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Hardware or Gadget/Multimedia News (hit read more to go straight to the full story) Courtesy of a couple BIOS updates released by Gigabyte (and leaked CPU support lists), we now know that the X6 1035T will have its six cores set to 2600 MHz / 2.6 GHz, while the X6 1055T will be set @ 2800 MHz / 2.8 GHz. Expanding on the info available it's clear that the highest-end hexa-core prepped by AMD for next month, the Phenom II X6 1075T will be clocked at 3.0 GHz, 333 MHz under Intel's own Core i7 980X EE. Don't expect AMD's chips to take on Intel's EE models but they should give the LGA 1156 Core i7s a run for their money. Now all we need is the prices...  Nanoscale computer chips set to invade your cells If you've followed the progression of CPU tech you've surely learned that improving nanoscale chip fabrication of processors is the key to success these days. Smaller transistors means more speed in any given chip -- or smaller chips of the same speed, an idea that has some researchers pondering what would happen if you were to inject a CPU into your cells. The team, centered at the Instituto de Microelectrónica de Barcelona, was able to insert 3µm chips into living cells. Of those receiving this augmentation 90 percent survived, meaning if you were to get this treatment today you'd only be 10 percent dead. 250 Million of PowerVR Graphics Cores Shipped Imagination Technologies, a leading designer of multimedia processing cores, said recently that its PowerVR graphics acceleration technology has an installed base of over 250 million devices across the mobile phone, media player and embedded markets. Theoretically, this makes PowerVR the most popular graphics accelerating core in the consumer electronics segment. The claim came about seven months after ImgTec announced that its graphics and multimedia processing cores – Meta, Ensigma and PowerVR – have shipped in over 200 million system-on-chip (SoC) devices and enabled over 175 smartphones and media players. Based on the recent claim, it seems that Imagination Technologies’ PowerVR graphics processing core is gaining even higher popularity with the increased importance of multimedia features in mobile devices. Intel Larrabee is set for a comeback Is Larrabee a sleeping beauty or a slain beast? Intel recently canned the first generation of its x86-derived graphics processor, relegating it to a development platform. Now, however, the folks at TechEye have heard from a "key member" of the team at Intel that Larrabee "will come back with a vengeance when you least expect it." The source, purportedly a former member of the Larrabee design team, told TechEye that Intel brought in "some really big hitters" to work on the project. Many of those big hitters are "still hovering around waiting for Larrabee to come online again." Nvidia tapes out GF108 - The littlest uncompetitive chip emerges NVIDIA HAS FINALLY taped out a Fermi GF100 derivative, but it is not what you might think. Contrary to its public bluster, Nvidia isn't going for the high end this time. GF108, the smallest GF100 derivative, has finally taped out. In case you are not following the Nvidia derivatives closely, they usually come out with a round number, G80, G200, GF100, then follow it with four shrinks. The shrinks are x2, usually around 90 percent of the speed of the x0 part with a much smaller die, x4, half the x2, x6, one quarter the x2, and an x8. NVIDIA GeForce 197.13 Drivers Fix Fan Speed Issues NVIDIA has just released the GeForce 197.13 Beta drivers for GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, 200, 300-series and ION desktop GPUs, but not for the new GTX400 series. According to NVIDIA, this driver resolves fan speed issues reported with version 196.75 drivers. [M] 7-way 600 Watt PSU roundup in Venlo Looking for a 600~700W PC power supply but haven't decided yet what to get? In addition to our 2009 summer article we at Madshrimps have tested another four popular products from major brands like Nexus, Enermax, Scythe and Sharkoon. We compared features, performance and efficiency. Which one to get? Read on to find out! Hands on with EVGA's Dual S1366 Mobo, Plus two Intel 6-Core CPUs Cooled by LN2 These six-core processors are, as our readers already know from our features going way back, supported by 12MB of L3 cache, an improved memory controller and also have the addition of AES cryptographic instructions, all within the same TDP as the previous 45nm quad-core generation. And again, they are fully compatible with almost all existing UP and DP LGA1366 boards, provided that you update the BIOS prior to installing these new CPUs.   