Articles tagged with: CPU

Apple’s next-gen Macs to have something special under the hood
Posted in articles on 30 July 2008

As part of its move to Intel chips in early 2006, the Cupertino-based company largely abandoned its practice of using custom motherboard chipsets to support the primary CPU in its Macs. Instead, it began to rely on slightly tweaked versions of industry-standard chipsets offered by Intel to the broad range of PC manufacturers that develop [...]

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AMD Announces its Highest-performance Mobile Graphics Chip Ever for HD Visual Computing on the Go
Posted in It news on 5 June 2008

ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 3800 series outperforms previous generation ATI Mobility Radeon™ GPUs by 3X for amazing power management and eye-catching graphics
Computex, TAIPEI, Taiwan — June 4, 2008 –AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 3800, tripling top-of-the line graphics performance in comparison to the previous generation ATI Mobility Radeon™ GPUs1. Joining [...]

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The XFX NVIDIA® GeForce® 8200 Motherboard. Rock Star Performance on Roadie Budgets.
Posted in It news on 3 June 2008

Ontario, Calif., June 3, 2008 – Budget-minded gaming enthusiasts no longer need to sacrifice performance for price with the introduction of the XFX NVIDIA® GeForce® 8200 motherboard with onboard.
Delivering the most affordable DirectX10 experience available today, these first-of-their-kind HybridSLI™ motherboards come jam-packed with the full-throttle features today’s gamers demand. GeForce® Boost Technology pops graphics performance [...]

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Acer Aspire L3600 Review
Posted in articles on 1 June 2008

Acer’s latest consumer PC is seriously anorexic. But don’t let this fool you into thinking that it’s skinny on perfomance. Under its hood, the Aspire L3600 has an Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 processor running at 2.2GHz. This 3-liter Ultra Small Form Factor PC is endowed with nearly everything that a typical full sized desktop [...]

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EPA Recognizes AMD with the 2008 Climate Protection Award for Excellence in Environmental Stewardship
Posted in It news on 19 May 2008

AMD Reduced Normalized Greenhouse Gas Emissions more than 50 Percent Over Past Five Years
SUNNYVALE, Calif. — May 19, 2008 –The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced that AMD (NYSE: AMD) has won the EPA Climate Protection Award in recognition of its continued commitment to protecting the global climate through energy-efficient product innovation, facility design [...]

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The Progress of Thin Clients
Posted in articles on 13 April 2008

When thin clients first appeared on the market over 10 years ago, IBM was a great proponent of this technology even though the first units had slow CPUs, limited memory, and Linux-based operating systems. In the early days of thin clients, networks were still employing hubs instead of switches. Hubs share all network traffic with [...]

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NVIDIA Introduces Fastest GeForce Platforms Ever—Optimized For Gaming PCs
Posted in It news on 11 April 2008

New GeForce 9-Series GPUs, NVIDIA nForce 790i-Series MCPs, and NVIDIA SLI Multi-GPU Technology Reinvigorate the PC Market with Best Performance, Power, and Price
SANTA CLARA, CA—APRIL 10, 2008—NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA) continues to address the global demand for better visual experiences on the PC with the recent market introduction of a series of new powerful graphics [...]

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Openmoko
Posted in Linux, Mobile phone on 10 April 2008

Openmoko is a project which encompasses two related sub-projects, with the combined aim of creating a family of completely open source mobile phones. The project was founded by FIC.
The first sub-project is Openmoko Linux, an open source Linux based operating system designed for mobile phones, built using free software.
The second sub-project is the development of [...]

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Crossfire: The Dual GPU System Gamers Want
Posted in articles on 6 April 2008

CrossFire is the new dual graphics card system from ATI. It offers remarkable image quality improvements for game play and 3-D work.
People who demand the absolute highest levels of performance have tried every possible combination of CPU, motherboard, and graphics card in their gaming rigs. While results have often been excellent, there are those who [...]

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ASUS Crosshair II Formula Provides Extreme Graphics Support with 3-Way SLI and Hybrid SLI Support
Posted in It news on 6 April 2008

Taipei, Taiwan, April 4, 2008 – Catering to users who require extreme graphical support and robust performance, ASUS, leading producer of motherboards, has today released the new ASUS Crosshair II Formula Motherboard. This powerful motherboard includes innovative technologies like CPU Level Up, Hybrid SLI and 3-Way SLI for the best performance and graphical support. It [...]

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