Snapdragon 632, 439 and 429 specifications: new Qualcomm midrange processors

Snapdragon 632, 439 and 429

The new 632 chip from Qualcomm is positioned as the successor to the 630. It is the first time that the company brings to the mid-range its largest cores, the Kryo. Within this Snapdragon 632 we find 8 Kryo 250 cores, a cluster of 4 + 4, which are capable of operating at a speed of 1.8 GHz. In this SoC we find the Adreno 506 GPU and we can connect a 24 MP camera or a double camera of 13 MP each using ISP. The maximum screen resolution will be FHD +.

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Xiaomi Mi Laptop Air release date, price and specifications for Europe

Mi Laptop Air

Xiaomi has just presented its new Mi Laptop Air, a laptop with a minimalist design and quite striking features. Xiaomi has worked on the design of this laptop to adapt it to the current trends in the laptop market: we have a thin, thin and with few frames. As for its dimensions, we are talking about a notebook with a 13.3-inch diagonal Full HD screen that is inside a 309.6 x 210.9 x 14.8 mm computer.

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Radeon Pro Vega 20 Benchmarks leaked

Radeon Pro Vega 20 Benchmark

Once again, it’s time for Vega 20’s new benchmarks, AMD Radeon Pro Vega 20 to be exact. It’s the first implementation of Vega architecture in a 7nm GPU. AMD has repeatedly stated that they are already testing the appropriate GPU in the lab. So far, only a Radeon  branded card is confirmed with this GPU and it can be assumed that AMD will bring a corresponding HPC variant on the market.

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Can you play games on Intel HD 620 and HD 630? What games work at 60 FPS with these Intel HD 620/630?

Intel HD 620 and HD 630 games

The Intel HD 620 and HD 630 are the integrated graphics that incorporate the vast majority of Intel processors, especially in laptops and, although they can be used to play, logically they do not have the same performance as a dedicated graphics card from AMD or NVIDIA. However, what games are capable of moving at 60 FPS ? Let’s see it in this article.

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Panther Rage DDR4 RGB: Apacer combines new LEDs and familiar design

Panther Rage DDR4 RGB

Shortly after Computex, Apacer announced several new Panther Rage family storage kits. At its center is the new, RGB RAM chip – Panther Rage DDR4 RGB. Visually, the new kits are based on the Panther Rage series, which includes the Panther Rage Illumination DDR4-3000. It comes with the Heatspreader with integrated Panter design as well as the plastic inserts on the top, which should remind of fangs with illuminated LEDs. However, you do not only offer a version with mainly black heatspreader. Instead, customers can choose between black with gold applications and gold.

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ECS Liva Mini PC and Alexa headset launched at Computex 2018

ECS Liva Mini PC

ECS Elitegroup at Computex 2018 is pretty much about Amazon’s smart voice assistant Alexa, but it’s also about Liva’s in-house ultra-compact PCs. At the Computex stand at ECS shown there are the first Liva systems with integrated touchscreen and integrated battery. The reason: They should be able to control Amazon’s voice assistant Alexa, even away from the Android smartphone or their own echo systems. Of course, all features that Alexa offers are supported. It is possible, among other things, playing music, controlling smart home devices and of course ordering at Amazon via voice control.

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ASRock B450M Pro 4, B450M-HDV, B450 Gaming K4 released at Computex 2018

ASRock was seen with five B450 boards at the Computex 2018. Some are ATX, while others are either Micro-ATX or Mini-ITX. ASRock has released at least one model for each format. In addition to three boards from the Pro series, two models of the Fatal1ty gaming series were shown as well. The B450M Pro 4 and the B450M-HDV are produced in Micro ATX format, with the Pro4 basically offering better features. The maximum RAM expansion amounts to 64 GB instead of “only” 32 GB. But even with the power supply of CPU and RAM Pro4 is the HDV slightly superior to the higher number of phases.

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Shuttle XPC SZ270R9 Review: a barebone mini PC for gaming

Shuttle XPC SZ270R9

The Shuttle SZ270R9 means a clear evolution in terms of the design that Shuttle was developing in its barebones. It is true that it does not renounce the high quality materials such as aluminum but as true as the previous statement is that Shuttle is one of the last manufacturers in which we would think that it is going to point to the fashion of LED RGB lighting. And that is called Marketing or, as some say, renew or die. There is a growing desire to give that touch of originality to the PC and, in a world where everything is invented, that touch of originality is obtained with designs, at least, carefree, cheerful and, why not, a little aggressive.

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