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News: AMD Launches Athlon Neo MV-40 for Ultra thin laptop |
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Written by FC
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Jan 07, 2009 at 12:53 AM |
AMD today announced the availability of the AMD platform for ultrathin notebooks, enabling exceedingly thin and light OEM designs with rich entertainment capabilities at an affordable price. The Athlon Neo MV-40 processor runs at 1.6GHz with 512KB of cache and a 15W power envelope. Previously codenamed "Yukon," the platform is based on the new AMD Athlon Neo processor, ATI Radeon X1250 integrated graphics and optional ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3410 discrete graphics and brings true HD entertainment to a new category of stylish notebook PCs. The AMD platform debuts within the HP Pavilion dv2 Entertainment Notebook PC ultrathin notebook, which measures less than one-inch thick and weighs less than four pounds. The HP Pavilion dv2 also comes equipped with a 12.1-inch diagonal LED BrightView display, nearly full-size keyboard, and optional external optical disc drive with Blu-ray capability.
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Video: Apple launches keyboard-free laptop |
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Review: PC vs XboX 360 vs PlayStation 3 Graphics Comparison! |
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Written by Review Hunter
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Jan 05, 2009 at 11:00 PM |
Back in 2006 (when the current generation of consoles was still called the next generation) we did our first Xbox 360 vs. PlayStation 3 graphics comparison. Since then we've released rounds 2, 3, and 4, but we hadn't touched the third rail--the PC--until now. The graphics comparison features started out as a way to examine which console had better graphics, but readers began asking us to include PC image comparisons for games available on all three platforms. We focused on more recent games for our current comparison, because those are the games people are still buying and playing. You'll likely recognize many of the shots from our previous graphics comparisons. The results aren't terribly surprising, but the differences are still interesting to see. A well-equipped PC beats both consoles easily-of course, that same PC also costs three to four times more than either of the consoles.
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Video: 6GHz AMD-Boston-Overclock on Phenom II |
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Review: Best CPU Cooler Performance - Q4 2008 |
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Written by Review Hunter
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Jan 05, 2009 at 10:42 PM |
From my experience, 2008 has been a very good year for CPU coolers. We've tested the OCZ Vendetta 2 to perform as well or better than coolers twice its price, and we've discovered that the Thermaltake V14 Pro can deliver top cooling performance while looking good. But heading into 2009 we must bid farewell to the LGA775 platform, which has been the home to many of our most popular products, and welcome in the new LGA1366 socket for the Intel Core i7 CPU & X58 platform. This Best CPU Cooler Performance - Q4 2008 article will be the last foreseeable socket T series round-up from Benchmark Reviews, unless something really big changes the landscape. (Thanks Olin.)
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Review: Foxconn Blood Rage - If Looks Could Kill |
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Written by Review Hunter
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Jan 03, 2009 at 02:02 PM |
Much of the initial crowd "pop" reaction to Foxconn's Blood Rage is related to pictures of the motherboard that have been on the forum based cha-cha-cha circuit for several months now. We'll be the first to tell you, good looks do not necessarily a great motherboard make. But we have to admit, a passing glance at the Blood Rage is compelling enough to create the desire of at least taking a deeper look into what makes this thing tick.
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Review: Thermaltake Bigwater 760i Liquid Cooling System |
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Written by Review Hunter
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Jan 03, 2009 at 01:54 PM |
The Thermaltake Bigwater 760i 2U Bay Drives Liquid Cooling System is a packaged setup that makes water cooling a breeze. The primary component of the Bigwater 760i, which consists of the reservoir, heat exchanger and fan, mounts within two 5.25" drive bays. The Thermaltake 760i features a pure copper waterblock with "Redundant Micro Channel Design" for improved heat transfer. It has quick disconnect connectors with automatic non-spill valves (so no coolant can spill within your PC). The Thermaltake Bigwater Liquid Cooling System also features an adjustable, blue LED fan and a louvered fin Motorsports Radiator with Dimple Tube Technology.
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News: Nvidia 40nm Desktop GPUs Line-Up For 2009 |
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Written by FC
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Dec 28, 2008 at 11:05 PM |
According to some documents VR-Zone has seen, Nvidia is preparing a move to 40nm process technology for their top to bottom GPU line-up by Q2 next year.
This transition to 40nm will first take place with their high end GT212 GPU in Q2 follows by the mainstream GT214 and GT216 as well as value GT218 in Q3. GT212 will be replacing the 55nm GT200 so you can expect pretty short lifespan for the upcoming GTX295 and GTX285 cards. (Thanks Steve.)
