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Nehalem to hit the market as 'Core i7'? |
Posted by Winston Chim
on Friday, 08 August 2008. 19:28 GMT
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Techreport
"For at least a couple of years now, Intel has been referring to its next-generation architecture as "Nehalem." The rumor mill suggests Nehalem will debut in the form of Bloomfield desktop chips, followed by Lynnfield, Havendale, Clarksfield, and Auburndale CPUs for low-end desktops and notebooks. Those are all code names, however. What brand will Intel actually slap on Nehalem product boxes?
Reporters at Chinese site Expreview claim to have the answer. They've posted two glossy product logos emblazoned with the words, "Core i7 inside™." The logos have the same shapes and layouts as existing Core 2 and Pentium labels, but they're glossier and feature shiny blue and black gradient patterns.
Core i7 doesn't exactly roll off the tongue, but then again, it's a tad less redundant than "Core 2 Duo"—especially for Italian speakers. As for why Intel chose the "i7" suffix, that could have to do with the chipmaker's old naming scheme: following the i486, the original Pentium could've been called i586, while P6-class chips from the current Core series might have been known as i686. The i786 moniker seems like it could be next in line, but who knows where that would leave the Pentium 4 and Itanium?"
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CPU3D Review: Tetrapad Edge Solid Mouse Pad |
Posted by Winston Chim
on Friday, 08 August 2008. 19:26 GMT
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CPU3D Review: Tetrapad Edge Solid Mouse Pad
A mouse pad that's made from the highest quality using woven glass fibre coated in Teflon, providing long lasting and extremely smooth glide. Who would have thought ... a mouse pad that's so high-tech. Our CPU3D review team takes a quick look at how this product could improve your gaming.
"... If you want a durable and professional looking mat at an affordable price I highly recommended the Tetrapad "EDGE".
Read the rest of the review ... HERE.
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Intel DX48BT2 Motherboard Reviewed @ [H] |
Posted by Winston Chim
on Friday, 08 August 2008. 19:24 GMT
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HardOCP
"Intel’s own motherboard answer to its X48 chipset, the DX48BT2, holds a lot of promise. From its sleek looks to its feature rich design, is this board is lining up to be a serious choice for those wanting to go an unbeaten enthusiast path?
... The DX48BT2 is designed to be feature complete out of the box, requiring only a minimal number of components for a working system, including the following: an Intel LGA 775 processor, DDR3 memory, a video card, drives, and a PSU. Intel designed the following ports in to the DX48BT2: 6 SATA II ports (RAID 0, 1, 0+1 and 5 capable) on the Intel ICH9R controller; 1 ATA-133 IDE port and 2 eSATA ports (RAID 0, 1, and 0+1 capable) on the Marvell controller; 12 USB 2.0 capable ports (8 in rear panel, and 2 onboard headers supporting 2 ports each); 2 IEEE 1394 capable ports (1 in rear panel, and 1 onboard header); 1 x Intel GigE Ethernet port in the rear panel; Intel 8-channel HD audio codec featuring an S/PDIF optical output port; and an onboard power button. Note that the board does not have any PS/2 keyboard or mouse ports integrated in to its design."
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CPU3D Exclusive: i34 Day 1 Video Footage |
Posted by Winston Chim
on Friday, 08 August 2008. 11:34 GMT
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CPU3D Exclusive: i34 Day 1 Video Footage
CPU3D is proud to present a full and comprehensive coverage of the Multiplay i34 LAN event aka M-Festival, with a more than 2,500+ gamers attending. It is one of UK's largest LAN event and this time it's being held at Stoneleigh Park, Conventry.
It's our third time we've attended, we'll be giving an exclusive and comprehensive coverage ... right here @ CPU3D. We'll be checking out the booths from manufactuers such as Coolermaster Crucial, Foxconn, MSI, Antec and many more. Retailers Scan, Aqua PCs, Kustom PCs and CyberPower will also have booths to show off their new range of products.
