Posted by kenmay on May - 23 - 2013
With Computex just around the corner, MSI has taken the wraps off what can truly be described as a next-gen gaming laptop. According to CNET , the 17.3-inch GT70 Dragon Edition 2 will pack a yet-to-be-announced Haswell chip alongside an equally mysterious NVIDIA GTX780M that is claimed to deliver a 3DMark Vantage score of 36,000 — in other words, roughly equivalent to the benchmark stat you’d get from a desktop rig containing an Ivy Bridge Core-i5 and a full-size GTX670, if the boast happens to be true. A SteelSeries -branded keyboard is in attendance, alongside multiple SSDs in Raid 0 config and three video outputs, all contained within a package as thin as 21.8mm-thick and as light as 2.9kg (6.4 pounds) ( Correction: this size and weight applies to the Stealth variant, which has a GTX765M GPU instead of the GTX780M.) Lesser variations will bring the weight down to 2kg (4.4 pounds) by reducing screen size to 14 inches and switching to a less frenetic GTX760M. Expect pricing and availability details once the big Taiwanese expo gets underway. Filed under: Gaming , Laptops , Intel Comments Source: CNET
Posted by kenmay on May - 21 - 2013
It’s been eight years and nine days since Microsoft showed the world the Xbox 360 on May 12th, 2005. Today, we see what’s next. The Xbox One. Read more…
Posted by kenmay on May - 14 - 2013
MojoKid writes “For the past decade, AMD and Intel have been racing each other to incorporate more components into the CPU die. Memory controllers, integrated GPUs, northbridges, and southbridges have all moved closer to a single package, known as SoCs (system-on-a-chip). Now, with Haswell, Intel is set to integrate another important piece of circuitry. When it launches next month, Haswell will be the first x86 CPU to include an on-die voltage regulator module, or VRM. Haswell incorporates a refined VRM on-die that allows for multiple voltage rails and controls voltage for the CPU, on-die GPU, system I/O, integrated memory controller, as well as several other functions. Intel refers to this as a FIVR (Fully Integrated Voltage Regulator), and it apparently eliminates voltage ripple and is significantly more efficient than your traditional motherboard VRM. Added bonus? It’s 1/50th the size.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Posted by kenmay on April - 29 - 2013
Not too long ago, Microsoft introduced its grand, pie-in-the-sky plans to maybe, someday turn your entire wall into an extension of your TV screen . Now, Microsoft Research has dropped some new details about how it all would work, and it’s shaping up to be pretty awesome . Read more…
Posted by kenmay on March - 30 - 2013
Just in case you missed it last night buried in our interview with Epic Games VP Mark Rein , the company showed off a new real-time demo at GDC 2013 this week, titled “Infiltrator.” The nearly four-minute clip, showcases a sci-fi shootout created with its Unreal Engine 4 , and remarkably powered by a single GeForce GTX 680 . Now that we’ve piqued your curiosity a bit, check out this gorgeous display of futuristic espionage after the break, plus a bonus clip of the “Elemental” UE4 demo running on a PlayStation 4 dev kit in real-time. Filed under: Gaming , Software Comments
Posted by kenmay on March - 29 - 2013
The increasingly ambiguous divide between man and machine just got blurred that much more with Stanford’s recent announcement : scientists have successfully created the first truly biological transistor made entirely out of genetic material. More »
Posted by kenmay on March - 24 - 2013
The coming of the Hyperkin RetroN 3 marked the end of doing a rain dance while blowing into your childhood SNES. And now Hyperkin is so excited about expanding compatibility that they’re skipping ahead and calling their next console RetroN 5. More »
Posted by kenmay on March - 22 - 2013
Just a few months after Corsair revealed its high-end K95 mechanical gaming keyboard, the company has unveiled a slightly lower-end K70 for those who want to save a bit of money. Essentially an upgrade to the K60 , the K70 still has those Cherry MX Red mechanical switches, but each key is now individually backlit — the backlighting can be adjusted to four levels of intensity and can be independently enabled or disabled. Other features include 20-key rollover, a 1000Hz reporting rate, contoured keycaps for WASD keys, dedicated multimedia controls, a detachable wrist rest and an extra USB connector. The K70 will be available in April for $130 in two different color schemes; silver aluminium with blue backlight and anodized black with deep red backlight. Filed under: Gaming Comments Source: Corsair K70
Posted by kenmay on March - 19 - 2013
The iPhone and iPad are fantastic gaming devices, but unfortunately a lot of games still try to emulate gamepads with onscreen buttons on the touch screen and it just doesn’t work that well. Thankfully, a jailbreak app called Blutrol lets you turn a handful of different gamepads into controllers for any game with touchscreen buttons. Here’s how to set it up. More »
Posted by kenmay on March - 14 - 2013
We’ve seen pictures and video of the Samsung Galaxy S IV already but we haven’t seen it like this. In what’s probably the clearest pictures of the S IV until it’s announced later today, we get to see what the powerful beast of a phone will look like in all its glory. More »