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Review: DFI LanParty DK P45-T3RSB Plus Motherboard |
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Written by Review Hunter
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Dec 27, 2008 at 03:52 AM |
In this review, we'll be taking a look at the DFI LanParty DK P45-T3RSB Plus motherboard. It's one of the many products which fall under DFI's Dark Series range of motherboards. It utilises Intel's already proven P45 chipset with ICHR10, supporting 1333/1066/800MHz FSB, DDR3 ram (upto DDR3-1800/OC) and Crossfire configuration. Four DDR3 DIMM slots allow upto 16Gb ram to be installed, not to mention onboard gigabit ethernet, HD audio and RAID functions. Looking at the specifications, this motherboard is feature-rich and should compete very well against others in its class.
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Review: AMD Phenom II 920 & 940 |
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Written by Review Hunter
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Dec 27, 2008 at 03:50 AM |
We here in HWBOX.gr therefore, after frankly thorough studies and endless trials, we reached in the point to be possible to offer to you comparative between the big opponents in the sector of CPU, so as to you judge also alone you who will be most suitable for your Christmas purchases.
Thus, "absolute" comparative Intel VS AMD for the Christmas 2008 is almost partially [klik] far. Conteplate: AMD Phenom II 920 Vs AMD Phenom II 940 Vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 Vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 Vs Intel Core i7 920 Vs Intel Core i7 940…
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News: Nvidia's Solution To Defective GPUs - Buy Our New Chips |
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Written by FC
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Dec 27, 2008 at 03:47 AM |
Nvidia has come out with a new GPU called NB8E-SET which is essentially NB8E-SE with the new underfill. NB8E-SE is used on many notebooks most commonly advertised as GeForce 8700M GT, GeForce 8800M GS or GeForce 9650M GS. NB8E-SET (G84-751) uses the new Hitachi underfill and is clocked at 625MHz core and 128-bit 800MHz GDDR2/3 memories similar to the current NB8E-SE.
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News: AMD desktop CPU schedule updated |
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Written by FC
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Dec 27, 2008 at 03:45 AM |
AMD plans to launch six 45nm CPUs under its Athlon line including the quad-core Athlon X4 615 and 605 and triple-core Athlon X3 420 and 410 in April next year and dual-core Athlon X2 240 and 235 in June, according to sources at motherboard makers.
Last order notice for the company's upcoming 45nm AM2+ Phenom II X4 920 and 940 Black Edition CPUs, will be issued in May next year, while AMD has already stopped taking orders for its quad-core Phenom X4 9650 this month. AMD's Phenom X4 9950 (140W) and 9850 (125W) will have their last order notice issued in March next year, and Phenom X4 9750, 9850 (95W) and 9950 (125W) will be in June.
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Written by Willyam Anton
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Dec 25, 2008 at 01:32 PM |
Xpentor crews would like to wish those who celebrate christmas around the world a Merry Christmas! and for the others who aren't celebrating a happy holiday! God bless you all!
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Review: Athlon X2 7750 vs. Intel E5200 OC & Value |
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Written by Review Hunter
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Dec 23, 2008 at 12:50 AM |
We've overclocked the latest Athlon X2 7750 Black Edition and a retail Intel Pentium Dual Core E5200 to the most stable operating frequency they would manage, air cooled, with a pair of similarly priced Asus motherboards: the P5Q Deluxe and M3A79-T.
At this point we'd naturally show off CPU-Z screenshots and BIOS shots of the Athlon X2 7750 Black Edition, however a component on the M3A79-T died towards the end of our testing, leaving us without Radeon HD 4830 results and the last few pictures so we have to apologise! Previous to this however, we had benchmarked the new 7750 BE at just 3.1GHz stable, although we found it would boot into Windows all the way up to 3.4GHz but wouldn't sit through the tests.
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News: EVGA to Ship New 55nm GTX260 Tomorrow |
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Written by FC
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Dec 23, 2008 at 12:47 AM |
Since Inno3D 55nm version of GeForce GTX260 hit Japanese market a couple of days ago, EVGA’s new 55nm GTX260 also pops up in Europe. There will be at least three models of EVGA 55nm GTX 260: the reference clocked, Super Clocked and Super Super Clocked cards. Some details of EVGA 55nm GTX260 can be found at an Austrian retail website DiTech. Its Core/Shader/Memory clock is 626/1350/1058MHz (2106MHz Data Rate), a bit higher than Inno3D 55nm GTX260. The memory interface and capacity are 448bit and 896MB. The Super Super Clocked card is anticipated to work at least 650MHz.
