Intel Optane is a new breakthrough in non-volatile 3D XPoint memory technology which offers incredible performance, outperforming the traditional NAND flash memory used in a regular SSD and with better endurance than today’s best NAND flash based SSDs and much higher density than DRAM, all of that at an affordable cost.
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AMD Ryzen release date
AMD Ryzen will start shipping in the next 4-5 weeks. Most likely, the new CPU will be available in early March, 2017. AMD will first launch the AMD Ryzen 8 core / 16 threads CPUs, and four core CPUs would be launched about 3-4 months later. There will be no 6 core AMD Ryzen CPU coming out. New AMD Ryzen CPUs are built on a 14nm FinFET manufacturing process and it is expected to offer 40 percent improvement over its previous 28nm architecture known as Excavator. AMD Ryzen will compete…
Read MoreNVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti will be first shown at CES 2017
There are a lot of rumors recently that GeForce GTX 1080 Ti might see the light of day early next year the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which is the world’s largest electronics, next-generation innovations, and consumer technology trade show. CES takes place every January in Las Vegas, Nevada and will be held between 5th and 8th of January, 2017.
Read MoreEVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti ACX SC+ ACX 2.0+ Graphics Card Review
Today we are going to take a look at the EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti ACX SC+ ACX 2.0+ Graphics Card with Backplate 06G-P4-4995-KR. The $600 to $700 range of video cards has become quite crowded as of late. Currently priced at $678.95, the EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti SC+ ACX 2.0+ graphics card is based on the 28 nanometer Maxwell architecture with 2816 unified shaders, 176 TMUs (texture mapping units) and 96 ROP (render output pipeline) units. As with all GeForce GTX 980 Ti graphics cards, it is designed…
Read MoreDeal of the Day: Intel Pentium G2120 – budget Ivy Bridge desktop processor
Intel Pentium G2120 is a budget, yet powerful Ivy Bridge desktop processor. It is up to 35% faster than the older generation Pentium G630. Also, Intel G2120 CPU has low power consumption (Idle States ie. C-states are used to save power when the processor is idle). It has a better graphics card than older Sandy Bridge based Intel Pentium CPUs. The latest Ivy Bridge processors have been well received among users mainly due it’s price/performance ratio and lower power consumption. Intel Pentium G2120 as a perfect solution for budget gaming…
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