More HP for your Car by increased air cooling [Thomas] and a buddy were sucking down a few brews when they decided to hack their 2001 Chevy Cavalier for a bit better performance. If they could find a way to bring cooler air to the engine they speculated that they’d see an increase in efficiency. Instead of routing the air intake to a hood scoop, they took off the factory air filter and mounted a cold air filter in its place. PVC pipes were then used to create a delivery path from the front of the vehicle with the output in close proximity to the new filter. They tested their work and discovered a drop in intake temperature from 101 to 48 degrees Fahrenheit at 60 mph, and from 109 to 54 degrees Fahrenheit at 45 mph. Now the sedan runs better and generates more horsepower, all for around $35 in parts. (src: HAD) Lefties get gaming mouse from Razer Razer, the world's leading manufacturer of high-end precision gaming and lifestyle peripherals, today announced the Razer DeathAdder Left Hand Edition, the very first gaming mouse designed with the professional left-handed gamer in mind. The Razer DeathAdder Left Hand Edition was created to meet community demands for a mouse that was purposefully engineered to give lefties the competitive edge, combining a comfortable ergonomic form factor with a powerfully precise 3.5G infrared sensor. Internet Explorer 9 'platform preview' available for download (Vista/7 Only) Microsoft intends to update the platform preview every eight weeks. When feedback indicates that things are up to snuff, a beta version of Internet Explorer 9 will be released. Anyone interested in running the preview will need Windows 7 or Vista. Windows XP has apparently been excluded because the preview relies on "advancements in the display driver model introduced first in Windows Vista." The preview is a 32-bit affair, but Microsoft says it should run on 64-bit versions of Windows without issue. The Intel Xeon 5670: Six Improved Cores The new Xeon “Westmere” 5600 series, has arrived. Basically an improved 32nm version of the impressive Xeon 5500 series “Nehalem” CPU. The new Xeon won’t make a big splash like the Xeon 5500 series did back in March 2009. But who cares? Each core in the Xeon 5600 is a bit faster than the already excellent performing older brother, and you get an extra bonus. You choose: in the same power envelope you get two extra cores or 5-10% higher clockspeed. Or if you keep the number of cores and clockspeed constant, you can get lower power consumption. The most thrifty quadcore Xeon is now specced at a 40W TDP instead of 60W. Enermax MODU87+ 700w PSU Review The battle for the best 80PLUS Gold certified PSU is already in full swing, so how does Enermax's contender fair? G.SKILL PIS Series 4GB Kit 2000MHz (F3-16000CL6D-4GBPIS) G.SKILL has been making affordable memory DIMM's since 1989 and if you've built a computer within the past 2-3 years, you more than likely know exactly who G.SKILL is. It's hard to look passed G.SKILL's value line of memory especially if you're on a budget, but what about the hardcore enthusiast? With their PI Series line of memory, G.SKILL has been known to offer high frequency compatible memory at decent pricing. This DDR3, 2000MHz, 4GB dual channel kit we received from G.SKILL is no exception. With 6-9-6-24 2N timings and 2000MHz of frequency to play with, we were very eager to see what this PI Series kit was capable of. GIGABYTE GA-890GPA-UD3H (AMD 890GX) Motherboard Now that the AMD 890GX chipset is out we are seeing all of the manufacturers getting their boards into play. This is to be expected as the 890GX is a great chipset. But as with everything, each manufacturer will have its own method of implementation. Yes, the chipset is the same and the performance is going to be similar, but there are going to be very different feature sets. Today we take a look at one of the top motherboard manufacturers and their flavor of 890GX motherboard. This is the GA-890GPA-UD3H; it features what GIGABYTE likes to call their 333 onboard acceleration. This is the combination of SATA 3.0, USB 3.0 and Power 3X. GIGABYTE rolls this and much more up into a package that costs a shave under $140 at Newegg.com. Cooler Master CM 690 II Advanced Computer Case Review After going over the features and specifications of the CM 690 