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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
After a long time of rumors and speculations about the prices of the Skulltrail platform, Intel released the information. Here the official prices:
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price
CPU: 2x Core 2 Extreme QX9775
2 x 1300€ (1500$/CPU)
mainboard: Intel D5400XS
440€ (650$)
power adaptor: Enermax Galaxy DXX 1000W EPS12V
~270€ (315$)
graphic board: Nvidia 8800 GTX
320€ (370$)
memory: 4x 1 GB FB-DIMM ...
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Some time ago AMD sended samples of the new 45nm CPUs with the codename 'Deneb' to a bunch of manufacturers like Dell or HP. The feedback was quite positive, as the new microarchitecture works just fine and brings some enhancements, like lowered power consumption and clocks above 3.0 GHz.
The 'K10.5' ...
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Today the format war is finally over! As Toshiba declares in a press release some minutes ago. This is the end forthe production and distribution of any products, related to the HD DVD technology.
Technology Magazine suggests you, to bring back every device, bought in the last days.
The way is now ...
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
After Nvidia bought the development studio Ageia, the PhysX technology will become a GeForce driver and the chips won't be produced anymore.
We'll port the PhysX engine on CUDA
, reports Nvidia after the takeover of Ageia in early February. At this point it was not clear, if there will be PhysX ...
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
Toshiba, the biggest representative of the HD DVD technology, quits the support reportedly. The Japanese television broadcaster NHK reports, that Toshiba closes the development and production of new HD DVD products.
Toshiba will sell remaining HD DVD devices, but they won't produce new ones.
If the information from NHK is correct, this ...
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
On February 19th, Dell is planning to sell two news systems, based on AMD procesors. This speaks against rumors, which said, that Dell will refrain from AMD.
The business series will be extended by three new models, where two of them will be equipped with processors by AMD. Within the Dell ...
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Friday, February 15th, 2008
According to an article of EETimes.com, Doug Freedman of American Technology Research believes, that nVidia could be interested in buying and restructure the beleaguered AMD concern. This would make sense forasmuch, that the roadmaps of AMD an Intel with the planned integration of CPU and GPU are an imminence to ...
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Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Do you ever wanted to open the curtain via RFID without the need to go and open it yourself? Jonathan Oxer, president of the Linux Australia Community controls big parts of his house via WLAN and RFID technology. An implantated chip in his arm opens the front door, if he's ...
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
As Fudzilla declares, the chip producer Intel will cut the prices for all old 65nm models on April 20th. These changes happen, because Intel needs room in the storages for the newer 45nm models, like the E8xxx series.The super potent Q6600 at 2.4GHz will drop from $270 to $229 for ...
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