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Origin PC's 15" and 17" laptops are now ready for Intel's upcoming Ivy Bridge processors that are due by the end of April. The new models come with the new HM77 chipset, which is backwards compatible, so for now the processor options include only the current Sandy Bridge lineup.However, on the ...

Original design manufacturing refers to companies who produce a product that will later have a different company’s logo placed upon it. This is commonplace among laptop manufacturers and is a process used by most of the big names in the industry, although there are a few exceptions.The ODM ...

The question is obviously vague, because it varies from game to game and between different settings in the same game. But to get a rough idea of how much RAM - and much more importantly video RAM - modern games require, we are going to take a measure of a few popular games.We can establish right ...

There has been much talk back and forth about delays with Intel's next-gen Ivy Bridge platform, but now it looks like things have started to settle, with some launch dates confirmed. Fortunately, the quad-core mobile parts that are destined for gaming laptops will be among the first to arrive, ...

...and the flagship model is just one of the mobile GPUs that Nvidia will be renaming this year.The specifications for the mobile versions of the GeForce 600M series have been released, and it's not all good news. Some of the new 600M graphics cards will come from the new, 28nm Kepler ...

It certainly doesn't sound bad in theory--and the concept has been mentioned before-- but so far the number of laptops with water cooling on the market has amounted to zero.The main problem is rather obvious if you've ever seen a liquid-cooled desktop. Pumps, hoses, radiators, regulators, ...

HP has taken the lid off some details regarding the upcoming replacements for the 15.6-inch Pavilion dv6t and the 17.3-inch dv7t. Not surprisingly, the specs include Ivy Bridge processors and a mobile Nvidia Kepler GPU in the dv7t.The specification pages are no longer available on HP's website, but ...

Intel's next-generation Ivy Bridge processors will start to trickle out in April, but some details about the successor Haswell, due in 2013, have already surfaced. It seems that Intel continues its valiant struggle towards integrated graphics that suck slightly less.In view of what AMD and Nvidia ...

In case you haven't noticed, the latest shooter from DICE/EA looks amazing, and for the same reason it's also very demanding. Because the game's "Frostbite 2" engine only works with DirectX 11/DX10, the game will not run at all on Windows XP. In other words a copious amount of older computers are ...

The performance of Nvidia's next-generation (28nm) mobile Kepler architecture is no longer a secret. Some benchmarks have surfaced for the mid-range GT 640M and they look very promising.What makes the whole thing even more interesting is that the benchmarks come from an ultrabook - or at least ...