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Buy Nexus 7 16 GB Get 32GB

2012-10-12T23:03:00.000+07:00

Like a got a windfall, a Google Nexus tablet buyers who purchase and pay tablet Nexus 7 for the 16 GB model turned out to get the 32GB model. A pleasant surprise is not it?

The incident experienced by a lucky guy in Japan. With the intention of buying the Nexus 7 tablet with a capacity of 16 GB, the man inadvertently got the same tablet with 2x capacity. Though 32 GB models yet to be announced, nor has its presence in the market so maybe he was the only person in the world to have the Nexus 7 32GB model.

Google itself has not confirmed the truth of what the Nexus 7 32 GB models will be launched, following the 8GB and 16GB models that have been marketed before. But with the products that are sold by accident, most likely Google is going to pull out model. The incident also seemed to be a confirmation that some time ago a few screenshots circulating that mention Nexus tablet 7 which has a capacity of 32 GB which appears in Carphone Warehouse inventory system and other retailers web site.

The tablet itself is quite interesting because it comes as a cheap tablet and will be a contender for the Amazon Kindle 2 and Kindle Fire Fire HD. Google Nexus 7 model 8 GB alone priced dengang for U.S. $ 199 while the 16 GB model priced at U.S. $ 249. Because not include a microSD slot for memory expansion, the presence of 32 GB models may be very long-awaited those who like to keep a lot of files or download applications and games. Alternatively, if Google is going to release a 32 GB version, the price will not exceed U.S. $ 300

DDR4 Will Reach Bandwidth 3.2Gbps at 1.2V, Release In 2014

2012-10-12T08:51:00.000+07:00

Standard DDR3 already on the market since at least 2007 and the age of his five in 2012, DDR3 has achieved significant progress in terms of speed. When first introduced, DDR3 has a speed of about DDR3-800/DRR3-1066, but now many memory chip manufacturers launch products with DDR3-2800 specification, and even above, is offered to the user PC.
According to Samsung, one for memory IC manufacturers, the trend rate will later be followed by DDR4.

As shown in the table above, DDR4 will have a bandwidth of up to 3.2Gbps (DDR4-3200). Physical form of IC DDR4 DRAM will not change much from DDR3, still using 78/96-ball BGA.

The high speed of DDR4 will be followed by the use of a lower voltage, which is 1.2V. Perhaps the power savings that occur because of decreased voltage of 1.5-1.2V 1.65V DDR3 to DDR4 is not too annoying to users desktop, but for mainframe / server / workstation that uses a lot of memory modules, of course, DDR4 will help reduce power consumption to create a computing platform more 'green'.

If nothing changes, DDR4 will be released sometime in 2014. Surely it would be interesting to see which platform will adopt this technology DDR4 soon after its release, due to the high speed DDR4 will certainly make a CPU with on-die GPU high-performance which tend to 'greedy' bandwidth, operating optimally.

Lineup products with Windows 8 Become a Dependable New Sony Laptop Indonesia Market

2012-10-11T22:47:00.000+07:00

Some products are equipped with new laptops Microsoft's new operating system, Windows 8, also introduced at the event introductions Sony Vaio ultrabook hybrid Duo 11 which took place at the Four Seasons Hotel, Jakarta, on the day of Wednesday, October 10 ago. These products will be directed to fill out its product line in series E and series Vaio T of a large family.

For Vaio E series, one of the products into new flagship Sony is E14P. E14P latest product is equipped with the latest Intel Core i series of Intel's Mobility Radeon graphics and AMD's latest. The product also brings a touch screen which is of course a must to optimize the use of the operating system Windows 8.

As for the Vaio T series, Sony's new flagship comes in the form of T13 Touch. Ultrabook is sailing 13-inch ultrabook with a clamshell form intended for the needs of the business. Carrying the touch screen, Sony ultrabook has been designed to accommodate the various advantages offered by Windows 8. In addition, the ultrabook is also equipped with connectivity ports like a notebook, the USB, Ethernet, HDMI, and analog display output.

Sony is trying to expand the adoption of touch screens in their Vaio lineup. For the future, more and more products from Sony laptops are equipped with these features. Of course, the products with the touch screen will also be equipped with the Windows 8 operating system which is suitable for use with a touch screen device.

ECS Introduce Hyper Alloy Choke: Improve Stability and Durability Motherboard

2012-09-29T00:36:00.001+07:00

ECS Hyper Alloy Choke

In an effort to improve the stability and durability of motherboards, ECS, Taiwanese computer peripherals manufacturer introduced a component called “Hyper Alloy Choke”. ECS claims that chokes or inductors made with high quality material offers stability choke 1.5x higher than usual, especially when the system is experiencing a high load current unstable situation.

