NVIDIA Announces GTX 680 M

The most powerful mobile GPUS made his entrée…

Therefore, the Chameleon as its GTX 680 M chip, based on the Kepler architecture. It's now the most powerful graphics processor mobile lines. Designed to meet the expectations of the nomadic gamers, the mobile GPU is also an excellent energy management.

Engraved in 28nm, GTX 680 M is composed of 1344 CUDA cores while the GPU is running at 720 MHz. The map could embark up to 4 GB of GDDR5 to 115,2 GB/s bandwidth. In comparison, the GTX 675 M based on Fermi, offers 384 hearts CUDA and GPU at 620 MHz for a bandwidth of 96Go/s.

The GTX680M is 50% faster than the GTX 580 M and 15% to 20% more efficient than its competitor HD7970M, asked to check this course.

Laptops such as the Alienware M17x or the MSI GT series from models will be available with the GTX 680 M and will have Optimus or Nvidia 3D Vision technology. Always for Alienware, the M18x should embark on a GTX SLI 680 M by the end of the month.

What promise very large performance. We would not surprised if the laptops in question are not the lighter and that their autonomy is not nor extraordinary... We will not miss to test it as soon as machines are available.

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Cooler Master lance son Silencio 650

After a year in the company of Silencion 550, Cooler Master recidivism and presents its 650 Silencio. What's new?

About a year ago, Cooler Master put on sale its Silencio 550, dedicated to the world of silence with covered panels of foam and fans turning to low to prevent any extra decibel. This year, Cooler Master returns with a new version of its housing ATX and Micro ATX silent, the 650 Silencio.

The dimensions of this new version are not identical to the previous and appear to be even a little smaller (10.7 x 47.9 x 52.6 cm) for a total weight of 13 kg instead of 9.2 kg at the time. Behind the door of the Silencio hides three slots for optical drive, including a convertible in location for disk hard 3.5 ", for the latter, it is not in rest and offers seven seats in addition to the two places for a SSD 2.5 inch.

               

On the front panel, or rather the top, Cooler Master has developed the package by providing its housing of two USB ports 3.0 and two others in USB 2.0. But also a SD card reader, a ruler to control the speed of rotation of two 12 cm fans located aft and forward without forgetting the two jacks for audio and a switch to select the startup main hard disk. This last gadget we seems still a little, how to say, useless? Find not too fast, we will propose you a test in good and due form shortly.

Still is that this package allows to disassemble cage drives to a maximum length of graphics cards of 26.8 cm to 43.4 cm, never know? Provided fans turn to 1200 t/m 17 dbA Max, but it will be possible to replace and even add a turbine on the cage of the hard drives as well as below the box to bring fresh air in this Chamber of containment.

A little more expensive everything and its predecessor, €129.99, he will be accompanied by a two year warranty. The silence is golden?

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ASUS Transformer IOA, hybrid Tablet and PC all-in-One

The Taiwanese manufacturer presents the IOA Transformer, its PC all-in-One with screen-Tablet touch detachable "18.4 and dual-boot Android/Windows 8.

After the tablet which turns into ultrabook and the smartphone which is mu in tablet, here is that Asus unveils the PC all-in-One whose touch screen detaches to become a Tablet under Windows8/Android.

The Taiwanese manufacturer likes to mix uses and with this transforming IOA, us this is served. Indeed, in mode All-in-One, the apparatus with a large database based on a wide foot, it offers an optical drive, a tuner, USB 3.0, Ethernet, HDMI, jack ports, a reader of memory cards and operates with a processor Intel Core Ivy Bridge not defined at this time, all running Windows 8.

Touch screen of 18.4 "is also a provided connections because it can dissociate the database to then become an Android tablet version 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich with the whole Windows8/Android dual-boot.

Original, this concept presented by Asus on its stand at the Computex 2012 is stingy information therefore no detailed technical specifications or date of marketing or tariff have been advanced. Case to follow…

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MSI Slider S20: the sliding ultrabook

While the ultrabooks and other mobile are cycled through to 2012 Computex, fly over the MSI Slider S20.

The principle of the portable computer whose screen scenes for a Tablet is not recent. Include the Samsung Sliding FP7 or the Asus EeePAD Slider or even the Asus Transformer tablet, which can connect a keyboard. It can be seen that this is not exclusive to MSI but this type of computer is still very widespread.

    

In short, it is the turn of can International, with which is still just a concept, to analyze if his slider to what a place to spawn. Announced in 11.6 inches, Ivy Bridge processor and 4 GB of RAM, it is its keyboard (or its screen depending on how it takes) sliding which makes the hybrid prototype. Powered by Windows 8, the touch screen could take support up to 10 fingers at the same time. The device weighs 1.3 Kg for a thickness of 2 cm. Side connectivity there is the HDMI, USB 3.0 and Bluetooth.

