Asus U36S: Sandy's Bridge ultrafine

Asus will soon launch on the market a successor to the current U36Jc. U36S baptized, this 13.3-inch laptop has a hull made of aluminum alloy and magnesium-based platform on Sandy Bridge. Rather late, the U36S measures only 19 mm thick. In addition to the i5-2520M processor, this notebook has a hard disk with a capacity of up to 750 GB, a memory card reader, a multi-touch touchpad and Gigabit Ethernet controllers and WiFi.

The Asus Eee Pad Slider choose the Atom Z670

The press kit available online by Intel to promote its Atom processors Oak Trail a surprise: we saw a tablet Asus Eee Slider Pad, equipped with an Atom Z670. Now that tablet is only for now in a version based on a two Nvidia Tegra SoC. Error of Intel? The hypothesis is feasible. Since the discovery of this "mistake" by our colleagues Lilliputing, Intel has also removed the technical details of the Eee Pad Slider site.

Gigabyte GA-Z68X-B3-UD7 already on sale

So it should not officially make its appearance before the beginning of May, the Z68 chipset from Intel is already present on the shelves of some shops in Taiwan. It is possible to find the GA-Z68X UD7-B3-Gigabyte model ATX format with four DDR3 slots and a power stage to 24 phases. This motherboard also has four PCI-Express 16x (compatible 3-way SLI and CrossFireX), ten SATA ports (four in 6 Gbps SATA) controllers and USB 3.0, Gigabit Ethernet (x2) and 7.1 audio.

Point of View GeForce GTX 590 BEAST: the fastest to date

Point of View with its partner TGT are ready to launch its fastest graphics card to date, the PoV GeForce GTX590 BEAST-TGT. This "beast" is ready (and indeed, required) liquid cooling, and comes with a factory overclock end. This is a chart with two GPU running at 691 Mhz (607Mhz compared to baseline), and its core CUDA to 1382 MHz (compared to reference 1215Mhz).

The memory runs at a speed of 927.5 MHz (3710 MHz effective) compared to 853.5 Mhz (3414 Mhz effective) reference. For the cooling of such a beast has chosen a copper plate that covers the entire PCB manufactured by Aqua Computer. This plate cools all heat-producing components, including the two GPUs, memory, bridge chip, and VRM.

TDJ: MSI E350IA-E45

Our fellow Cowcotland recently posted a review of the MSI E350IA-E45, a motherboard in Mini-ITX platform based on AMD's Fusion. We thus find an APU Zacate E-350, a chipset and two DDR3 slots M1-1066, for a maximum of 8 GB of memory. The graphic part is entrusted to the Radeon HD 6310 integrated, while 7.1 audio controller, Gigabit Ethernet, USB 3.0 and SATA 6 Gbps are present.

Verdict?

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Femtocell test: improving cellular reception

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New Windows 8 weekend

Over the weekend, screenshots have to know more about the new boot mode of Windows 8 and its cloud services and its new task manager. The Hybrid Boot is a boot mode supposed to accelerate the startup time for a machine with an emphasis on hibernation in the extinction of the device. Thus, when the user decides to turn his system, Windows activates a special standby mode which allows you to quickly recover its data when power is restored.