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Phanteks Enthoo Evolv ITX SE Chassis Press Release

Phanteks today announces the new Special Edition Enthoo Evolv ITX which brings two new colors to the Enthoo Evolv ITX Series. The two color options are PH-ES215P_WT (White with Black Interior) and PH-ES215P_SRD (Black with Red interior). Phanteks are well known for thier air cooling solutions as well as cases and now bring you two new cases to thier Enthoo Evolv …

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NVIDIA Quadro M5000 and Quadro M4000 Anounced

Nvidia has announced two new Quadro cards to thier workstation card line up based on the Maxwell graphics core. The Quadro M5000 and Quadro M4000 both share the Maxwell 2 GM204 based architecture but with some minor differences. The Nvidia Quadro M5000 features 2048 cuda cores, 128 TMUs and 64 ROPs with a core speed of 1050MHz. The card also comes …

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Intel Skylake Arrives – Packaging & Pricing Revealed

Now that Skylake has been released, here are some pictures of the retail boxes which are surprisingly colorful. They seem to be a throwback to the pre-Pentium 4 era. These are shots of the packaging for the Core i7-6700K and Core i5-6600K. The I7-6700K has been seen on Amazon for $397.99 whilst the I5-6600K is at $274.99. Intel Core I7-6700K  Now we …

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Intel’s Tick-Tock Production Cycle Slows Down

Most PC enthusiasts have heard about Intel’s Tick-Tock production cycle. Simply put, each Tock introduces a new micro-architecture while the Tick then miniaturizes to a small fabrication process. This meant the new CPU series was introduced once a year where one year a Tock is introduced and the following a Tick is then introduced in which the process repeats itself. …

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Intel Rumored to Switch Back to FIVR in 2017

The Haswell platform was where Intel introduced FIVR or the fully integrated voltage regulator unit. This placed some of the VR (Voltage Regulation) on the die allowing for motherboards to have less power phases on board. For the upcoming Skylake and including next years Kaby Lake, Intel has decided to go back to the traditional power delivery system with voltage …

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Intel’s Kaby Lake to Succeed Skylake in 2016

Intel has once again changed its roadmap and will introduce what we believe to be a Skylake refresh CPU code-named Kaby Lake. Kaby Lake will be compatible with the upcoming 100 series LGA1151 motherboards just like Devils Canyon was too Haswell. Kaby Lake processors made using 14nm FinFET process technology and will feature two or four cores.   Kaby Lake …

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PCI Express 4.0 Standard to be Finalized by 2017

It has been over 10 years now since PCI Express has been evolving to the stage where the data rate has tripled. Next in line for the PCI Express standard is version 4.0 which the PCI SIG [special interest group] has been developing PCI Express 4.0 since late 2011. PCI SIG also has claimed that the fourth generation PCI express …

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