Sapphire unveils a Radeon HD 7770 fanless

The Sapphire constructor never, stops between its declensions Vapor-X and its passive cards...

The Computex reserve many surprises. Today, it is a passive Radeon HD 7770 that we present the Japanese firm.This is not a test for the company run as Sapphire had already launched the HD 7750 Ultimate displaying 0 dB at the beginning of the year. We turn on the superior GPU with aluminum cooling system. The map retains the specifications of AMD references: GPU Cape Verde in 28nm at 1 GHz coupled with 1 GB of GDDR5, a priori at 1125 MHz. emphasise that the GPU in the HD 7770, which displays more than correct performance, exceed not the 80W fully loaded. Such heat loss remains a sacred challenge to manage, what makes the Sapphire Ultimate the most powerful passive map of the market.

     

Not simple to cool this creature, with several heat sink makes as long as a 7900 series Radeon card. Large aluminum block exceeds several centimeters PCB, will have to have a suitable and well ventilated housing. The games in mini-ITX format, compact and silent machines are not yet for tomorrow. Sapphire all the same that the heatpipe is subject to changes, this prototype is for the moment that beautify the technology showcase of the constructor.

The price to pay for the absolute silence will be two PCI slots. Side pockets and availability, information should fall in coming weeks.

Samsung Unveils Hybrid a laptop / touch Tablet

The South Korean manufacturer Samsung unveiled at the Computex its concept of laptop with detachable screen becomes touch tablet.

ASUS due to emulate with its concept of apparatus hybrid Tablet/ultrabook to the turn and after Acer and its Iconia W510 is Samsung which makes it to the Computex sauce.

Indeed, the South Korean manufacturer exposes a model of laptop screen is released from the keyboard to become a touch tablet on its stand. The Samsung Hybrid 5 is indeed a laptop whose "11.6 screen is maintained at the keyboard through a broad magnetic socket, taking over the screen detaches and becomes a stand-alone touchscreen tablet.

This digital slate will offer HDMI connectors (not accuracy whether or not this port is in mini format), USB and microSDHC and the connectivity WiFi and 3 G. It weighs only 747 grams for 9 mm thick and runs under Windows 8, a stylus similar to the Galaxy of the mark is also in part to take advantage of the capabilities of the new Microsoft OS.

Two versions of the Samsung Series 5 Hybrid will be proposed, first taking a processor Intel Atom ultra low power to the TDP of 2 Watts and another with a more powerful processor also provided by Intel and offering a slab HD 1920 by 1080 pixels only to it, the version low consumption has not unveiled this information at this time.