Archive for category: Hardware

/ January 4, 2012 07:05

Intel Engineers go to Jail

According to the latest headline news at TechEye.net four Intel OEM Engineers have been arrested trying to sell ES Intel CPUs on eBay. Each ES – Engineering Sample CPU is meant only for testing purposes under a Non-Disclosure-Agreement (NDA) thus selling is not permitted. These chips are remarkable for their overclocking performance and well-known to overclocking communities as ‘little diamonds’. So,

/ January 4, 2012 00:16

AMD Radeon 7970 overclocked up to 1.7GHz dethrones GeForce GTX580

Shamino, the world famous elite overlocker, managed to overclock Radeon 7970 from 925MHz up to 1.7GHz using Liquid Nitrogen – LN2 @ 1.6Volts applied. Additionaly, Shamino boosted not only the core but the memory frequency as well. Specifically, the default memory speed is 1375MHz and Shamino cranked it up to 1980MHz @ 1.86 Volts. As a result, running 3DMark Vantage,  seems

/ December 28, 2011 13:25

Raspberry Pi: A full-blown ARM-powered PC for just $25!

How would it sound if I were to tell you that behind this remarkable initiative, on one hand, you have The Computer Lab the Faculty of Computer Science and Technology, an academic department within the University of Cambridge and, on the other hand, you have the The Raspberry Pi Foundation, a UK registered Charity, founded back in May 2009 by Eben Upton. The

/ December 27, 2011 15:28

Radeon 7950: Specifications leaked

Last week we saw some great reviews about the Radeon HD 7970 graphics card. Its younger brother, Radeon HD 7950, is expected to be launched on the 9th of January. However, today our friends over xtreview exposed some early specifications for that SKU.   Specifications   stream processors 1972 Compute Units 28 TMUs 112 ROPs 32 Memory Interface 384-bit GDDR5

/ December 22, 2011 15:13

AMD Radeon HD 7970 reviews

The all new AMD Radeon HD 7970 made her appearance today in many hardware related websites. Performance wise R7970 is going to race against nVIDIA’s GeForce GTX580. Let’s see what they have said about this one Christmas present from AMD. With all that has happened to AMD recently we are glad to see a product of this caliber, we hope