Author: Ryan Shrout
Video Perspective: Gaming on an Overclocked AMD A10-7850K APU
Posted by Ryan Shrout | Feb 27, 2014 | Graphics Cards, Processors | 15
Overclocking the memory and GPU clock speeds on an AMD APU can greatly improve gaming performance - it is known. With the new AMD A10-7850K in hand I decided to do a…
Read MoreDirectX 12 and a new OpenGL to challenge AMD Mantle coming at GDC?
Posted by Ryan Shrout | Feb 26, 2014 | Graphics Cards | 28
UPDATE (2/27/14): AMD sent over a statement today after seeing our story. AMD would like you to know that it supports and celebrates a direction for game development that is aligned…
Read MoreVideo Perspective: CM Storm SF-17 Gaming Laptop Cooler by Cooler Master
Posted by Ryan Shrout | Feb 25, 2014 | Mobile | 1
When we were testing the ORIGIN PC EON17-SLX gaming notebook over the last few weeks we wanted to try out another component that high end laptop gamers might be interested...
Read MoreMWC 2014: Qualcomm Snapdragon 610 and 615 are 64-bit, 8-core with LTE
Posted by Ryan Shrout | Feb 24, 2014 | Mobile, Processors | 0
Intel, Mediatek and Allwinner have all come out with new SoC announcements at Mobile World Congress and Qualcomm is no different. By far the most interesting release is what it calls the…
Read MoreMWC 2014: Allwinner launches UltraOcta A80 processor with big.LITTLE and PowerVR
Posted by Ryan Shrout | Feb 24, 2014 | Mobile | 1
The wheels keep turning from Mobile World Congress 2014 in Barcelona with Allwinner's announcement of the UltraOcta A80 SoC. Dubbed the "world's first big.LITTLE octa-core (8-core) heterogeneous SoC to included PowerVR Series6…
Read MoreMWC 2014: Intel Atom Moorefield and Merrifield officially unveiled
Posted by Ryan Shrout | Feb 24, 2014 | Mobile, Processors | 3
Intel also announced an LTE-Advanced modem, the XMM 7260 at Mobile World Congress today. Last May Intel shared with us details of its new Silvermont architecture, a complete revamp of...
Read MoreMWC 2014: Intel Announces XMM 7260 LTE-Advanced Wireless Modem
Posted by Ryan Shrout | Feb 24, 2014 | Mobile | 0
Intel also announced Merrifield and Moorefield SoCs at Mobile World Congress today. In 2011, Intel acquired SysDSoft to improve and accelerate the companies transition into the mobile wireless controllers, LTE...
Read MoreMWC 2014: NVIDIA and Wiko Release First Tegra 4i Smartphone
Posted by Ryan Shrout | Feb 24, 2014 | Mobile, Processors | 5
NVIDIA has been teasing the Tegra 4i for quite some time - the integration of a Tegra 4 SoC with the acquired NVIDIA i500 LTE modem technology. In truth, the Tegra 4i…
Read MoreORIGIN PC EON17-SLX Gaming Notebook Review – Haswell, GTX 780M SLI
Posted by Ryan Shrout | Feb 21, 2014 | Graphics Cards | 19
Every once in a while, a vendor sends us a preconfigured gaming PC or notebook. We don't usually focus too much on these systems because so many of readers are…
Read MoreARM Brings Out Marketing Guns – Says Intel Quark Too Hot for Wearables
Posted by Ryan Shrout | Feb 21, 2014 | Mobile, Processors | 7
On a post from the official ARM blogs, the guns are blazing in the battle for the wearable market mind share. Pretty much all the currently available wearable computing devices are using…
Read MoreNVIDIA Updates Tegra Note 7 with LTE model, KitKat 4.4.2
Posted by Ryan Shrout | Feb 21, 2014 | Mobile | 6
In November of last year NVIDIA and some of its partners around the world released the Tegra Note 7, a 7-in tablet that was powered by NVIDIA's Tegra 4 SoC. I
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