Hardware Post

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

New pictures of Mars II graphics card Asus ROG

That could become the world's fastest graphics card there is no doubt but at a price of 1,500 euros is not much you could not expect that much! We're talking about the graphics card Asus ROG Mars II, including the two GPU GF110 such as those used in the GeForce GTX 590, offers to the higher operating frequencies, such as those of single-GPU GTX 580 (772 MHz for the GPU and 4008MHz for the memories).

AMD: 20 cores in 2012

The explosion in the number of cores in the AMD CPU is confirmed. While a processor roadmap already announced to the public 10 hearts in 2012, the Komodo, a second CPU roadmap predicts today to 20 servers hearts for that year. These processors will consist of two chips to 10 cores, assembled in the same package.

The development is small in absolute terms compared to the Zambezi Bulldozer (8-core, general public) and Interlagos Opteron (16 cores, servers) that we should see happen around the September 19, but the trend is there. One wonders where AMD has to stop, she had nevertheless anticipated the end of the war of hearts.

Apple TV: Update brings icloud functions

On 1 August appeared the update 4.3 for Apple's second-generation multimedia box. At least Apple TV users in the U.S. can now buy television shows and watch as a stream. So far, the only allowed to borrow. In addition, these data are available thanks to Apple's icloud service on all IOS devices, the user's disposal.

Conversely, previously on iPad, iPod, phone or send via iTunes-purchased content via Apple TV to the TV. Another new feature: As of now, next to the YouTube clips of content clearly unexcited Vimeo platform to choose from. Were broadcasting in HD already, just as YouTube was grainy movies on offer.

Preview: Assassin's Creed - Revelations: A grand finale for Ezio?

He has become more mature, but not quiet: With the mid-50's looks back on his life Ezio master killer, noting that his future for a piece of his past is missing. In visions he meets Altair, one of its predecessor which, although has been dead for 500 years, but his time was also a master assassin. Altaïr took this one of the most powerful in human history and hid it in the library of Masyaf, the holy city of the Order.

The Tegra 3 released in the fall

NVIDIA has confirmed that the tablets shipping Kal-El, the code name of the Tegra 3, will arrive in the fall, while the first smartphones will be presented at CES 2012. The version of the Tablet Tegra 3 with a processor quad core ARM Cortex A9 and a circuit graph from 8 to 12 shader units. It can support a resolution of 1920 x 1200 video and Blu-ray.

Announced in February last, the chip will be engraved in 40nm and will have features less ambitious than the rumors suggested in February. NVIDIA has even made a promising technology demonstration at last May.

eBay buys 100 TB of flash memory

eBay has announced the purchase of a storage system for its Nimbus virtual server infrastructure. This storage system is composed entirely of flash memory and has a capacity of 100 TB of storage, which is pretty impressive. Currently, the standard is rather to use hybrid systems, consisting of "cache"-based flash memory, a storage unit with fast hard drives (15,000 rpm SAS type) and SATA hard drives standard for long-term storage.

Asus Radeon HD6770 Silent DirectCU, new passively cooled graphics

Asus has unveiled its new graphic DirectCU called Silent HD6770 features a large heatsink that runs completely passively. The HD6770 is the new Silent DirectCU the manufacturer Asus graphics greatly improves compared to the reference, according to Asus to 16% only in refrigeration. The heatsink has four nickel plated hetapipes that make direct contact with the GPU.

Also has components called Super Power Alloy design and in terms of their characteristics has 800 Stream Processors, memory interface 128-bit, 1GB GDDR5, D-Sub connections, DVI and HDMI.

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