Thursday, June 23, 2011

Motorstorm - Apocalypse: Free add-on released

Sony's new content for the racing game "MotorStorm - Apocalypse" out: Since 22 June 2011 is the "after party" package download in the Playstation Network. There you will find among other things, the new track The Rock, you are traveling by day and by night. The developer brings further challenges with the DLC and weekly events in the game.

Also on the travel behavior of the cars and on some aspects of the title - about the online races - the makers of screws.

New ULV processors fo ultra-thin notebook

Intel launches new ULV (Ultra Low Voltage) processors for long-range laptop, and great performance. Referred by Intel as Ultrabooks, such as the Macbook Air and the recent Asus UX21. They are more powerful processors that carry the Samsung Series 9, have a TDP of only 17W, they integrated GPU, DDR3 support, the new family of processors Celeron Sandy Bridge are two i5 and i7.

The models presented are: Celeron 847: 2 core, 1.1 GHz and priced at $ 134. I5-2557M: 2 cores, Hyper-Threading 1.7GHz, 2MB cache, Turbo Boost up to 2.7GHz and priced at $ 250. Core i7-2637M: 2 cores, Hyper-Threading 1.7GHz, Turbo Boost to 2. 8GHz and a price of $ 289. Core i7-2677M: 2 cores, Hyper-Threading 1.8GHz, 2.9GHz and Turbo Boost to a price of $ 317.

Elpida and Micron will they join forces?

Elpida, Micron and Nanya are in talks to decide to unite against Samsung for the production of DRAM. Several analysts have arrived at this conclusion DigiTimes reports that the new one. Specifically Elpida could join Inotera, a joint venture formed by Micron and Nanya, as an acquisition of shares held today by Formosa Plastics Group.

Micron and Elpida have not generally used to working together. In late 2008, early 2009, DigiTimes reports that they had tried to unite, but the negotiations failed because of disagreement about the monetary aspect of the partnership. In mid-2009, the market for DRAM has taken color with rising prices and the two companies decided to leave the negotiating table.

The Radeon HD 6870 X2 land

Powercolor and Club 3D both come to announce the launch of their Radeon HD 6870 X2 respectively. We remember that the first had taken advantage of Computex to exhibit his model, designed to compete with the upcoming GeForce GTX 580. No real surprise, the technical characteristics of these two cards are similar.

We thus find two graphics chipsets Barts clocked at 900 MHz, for a total of 2240 Stream Processors. The 2 GB of GDDR5 memory running on their side at 1050 MHz on a bus 2 x 256-bit. Two DVI, an HDMI 1.4 output and two outputs mini DisplayPort 1.2 is available on each model. Even cooler used, dual-slot and has two fans, is identical on both cards.

Arctic launches Accelero Twin Turbo II

Artic manufacturer has launched a new version of its graphics card cooler Accelero Twin Turbo. With dimensions of 217 x 122 x 53 mm and a weight of 0.9 kg on the scales, the Accelero Twin Turbo II is composed of an aluminum radiator crossed by five copper heat pipes of 6 mm in diameter, and two 92mm fans running at a speed between 1000 and 2000 rpm.

The noise reached their side 30 dB (A). Compatible with many models of graphics cards (GeForce 6600 GTX with 560 Ti and Radeon 1300 to Radeon HD 6950), the Accelero Twin Turbo II is guaranteed six years. This cooler is offered at a price of 63.32 dollars.

A screen 20 "anti-scratch from IO Data

The manufacturer IO Data has just introduced its LCD-AD202XW-P, an LCD 20-inch capable of displaying a resolution of 1600 x 900 pixels, but also scratch resistant (and incidentally to fingerprints), with the tempered glass panel. Receiving a response time of 5ms, LCD-P-AD202XW displays a contrast ratio of 1000: 1 and brightness up to 250 cd / m².

With VGA and DVI inputs, this LCD also has built-in speakers 1W. Guaranteed three years, the LCD-AD202XW-P is displayed at a rate of 495 dollars.

Sony VAIO: new products are coming in summer 2011

Sony's VAIO range is so colorful summer especially, some of the laptops in bold colors shine. But not only the covers are new, the core has also spiced up the Sony laptops. Thus, many current devices and more memory as well. Sony has also integrated new shortcuts for all: the new WEB-key, for example, is to build a fast connection to the Internet, without the operating system must be started completely.