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BT injects life into its network |
Posted by Winston Chim
on Friday, 08 August 2008. 10:47 GMT
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BBC
"Insights from artificial life could soon be helping run BT's networks. The telecommunications firm wants to give its networks life-like abilities so they can self-regulate, recover from injury and respond to changing demands. BT is keen to use these techniques to make wireless networks more reliable and adaptable and help distribute net-based services.
It unveiled its research at the Artificial Life XI conference taking place in Winchester this week. At the ALife conference biologists, computer scientists, roboticists, and philosophers are debating ways to borrow ideas from life to either mimic it in hardware or software or create it from scratch.
"If we look at the biological world, there is a huge amount of change, complexity, and adaptation," said former biologist Paul Marrow who works in BT's Broadband Applications Research Centre.
"These artificial life ideas are a very useful source of inspiration as the products and services we provide become increasingly complex and demanding in terms of resources."
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ASUS to Launch S101 in September with 64GB SSD |
Posted by Winston Chim
on Friday, 08 August 2008. 10:45 GMT
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Dailytech
"S101 started life as an Eee but the moniker will be dropped before the September launch. ASUS is the firm mostly responsible for kicking off the netbook trend with its Eee PC computers. The Eee PC at first was a small, lightweight netbook that ran on Linux and was intended mostly for surfing the net, listening to music, and chatting with friends.
Since its introduction the Eee PC has grown and become more of an ultraportable in price and features in some of the high-end models. ASUS has announced a new system called the Eee S101 that would have taken the Eee brand to a much higher price range. iTech News Net reports that ASUS will drop the Eee branding from the computer to reflect its higher price tag of $899.
At $899 the notebook will get a 64GB SSD. Users willing to make due with a 32GB SSD will be able to get the S101 for $699. The other features of the notebook will be the same between the two models. The S101 will use a 10.2-inch LED backlit LCD and will be powered by an Intel Atom processor.
HKEPC reports that the Atom used in the notebook is the N270 running at 1.6GHz with a 533 MHz FSB. The S101 is a very thin profile notebook along the lines of the MacBook Air with a thickness of only 16 to 25mm. The notebook will be officially launched in September."
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AMD fires up pro graphics cards |
Posted by Winston Chim
on Friday, 08 August 2008. 10:43 GMT
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"AMD HAS introduced a new brand for the company’s professional graphics accelerators: ATI FirePro. The frim reckons the brand reflects its “continuing and evolving commitment to the professional graphics market.”
Janet Matsuda, senior director, AMD Professional Graphics reckons, “ATI has been known for delivering value-priced solutions for CAD and DCC professionals. The product reviews over the past year have validated the fact that ATI offers outstanding application performance as well.”
ATI FirePro V5700 features 512MB of frame buffer memory, dual link DVI and Display Port connections. Its true 30-bit display engine produces more than one billion colours at any given time. Unified Video Decoder 2.0 provides full Blu-ray feature support including dual-stream and picture in a picture (PIP) capabilities, and handles decoding of various formats in the graphics processing unit (GPU), which helps free up the CPU to handle other tasks.
The ATI FirePro V3700 features 256 MB of frame buffer memory, two dual-link DVI connectors and VGA mode support on all display outlets.Both cards deliver the industry standard support and features important to today’s CAD and DCC users, including Microsoft DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL 2.0 support, PCI Express 2.0 interface and Shader Model 4.1."
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CPU3D Review: MSI N9600GT Hybrid Freezer (1Gb DDR3) |
Posted by Winston Chim
on Thursday, 07 August 2008. 16:14 GMT
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CPU3D Review: MSI N9600GT Hybrid Freezer (1Gb DDR3)
We've seen a lot of graphic cards with 512Mb of memory, but now manufacturers are starting to include 1Gb of ram on their mainstream cards. The MSI N9600GT Hybrid Freezer not only features Nvidia's Geforce 9600GT but also 1Gb of DDR3 ram and a very special and unique custom cooler that only spins when it gets hot enough. This means total silence during Windows operation.
