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Intel vs. AMD in 2009

Posted in hardware on November 12, 2008 | Comments Off

ExtremeTech has a great article on what the CPU wars will be like in the coming year. A great read.

Intel Ready to Unleash Core i7

Posted in hardware on November 9, 2008 | Comments Off

According to neowin.net and engadget, Intel is ready to release their new Core i7 CPUs this month, on November 17th. These chips are the long-awaited Nahalem chips that have received much hype in the tech press recently. Here’s the key paragraph from neowin:
“The chips come in 3 models, 920, 940, and the higher end model [...]

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Intel Core i7 - The Next-Gen CPUs

Posted in hardware on August 8, 2008 | No Comments »

Intel’s Next Generation CPU: Core i7

Intel’s next-generation CPU codenamed Nehalem sporting a brand
new micro-architecture finally gets a name; Core i7, according to PCpop. Why Core i7? Your guess is as good as anyone until Intel makes the brand name official on Monday, August 11. Probably it could mean the 7th generation of micro-architecture and the i [...]

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New nVidia ForceWare 180 Coming Soon…

Posted in hardware on August 3, 2008 | No Comments »

Check out this post on ArsTechnica… Apparently nVidia is going to release a new driver version that will have some hefty updates known as Big Bang II. Should be pretty exciting.

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TechPowerUp GPU-Z

Posted in hardware on July 23, 2008 | No Comments »

This is another one of those tiny little utilities you can run to find out all sorts of information about your hardware. In this case, your graphics card!
http://filehippo.com/download_gpuz/

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CPUID System Monitoring Tools

Posted in hardware on July 16, 2008 | No Comments »

I just found this website and they have some awesome (FREE) CPU and Hardware monitoring tools. You can get all kinds of information about your CPU with CPU-Z and you get also find out important things like Fan Speed etc. with HWMonitor. Check it out, these free tools are small, functional and well worth having [...]

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Samsung Introduces 256GB SSD

Posted in hardware on May 27, 2008 | No Comments »

This is pretty amazing, I can’t wait for the prices to go down, and the capacities to continue to rise…
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Samsung shows 256GB flash memory-based SSD
Samsung plans to begin sampling the 256GB solid-state disks in September

By Martyn Williams, IDG News Service
May 27, 2008
Samsung Electronics plans to launch within this year a flash memory-based solid-state disk [...]

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New Phenom X4 CPUs Debut

Posted in amd, hardware on April 17, 2008 | No Comments »

The final stepping revision (B3) of the Phenom X4 processors have been released on NewEgg. The new processors from AMD have a xx50 model numbering scheme meaning that the dreaded TLB bug in the original Phenom CPUs is now entirely fixed. If you have been waiting to upgrade to Phenom, now is the time. The [...]

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Overclocking my Athlon X2

Posted in hardware on November 30, 2007 | No Comments »

Wow, I had never even considered the idea of overclocking my CPU, but ASUS makes it just too darn easy. All I had to do (after a little research) was go into my BIOS and hit the automatic AI NOS feature. Which will overclock the CPU with proper settings from 3, 5, 7, or 10%. [...]

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AMD To Release New CPU’s

Posted in amd, hardware on August 15, 2007 | No Comments »

From PCWorld:
“After launching Phenom, AMD will offer a high-end Phenom FX (in one or two quad-core chips), Phenom X4 and Phenom X2 (in quad-core and dual-core), Athlon X2 and Sempron.”
I’m excited for the new Phenom chips and I want to see how they will match up to Intel’s superb Core 2 Duo chips.

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