II Advanced chassis prior to the review, I had high hopes for the case. I wasn't disappointed. Cooler Master has taken the 690 design to the next level in virtually all the important areas. ASUS P7P55D-E Pro Intel P55 LGA 1156 Motherboard Review There are a couple of other decisions that will have to be made, mainly whether or not to get ready for the two other new technologies on the market…SATA 6gb/s, and USB 3. Many new P55 motherboards have onboard SATA 6Gb/s and USB 3, but were you aware that most of them actually use PCI-E lanes to compensate for the lack of buses to utilize these new methods of data transfer, taking those valuable lanes away from the video cards? Today I will be looking at the Asus P7P55D-E Pro, a middle-of-the-road version of Asus’ new P55 motherboards that sport SATA 6Gb/s and USB 3 without PCI-E compens ation. Yes, this board prepares you for the future while allowing you the full use of your PCI-E lanes for SLI or CrossfireX by using Asus’ new PLX implementation. Is the P7P55D-E Pro the P55 board to have? Read on to see! JMicron JMF612 Solid State Drive Western Digital depends on the JMicron JMF612 Solid State Drive controller inside their WD SiliconEdge-Blue SSD to produce 250Mbps reads and 170Mbps write transfers. JMicron has also secured their JMF612 processor in the A-DATA S596, the upcoming Corsair Reactor SSD series, and the yet-to-ever-release Active Media Predator-X7. While the SSD industry grows daily, only a few select manufacturers offer popularly-accepted Flash NAND SSD controllers. In this article, Benchmark Reviews evaluates the JMicron JMF612 Solid State Drive processor. Xclio A380 Color Plus Case Review It seems Xclio put a slightly higher importance on looks than function, but this isn't necessarily a bad thing because I still think it looks awesome. On the other hand, these problems did show in the testing. I don't really have too much to say about the wire management, as some features are there such as mostly everything already being pre-wired, but it doesn't seem like much extra thought was put into making other wiring look clean. For a case as expensive as this, I really would have expected better temperatures, some paint on the inside, some accommodations for wire management, and the simple, but massively convenient, heatsink mounting bracket access hole. OCZ 4GB DDR3-1600 Intel XMP OCZ XMP Edition 4GB DDR3-1600 CL8 modules are optimized for use in the LGA1156 socket Core i5/i7 platform, and as we've seen in our past testing, OCZ modules typically offer great aesthetics and performance, including overclocking headroom. So has OCZ produced another winner with these XMP Edition sticks? Let's find out. Thermaltake V3 Mid-Tower The Thermaltake V3 PC case is geared towards the value-conscious consumer. However, affordable and practical do not always go hand-in-hand, but for Thermaltake this synergy is usually blended and what comes out is more often than not, quite good. This chassis looks like it may live up to some high expectations with its features and design, and a promise to not be hard on the wallet. Well then, let's have a closer look at the Thermaltake V3 mid tower and see how it stacks up. AMD 890GX Chipset Overview The AMD 890GX chipset is obviously an evolutional solution called to put company's product line in order and introduce the new Southbridge. Judging by the features of the latter, it will let manufacturers make motherboards with rich enough features and moderate cost prices. Coolink SWiF2 Series Cooling Fan Roundup Review The best computer systems have the best cooling system. It takes multiple case fans and a powerful CPU fan to keep your system efficient. I am taking a look at three cooling fans from Coolink today to see how well they cool my case. The Coolink SWiF2 80, 92 and 120 are the cooling fans to be tested today. Thermaltake SpinQ VT CPU Cooler Review Thermaltake has been around for many years, creating heatsinks for nearly every market imaginable. Thermaltake's first claim to fame was the Golden Orb, a unique cooler that set the computing world on its ear. Thermaltake has not stopped there, and they are still inventing challenging new designs. Today we take a look at highly awarded SpinQ and see what it has to offer. HIS Radeon 5830 Turbo HIS have sent over their Platinum package HIS 5830 Turbo, supplied with extra software, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (a $60 game) and it comes pre-overclocked above the recommended AMD specs. The