Origin PC The Big: Gaming Systems with AMD FX Vishera CPUs

Origin PC did not so much launch new PC systems as it updates its existing lineup to include the 6-core and 8-core FX processors from Advanced Micro Devices. We've been through this before of course. Origin PC, like every other vendor of custom-ordered gaming systems, updates its product line whenever some new CPU, memory modules, PSU or video card appears.  The last time this happened was less than two weeks ago, when NVIDIA launched the GeForce GTX 650 Ti. Origin PC didn’t include the 4-core FX 4300, but did add the 6-core FX 6300 and 8-core FX-8350 and 8320. The last two can be overclocked from the start even. For example, the FX 8350 normally runs at 4.0 GHz and 4.2 GHz in Turbo mode, but ORIGIN PC Professional Overclocking...

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7.9-Inch iPad Mini Officially Unveiled by Apple

As expected, Apple has just revealed the small iPad mini tablet powered by its latest iOS 6 platform. Apple's announcement puts an end to a slew of rumors that have been making headlines in the past several weeks. Apple had a very busy year with lots of new products launched and even more to come by the end of the year. The iPad with Retina display launched earlier this year is said to be the top selling tablet in the world. Today, the company announced a new competitor for the 7-inch tablet market, the iPad mini. With a 7.9-inch that supports 1024 x 768 pixels resolution (163 ppi), the iPad mini is about 50% larger display area in the browser in comparison with Google's Nexus 7 tablet. However, the nexus 7 sports a larger...

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Digital Storm Bolt: World's Thinnest, Strongest Gaming PC

Digital Storm really went out of its way to release something memorable, and while it might not exactly make history, due to the relative smallness of the market segment targeted here, it should enjoy some short-term recognition. As the title made it clear, it is a gaming desktop personal computer that we are dealing with here, one that is described as the thinnest and yet strongest ever made. We aren't sure about the “strongest” part, since the top memory capacity (16 GB DDR3 RAM) isn't legendary, and there can only be one graphics card in it at a time (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 is the top option). We don't doubt that this is really the thinnest though. After all, since it didn't find a case compact enough, Digital Storm...

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1080p Smartphones Next Year by Samsung and LG

Samsung and LG, the two leading mobile phone makers based in South Korea, are expected to come up with new, top-of-the-line devices next year, packing them with 1080p screens, the latest reports on the matter suggest. Both companies are expected to pack their handsets with full HD AMOLED and LCD screens, and other companies should follow suit, an article on news.mk.co.kr reads. In fact, Chinese mobile phone maker Oppo is said to plan the release of such a device as soon as this year, and Huawei and Sony have been also rumored to plan making similar moves. The upcoming smartphones from Samsung and LG are expected to deliver a 440 ppi or higher pixel density (current HD 720p smartphone offer a pixel density of over 300 ppi)....

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AMD APU and ASUS FM2 Motherboard Breaking World Record

There aren't many better ways of introducing a product than by announcing that a world record has been broken by it right off the bat, and this is precisely what ASUS did with the F2A85-V PRO motherboard. This isn't the first time that the mainboard makes the news, but it might just be the most memorable. Not every day does a motherboard succeed in pushing a processor high enough to smash a world record in 3DMark Vantage. While equipped with the quad-core AMD A10-5800K APU (accelerated processing unit) and two memory modules, it scored 10297 marks. For those that want to know the precise parameters used, ASUS clocked the APU at 5.95 GHz (FSB at 170MHz, GPU at 1520MHz) and the two 4 GB memory modules at DDR3-2720MHz CL10....

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