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NVIDIA Launches World's Most Advanced Tablet Built for Gamers

Details: Category: Phones & Tablets; Published: Tuesday, 22 July 2014 07:37; Written by Jeremy Gulley

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Mobile gaming just got a huge upgrade with the launch of NVIDIA's new shield tablet! And that wireless controller though!

Tuesday, July 22, 2014 - NVIDIA today launched the newest members of the NVIDIA® SHIELD™ family: the SHIELD tablet and the SHIELD wireless controller.

Designed and built by NVIDIA, the SHIELD tablet is first and foremost a high-performance tablet that is packed with exceptional features. Powered by the world's most advanced mobile processor -- the NVIDIA Tegra® K1, with 192 GPU cores -- SHIELD tablet is supplemented by regular, over-the-air software upgrades that bring new capabilities and levels of performance.

Xiaomi 4 gets officially launched - More powerful than your average smartphone

Details: Category: Phones & Tablets; Published: Tuesday, 22 July 2014 07:26; Written by Funky Kit Staff

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"The Xiao Mi4 comes with a SAE 304 stainless steel, to be exact -- to the phone's frame, which is sandwiched between a flat 5-inch 1080p screen and a swappable, slightly curved plastic back cover. The internal specs are as you'd expect: 2.5GHz quad-core Snapdragon 801 SoC, 3GB of RAM, 16GB/64GB of internal storage, 13MP f/1.8 main camera, 8MP selfie camera, LTE radio (at last), 802.11ac WiFi plus a 3,080mAh battery. As a bonus, you also get an infrared transmitter to play with the TV (which Xiaomi also sells). As usual, the Mi 4 will be very affordable: Just CN¥1,999 or about $320 for the 16GB version, and CN¥2,499 or about $400 for the 64GB version."

Source: Xiaomi via Engadget

Nvidia Shield - A Tablet Designed for Handheld Gaming

Details: Category: Gadgets & Toys; Published: Tuesday, 22 July 2014 01:51; Written by Funky Kit Staff

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"The Shield Tablet is a nice piece of electronics: it's well-built and sturdy, it has a slick design, it's got nice angles, it's got a sharp screen, and it's a good size at just over 8-inches. It's a bit on the thick side, but that's a measure of Shield Tablet running a cutting edge mobile chip and needing more battery power. We're not talking Microsoft Surface levels of thickness -- let's not get crazy -- but it's thicker than an iPad Mini, for instance.

Speaking of the Surface, there's a stylus included in the Shield Tablet package (dubbed "Directstylus 2"). While there are certainly applications for the stylus in terms of the tablet's uses as a tablet, there are no gaming applications that use it. NVIDIA's including a program called "Dabbler" for drawing images; we're gonna go ahead and guess that the folks buying a gaming tablet will never use this functionality, but hopefully we're wrong. It's not that Dabbler isn't neat -- it's totally fine, and hey, drawing is fun! -- it's that it's incongruous with the rest of the package."

SPECS:

NVIDIA Tegra K1 SoC
8-inch "Full HD" screen (1920 x 1200, IPS LCD display)
Front-facing stereo speakers (think: HTC One)
5MP front-and-rear facing cameras
Directstylus 2
16/32GB of internal storage, expandable to 128GB via microSD
WiFI a/b/g/n, Optional LTE
19.75 Watt hour Lithium Ion battery

Source: Engadget

Kingston Launches SSDNow V310 960GB SSD

Details: Category: PC & Computers; Published: Monday, 21 July 2014 23:38; Written by Bartosz Waluk

Kingston Digital Ships Large Capacity Near 1TB SSD

New V310 Solid-State Drive Joins SSDNow V Series Range
Boosts System Responsiveness and Speed
Large 960GB Capacity Allows To Migrate Entire Hard Drive

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Sunbury-on-Thames, United Kingdom, July 21, 2014 -- Kingston Digital Europe Co LLP, an affiliate of Kingston Technology Company Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, today announced its latest addition to the SSDNow V300 series, the V310. The Kingston^® SSDNow V310 solid-state drive dramatically boosts system responsiveness while also offering 960GB capacity to store all movies, music, games, files and applications.

GIGABYTE’s EasyTune App Makes Overclocking a Breeze on New Intel® Pentium® Anniversary Edition CPUs

Details: Category: Apps & Software; Published: Monday, 21 July 2014 14:05; Written by Jeremy Gulley

Get an Instant Performance Boost with the Click of a Button

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GIGABTYE, a global leader in all things PC related, has recently announced an updated version of its famed EasyTune overclocking software to coincide with the release of the new Intel^® Pentium^® Anniversary Edition CPU. If you read our latest motherboard review of GIGABYTE's own Z97X-SLI, you would know that I am a fan of the new EasyTune software.

City of Industry, California, July 16^th, 2014 – GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards announced a new version of its overclocking assistant EasyTune has been released just in time for the new Intel^® Pentium^® Anniversary Edition CPU, an unlocked CPU designed to bring overclocking to the mainstream. The new EasyTune application allows users to get the highest level of overclocked performance from their CPU and GIGABYTE Z87 / Z97 series motherboard, and with one click automatic overclocking, even novice users can experience enhanced computing performance right from the start.