HIS 5830 Turbo also sports their iCooler cooling setup which we really liked on the 4xxx HIS cards we reviewed a while back, so let's open the box shall we? be quiet! Pure Power 430W With many users the faith holds itself “more largely and/or higher performance is at the same time better”. This may be often the case, but which many do not know are that one can obtain satisfying results usually even with more favorable products, which have not completely as much achievement as the expensive competition. Straight one within the range of the power packs gave it and gives it still an urge to ever more achievement, which is not needed at all usually. Thus also a power pack is enough under the 500-Watt-Marke for many Gaming systems, as long as without SLI or Crossfire one does. In our current Review we want to therefore present a power pack to you, which is on it out the descriptor “favorable however property” to receive and nevertheless for average Gaming systems sufficient achievement with itself brings. The fuel element quiet! Pure power concentrates here on the substantial and possesses neither a cable management system, nor makes available innumerable connections for the components. Which one can expect from the small force dwarf however, experience you on the following pages.  CoolIT Freezone Elite universal V2 LaunchedAMD's ATI 10.3a Catalyst Driver Update This ATI Catalyst™ driver update will unlock new performance improvements on top of the already previewed features in the initial Catalyst™ 10.3 Preview driver we sampled you in February. This driver will be available to download on March 17th from undgerground.amd.com and it will be called "Catalyst 10.3a Preview". On March 24th we will post the official Catalyst™ 10.3 WHQL certified on amd.com. The difference between the two is that Catalyst™ 10.3a Preview will contain future Eyefinty 6 updates and an Alien vs. Predator optimization which the Catalyst™ 10.3 WHQL posting does not have. 10 Annoying Habits of a Geeky Spouse Everyone has annoying habits, and a sizable part of every successful marriage is learning to live with those things each other does that annoy you. I think it’s safe to say, too, that geeks have some habits that we think are awesome, but that non-geeks find a little…less awesome. Geek Contest: Speed Assembling PCs The Planet is holding competitions to speed-assemble rack-mounted servers. It's like watching latter-day Marines field-strip and assemble their weapons. There is a video on YouTube about this incredible contest. Looks pretty challenging. Pirate Bay Legal Action Dropped In Norway Copyright holders have given up legal efforts to force Norwegian ISP Telenor to block filesharing site The Pirate Bay, one of the parties to the case said. The copyright holders, led by Norway's performing rights society TONO and by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry Norway (IFPI Norge), have lost two rounds in the Norwegian court system, and have now decided against appealing the case to Norway's supreme court. ATI HD 5000 Cards 20x Faster than Intel CPUs For Password Cracking ElcomSoft accelerates the recovery of Wi-Fi passwords and password-protected iPhone and iPod backups by using ATI video cards. The support of ATI Radeon 5000 series video accelerators allows ElcomSoft to perform password recovery up to 20 times faster compared to Intel top of the line quad-core CPUs, and up to two times faster compared to enterprise-level NVIDIA Tesla solutions. NVIDIA Geforce GTX 470 to cost €349 We managed to get some additional prices of upcoming Fermi-based cards and the slower of two will sell for €349 or £299 in the UK market. The plan is to attack the Radeon HD 5870, which is currently selling at roughly the same or a very similar price, as Geforce GTX 470 should end up at least slightly faster in most benchmarks. PowerColor PCS+ HD5870 & HD5850 Video Card We have posted a 2-in-1 evaluation of the PowerColor PCS+ HD5870 & HD5850 video cards today for those of you in the market for a new GPU. If you need an overclocked Radeon 5800+ series card with a custom cooling solution, one of these cards might be right for you. Lucid HYDRA technology accelerates Eyefinity with NVIDIA GPUs The idea is pretty straight forward: because Windows 7 sees the multi-monitor setup as a single contiguous display from the AMD graphics card, the HYDRA driver can accelerate it regardless of the complexity of the driver and hardware on the AMD side. The system on display was using a