Samsung Electronics has announced that it had created the world?s first GDDR3 memory chip capable of working at 2.0GHz effective clock-speed. The company has also said its 1.60GHz GDDR3 memory products were available for customers.
Maybe its just me, but I was a bit underwhelmed looking around at the reviews today. I understand everyone probably just got their review sample last week, but I’d rather be a day behind everyone Continue reading “FX-57 released into wild”.
ATI rumors have been floating aroung that the yields of ATI’s R530 A1 stepping, are not up to par. No big deal though as this is common and ATI is currently said to be making Continue reading “ATI R520 launch slated for July 26th”.
Much has been made of Dell’s refusal to use AMD processors. Could a competitor’s policy shift, as well as AMD’s popularity make Dell change it’s tune? The up-to-now immovable object of Intel chips in Dell Continue reading “Could HP’s AMD laptop sway Dell?”.
This is a fairly old story, but I figured today was as good as time as any to remind those of you who were impacted by Abit’s capacitor problem awhile back. Go to the linked Continue reading “Schonning v. ABIT Computer (USA) Corporation”.
Taiwan-based graphics-card makers Asustek Computer, Gigabyte Technology, Micro-Star International (MSI) and Albatron will begin volume shipments of their SLI-ready PCI Express (PCIe) x16 graphics cards based on the new NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX graphics processor Continue reading “Graphics-card makers to ship Nvidia GeForce 7 series cards at end of June”.
With the release of Intel’s Pentium D 840, those who could afford the best of the best finally saw the benefits that dual core processors bring to the table. With Intel’s release of the Pentium D 820, Intel brings the benefits of dual core processors to the masses for under $300. Today, Legit Reviews takes a look, and gives you our impression of Intel’s budget dual core processor — the Intel Pentium D 820.
So your GeForce 6800 Ultra just isn’t enough? Looks like nVidia is set to start selling their upcoming G70-based products at their LAN appreciation day on June 21. Nvidia confirmed with CNET News.com that it Continue reading “nVidia Graphics Chip to Debut at Game Bash”.
Over the past month we have looked at some pretty fine cases from Antec, today we look at the next case in the TX Performance series, the TX640B. This is a mini tower case thats looks stout like its bigger brother the TX1050B. Take a look and see if the TX640B is a case that you need for your next build.
VIA expects rising sales from its embedded processor platform to help the company return to profitability this year, despite a loss of about NT$50 million for its 2004 operations, according to company president Chen Wen-chi. Continue reading “VIA looks to embedded market for profits”.
Longhorn It’s a new operating system that will replace various Windows XP modifications approximately in 2006. Unlike Windows XP and Windows 2000, based on different versions of the same kernel and having almost identical driver Continue reading “Longhorn improves graphics by 55%”.
Microsoft is about to start selling copies of Windows XP without Media Player — a result of the antitrust agreement between Microsoft and the EU. The name? A somewhat uninspiring “Windows XP Home Edition N” Continue reading “Windows to be sold without Media Player”.
Looks like Seagate is going to be the first to market with a new hard drive that records data perpendicular — meaning that the bits of data actually stand on end, instead of lying flat Continue reading “Seagate Goes Perpendicular With New Drives”.
Get ready to say goodbye to .doc and hello to XML. The next version of Microsoft Office, due in the second half of 2006, will save files in the Extensible Markup Language by default. The Continue reading “Office Goes XML”.
Packed with enterprise features and performance, the new single-chip NetLink controller enables extremely low power consumption (required for today’s consumer and SMB markets) and unmatched reliability and product stability. Based on seven generations of field-proven Continue reading “Broadcom’s New NetLink Gigabit Ethernet Controllers Based on PCI-e Platforms”.
