During the opening day, keynote presentation, NVIDIA’s Jen-Hsun Huang showcased two GPU based on the Kepler architecture. This upcoming line of graphic processors will be sold under the moniker of Tesla, with the Tesla K20 releasing in the fourth quarter of 2012. NVIDIA also showed of the Tesla K10 GPU, which houses two GK104 Kepler GPUs to deliver 4.58 teraflops of peak single-precision floating point and 320 GB per second memory bandwidth. The K10’s however, are designed specifically for oil and gas exploration companies for signal, image and seismic processing applications. Huang also announced that NVIDIA has released CUDA 5 Parallel Programming platform to members of NVIDIA's GPU Computing Registered Developer program to start exploring the Kepler architecture. Continue Reading »

AMD's successor to the incumbent Llano architecture will be called Trinity, and we should expect to see stateside release of a laptop by Hewlett Packard called Envy Sleekbook, by as early as June. Continue Reading »

Xbit managed to snag and post a couple of slides from an Intel presentation used by the CEO to discuss research and development of chip fabrication technology. The company’s mobile chip line-up will be split into a low-cost line headed by Atom 22000 carrying and XMM 5255 radio, and the high-performance Atom 22580 that will sport a XMM 7160 radio. Continue Reading »

Home theatre personal computers (HTPC) or media centers, as they are sometimes referred to, is nowhere as common as desktop and laptop computers, but this category has been gaining some ground for some time now. For those who prefer custom assembling an HTPC with choice of configuration, their first stop would be at a HTPC cabinet vendor. Here we take a look at some of the models that are readily available in the Indian market, from vendors such as Antec, Cooler Master, and Silverstone. Continue Reading »

Cooler Master has unveiled a CPU cooler, which the company claims is a culmination of their best technologies, and it can rival liquid cooling system. Called TPC 812, this CPU cooler uses Cooler Master’s Vertical Vapour Chamber technology that uses vaporized coolants to expedite transfer of heat from the CPU block to the fins. Continue Reading »

Cooler Master Elite 100rnrnApproximate price: Rs. 3,000rnWeight: 3 kgrnMotherboards: Micro ATX / Mini ITXrnMaterial: Steel Body, plastic bezelrnI/O Panel: USB 2.0 x 2, SPK x 1, Audio x 1rnPower supply: 150W Continue Reading »

NVIDIA recently unveiled the fastest consumer-grade graphics card that it has ever produced, called GTX 690. This graphic card has two, Kepler architecture-based, GeForce GPUs and a total of 3,072 CUDA cores. NVIDIA claims that this lets the GTX 690 dish-out frames at near double the rate of a single GTX 680, and also makes it more quieter and power efficient than dual-GTX 680 in SLI configuration. This is not to say that NVIDIA is going to do way with SLI anytime soon, as two GTX 690s can be used in Quad-SLI mode, just to see what happens. Continue Reading »

ASUS has begun shipping a motherboard with Z77 chipset in the Sabertooth class of boards, which are instantly recognizable due to the ‘Thermal Armor’ that spans across and protects most of the surface area. This particular model combines a host of features that increase the longevity of the motherboard by keeping it cool, away from dust, and controlling power to the components. Continue Reading »

Cooler Master has released a couple of new models of cooling pads that arrive just in time for this summer. It is not so much the impeding heating of the earth that Cooler Master seems to preparing for; rather it may be getting ready for the expected wave of Ultrabooks in the next couple of months. On that note, Cooler Master has released the NotePal U Stand Mini cooler-cum-docking station specifically designed for Ultrabooks with up to 15-inch screen. The stand is fabricated from a single piece of aluminum and sports a pair of 100mm fans, five height adjustments, cable manager, adjustable anti-slip holders, and 3-USB ports. Continue Reading »

Antec ISK 310-150rnApproximate price: Rs. 5,000rnrnWeight: 2.5KGrnMotherboards: Mini-ITXrnMaterial: Cold-rolled steelrnI/O Panel: USB, audio, e-SATArnPower supply: 150W Continue Reading »