• Intel Unveils Game-Changing Direction For Business PCs

    By on April 25, 2006 3:35 am

    SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 24, 2006 – The way the world views and uses business PCs is about to change with the introduction of Intel Corporation’s new Intel® vPro™ technology, a revolutionary shift in desktop PC security and manageability along with remarkable energy-saving computing performance. Businesses today are plagued...

  • Mushkin to Launch Power Supply Line

    By on April 25, 2006 3:07 am

    According to LegitReviews, during a recent conversation with Mushkin, the premium Memory Company, it was discovered that Mushkin is just a number of weeks away from launching thier own power supply series. With SLI and CrossFire systems selling at higher than expected volumes there has been a shortage of...

  • Samsung now the Largest Semiconductor Company

    By on April 25, 2006 2:48 am

    The Korean Stock Exchange recently announced that Samsung Electronics is now the largest semiconductor company in the world ahead of Intel Corporation. This morning, Intel Corporation had a market capitalization of $ 112B USD. Samsung Electronics, on the other hand, closed trading on Friday with a market cap of...

  • New Alloy provides Cooling based on Magnetism

    By on April 24, 2006 5:08 pm

    Researchers at the University of Cambridge have discovered a material that gives a whole new complexion to the term ‘fridge magnet’. When this alloy is placed in a magnetic field, it gets colder. Karl Sandeman and his co-workers think that their material – a blend of cobalt, manganese, silicon...

  • Intel Yonah 3.4GHz breaks 19k 3D Mark 05 Air-cooled CrossFire!

    By on April 24, 2006 4:33 pm

    Tyrou has started overclocking the Intel Yonah Core Duo T2600 and has done some tests with ATi X1900XT Cross-Fire on the AOpen i975x motherboard. Together with Corsair 5400UL low latency DDR2 Memory, he has obtained some really impressive results: Over 19,000 3D Mark 05 with just aircooling on the...

  • ABIT AW8-D (Intel 975X) launched

    By on April 24, 2006 1:50 pm

    Today sees the launch of the new ABIT AW8D motherboard, based on the Intel 975X express chipset. The road to ultimate performance is fraught with twists and turns. Handling the hairpin turns of overclocking takes total control – complete interaction between man and machine. One wrong maneuver could mean...

  • Intel Kentsfield Has 2 x 4MB L2 Cache

    By on April 24, 2006 11:14 am

    We have heard more about Kentsfield, the 65nm Quad Core processor from a recent Intel briefing and it will be having 2 x 4MB of L2 cache which is essentially 2 Conroe cores on the same package. Kentsfield is slated for release in Q1 2007 and will compete against...

  • Gigabyte GA-G1975X G1-Turbo Vcore Droop: Dont believe CPUZ!

    By on April 24, 2006 11:10 am

    From tests done by one of our overclockers, the VCore on the Gigabyte GA-G1975X G1-Turbo droops only 0.03v to 0.05v during CPU load when measured from the MOSFET leg of the motherboard. This is not accurately represented by the CPUZ reading which can show up to 0.2v droop! Users...

  • HyperTransport 3.0 Specs Unveiled : 41.6 GB/s Bandwidth

    By on April 24, 2006 10:16 am

    HyperTransport™ Technology Consortium, a standards organization dedicated to developing the industry’s lowest latency, highest bandwidth interconnect technology, today released version 3.0 of the HyperTransport specification. The new standard nearly doubles the bandwidth and speed of the previous HyperTransport 2.0 specification. In addition, HyperTransport 3.0 supports a variety of new...

  • OCZ PC2-6400 GX XTC Series

    By on April 24, 2006 9:55 am

    OCZ today announced the addition of PC2-6400 DDR2 to the Gold XTC series. OCZ Technology now offers a complete line of gamer-grade XTC DDR2 solutions ranging from DDR2-533 to DDR2-1000 to meet the demand of the impending arrival of the new AMD and Intel CPU architectures. The PC2-6400 GX...

  • Inno3D Singapore announces extension of warranty coverage

    By on April 22, 2006 4:06 pm

    Inno3D Singapore announced today that all Inno3D 7600GT, 7900GT and 7900GTX will have extended warranty of 2 years, from the 1 year warranty period in the past. This spells great news for those who value a longer warranty period. This change applies to the cards bought from today onwards.

  • Customers losing business due to Internet downtime

    By on April 22, 2006 7:17 am

    Singapore, 19th April – customers of Internet Colocation provider SphereoSoft have been experiencing downtime for the past few days. SphereoSoft has been defaulting payment to their back-end infrastructure provider Pacific Internet Network Operations Center, and this resulted in Pacific Internet cutting off the internet lines to all customers of...

  • Tomorrow’s Nanotechnology, Today…

    By on April 22, 2006 12:54 am

    A prime example of future technologies happening today. Nanowelding as described in the following article has great potential for extreme miniaturization. The target systems and components would posess lower resistance and smaller welds allowing more resistors into a smaller space. This would do wonders for many components and peripherals,...

  • The Coolest Remote Controlled Vehicle on Earth (or in Low Earth Orbit)

    By on April 21, 2006 1:01 pm

    Watching this machine at “work” makes the materials engineering and miniaturisation technologies evident. But mostly it’s just mega-cool!

  • The 7600GT Shoot-Out

    By on April 20, 2006 3:39 pm

    Looking for a two hundred dollar Video Card upgrade to enjoy the new games at a decent frame rate? Your “Google” and “Price Lists” search would probably land you somewhere in the 7600GT puddle. But this is no small puddle, and you find it tough to decide on which...

  • DFI LAN Party CFX3200 DR Review + BIOS Guide

    By on April 18, 2006 5:12 pm

    The DFI LAN Party CFX3200 DR is the second motherboard based on the ATI CrossFire CFX3200 chipset which offers the latest technological feature such as dual x16 PCI Express Lane capability relying on just one chipset. Like the ASUS A8R32 MVP Deluxe we have reviewed just a short while...

  • NVIDIA Geforce 7600 & 7900 GT May come to AGP

    By on April 18, 2006 1:56 pm

    It seems that NVIDIA’s partners are playing with the thought of bridging the 7600GT and 7900GT down to AGP. The 7600GT would replace the 6600GT AGP, while the 7900GT AGP should become the new AGP performance king. The price tags should hover somewhere around USD$ 250-USD$ 300. This should...

  • Quad SLI May Increase Performance, But May Degrade Too

    By on April 18, 2006 1:55 pm

    Systems with quad SLI allow to turn on 32x antialiasing, the maximum level possible today, or to play the latest games in 2560×1600 resolution with all the quality improvement features activated. According to benchmark results obtained by MVKTech, four GeForce 7900 graphics processors may not only provide only slight...

  • Exclusive! ATi’s DIY Overclocking Heroes Summit

    By on April 18, 2006 11:00 am

    China, Beijing, 14th of April – Held over a period of several weeks with the final showdown held in Beijing, heroic and courageous overclockers gathered at the Beijing University’s Memorial Hall for ATi’s DIY Overclocking Heroes’ Summit. The Competition blasted off with 3 levels of tournaments, the low-end, mid-range...

  • Realtek presents WLP3.0 compliant HD Audio Codec: ALC888 & ALC885

    By on April 18, 2006 6:29 am

    The world’s largest Audio Codec supplier, Realtek presented their latest generation of HD Audio Codec, including the top-end ALC885 and the ALC888 which supports VOIP/Skype telephony functions. According to project manager, Mr Chia-Che Tsai, most Audio Codecs in the market now, including Realtek’s ALC882/883, oes not comply with Microsoft’s...