ECS Hyper Alloy Features

ECS also mention that Hyper Alloy Choke component can supply 30% more current and can reduce the EMI (Electromagnetic Interference). They also explained that the gold layer in the choke makes it more resistant to corrosion and oxidation, which in turn makes living longer choke.
Besides some motherboard models that already exist today, ECS also plans to implement technology Hyper Alloy Choke them in various other motherboards in the future.

Could Llano Handle Battlefield 3?

2012-09-27T10:53:00.005+07:00

The long awaited third-installment of EA’s popular Battlefield game series has arrived. With its attractive gameplay and gorgeous visual effects, Battlefield 3 (BF3) sure doesn’t disappoint. Frostbite 2 is the engine, and it really delivers the kind of quality that motivates some gamers to upgrade their PC, just to experience BF3 at it’s best.

But not everyone is able to afford a super high-end system capable of running BF3 at its “Ultra” graphics setting. So, what if you happen to have a budget PC equipped with an integrated graphics solution as in AMD’s Llano series of processors? Could the on-board graphics take on BF3’s demanding engine? Before we get to the answer, let us first examine the game’s minimum hardware requirement.

Battlefield 3 Minimum System Requirement

As announced by EA on September 20, 2011, this is the minimum system requirement that must be met or exceeded in order to play BF3 with acceptable frame rates:

OS : Windows Vista (Service Pack 2) 32-Bit

Processor: 2 GHz Dual Core (Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHZ or Althon X2 2.7 GHz)

Memory: 2 GB

Hard Drive Space: 20 GB

Graphics Card (AMD): DirectX 10.1 compatible with 512 MB RAM (ATI RADEON 3000, 4000, 5000 OR 6000 series, with ATI RADEON 3870 or higher performance)

Graphics Card (NVIDIA): DirectX 10.0 compatible with 512 MB RAM (NVIDIA GEFORCE 8, 9, 200, 300, 400 OR 500 series with NVIDIA GEFORCE 8800 GT or higher performance)

Sound card : DirectX compatible

Keyboard and Mouse

DVD ROM Drive

For us, the above list seems quite normal for today’s standard, although we cannot tell for sure how much frame per second one could expect from this configuration.

Some people might be discouraged upon seeing BF3’s minimum system requirement, especially its “graphics card” section. However, a closer examination reveals that BF3 does not demand that much processing power from your graphics hardware. Let’s look at the official statement: “DirectX 10.1 compatible with 512 MB RAM, with ATI RADEON 3870 or higher performance“. The ATI Radeon HD3870 mentioned here tells us that the game should still be playable even on an affordable DirectX 10 graphics card.

For starters, a Radeon HD 3870 scored between 3800 to 4000 points in 3DMark Vantage (Performance Preset) benchmark, according to our old database. Now, you can get similar performance from an integrated GPU solution from AMD that’s certainly won’t hurt your wallet. That’s right, AMD’s Llano is the answer!

With its integrated Radeon graphics core, AMD A-Series APU (Llano) has no trouble keeping up with dedicated graphics cards like the ATI Radeon HD 3870. We were able to score 3500 points without overclocking the on-board GPU, as seen in the picture below:

So, now we know that Llano is not so far behind the HD3870 mentioned as the minimum graphics card required for BF3. It’s time to find out if it really has what it takes to run the game!

Our Setup of Choice: AMD A8-3850, MSI A75A-G35, Kingston HyperX DDR3-1600

We had one goal in mind when selecting the hardware components for this test: constructing a system capable of running Battlefield 3 that still feels easy on the wallet. The processor is AMD A8-3850 on MSI A75A-G35 motherboard, coupled with Kingston HyperX DDR3-1600 4GB memory module. That ought to do it.

The AMD Llano A8-3850 processor (or APU, to be exact) was chosen because it has four CPU cores and an integrated GPU that could come close to Radeon HD 3870 in terms of graphics processing prowess. Kingston’s HyperX KHX1600C9D3B1K2/4GX (DDR3-1600, 4GB kit) was chosen because it offers good performance and capacity while still being affordable to most people. The memory was set to run at its specified rating of DDR3-1600 (therefore not following the default setting of 1333 MHz or overclocked to 1866 MHz).

#Notice : An SSD was used (instead of conventional hard drive) as the main storage unit to avoid sudden drops of frame rate in the game due to hard drive accessing activities during the game. It is important to make sure that the minimum FPS we obtained was purely from the works of the GPU, and not incidental storage accesses.

Battlefield 3 Graphics Setting: LOW Preset, 1280×720

Battlefield 3 was then installed and we ran a preliminary test using various graphics detail settings to find out the right one that provides a reasonable frame rate for playing.