Radeon HD 5770 from ASUS to run the two monitors and also included a GeForce GTX 26+ graphics card in the secondary PCIe slot. This was of course all running on the MSI Big Bang Fuzion motherboard with the HYDRA 200 chip. The performance scaling ratio here about 32%. That's impressive (but not incredible) and it is tangible and noticeable benefits on a 3840x1200 display configuration. Intel intros 40GB X25-V solid state drive Listed by stores since January (around CES 2010), the 40GB X25-V solid state drive from Intel has now been officially announced and is available for purchase. The new 2.5-inch SSD has 34nm MLC (multi-level cell) NAND Flash memory chips, a SATA 3.0 Gbps interface, a MTBF of 1.2 million hours, and is capable of read and write speeds of up to 170 MB/s and 35 MB/s, respectively. The 40GB X25-V drive is backed by a three-year warranty and can be found priced at $130 in the US and 100 Euro in Europe. Kingston has Westmere-EP-ready DDR3 memory Beside approving the new 2400 MHz HyperX kit, Intel has certified three Kingston ValueRAM DDR3L registered DIMMs for use with the new Westmere-EP server processors. Kingston's modules, a 1GB Single Rank x8, a 2GB Single Rank x4 and a 2GB Dual Rank x8, work at 1333 MHz with CL9 latencies and are powered at 1.35V which makes them low voltage. Massman bursts into World's TOP 10 Overclockers List at HWbotGeForce GTX400 Series to Hit Retail Later Than Expected There’s good news and bad news; the bad news is that the GTX 400 series has been pushed back to April 6th. The good news is that it’s only in reference to retail supply and not the actual NDA; so come the 26th of March we’ll all know what performance will be. If you thought that you were going to pick one up retail that day though you where wrong, the original date for stock to be selling was the 29th but now it seems to be April 6th. This morning we heard that NVIDIA had changed the strategy for sending samples; instead of partners sending them out NVIDIA are taking charge and sending out themselves. We’re not 100% sure why they’re doing this but it could be because NVIDIA doesn’t want any leaks on the results until the 26th. GeForce GTX 480 has 480 CUDA Cores? In several of its communications about Fermi as a GPGPU product (Next-Gen Tesla series) and GF100 GPU, NVIDIA mentioned the GF100 GPU to have 512 physical CUDA cores (shader units) on die. In the run up to the launch of GeForce 400 series however, it appears as if GeForce GTX 480, the higher-end part in the series will have only 480 of its 512 physical CUDA cores enabled, sources at Add-in Card manufacturers confirmed to Bright Side of News. This means that 15 out of 16 SMs will be enabled. It has a 384-bit GDDR5 memory interface holding 1536 MB of memory. Gabe Newell speaks out against Ubisoft DRM At the Game Developers Choice Awards last week, Valve's Gabe Newell chimed in with his thoughts on DRM, and more specifically, Ubisoft's unpopular new approach. Newell received this year's Pioneer Award in part for his work on the Steam content delivery service, which itself is protected with DRM. Steam's DRM is less intrusive than the latest Ubisoft scheme, which requires that gamers have an active Internet connection even when playing Assasin's Creed II's single-player campaign. Newell contends Valve's "what have I done for my customers today?" attitude helps the company avoid some of the negatives associated with DRM. Steam games can be played in offline mode without an Internet connection, and over the years Valve has added numerous useful features to the service itself. USB 3.0 Controller Running Hot, Issues with USB Sticks There seems to be a very reasonable reason behind this, at least if we’re to believe a report from French website 01net that quotes Saeed Arash Far, who is the Director of engineering at Patriot Memory. According to him the current generation of USB 3.0 compatible flash memory controllers are running very hot, which is causing problems in small devices such as USB thumb drives, although there are a couple of ways around this problem. One solution is to use two controllers and run them in tandem, each at a slower clock speed than a single controller. This is not a cheap solution, nor is it especially elegant, but it’s the way things are done at the moment. The problem is that this solution isn’t as reliable as using a single controller, since there’s a slight risk of data corruption. Read More News |
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