Over the past year there has been much speculation that AMD and ARM would enter some sort of an IP licensing deal. Many expected to hear some big announcement like AMD licensing ARM’s CPU cores or ARM licensing AMD’s Radeon IP, but that didn’t exactly happen. That changed today when AMD announced it will integrate the ARM TrustZone technology into future Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) via a system-on-a-chip (SoC) design methodology.
Earlier this year, AMD outlined the companies HSA (Heterogeneous Systems Architecture) plans through 2014 and talked about how AMD was fully backing the architecture. Today at the AMD Fusion Developer Summit (AFDS) it was announced that the Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) Foundation was created. The goal of the HSA foundation is to provide a hardware specification that will be uniform and can utilize the same program coding.
Don’t look now but here comes another SandForce SF-2281 drive, this time by SanDisk. This is the first time we’ve had our hands on an SSD from SanDisk but are very familiar with their other products. Can their expertise in the storage industry help their Extreme series drive top the performance charts? With high-density, Toggle Mode NAND and read and write specifications of 550MB/s and 520MB/s, we think it’s got a shot. Check out the full review to see.
This year’s E3 Expo turned out to be surprisingly good for new hardware announcements and manufacturer partnerships. At the Razer booth, we saw an example of both – the new Taipan ambidextrous gaming mouse, new Battlefield 3 Edition BlackShark gaming headset, and MechWarrior Online tie-in Project Artemis controller. Read on to get a taste of what Razer has in store for gamers this summer.
Western Digital recently announced the next generation of its top-selling My Passport line of portable hard drives, offering consumers a fresh new enclosure design and the first-ever 2 TB capacity in a portable drive. We were able to get our hands on one of these 2 TB My Passport drives and put it to the test to see how easy it is to setup and how fast the hard drive inside is. Read on to see if this is the right portable product to backup and transport your critical data!
Many of our readers have been giving very positive feedback on our coverage of this years Electronic Entertainment Expo and today we conclude it with booth babes! To keep up with the demand of our readers, we would not be giving proper coverage without showing what many would consider the best part, the booth babes! We’ve compiled more than 60 pictures of the hottest booth models to grace the Los Angeles Convention Center this week and they are all in this article!
SteelSeries was at the E3 Expo this week showing off a number of new gaming peripherals that should appeal to our audience. The big push for E3 are peripherals for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Inside the SteelSeries booth we were shown a co-branded SteelSeries Siberia v2 Headset, SteelSeries Kana Gaming Mouse and SteelSeries QcK mousepad. We also got to see the SteelSeries Sensei & Kana Dota 2 and World of Warcraft Wireless gaming mice.
MSI is rolling out the GT60, GT70, GE60, GX60 and GE70, its latest generation of gaming notebook computers, at Computex 2012. We happened to bump into the MSI GX60 notebook at E3 this week and got a change to look at this gaming notebook in person. Read on to see what you can expect from an AMD Trinity APU powered gaming notebook!
Thermaltake recently released their all-in-one series of closed loop water cooling kits. The Performer features a single 120mm radiator, but features two 120mm fans for maximum cooling performance. Read on to see how it handles the heat compared to our air coolers we have tested so far on our Intel Core i5 2500k gaming computer test bench!
Having the ability to play your favorite video games instantly over the internet with out the need of high-end hardware or discs is possible with cloud gaming. NVIDIA recently entered this market with the GeForce Cloud Grid and is showing it off at E3 on smart TVs from Samsung. Read on to learn more about cloud-based gaming and to see the demos that we were shown on the show floor.
It’s that time again for wall-to-wall news coverage of gaming news coming out of the Electronic Entertainment Expo, better known as E3. Legit Reviews is once again on the ground bringing you coverage from Los Angeles. Will it be the same boring convention as in the past few years? Something tells us that we are in for some treats this year. Read on for a preview of what is at this years show as we expect innovation to be unveiled!
Mushkin is best known for their memory products and while they don’t have an expansive line of SSDs, they offer a drive for just about every type of user. The Chronos MX is not their flagship drive but chews up some serious data with popular SF-2281 controller under the hood. How does it compare with the long list of SandForce drives we tested? Have a look!
Energizer is no stranger when it comes to making some of the best power solutions available and in recent years the company has been focusing on keeping you mobile devices powered-up when you are at home and on the run. We take a look at the companies newest wall and car USB chargers to see what they are all about and if they work as designed!
The Corsair Vengeance 2000 is a circumaural wireless gaming headset. It features memory foam filled ear pads, as well as a fully adjustable microphone. The Vengeance 2000 also features 7.1 virtual surround sound. Read on to see if we were able to get realistic multi-channel gaming audio and have that play-for-hours comfort that wired Corsair audio products do so well at.
The Prolimatech Genesis is said to be the first ever ‘Super Cooler’ for keeping your processor and motherboard components nice and cool. The Genesis is a twin tower cooler, but one tower is vertical and one is horizontal. The Prolimatech supports three 120 or 140mm fans to ensure everything has air moving around it! Join us as we see how this super cooler from Prolimatech holds up on our Intel LGA2011 test system with the mighty Intel Core i7-3960X processor.
