Posted on 20 August 2008
As you probably know by now, Intel’s future chip architecture will be called “Core i7″ and not Nehalem as previously thought (Nehalem was just the codename). Yesterday, at the Intel Developers Forum conference, Intel released some more information about the chips, but we will present you only the important stuff.
It seems like the Core i7 [...]
Tags: Auburndale, Chipsets, Clarksfield, Core i7, Havendale, Intel, Intel Chips, Intel Chipsets, Intel Core, Intel Core i7, Intel Developers Forum, Intel Nehalem, Intel Nehalem Architecture, Lynnfield, Microarchitecture, Nehalem Architecture, QuickPath Interconnect, Turbo Mode
Posted on 04 August 2008
The Siggraph industry conference starts on August 11 and it will take place in Los Angeles. It is said that Intel will give us technical details about their new microprocessor family called Larrabee. These new chips will compete against NVIDIA and ATI on the computer graphics market, but those will also perform a lot of [...]
Tags: ATI, Chip Architecture, Chip Design, Chips, Intel, Intel Core, Intel Larrabee, Intel Microprocessor, Intel x86, Larrabee, Larrabee Chip, Microprocessors, nvidia, Right-hand Turn, x86
Posted on 11 July 2008
Well, this story should make us really happy, but there are some important drawbacks which makes us ignore the importance of the latest hard-drive unveiled by Seagate. It’s the Barracuda 7200.11 with 1.5TB of storage on a single drive which makes Seagate very proud as this is the “the single largest capacity hard drive jump [...]
Tags: 1.5TB, 1.5TB Barracuda, Barracuda, Barracuda 7200.11, Hard Drive, HDD, Momentus, Seagate, Seagate Barracuda, Seagate Momentus
Posted on 09 July 2008
Samsung started the mass production of the 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch MLC-based solid state drives. The SSDs will be available in two versions: a 64GB and a 128GB. The Samsung SSD has a write speed of 70MB/s and a read speed of 90MB/s while its power consumption is approximately 0.2-watts in standby mode and 0.5-watts in [...]
Tags: 1.8-INCH, 1.8-INCH SSD, 128GB SSD, 2.5-INCH, 2.5-INCH SSD, MLC, MLC-BASED SSD, Samsung, Samsung SSD, SLC, SSD
Posted on 25 June 2008
ATI knows best their interest therefore they took action and released another impressive graphic card: the Radeon HD 4870. The dual-slot graphic card was unveiled after a few days ago ATI presented the Radeon HD 4850.
This super-card will come as a Diamond Multimedia version and it will feature 512MB of DDR5 memory, and a 725MHz [...]
Tags: ATI, ATI Radeon, ATI Radeon HD, ATI Radeon HD 4870, CrossFireX, Diamond Multimedia, graphic card, Hardware, Radeon HD 4870
Posted on 19 June 2008
NVIDIA is looking to keep up and to honor their reputation and they unveiled the GeForce 9800 GTX+ which is a “sequel” of the previous GeForce 9800 GTX. The new graphic card is based on 55nm technology and it features a core clock of 738 MHz, a shader clock of 1836 MHz, 512MB GDDR3 which [...]
Tags: GeForce, GeForce 9800 GTX+, graphic card, Hardware, nvidia, NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+
Posted on 16 June 2008
Intel is preparing to introduce three new desktop processors, based on their Nehalem architecture. There will be two quad processors and one extreme, for gaming platforms.
The processors will be codenamed Bloomfield and will clock at 2.66Ghz, 2.93Ghz and, respectively, 3.2Ghz, supporting 1066Mhz DDR3 memories.
The company claimed that the Extreme CPU will run at 6.4GT/s, while [...]
Tags: Core 2 Extreme, Core 2 Quad, CPU, Extreme, Intel, Intel CPU, Intel Extreme, Intel Nehalem, Nehalem, Processor, Quad Core
Posted on 12 June 2008
The ReallyCool Keyboard combines what are supposed to be two of the most appreciated aspects of a keyboard: is very silent, and waterproof, so you can relax if you spill whatever you’re drinking on it. Besides, you can type under water, if you’re one of the guys that can’t stay away from their PCs even [...]
Tags: keyboard, really cool, silent keyboard, silicone, waterproof keyboard
Posted on 06 June 2008
This may seem quite unreal, but looks like the future AMD triple and quad-core Phenom processors will have a set of hidden pins that would enable slight modifications in the core’s performance when put together with specific chipsets.
The information popped up when a 2.8GHz Black Edition CPU was mounted on a SB700 motherboard, and began [...]
Tags: AMD, Black Edition, core, CPU, hidden pins, overclocking, Phenom, SB700, SB750
Posted on 03 June 2008
The GeForce 9M series promise a 40 percent higher performance than previous types of notebook graphics card (which was of 8M) and are bringing Hybrid SLI for the first time into laptops. The powerful GPU adjusts its efforts pending on the tasks assigned to it.
Among its characteristics, we can find the PureVideo HD video processing, [...]
Tags: GeForce, GeForce 9M GPU, GPU, HD, Hybrid SLI, laptop, notebook, PureVideo, video processing