Month: August 2013

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Memory

G.SKILL To Attend IDF 2013, Showing Next Generation Memory

August 30, 2013 Dino DeCesari 0

G.Skill passed along a bit of news this morning in the form of a press release, so we thought we’d share it with our readers.. Always looking to push memory performance to the next level, G.Skill’s first visit to the Intel Developer Forum will showcase their high performance Quad Channel DDR3 memory and give us some insight into their future plans for upcoming DDR4 memory.

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Motherboards

Intel Upcoming 9-series Chipset Won’t Support Haswell

August 30, 2013 Jonathan Heroux 27

Website Xbit Labs reports that upcoming Intel chipsets for mainstream desktop processors will implement support for yet-unnamed “Haswell Refresh” CPU and future Broadwell parts. Other information leaked points to the fact that those new chipsets will not support current Haswell processors, thus effectively making the 8-series motherboards single generation products with no upgrade path.

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Cooling

Noctua NH-U14S Heatsink Review

August 23, 2013 Matthew Green 0

Noctua has recently released two new heatsinks into their U series, the NH-U12S (120 mm) and the NH-U14S (140 mm). We’ll be looking at the latter, which is the their top-of-the-line heatsink in the U series and its only superior in Noctua’s line-up would be the NH-D14.

Reviews

EVGA GTX 780 Classified ACX Graphics Card Review

August 21, 2013 Dino DeCesari 23

Whether it’s a motherboard or graphics card, when EVGA adds ‘Classified’ to the name, it usually means their best available option in any given product line. The GTX 780 Classified edition is no different, as it has a higher base/boost clock than any of their other GTX 780 models. Decked out with EVGA’s new ACX (Active Cooling Xtreme) cooler, all the latest NVIDIA technologies, and the promise of performance worthy of the Classified name, let’s get this party started and see what EVGA has in store!