Hardwares
AMD Has an Ace Up Its Sleeve
Taipei (Taiwan) - AMD has pulled a rabbit out of its hat to increase the performance of its existing Phenom triple-core (8000-series) and quad-core (9000-series) processors. Six “hidden pins” on the processors and chipsets are the secret, which, our sources told us, will enable simple overclocking through the southbridge – and accelerate the current processors […]
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Thermalright’s Computer Case is Basically a Huge Radiator
Taipei (Taiwan) – The guys at Thermalright hate computer cooling fans with a passion and have developed a case that’s basically a huge radiator. Consisting of aluminum paneling, ribbed with heatpipes, this case doesn’t need any cooling fans (well, with the exception of the fan in the power supply unit).
Loren Hrabak, a sales engineer […]
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IBM Aims to Cool Chips With Water
A network of tiny pipes of water could be used to cool next-generation PC chips, researchers at IBM have said.
Scientists at the firm have shown off a prototype device layered with thousands of “hair-width” cooling arteries. They believe it could be a solution to the increasing amount of heat pumped out by chips […]
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AMD’s Radeon 4800 In Production
by Theo Valich - TGDaily
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Mountain House (CA) – Unlike the ATI that we knew before, it appears that AMD’s graphics division is running perfectly these days – and ahead of deadlines. Even though the graphics unit has posted an $8 million loss in the first quarter of this year – in an effort […]
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Western Digital Goes Full Bore With 300GB VelociRaptor
by Brandon Hill - DailyTech
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Western Digital takes the fight to SSDs with next generation VelociRaptor.
With all of the talk these days in the storage industry swirling around solid-state drives (SSDs), it’s easy to forget that advances are being made in the hard disk drive (HDD) market as well for consumers. […]
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NVIDIA Promises Powerful, Sub-$45 Processing Platform to Counter Intel
by Brandon Hill - DailyTech.com
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NVIDA looks to VIA for help with a new low-cost processing platform.
When it comes to new opportunities for growth in the PC industry, the common trend appears to be going downward instead of up. We first saw this with ASUS’ Eee PC notebook which starts at […]
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