Archive for the ‘Hardware’ Category

Triple core Phenoms only for OEM partners?

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

In citation of some mainboard manufacturers, our collegues from DigiTimes report, that theres a rub in the release of the triple core Phenom processors in March. On the one side, AMD will produce these CPUs in the bugged B2 stepping (TLB bug), on the other hand it's said, that only big ...

Shanghai K10.5 about 10 - 20 percent faster

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

As Fudzilla reports, the next AMD processor 'Shanghai' will be a 45nm native quad core, which will be about 10 - 20 percent faster than the recent 65nm K10 processors. This means Shanghai will be faster than the Penryn CPUs. It's supposed, that Deneb will be released before Nehalem.

GPU-Z snapshot of the GeForce 9800GTX

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Some minutes ago we reported about the new GeForce 9800GTX. Now a screenshot appeared on Expreview.com. Have a look:

GeForce 9800GTX specifications disclosed

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

On VR-Zone.com we found some information and pictures about the new champion graphic board GeForce 9800GTX. The new G92-P392 GPU is mounted on a 12 layer PCB and clocks at 673 MHz, while the shaders work at 1683MHz. Unfortunately we don't know anything about the frequency of the 512MB GDDR3 memory. The ...

Some Nehalem pictures

Monday, February 25th, 2008

In the forum on Coolaler we found some new pictures which show the next-gen Intel CPU 'Nehalem'. As you can see the pins are not circular like the pins on the current Core2 Extreme QX9770, but elliptic, as it improves the efficiency per space unit.

Microsoft stops HDDVD delivery for Xbox360

Monday, February 25th, 2008

From now on Microsoft won't deliver any HDDVD drives for its Xbox360 console anymore. The reason was the official end of the format wars last week. It isn't known, if Microsoft will deliver BlueRay drives in the future.

MacBook Air flops with 2 hours battery liefetime?

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Against Apples promise of up to 5 hours battery runtime, the MacBook Air is on its last legs after two hours of runtime at many customers, while the recharge time is about 8 till 10 hours. Some people report in Apples boards, that even an alternate device deenergizes after two ...

Passive cooled GeForce 9600GT by Sparkle

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Sparkle provides a passive cooled GeForce 9600 GT, which lowers the sound emissions of your system drastically at the expense of performance. This cards GPU clocks at 650MHz while the 512MB GDDR3 memory works at 1800 MHz. While Sparkle didn't provided information about the price, you can grab the model ...

AMD cuts prices for HD3800 series

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

Only a short time before Nvidia releases its GeForce 9600 GT to the masses, AMD cuts the prices for all HD38XX products. All those interested should have a look at the Radeon HD3850OC and the Radeon HD3870, both with 512MB RAM. These products are available for 179€ (189$) and 149€ ...

Introduction of the first 9600GT

Monday, February 18th, 2008

Some minutes ago the first fabricator published information about the GeForce 9600GT series, which wasn't presented by Nvidia, yet.According to an official press release, the device's chip clocks at 650MHz and the memory clocks at 1800MHz. The memory interface is 256 Bits wide and counts 512 MB GDDR3 RAM.   GeForce 9600 ...