 
"... The MSI N9600GT Hybrid Freezer offer total silent operation and 1Gb of DDR3 ram. This card is probably more suited to the mainstream gamer who's after silence and occaisonal high resolution gaming. "
Read the rest of the review ... HERE.
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AMD intros FirePro graphics cards for professionals |
Posted by Winston Chim
on Thursday, 07 August 2008. 15:47 GMT
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Techreport
"Those who work in professional graphics and computer-aided design now have another line of graphics cards to choose from. AMD has introduced two professional graphics cards under a new umbrella: the FirePro series The cards cards include the ATI FirePro V5700, which will come out in September at $599, and the FirePro V3700, which AMD says is already "generally available" at $99.
Despite the relatively high asking price, the FirePro V5700 doesn't dazzle with its specifications. AMD outfits the card with 320 stream processors, 512MB of memory (with bandwidth of just 29GB/s), one DVI output, and dual DisplayPort outputs. The cheaper FirePro V3700 features only 40 SPs, 256MB of memory (with paltry 15GB/s bandwidth), two DVI connections, and one VGA output. That said, both offerings have Shader Model 4.1 support and 30-bit display engines, and FireGL-series cards with better specs cost far more.
AMD's press release quotes Dell Product Group Director Antonio Julio as saying FirePro cards will soon make their way into Dell Precision workstations. Dell already offers AMD FireGL professional GPUs in some of those systems."
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Net address bug worse than feared |
Posted by Winston Chim
on Thursday, 07 August 2008. 13:50 GMT
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BBC
"A recently found flaw in the internet's addressing system is worse than first feared, says the man who found it. Dan Kaminsky made his comments when speaking publicly for the first time about his discovery at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas. He said fixes for the flaw in the net's Domain Name System (DNS) had focused on web browsers but it could be abused by hackers in many other ways.
"Every network is at risk," he said. "That's what this flaw has shown." The DNS acts as the internet's address books and helps computers translate the website names people prefer (such as bbc.co.uk) into the numbers computers use (212.58.224.131).
Mr Kaminsky discovered a way for malicious hackers to hijack DNS and re-direct people to fake pages even if they typed in the correct address for a website. In his talk Mr Kaminsky detailed 15 other ways for the flaw to be exploited.
Via the flaw hi-tech criminals or pranksters could target FTP services, mail servers, spam filters, Telnet and the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) that helps to make web-based transactions more secure. "There are a ton of different paths that lead to doom," he said.
But the DNS threat was played down by net giant VeriSign which issues many of the security certificates used in SSL. It told BBC News its system was "not vulnerable".
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AMD Officially Announces 790GX Chipset |
Posted by Winston Chim
on Thursday, 07 August 2008. 11:46 GMT
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Dailytech
"AMD 790GX chipset promises best overclocking available for Phenom Black Edition CPUs. AMD officially announced its new AMD 790GX platform today. The 790GX is aimed at the performance computer users and packs in a host of features. One of the main features of the 790GX is advanced overclocking capability when paired with Phenom Black Edition processors.
The 790GX features AMD's Overdrive interface that allows easy overclocking of the Phenom Black Edition processors. The significant performance increase the platform can deliver to gamers using Black Edition processors is thanks to what AMD calls Advanced Clock Calibration technology.
The 790GX platform uses on-board ATI Radeon HD 3300 series graphics. AMD claims that the HD 3300 onboard GPU is the best performing on-board GPU available. AMD backs that claim up with a 3DMark Vantage score in excess of 2900 -- making the HD 3300 the fastest on-board GPU as of August 6, 2008.
In addition to laying claim to the fastest on-board GPU, AMD says that the 790GX also supports Hybrid CrossFireX technology to pair the performance of the on-board GPU with either an ATI Radeon HD 3400 or HD 2400 series discrete video card. The platform also supports CrossFireX for running multiple discrete video cards at once."
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