Revisions to Intel?s naming convention for its upcoming 65nm Yonah processor line have recently been revealed, according to motherboard makers.Looks more confusing if you ask me! All 65nm Yonah CPU lines will be designated by Continue reading “Intel 65nm Yonah names revised”.
Legit Reviews has recently had the opportunity to look at seven PC2-6400 memory kits from some of the most popular enthusiast brand lines here in North America. Our Seven DDR2-800 kits came from A-DATA, Corsair, Crucial, Kingston, Mushkin, OCZ and SyncMAX. While all three brands are rated at 800MHz, this is where the similarities end.
Digitimes is reporting that motherboard makers are having stability issues on the upcoming Intel Presler processor. If this is true this is another blow to a rough year for Intel’s desktop division. Sampling Intel?s 65nm Continue reading “Intel’s ‘Presler’ 65nm dual-core chip ‘unstable’”.
AMD today unveiled its Emerald cluster installation. The AMD Developer Center’s Emerald is its newest and largest system, as well as its first publicly-available cluster based entirely on Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) processors with Direct Connect Continue reading “AMD Shows Emerald Cluster Featuring 576 Opteron Cores”.
Microsoft has come out swinging and said that it would remove the controversial copy-protection software that CDs from music publisher Sony BMG installs on personal computers, deeming it a security risk to PCs running on Continue reading “Microsoft’s Windows Defender will remove Sony’s XCP software”.
The experts are saying that portable porn could be a $200 million a year industry in the United States by 2009. I’ll step out on a limb here and say that I believe that number Continue reading “Video iPods, cell phones are new platforms for adult industry”.
Despite most observers believing that DDR2 will only rise to the mainstream memory in 2006, major memory makers are all gearing up for the launch of DDR3 chips. With double the performance of DDR2 the Continue reading “Elpida delivers DDR3 SDRAM memory modules to Intel”.
nVidia has just lauched their official 81.94 drivers that offer a number of small performance improvements for those who play Quake 4 and Call of Duty 2. These are also the first drivers to officially Continue reading “nVidia Forceware 81.94 WHQL Drivers Released”.
Intel has began shipping a pair of Pentium 4 chips equipped with the hardware bits designed to bring virtualization to a wide range of desktop PCs. The two virtualization-equipped chips are the single core 3.6GHz Continue reading “Intel Launches Pentium 4 662 and 672 CPU’s with Virtualization”.
Sun Microsystems has released the Niagara processor and have given it the name UltraSparc T1. The processor has eight cores and can run 32 instruction sequences at once. Can’t wait to see these in some Continue reading “Sun Microsystems announces new T1 microprocessor”.
nVidia has sent us an e-mail letting us know that the GeForce 7800 GTX 512 is now out and increases gaming performance by 33%! If you want this card sit back down because they are Continue reading “nVIdia Launches GeForce 7800 GTX 512MB GPU’s”.
Intel plans to introduce its 965-series chipset, codenamed Broadwater, in the second quarter of 2006, according to unspecified sources that reviewed the chip giant?s latest roadmap. We hope that Intel can get these chipsets out Continue reading “Intel to debut Broadwater 965 chipsets in 2Q 2006”.
Stung by continuing criticism, the world’s second-largest music label, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, promised Friday to temporarily suspend making music CDs with antipiracy technology that can leave computers vulnerable to hackers. Good to see a Continue reading “Sony to stop using XCP technology on CD’s”.
HAve you heard of Project Entropia? If not Project Entropia is a massive virtual universe with a real cash economy. It’s virtual universe has been developed since 1995 and every month new content is added Continue reading “Gamin: virtual space station sells for $100,000”.
Three Windows security holes have been highlighted by Microsoft and users are urged to download patches right now! Microsoft issued the patches as part of its monthly security bulletin, with the most serious of the Continue reading “Microsoft warns of latest flaws”.