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News: Windows 7 Beta 1 download on January 5, 2009? |
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Written by FC
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Dec 23, 2008 at 12:44 AM |
PDC attendees got the Windows 7 pre-beta build and, while MDC attendees appear to be the only group that will receive a physical copy of Windows 7 Beta 1, other Microsoft enthusiast groups will have access to Beta 1 via download. Testers are already being promised Beta 1 (download-only) in English, German, Japanese, and Arabic, with access starting sometime in early 2009. When I covered the fact that Microsoft sent out invites to potential testers, I gave January 5 as a possible date for the download. I don't entirely trust this source, but that same date seems to have shown up in other reports.
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Browser: Opera 9.63 Build 10476 Final |
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Contributed by Daniel
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Dec 17, 2008 at 08:17 AM |
The most full-featured Internet power tool on the market, Opera includes pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, integrated searches, and advanced functions like Opera's groundbreaking E-mail program, RSS Newsfeeds and IRC chat. And because we know that our users have different needs, you can customize the look and content of your Opera browser with a few clicks of the mouse.
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Preview: GeForce GTX295 and HD4870 X2 - Who Is better? |
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Written by Review Hunter
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Dec 17, 2008 at 08:15 AM |
AMD Radeon HD4870 X2 has prevailed thanks to its great performance since it was released on August 12nd. But NVIDIA is plannting to launch its flagship card - GeForce GTX295 on Jan 8th 2009 to fight back.
Vr-zone has ever leaked several pictures of GeForce GTX295, but we what we really expect is its real benchmark. Thanks to our friend site IT168, more details are finally exposed.
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Hardware News items, Blog posts | ZDNetNews to know: Macworld, CES preview, Windows 7
News items, Blog posts relating to HardwareMacworld Coverage: Photos: Jobs fill-in touts media, MacBook updates Jason D. O'Grady: Live: Philip Schiller keynote at Macworld 2009 Sam Diaz: Apple's final Macworld: Schiller delivers but announcements disappoint Apple expands DRM-free music selection [video] Apple reveals...
Read more... | An interpretation of the cloud
Not so long ago you couldn't run a reasonable size ERP on a single machine at a reasonable cost - but with today's gear you can. So why haven't we all gone back to that nice simple big machine model? I think we are - I think that's what cloud...
Read more... | CES2009: REDFLY PC software coming soon, concept demos of dock and Android driver shown
My new REDFLY C8N arrived today and I was also pleased to get some news about some of the things that Celio Corp is showing off at CES 2009 in Vegas. Celio Corp unveiled their new PC software that lets you use your Windows Mobile device with your Windows PC...
Read more... | CES 2009: First impressions; CES Unveiled [Day 1]
Yes, it's that time of year again. Mere hours after my plane touched the tarmac in a surprisingly chilly Las Vegas, CES 2009 has kicked off with the unofficial opening to the show: CES Unveiled. With consideration to the terrible economic free-fall the world has and continues...
Read more... | Macworld Expo: Color freak
Demonstrations of Xrite/Pantone's ColorMunki Photo color calibration package at Macworld Expo brought out the color freak in me. The package offers an interesting piece of hardware and a software with an easy-to-use interface that looks to take the sweat out of printer and monitor calibration. by David Morgenstern
Read more... | Some like it hot: Why waste dough cooling down a data center?
It is conventional wisdom that computer innards don't like excessive heat, which is why most data centers are conservatively cooled with powerful air-conditioners to a temperature range of between 68 degrees and 81 degrees Fahrenheit. This theory has even got its very own law explaining it, called the Arrhenius Equation....
Read more... | MacBook Pro 17 (Early 2009) observations
For me the new, unibody MacBook Pro 17-inch (PN MB604LL/A) is probably the most exciting thing announced here at Macworld Expo. Not only because I'm more of a hardware guy but also because I'm a MacBook freak. So, where to start? The MBP has three compelling new features. ...
Read more... | Macworld show floor: More than just iPhone covers and iPod speakers?
Clearly, the jury is back on the Macworld keynote this morning. The "new and exciting" announced on stage this morning was, well, mostly new but hardly exciting. That's why I was expecting to see some great things on the expo floor today. Also see: Live: Philip Schiller keynote at...
Read more... | Macworld Expo 2009 keynote stream posted
Apple has posted a stream of today's keynote address by Phil Schiller at Macworld Expo here in San Francisco. The Apple Keynotes podcast iTunes has not yet been updated as of this writing. Apple's Web site features rotating pages with new announcements today. All the information can...
Read more... | Cloud Computing: Apple vs. Microsoft
Both Apple and Microsoft rolled out the beginnings of a cloud computing strategy on Tuesday. Apple introduced a beta of its iWork.com document sharing service and Microsoft's Mac Business Unit unveiled Document Collaboration Companion for Mac Beta. At the Macworld Expo keynote, Phil...
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