Intel Releases More Info About Fast & Efficient Nehalem Architecture

August 20, 2008
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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 chips will be based on the new QuickPath Interconnect and this technique that combines the chips, processors and memory controllers all together, will increased the memory read-write speeds by three times than any other previous microarchitectures.

Intel Core i7 will include a so-called turbo mode that “shifts the processor into a higher gear” without overheating. The…

More Details About Intel’s Larrabee

August 4, 2008
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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 other computing tasks.

Specialists say that the Larrabee will have between 16 and 48 cores compatible with the standard x86 instruction set, and at first looks it seems like all these cores could not compete against next-gen NVIDIA and ATI microprocessors that will feature 256 and 800 cores respectively.

The key for Intel’s Larrabee stands in their…

Seagate Unveils 1.5TB Barracuda 7200.11

July 11, 2008
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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 in the more than half-century history of hard drives – a half-terabyte increase from the previous highest capacity of 1TB, thanks to the capacity-boosting power of perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology”.

Why I don’t like it for the moment? Because it will be out in August and there is no word on pricing therefore we can…

Samsung’s 128GB MLC SSDs Go Mass Production

July 9, 2008
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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 active mode.

Samsung says that its new 128GB SSD will last about 20 times longer than the generally accepted 4-5 year life span of a notebook PC hard drive. It is also expected that this SSDs will also be cheap. Now all we can do is to wait until we can test them.

ATI Unveils The Radeon HD 4870

June 25, 2008
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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 clock speed with 800 stream processors. Also if you want more than you will be very pleased to know that it will support a CrossFireX upgrade. The Radeon HD 4870 it will be out on the market really soon, but no word on the pricing yet.

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NVIDIA Presents The GeForce 9800 GTX+

June 19, 2008
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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 runs at about 1000 MHz, and 2- and 3-Way SLI support. The new GeForce 9800 GTX+ will be available in the middle of July for a price of $229.

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Three Intel Nehalem Processors Due For Q4

June 16, 2008
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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 the others at 4.8GT/s, due to it’s latest QuickPath Interconnect ( QPI ) bus.

The CPUs will be compatible with LGA1366 sockets and will feature 8MB of L3 cache, supporting all Intel’s technologies, except the Trusted eXecution Technology ( TXT ). We should see them in stores as of Q4, this year, for an undisclosed price…

Silent And Waterproof Keyboard

June 12, 2008
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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 when they’re at the pool.

It has no ‘moving parts, being completely wrapped in a silicone outer shell, and you can even put it in a washing machine if you’re too lazy to clean it once in a while. The keyboard is said to be manufactured for use in the medical environment, and it could be…

Overclocking Function For AMD’s Tri And Quad-core Phenoms

June 6, 2008
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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 working at 3GHz. More than that, when paired with a SB750 board, it was performing at 3.2GHz. This would be something new, as no previous CPU had different processing power on different motherboards.

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GeForce 9M GPUs Has 40% Faster Performance

June 3, 2008
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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, multi-display connectivity, display standards including HDMI 1.3, DVI, Display Port 1.1, VGA and support for pretty much all its features. The GeForce 9M GPUs will be launched this summer, bringing a new level of processing power to notebooks.

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