Dell’s newest monitor is the SE2717H, a 27-inch display with AMD’s FreeSync technology and an IPS panel – all for just $249. The matte-finish display offers 1920×1080 resolution, with a variable refresh-rate range from 48 Hz – 75 Hz, with a 6 ms response time. The 6-bit panel achieves 16.7 million colors via FRC (frame […]
G-Technology this week introduced several new models of its G-Drive and G-RAID products with Thunderbolt 1, USB 3.0 or Thunderbolt 2 solutions. These are direct attached storage (DAS) devices, based on the latest hard drives featuring 10 TB capacity. The new DAS products aim to significantly increase performance and capacities of devices aimed at consumers […]
Intel’s CEO Brian Krzanich announced that Kaby Lake is shipping during the Q&A session of its Q2 2016 financial report. Kaby Lake is the code-name for the seventh-generation of Core processors that succeed the Skylake series, and they are also the first to be the “optimization” step in Intel’s new “Process – Architecture – Optimization” […]
AOC announced the U.S. availability of its C3583FQ curved gaming monitor. While already out in was available in Europe, this is the first curved gaming display that AOC has released stateside. The AOC C3583FQ features a 35-inch 2560×1080 curved TFT active matrix LCD panel with a 21:9 aspect ratio operating at 144 Hz. It […]
Apple on Thursday confirmed that it was no longer producing the only independent monitor it was still making, the 27-inch Thunderbolt Display. The $999 high-quality device was popular with graphic artists and other large-monitor enthusiasts in its heyday, and was designed to promote the then-new Thunderbolt port on 2011 and later MacBook Air and Pro […]
Drobo has released five new products in the past year. The newest entry to the list is a direct-attached storage system that features five 3.5-inch drive bays and a special mSATA slot for SSD cache. The real performance increase comes from the available bandwidth back to the host system. The Drobo 5Dt increases performance with […]
Intel announced its newest Xeon E7-8800/4800 v4 Broadwell-EX series of processors. The Broadwell-EX E7 v4 series features an additional QPI lane to increase scalability compared to the E5-2600 v4 Xeons increases the LLC (Last Level Cache) to 60 MB and the core count to 24 (an increase over the 18-core maximum found with the previous-generation […]
Nvidia is going after the high-end GPU market with Pascal GP104 cards, with GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 both delivering better than Titan X levels from all the testing done by the press and hardware sites. Radeon RX 480 AMD is taking a different path with their new GPU Architecture Polaris 10/11! AMD is going after the […]
Intel’s seventh-generation Core processors will be launching later this year, the chip producer confirmed at Taipei’s Computex. Retaining the codename Kaby Lake, the processors will begin production later this quarter, with the first systems expected to use it shipping later this year, though at the same time, with Intel also advising on Apollo Lake and […]
Toshiba expanded its X300 HDD line to include an 8 TB model, but the company is not saying much about its latest drive. We do know that the Toshiba X300 series is geared for high-performance gaming and professional use-cases in desktop computers. The 7,200-RPM drive sports the familiar 3.5″ form factor and SATA 6 Gbps […]