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Ageia Tests Next-Generation PhysX Accelerators "A web-site has published photos of what it claims to be a next-generation Ageia PhysX physics processing add-in-card. The board seems to be rather huge, while the revamped physics processing unit (PPU) also seems to be large, which implies that the new board will be rather powerful. The new Ageia PhysX card is designed for PCI Express x8/x16 slots and is much longer compared to the first incarnation of physics accelerator for personal computers and also has much more complex print-circuit board design. The new board also has external power connector, which indicates that the card has pretty high power consumption. Be…
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Phenom FX and X4 line-up unveiled "The Agena will launch in a few iterations and it will be known as Phenom X4 9xxx. The slowest one works at 2.2GHz, the mid-range one is a 2.4GHz part and the top of the range model will tick at 2.6GHz. Again, faster parts are planned for 2008." K10 to be cheaper than Core 2 Quad "Our well informed sources have suggested that clock to clock AMD CPU will be cheaper than Intel’s 45 nanometre quad core parts. This is AMDs only chance to get the face back and we can only hope that AMD will be better in clock per clock battle, of course for fallen AMD’s sake."
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Intel's 45 nm Penryn CPU: 4 GHz Air Cooled "The revision of the Conroe architecture - in order to boost its performance, incorporate new instructions, and, most importantly, reduce power consumption - is right on schedule. Until now, Intel's Core 2 processors always played second fiddle to AMD's Athlon 64 X2 processors when it came to power consumption, at least in idle operation. That was also the reason why we built our Solar-Powered PC around an AMD platform. However, this situation has changed with the Penryn core of Intel's Core 2 Extreme QX9650. Simultaneously, Intel has also made radical changes to its production process, breaking with the conventional meth…
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Flash drives ready to jump in capacity "SanDisk and Toshiba will start making flash memory on a new 43-nanometer manufacturing process that will result in SSDs later this year with capacities that should approach those of today's mainstream 2.5-inch hard drives, ranging between 120GB and 160GB."
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Nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX Review - Toms Hardware.com "Nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX: A card that's almost as fast as the 8800 Ultra at a much lower price is a good thing. But a year and a half after the release of the GeForce 8 series, and even though AMD doesn't really have anything that can go head to head with this card, we'd have liked a little more punch to replace the 8800 GTX with (which is also now being sold for under $400). What we got instead was a card that's very noisy under load and limited by a stingy 512 MB of memory. These drawbacks are especially disappointing given that the 8800 GTS 512 MB is very similar and less expensive." GeForce 9800 GTX and 3-way …
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Nvidia's VP says the CPU is dead "There are no more lies and no more cold war between Intel and Nvidia. Surprisingly, Nvidia just started a full-scale frontal attack on the biggest semiconductor company in the world that we all know as Intel. ... There will be more let us just gather a few more things about this first attack. I am sure that Intel works hard on its counterattack and it probably won’t take any prisoners." More on Nvidia vs. Intel verbal warfare "Huang claims how Intel's integrated solutions are "a joke," and goes on by saying that even if Intel manages to increase their integrated graphics tenfold by 2010, that still won’t be enough to beat Nv…
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"When it comes to performance the AMD Phenom X3 8750 performed much faster than the AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ and actually beat out the AMD Phenom X4 9600 (Running the TLB Patch) in a number of benchmarks. It was also able to perform better than the Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 and Core 2 Duo E6750 as seen in the benchmarks." "Throughout testing, the Phenom X3 8750 performed in-line with our expectations, outpacing the dual-core chips more often than not, and falling behind the quad-cores in all of the multi-threaded applications. Despite a huge clock speed disadvantage, the Phenom X3 8750 was able to outpace the 3.0GHz Core 2 Duo E6850 in a handful of tests, and in all but a …
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Abit reportedly to phase out the market after Intel 4 series chipset launch "Second-tier motherboard maker Abit is reportedly concidering phasing out of the motherboard market after evaluating its shipment performance of Intel 4 series motherboards, according to channel sources."
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http://www.case-mod.com/ocz-oczmsnia-neura...nge-p-3947.html Well then...
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I wonder if they thought of adding a heat sink to help overclock this ;-) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27661196/
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Marvell makes ultrasmall wall plug computer The idea is to make make high-performance, ultracompact and green computer that you can plug right into a wall power socket and let it be on all the time thanks to its ultralow power consumption. According to Marvel, the SheevaPlug draws less than one tenth of the power of a typical PC being used as a home server. Though very much similar to a Powerline adapter in shape and size, the SheevaPlug computer contains a gigahertz class processor to offer PC-like performance. The current model uses a Marvell Kirkwood processor running at 1.2GHz, is equipped with 512 MB of Flash storage and 512MB DRAM and connects to a netw…
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10414903-1.html At only 9.5mm, the regular 2.5-inch laptop hard drive is already very thin compared with the 25.4mm of the 3.5-inch desktop hard drive. But Seagate, one of the bigger hard-drive makers around, just decided to go even slimmer. The company announced Monday the Momentus Thin, a new 2.5-inch-based laptop hard drive that's 25 percent thinner, at only 7mm.
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Intel and Micron Double Flash Storage Capacity http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/arti...meter_nand.html The 25nm process produces 8 gigabytes (GB) of storage in a single NAND device, creating a high-capacity storage solution for today's tiny consumer gadgets. It measures just 167mm2 -- small enough to fit through the hole in the middle of a compact disc (CD), yet packs more than 10 times the data capacity of that CD (a standard CD holds 700 megabytes of data)."
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I am too much of a Camaro fan not to share this when I saw it on Newegg. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856502001 They also come with the Intel Atom. I kind of wish they made a "Z28" version that used a i7 with a H50 cooler with the radiator in the front like a car radiator.
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Western Digital ships the industry's first serial ATA (SATA) 3TB internal hard drive http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9191781/Western_Digital_ships_highest_capacity_SATA_hard_drive The WD Caviar Green 2.5TB and 3TB hard drives run at 5400 RPMs and are designed for use as secondary external storage systems and internal desktop drives in 64-bit systems, meaning the drives will not work with older operating systems like the still widely-used Windows XP. Newer operating systems, such as Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Mac OS X do support 4K drive sectors. Linux-based systems require Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware to run the new drives. Mos…
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