Some of Microsoft’s most important customers aren’t happy with the battery life offered by notebooks running Windows Vista. When Vista Aero is turned off, battery life is equal to or better than Windows XP systems. Continue reading “Customers find Vista draining laptop batteries and patience”.
Digg.com, a Web site that lets anyone post and rank news stories, found that out this week when its members revolted over what they saw as an effort to censor them. It began when Digg.com’s Continue reading “Digg Users Unite And Rebel”.
NVIDIA has recently released a new chipset based on their 600-series for the Intel platform. The new 650i Ultra chipset lacks SLI support, but offers strong features and performance for a ~$100 motherboard. The NVIDIA 650i Ultra chipset supports 1333MHz FSB processors and we were able to take it to 1950MHz with ease. Read on to see how this ~$100 motherboard does compared to several other chipsets as we run it through the standard benchmarking and overclocking tests.
Game developers make a median salary of $73,000 per year. But is that as much as it sounds? This is a great article for anyone thinking about going to school for how to design games. Continue reading “Median Salary in the Video Game Industry is $73,000”.
Hewlett-Packard and Nanolithosolutions say they have a machine that will let semiconductor manufacturers produce chips sporting wires measuring a few atoms wide. And the device takes only a few minutes to install. The machine is Continue reading “HP touts new mold for the chip industry”.
IBM laid off 1,315 U.S. workers from its global services division on Tuesday, a union group under the Communications Workers of America said Tuesday. The world’s largest technology company also released an unknown number of Continue reading “IBM lays off 1,315 workers”.
Major Taiwan-based motherboard makers recently announced their financial results for the first quarter of 2007 with Asustek leading Micro-Star International (MSI), Gigabyte Technology and Elitegroup Computer System (ECS) in terms of earnings per share (EPS). Continue reading “Asustek leads motherboard makers in 1Q EPS”.
The GeForce 8800 Ultra takes the world’s fastest GPU and pushes it further: with a core clock of 612 MHz, a shader clock of 1500MHz and a memory clock of 1080MHz, the GeForce 8800 Ultra sets a new benchmark for 3D graphics performance. The GeForce 8800 Ultra will set you back at least $829, which makes this not only the fastest, but one of the most expensive cards out there.
Hynix Semiconductor today announced it has received validation on its DDR3 memory components and modules from Intel. The newly-validated DDR3 products are 1Gb DDR3 SDRAM component manufactured on 80nm process technology, 1GB 2GB DDR3 Unbuffered-DIMMs. Continue reading “Hynix receives DDR3 validation from Intel”.
The EVGA e-GeForce 7600 GS 512MB video card can now be found for under $100 and features double the amount of memory that was on the original 7600 GS video cards that were launched last fall. Read on as we take a look at this budget friendly DirectX 9 PCI Express graphics card as we cover the bundle, gaming performance and overclocking on a card that doesn’t do too shabby on newer games!
Samsung Electronics has started mass producing flash memory chips that both hold more data and work at higher speeds than competing chips, it said on Sunday. The new chips, each of which can hold 2GB Continue reading “New Samsung Flash Memory Chip is 80 Percent Faster”.
Taiwan-based second-tier motherboard maker ASRock on April 27 applied for listing on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE) with paid-in capital of NT$743.09 million (US$22.3 million). Congrats to ASRock for doing as well as they have Continue reading “ASRock applies for listing on TSE”.
When standard air-cooling just won’t cut it anymore, but you don’t want to mess around with liquid-cooling options, that leaves you with one choice to get your processor into plaid speeds — the ULTRA Chill-TEC Thermoelectric Hybrid CPU Cooler! Will the Ultra ChillTec Thermoelectric cooler be able to outperform the big boy’s of the air cooling world?
It’s no secret that EVGA is the top add-in-board partner (AIB) when it comes to NVIDIA graphics card. It’s tough not being the top dog, but being behind the industry leader doesn’t mean that you can’t nip at the heels of the guy in front of you to let him know that you are still there. XFX has recently done that and lashed out at EVGA! Read on to find out how!
Microsoft Corp. today announced revenue of $14.40 billion for this quarter, a 32% increase over the same period of the prior year! This news comes as a big relief to those investors and Microsoft partners Continue reading “Microsoft Reports Record Profits”.
