Colorful iGame GTX 650 Has a Different GK107 GPU

Chinese video card manufacturer Colorful is getting ready to launch its iGame version of Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 650 series and this card will definitely not use a reference design. The new card is officially called Colorful iGame GeForce GTX 650 and it reportedly uses a different version of Nvidia’s GK107 GPU. All other cards we’ve seen have GK107-450, but Colorful’s GTX 650 has a GK107-455 GPU. We don’t yet know what’s the difference, but the PCB of the card is longer than the reference version and has a 3-phase power design and a single 6-pin power connector. The GK107 GPU doesn’t use that much power, but overclocking the card might require more current than the PCIe slot can provide. The cooling solution is a...

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Gigabyte GeForce GTX 650 OC 2GB Video Card

Well-known mainboard manufacturer, Taiwanese company Gigabyte is preparing its own versions of Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 video cards and the company is heading for the budget overclockers. The company has decided to mount a huge 100-millimeter cooling fan on the card, but buyers should not get too excited about this as the heatsink is just a big piece of aluminum with no heatpipes or even a copper base. There is an advantage in having such a big fan as it will cool the card properly while spinning at lower speeds thus generating less noise and having better durability. The card features Nvidia’s GK107 GPU and Gigabyte decided to clock it higher than the likely reference base clock of 1058 MHz. Gigabyte GeForce GTX 650 OC...

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OIS ON or OFF, Nokia Lumia 920 Imaging Capabilities

Only a few days after its official unveiling, Nokia’s Lumia 920, “the most innovative smartphone in the world,” no longer feels that way. Nokia themselves managed to stain the phone’s image, by publishing a promo video that only “simulates” its imaging capabilities that are powered by PureView technology. For those out of the loop, we should note that the clip in question, supposedly shot with a Lumia 920 smartphone, has been proven to be fake. Included in the promo are both videos and still images that have been, in fact, shot with a DSLR camera, and not with the 8-megapixel PureView photo snapper on the back of Nokia’s first Windows Phone 8 handset.  One of the great features that Lumia 920 is said to arrive...

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Dual-SIM Samsung Galaxy Note 2 Headed to China

Samsung unveiled the sequel to Galaxy Note last week and promised the smartphone will be made available for purchase within the next couple of weeks. Powered by Google's latest Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system, the Galaxy Note 2 is equipped with a quad core Exynos 4412 Quad processor clocked at 1.6 GHz, a Mali-400MP graphics processing unit and 2GB of RAM. Unlike the latest high-end Android smartphones launched on the market, which come with microSIM support, the Galaxy Note 2 accepts normal SIM cards. However, it appears that the South Korean handset maker has something else in mind for Chinese customers. The folks over at MyDrivers got their hands on a Chinese-bounded Galaxy Note 2 model, which seems to offer...

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Gigabyte H77N-WiFi Motherboard

Those familiar with Gigabyte's Z77N-WiFi and H77N-WiFi Mini-ITX motherboards, may make the mistaken assumption that they are available.Nevertheless, even though photos of them have been up on Gigabyte's Facebook page since August, the two are still not out there. We have good reason to believe that at least one of them (the latter) will be released this month though: HWBOT has posted some real-life photos of the mini-ITX H77N-WiFi. You can clearly see the single PCI Express x16 slots (generation 3.0), the two SATA 6 Gbps ports, two SATA 3 Gbps ports, two Gigabit Ethernet ports and two memory slots (support for up to 16GB DDR3-1600 MHz memory). What may not be all that obvious, but is quite comprehensively explained on the box...

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Lenovo IdeaPad S405 with AMD A4-4355M and A8-4555M APUs

Last week, we told you that the prices of the AMD Trinity desktop line had come out early, and we were especially giddy about the highest being the same as that of weak Core i3 CPUs from Intel, but there were a couple of chips not included in that list. Then again, we weren't going to include the following two APUs even if we did know about them at the time, as said list was about desktop units, not mobile ones. The processors are called A4-4355M and A8-4555M, both of them part of the low-power lineup and set to appear in ultrathin notebooks and normal laptops. As it happens, one of the notebooks that has the two as potential central chips is the 14-inch Lenovo IdeaPad S405, which was part of AMD's IFA 2012 exhibition. Unfortunately,...

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