Happy Chinese New Year To Everyone ! |
Dear Expreview readers,
In order to celebrate the upcoming Chinese New Year, all the staff of Expreview will be on holiday from January 22nd to 28th,during which time no news or preview will post on our website, and we sincerely hope for your understanding.
Test for AMD Bulldozer Hotfixes from Microsoft |
AMD Bulldozer architecture design was somewhat different from than in the current mainstream X86, it’s neither CMP (Chip MultiProcessors) nor SMT (Simultaneous Multithreading), but CMT (Cluster Multithreading) design. The architecture is innovative, however, innovation always comes with cost, let’s not speak of the performance capability, the coordination between software and application is a tricky issue.
ASUS Non-reference Radeon HD 7970 Revealed |
Recently a non-reference Radeon HD 7970 graphics card from ASUS has been leaked by TechPowerUP. The card employs DirectCU II cooler and non-reference PCB design.
Resident Evil 6 Coming on November 20th |
Resident Evil 6 trailer
Capcom lately announced that Resident Evil 6 is going to land on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on November 20, 2012, while PC version will come later.
Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 3GB Surfaced |
Radeon HD 7950 graphics card will officially debut at the end of this month, while lately the user asder00 on Guru3D forum leaked some picture of Sapphire Radeon HD 7950.
DeepCool Gamer Storm Offers Dracula Cooler for Radeon HD 7970 |
Lately DeepCool introduces a improved version of its Dracula GPU cooler for Radeon HD 7970 graphics card.
Voodoo 5 6000 and i7-2600K Sparkle |
The comparison between before and after transformation
Though 3dfx has passed away, its enthusiastic-level Voodoo graphics cards are rooted in our heart. Voodoo 5 6000 is the high-end product in the Voodoo 5 line. The graphics card has history of nearly 12 years, it is still active in the hand of enthusiastic players, again set new record.
Intel Rolls out Performance Tuning Protection Plan |
For overclocking players, they are supposed to take a risk of hardware damage when striving for world record. At the time, most of the manufacturers take it as "abnormal use" and refuse warranty. Take Intel as example, its CPU products are backed by three-year warranty, which could be effective in normal use. Especially for extreme players, each hardware-burned case would cause much loss.
PowerColor Radeon HD 7950 PCS Unearthed |
Recently PowerColor Radeon HD 7950 PCS is leaked by TechPowerUp, the graphics card adopts self-designed PCS (professional cooling system) cooling solution, its PCB design is not revealed which may come with reference scheme.
Cooler Master Declares the Vertical Vapor Chamber Technology |
In 2000, Cooler Master introduces the world’s first CPU cooler, while now the company bring industry’s first retail CPU hestsink which boasts Vertical Vapor Chamber technology.
Facebook,Google,Twitter,Mozilla Join together against SOPA |
Protesting the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA), which are going before the U.S. Congress, to raise awareness, Wikipedia shuts down its English-language site for 24 hours, thinking that the two bills violating the free environment of Internet.
AMD Ultrathin Notebook Set to Undercut Intel Ultrabook |
Trinity APU
Designed to challenge Intel Ultrabook, in CES 2012 AMD is set to launch its Ultrathin notebook which is based on Trinity APU with only TDP of 17W.
ASUS Rampage IV Gene Motherboard Officially Launches |
The new member of ASUS ROG series——Rampage IV Gene motherboard lately has officially launches, which is based on Intel X79 chipset and Micro ATX design, supports Socket LGA 2011 Sandy Bridge-E processor.
Cooler of Yeston Radeon HD 7970 Spotted |
Earlier we have seen the PCB of Yeston non-reference Radeon HD 7970 graphics card, and now we get more information. Here comes its cooler specially designed for its Radeon HD 7900 series. It’s said that the cooler’s development inspiration is from plane turbofan engine.
PCI-E 3.0 vs PCI-E 2.0 Test |
PCI-E 3.0: Higher Speed, Lower Latencies
Compared with the endangered PCI, PCI-E is full of vigor, which not only takes up the position tightly in system internal data transmission standard, but also has a bright future, as PCI-SIG is now reading for PCI-E 4.0, after all the current mainstream specification is just PCI-E 2.0.
