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SlashGear Weekly Wrap-Up: May 12, 2012
Happy Saturday, everyone. Well, this week was quite interesting because it played host to the CTIA conference in New Orleans, the largest mobile trade show in the US. So we'll kick off with some of the more noteworthy stories from that - Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket HD for AT&T cancelled, HTC Evo 4G LTE hands-on, and Samsung Galaxy S III vs Galaxy Note hands-on. Keep reading for much more CTIA goodness:
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SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: May 10, 2012
Happy Thursday, everyone. It's time for the evening wrap-up, where we look back at the most interesting and noteworthy stories of the day, and it's not often we see a story this interesting - NASA finds mysterious "hidden planet." And onto something that falls more on the 'noteworthy' side of things... Facebook Instagram deal faces FTC delay. And now onto something for the gaming fans - Nintendo slashes DSi and DSi XL pricing.
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 review round-up
NVIDIA revealed its latest GPU today, and even if the GeForce GTX 670 isn’t technically the greatest (that honor goes to its dual-GPU big brother the 690) reviews across the board are generally positive. The reference card should put prices in the $400 range, about a hundred bucks less than the GTX 680 and considerably more justifiable for the PC gamer on a budget. Take a look at the opinions of the major gaming and hardware resources after the break.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 brings Kepler on a $399 budget
NVIDIA has launched its latest GPU, the GeForce GTX 670, the third to use the company’s Kepler architecture, and pulling in at a new $399 price point. Borrowing the 28nm processes as the meaty GTX 680 (and the dual-GPU GTX 690), the GeForce GTX 670 opens up Kepler at a more affordable point of the market, with the promise of 45-percent better gaming power than its closest AMD rival.
Maingear to offer NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690
NVIDIA announced the GeForce GTX 690 on Monday, a graphics card that houses two Kepler cores on one single card. It certainly looked very flashy, with lots of chromium-plated aluminium spread across the GPU in order to keep everything cool along with the card’s fan. It commands a pretty penny too: $999. So who’s the first company crazy enough to fit one of these cards into their system? Maingear, of course.
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Samsung Series 7 Gamer busts out Ivy Bridge
Today Samsung Electronics have come forth with a gaming laptop that may well be the envy of the masses soon - the Samsung Series 7 Gamer is popping up this summer with Ivy Bridge. This 3rd Generation Intel Core i7 processor-toting beast also works with NVIDIA Geforce graphics and Dolby Home Theater sound. Sound like the masterpiece you're looking for? How about with a 17.3-inch full HD LCD display? Welcome to Samsung's next generation gaming machine.
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Alienware M14x, M17x and M18x get Ivy Bridge
Alienware has thrown Intel's new 3rd-gen Core i5 and i7 processors at its updated M14x, M17x and M18x notebooks, promising a roughly 20-percent boost in power from the new Ivy Bridge architecture. It's the second refresh for the trio of gaming laptops in under a month, with Intel slotting in new mSATA caching drives and boosted graphics in mid-March. Plus, there's a new Alienware deal with Electronic Arts.
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 twin-Kepler official
NVIDIA has launched its latest graphics card, the GeForce GTX 690, with twin Kepler cores making it the world’s fastest, at least for the moment. The GPU company hasn’t wasted the opportunity to make the GeForce GTX 690 look the part, either, with superlatives galore: a trivalent chromium-plated aluminum frame, thixomolded magnesium alloy fan housing, and dual vapor chambers with a nickel-plated finstack.
NVIDIA teases dual-GPU GeForce GTX 690
NVIDIA has posted a cryptic image on its Facebook page recently to tease what is likely the upcoming GeForce GTX 690 dual-chip GPU. The dark image doesn't reveal much except the company's logo on what appears to be a graphics card and the words "It's coming." However, traces of what resemble two sets of heatsinks suggest that it is definitely a high-end model.
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Intel SSD 330 announced for the budget enthusiast
Today Intel has officially announced their SSD 330 series, their new line of SSD (solid state drives) aimed for the budget crowd while still offering excellent performance. These new drives are for those looking for a good price/performance ratio while not attacking the wallet. Below are more details on performance as well as pricing information.
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MSI GeForce GTX 680 offers easy Kepler overclocking
MSI has revealed its GeForce GTX 680 card, using NVIDIA's freshly announced Kepler 28nm GPU and pairing it with MSI's own Afterburner overclocking tool for squeezing out extra performance. The MSI card sticks closely to the NVIDIA reference design - no bad thing given the early reviews - but ramps up the ease of tweaking the card's default settings, so as to squeeze a little bit extra out.
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