AMD is placing its hopes of regaining market share lost to Intel on its new line of processors set for launch next year. AMD is planning to launch a lot of processors, 14 of them to be exact according to the latest roadmap uncovered. HKEPC says that ...
2 Dec 2008
Wired terminals/ports: D-Sub, headphone jack, line in, line out, microphone jack, parallel ports, PS/2 keyboard, PS/2 mouse, RJ45, serial, USB 2.0 Pros: Looks stylish when positioned as a tower, relatively easy to work on, energy efficient Cons: Has ...
2 Dec 2008
Sierra Wireless , a maker of networking cards for PCs and other devices, has agreed to acquire French M2M (machine-to-machine) wireless vendor Wavecom for Euro 218 million (AUD$430 million). The companies reached a memorandum of understanding on an ...
2 Dec 2008
Fremont (CA) - An ASUS Rampage II Extreme motherboard equipped with TweakIt technology has taken an Intel Core i7 965 CPU to 5.51 GHz. The CPU's normal frequency is 3.2 GHz, making this a 72% overclock. The machine ran a 190 MHz base clock with a 29x ...
2 Dec 2008
Surprise, surprise. The underpowered nettops aren’t selling so well. Sales are lagging so much that Asus is benching the Intel Atom for the more powerful Celeron CPU in an upcoming Eee Box release. The hard drive is also getting bumped to 120GB ...
2 Dec 2008
Netbooks are one of the things making the computer world go around right now. MSI is reportedly upgrading its popular Wind netbook with two new models: the U110 and the U115. Both of the machines will migrate from the Atom N270 CPU most netbooks ...
2 Dec 2008
The Nokia Home Control Center's core gateway device is built around an undisclosed 533MHz CPU, perhaps Freescale's i.MX31 , which features an energy-saving ARM core. The device includes 256MB RAM, 6GB of internal storage, and an SD card reader.
2 Dec 2008
Now this -- this is an interesting character. Part nettop , part HTPC , the Sotec-branded HDC-1L series is a unique mixture of components that are traditionally found in either a diminutive desktop or a media center PC (but rarely both). First and foremost, this little bugger relies on a 1.6GHz Intel Atom 230 CPU, and it only packs 1GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive, Windows XP, Ethernet, ...
2 Dec 2008
Sylvie Barak , Tuesday 2 December 2008. 08:06:00 *Cough, cough* IT SEEMS INTEL’S new Core i7 chip may be a bit soggy on the translation lookaside buffer (TLB) front, with the firm hinting at a bug in an official Specification Update. A TLB, found in pretty much all current desktop and server processors, is a CPU cache used by memory...
2 Dec 2008
Asus reports that the Japanese overclocking enthusiast duck has set a new overclocking world record on a Core i7 CPUT with the ASUS ROG Rampage II Extreme motherboard. The record is now at 5510.09 MHz. a CPU overclocking veteran, duck still holds the wo...
2 Dec 2008
digg_url = 'http://digg.com/hardware/AMD_Phenom_II_CPU_Roadmap_Foreshadows_Potent_Spring'; Not that AMD's being overly secretive about its forthcoming Phenom II processor, but it hasn't exactly been forthcoming with model names / estimated ship dates, either. And that folks, is why we look to leaks. A recent writeup over on Chinese site HKEPC details the impending chip family ...
2 Dec 2008
Sylvie Barak the Inquirer , Tuesday 2 December 2008. 08:06:00 *Cough, cough* IT SEEMS INTEL’S new Core i7 chip may be a bit soggy on the translation lookaside buffer (TLB) front, with the firm hinting at a bug in an official Specification Update. A TLB, found in pretty much all current desktop and server processors, is a CPU cache used by memory...
2 Dec 2008
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2 Dec 2008
A recent writeup over on Chinese site HKEPC details the impending chip family by listing over a dozen new CPUs (including two Phenom II X3s and seven Phenom II X4s) that are destined to be announced between CES and June 2009. ...
2 Dec 2008
How to lap your processor. Lapping your CPU involves removing the integrated heat sink to create a completely flat surface for contact with your heat sink. This can decrease CPU temepratures as much as 10 degrees celcius or more.
2 Dec 2008
It looks like Asustek will not be meeting its project shipment of the Eee Box which is perhaps due to high prices that's why the company is planning on.
1 Dec 2008
Windows 7’s new WARP system can run Direct3D 10 and 10.1 on the CPU, doing away with the need for a hardware 3D accelerator in some circumstances. It turns out that Intel isn’t the only company that’s looking at performing Direct3D in ...
1 Dec 2008
Both windows 2003: the landeskserver quadcore 4GB mem, sql server last week we put in a extra cpu so now 2 quadcore's and 4GB mem. And soon that will be 8GB of mem.We need to roll out the new clients (8.8 sp2). ...
1 Dec 2008