTM milestone, especially given the hype around the platform. Of course,...

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Gigabyte H77N-WiFi, Mini-ITX Board with Three Network Interfaces

Motherboards usually work fine with just one or two network interfaces, especially if they are smaller than most, but the Gigabyte H77N-WiFi is an exception. Featuring the mini-ITX form factor, it supports socket LGA 1155 central processing units from Intel (Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge). Two of the three network connections are Gigabit Ethernet ports, while the third one is 802.11 b/g/n WLAN. Now, the form factor obviously makes the H77-WiFi a good fit for a home-theater personal computer, but HTPCs don't really have much use for more than one web connection (streaming from video sites). Thus, the extra Gigabit LAN and Wi-Fi lets it substitute for a NAS server, among other things. The only other perk of the mini-ITX...

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Nokia Prototype with Windows Phone 8 Leaks

According to the latest hearsay, Nokia is expected to announce the first Windows Phone 8 devices next month, possibly during one of the Nokia World 2012 events. Lots of pictures with alleged upcoming Nokia smartphones powered by Windows Phone 8 have already leaked in the wild, but most of these photos seem to be fakes. One thing is certain - the Finnish company will be the first handset manufacturer to launch Windows Phone 8 devices on the market. Microsoft has already confirmed that most current Windows Phone 7.5 handsets won’t receive an upgrade to Windows Phone 8. However, the Redmond-based company stated that it would offer its fans the possibility to update their smartphones to Windows Phone 7.8. This seems...

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AMD FirePro Graphics Series Are Between 50% and 500% Faster Than NVIDIA Tesla

Texas-based fabless CPU and GPU designer, American company AMD has just launched the new workstation graphic cards using the famous Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture. The company calls these the “world’s most powerful workstation graphics line” and, seeing the numbers, we tend to agree. AMD has simply stumbled onto a treasure with its GCN architecture. While the company was never so much involved with professional graphics and GPU compute like Nvidia, AMD’s first attempt to build a GPU compute-optimized design has been more successful than anybody would have expected. Looking at the numbers, the W9000 is able to push out 4TFLOPS single-precision IEEE 754-2011 and 1TFLOPS double-precision IEEE 754-2011. The card...

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AMD Releases World First FirePro APUs

Anyone who thought AMD's accelerated processing units would always be exclusively for consumers has been proven wrong now that the FirePro A300 Series has been released. FirePro is a brand that Advanced Micro Devices has used, for years, to market its graphics processing units and cards on the business and industrial markets. Now, the brand name has extended to APUs, those central processing units with integrated graphics processors. AMD intends for the FirePro A300 Series APUs to be utilized in entry-level and mainstream desktop workstations. That means that its customers are people who work in computer-aided design and media, and entertainment professions. Currently, two quad-core chips are known by name: AMD...

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