We found BF3 to be quite playable on our budget-oriented system at 1280×720, LOW preset. Click on below picture to enlarge.

Surprisingly enough, even at its lower detail setting, the visuals in this game are still appealing to the eyes… well, to ours at least. Save for all the jaggies that seem to be appearing just about everywhere.

Additionally, here is BF3’s resource utilization as monitored by Task Manager and AMD System Monitor.

As shown by the above picture, we can see that BF3 puts quite a burden on the CPU, loading it by 66% spread evenly on all cores. This leads us into questioning the game’s dual-core CPU minimum requirement. With this kind of load, dual-core systems would possibly have to deal with near-maximum utilization (very close to 100% even). It also shows that, with its four cores, A8-3850 is a sensible choice for BF3.
Memory utilization is quite low, at “only” 1.89 GB (our system uses up around 700 MB when idle in desktop). It means that the 2 GB minimum requirement is sufficient. Only, we see no reason for holding back since 4 GB kit modules have become very inexpensive as of late.
Okay, now we’re going to see the actual numbers with FRAPS while playing the “Operation Swordbreaker” level that you will encounter at the beginning of the game. We separated the test into three different parts based on pre-loaded checkpoints. Here are the results:

In this second checkpoint we will see how Llano performs in an intense gunfight scene, with loads of explosions and RPG rockets. This particular scene is demanding when it comes to graphics processing requirement, and the frame rate plummeted to well below 30 FPS for quite some time, around half a minute. Total average FPS for our first run is 35.4.

Run 2 (Operation Swordbreaker, Checkpoint 3)

This checkpoint pits the player against a sniper in camouflage. At first, the scene is fairly “lightweight”, graphics wise. Then, an exploding building sent the frame rate down in an instant. The second run lasts for a while because the player is involved in another gunfight to save a partner. The fight continues down a dark tunnel. Average FPS in the second run is a bit higher compared to the previous one, at 38.4 with a minimum rateof 27 FPS.

Run 3 (Operation Swordbreaker, Final Checkpoint)

Now we’ve arrived at our last gunfight. This time, the big guns are brought to the scene. The third run was relatively shorter than the previous two, and the FPS was also good. Our AMD A8-3850 was able to maintain a frame rate of well above 30 FPS most of the time, except for one particular moment when we recorded a drop to 27 FPS. In all, the third run scored an average frame rate of 37.4 FPS.

(Temporary) Conclusions

It was quite a surprising find indeed. Llano’s integrated GPU tuned out to be just powerful enough to provide an average of 35 FPS in the early levels of Battlefield 3. Well, this might not be a reference that’s applicable to all cases since we only ran the test through the early levels of the campaign. It is because, frankly, we haven’t been able to explore the entire game to find out exactly which level is most demanding in terms of graphics processing requirement. (but we will ! ^_^ )
In BF3, the integrated Radeon GPU in AMD Llano once again proves itself to be the most powerful on-CPU graphics core, at least by the time of writing of this article. The frame rate occasionally drops to below 30 FPS, but most of the time, Llano managed to yield more than that. It’s worth noting that the scores from our system do not necessarily represent Llano’s true potential. For example, we weren’t running the memory modules at 1866 MHz. Also, the integrated GPU itself was not overclocked. Presumably, there is still some headroom left for tweaking. It’s possible to fork out, say, 20% more performance from Llano, but let’s save that for another time, shall we? Stay Tuned for more updates, only at youruniquerig.blogspot.com!

EVGA Launches The Latest Motherboard Z77 and Z75!

2012-09-18T20:24:00.002+07:00

EVGA, VGA and motherboard vendors are famous products of its high-end, again rocked the market with the release of the newest LGA1155 motherboard. All of the motherboard is equipped with Intel’s 7-series chipset, both Intel and Intel Z77 Z75. Here are 3 (three) offered EVGA motherboard :

EVGA Z77 FTW

EVGA Z77 FTW Motherboard is designed for the performance enthusiast. Support 4-way SLI and overclocking features which overflows into the main power. High performance benchmark record daily or, apparently not a problem for this one Z77 motherboard.

EVGA Z75 SLI

EVGA Z75 SLI

Compared Z77 FTW, this motherboard look slimmer. Intended as a motherboard that has a good ratio of price or performance, the EVGA Z75 SLI does not compromise the performance and features are lifted, and still leave room for extensive tuning of you who need the extra performance.

EVGA Z77 Stinger

EVGA Z77 STINGER

Mini-ITX Motherboard with top class components and support overclocking? We LOVE it!

At this writing, only EVGA FTW Z77 and Z75 SLI ready for sale in the market. For those of you who want to learn more about the EVGA Z77 or Z75 motherboards for can visit their official website here.

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