If everything goes well, the MSI Slider should happen on the old continent in September at a price of €899 for the larger model. Then gadget or useful product?

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Samsung Unveils Hybrid a laptop / touch Tablet

The South Korean manufacturer Samsung unveiled at the Computex its concept of laptop with detachable screen becomes touch tablet.

ASUS due to emulate with its concept of apparatus hybrid Tablet/ultrabook to the turn and after Acer and its Iconia W510 is Samsung which makes it to the Computex sauce.

Indeed, the South Korean manufacturer exposes a model of laptop screen is released from the keyboard to become a touch tablet on its stand. The Samsung Hybrid 5 is indeed a laptop whose "11.6 screen is maintained at the keyboard through a broad magnetic socket, taking over the screen detaches and becomes a stand-alone touchscreen tablet.

This digital slate will offer HDMI connectors (not accuracy whether or not this port is in mini format), USB and microSDHC and the connectivity WiFi and 3 G. It weighs only 747 grams for 9 mm thick and runs under Windows 8, a stylus similar to the Galaxy of the mark is also in part to take advantage of the capabilities of the new Microsoft OS.

Two versions of the Samsung Series 5 Hybrid will be proposed, first taking a processor Intel Atom ultra low power to the TDP of 2 Watts and another with a more powerful processor also provided by Intel and offering a slab HD 1920 by 1080 pixels only to it, the version low consumption has not unveiled this information at this time.

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ARM chips in 20nm next year?

The fineness of engraving of the ARM processors should fall to the 20nm to the advance on the future of mobile processors from Intel.

Manager General of division among ARM processor, Simon Segars, announced the possible appearance of SoC with 20nm for the next year.

While fleas in 28nm start only to democratize, conversion to a fineness of engraving 8nm finer, will require at least one year of development.

The technological constraints are only part of the problem. Intel which made large research and development of its plants not to leave down so easily. The Blues already provide chips Medfield 22nm for 2013 and 2014 14nm.

At this moment at Computex, the ARM processor-based solutions and specifically laptops are more likely to be presented. The British ARM chips therefore are a real success. This trend requires first to foundries such as TSMC to invest more to increase their production capacity, but still we think that such chip with a lithograph to 20 nm is quite feasible for 2013.

For memory, since the beginning of the year, 1.9 million of ARM chips shipped 1.1 million intended to smartphones and tablets. A figure which should not only increase if announcements that we follow for the 2012 Computex in Taiwan.

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Gigabyte: the Thunderbolt and the LGA2011 program

Two ports Thunderbolt on one side and the LGA2011 of the other to four motherboards signed Gigabyte.

The Thunderbolt is the honour in Gigabyte with these two new motherboards named for the occasion GA-Z77X-UP4 TH and GA-Z77X-UP5 TH. Two, these two Intel ports to mini DisplayPort format to transmit data at high speed 10 Gb/s maximum. This technology allows the chaining of equipment to associate several external hard drives and a screen at the end of chain for example. They are in total not less than six devices that can be connected to each port Thunderbolt. Intel offers also via its port out the video stream it, but for the moment, very few screens support mini-DisplayPort and it will then be necessary to go through a mini-DisplayPort/DisplayPort adapter to make this work.

For the rest of the specifications of these two motherboards, we find the new Ultra Durable 5 range by that we introduced yesterday with its 32 floors of food, the GA-X77X-UP7 with the same control chip, the PowIrstage IR3550. With its socket LGA 1155, they can allow the latest processors Intel Ivy Bridge without problem and four benches up to 2400 MHz compatible XMP DDR3 memory. Three ports PCI-Express 16 x with a wired in 8 x and the last 4 x, as well as three other ports PCI-e 1 x which will be overshadowed by graphics cards if all 16 ports x are occupied. For the rest of these connectors on these two motherboards, we can compare the maps of the manufacturer already launched as the GA-Z77X-UD5H which offers no port Thunderbolt, the difference only on this point.

The presentation of these two maps to the 2012 Computex Gigabyte not yet contacted public prices for these, but should at least rely on a rate around $ 150 if not more...

Always in Gigabyte, our colleagues from TechPowerUp put hand on two other models under the name Ultra Durable 5, but this time with a LGA 2011 socket for processors Intel Sandy Bridge-E. If not there for new processors Ivy Bridge, the famous manufacturer offers new models for the previous generation with its components offering superior life. The references for these two new models are GA-X79S-UP5 WiFi and GA-X 79-UP4.

Must be sold below $ 300 with features seven floors of food always driven by the same PowIRstage IR3550, eight benches memory chip the DDR3 for in quadruple channels and four ports PCI-Express 3.0 x 16 cabled 16 x / 8 x / 16 x / 8 x. UP5 WiFi version, as its name indicates, it has an additional WiFi and Bluetooth 4.0 card and eight floors of food instead of seven for his little sister. For the rest, the specifications are similar, but we were not aware of the price, which must be no surprise a little higher.

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