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GIGABYTE full range latest P55 mobos video intro
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 "This afternoon we were invited to the GIGABYTE headquarters in Taipei to get a look at its very latest revision and full range of Intel P55 Express based motherboards.
In fact, the four motherboards we looked at only arrive at their office today and are super fresh off the production line - still crispy even."
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RAID Optimization Guide Rev. 2.0
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"SATA RAID seems to be the rage these days. Practically all motherboard manufacturers have at least a few motherboards with SATA RAID features built-in. With RAID support built into most motherboards and hard disk drive prices continuously dropping, more and more people are opting for RAID solutions as a cheap way to improve performance and/or reliability.
Today, we are going to take a look at how you can optimize your SATA RAID solution. Let's see what's the best RAID solution for your needs!"
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VIA June revenues down nearly 24% on year
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VIA Technologies posted revenues of NT$415 million (US$12.65 million) for June, down 23.9% from a year earlier. For the first half of 2009, the company's revenues totaled NT$2.44 billion, a sharp decline of 46.2% from the same period in 2008, according to a company filing with the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE).
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Intel to use IP from TSMC to make Langwell chipset
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digitimesIntel will adopt silicon IP from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) to manufacture a customized version of its Langwell chipset (the chipset component of its next-generation Moorestown platform) based on client demand. The chipset will be manufactured under TSMC's 65nm process beginning in the third quarter of 2009, according to a Chinese-language Commercial Times report.
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ASUS Radeon HD 4890 Voltage Tweak Graphics Card
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"The Voltage Tweak model from ASUS is something we've heard about for a while now. The idea behind it is that ASUS gives the user even more control of the card when it comes to overclocking. Not only do you have the ability to overclock the standard clocks like memory and core, but you also have the ability to adjust the voltage.
You may be wondering what this exactly means; it gives you the ability to adjust the voltage to higher levels which in turn gives you the ability to run the card at even higher speeds, much like you do with a CPU where adding more voltage gives you the ability to obtain higher clock speeds."
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Gigabyte Intel P55 motherboard preview
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We have the opportunity to show you a P55 motherboard stripped down butt-nekkid. Now we can't say much more about the chipset, neither can we test it with a processor. So this sneak preview is merely a quickie session with photo's about Gigabyte's P55 offering.
Meet and greet the Gigabyte P55 UD4P motherboard.
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Mushkin Redline Ascent 3x2GB PC3-12800 C6 memory kit
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Today we are going to be spending our afternoon with a quiet but subtly strong young fellow. He comes from a humble background without a lot of money. Despite this lack of fortune, he still has a strong heritage in his name, a heritage that goes back many generations of successful family members. He also brings something to the table with triple channel memory kits that no one else has done. This is of course a Cas Latency rating of 6 at a frequency of 800MHz or DDR3-1600. This young man's name is Mushkin, Mushkin Redline Ascent 3x2GB PC3-12800 6-7-6-18 to be more precise.
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VIA Targets Server Market, Again
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"VIA is a newcomer to the server market. But the nature of what is
required for some servers has changed — it’s not that it’s in the
process of changing, it has changed. Power hungry beasts with oodles of
processing power offered by multiple cores, are absolutely still needed
in various scenarios, but the big growth areas in computing, of mass
consumers needing to store vast amounts of data both at home and in the
cloud, don’t require that type of infrastructure. "
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Graphics cards roundup: Eight low-budget GFX
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Below 100 Euros there is virtually now marketing from the graphic chip
vendors AMD and NVIDIA. Nevertheless the price range between 30 and 50 Euros
are interesting for HTPCs as the chips promise full High-Definition support.
And if you look at the majority of sold games the performance could be
enough as well for at least some of them. HT4U.net ordered eight low-budget
cards with AMD and NVIDIA GPUs and shows what you can expect:
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Nikon D300 (Live View) DX 12.3MP Digital SLR Camera Review
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"The Nikon DX format represents a big chunk of Nikon’s DSLR camera sales. This was reinforced by the release of the inexpensive Nikkor 35mm f/1.8 lens that is aimed for D40/D60/D90 owners; all DX format offerings. Already reviewed was the Nikon D60 which was found to be a very impressive entry-level DSLR. Today things will be a little different though. From an entry-level DX format camera, I will review the polar opposite; a professional-grade DX format DSLR camera, the Nikon D300. The Nikon D300 utilizes an APS-C type sensor that Nikon calls “DX”.
The Nikon D300 is a professional-grade DX (APS-C) format DSLR with 12.3-megapixel at hand and will be compared to the similar grade Olympus E-3 DSLR that I reviewed a while ago since they are targeted to the same demographic."
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ASUS M4A79T Deluxe 790FX Motherboard
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"It seems of late Intel has stolen the spotlight well away from AMD and with the performance results of not only the Core 2 Duo and Quads based on the Penryn cores, but also the new Core i7, this has really put AMD on the back foot. This however hasn’t stopped them from pushing forward and while Phenom II isn’t all that we’d hoped for, it certainly does have its place, namely in the low cost PC/HTPC and cheaper gaming station markets.
Boards are still coming out for the new AM3 based CPUs and since they now support DDR2 and DDR3 on the same CPU, AMD hasn’t cut its nose despite its face like they did with the transition from Socket 939 to AM2. The older generation of AMD users are still being catered for this time around."
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Vista SP1 vs SP2
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So… Service Pack 2 arrived with not a lot of celebration, not much has been really mentioned about it at all anywhere. Being who I am though I like to know things, so I decided to run a whole bunch of tests before and after the upgrade and compare them to see just what, if anything, might have changed. "
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Kingston HyperX DC 1600 4 GB kit (KHX12800D3K2_4G).
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When AMD brought the Phenom 2 X4 lineup off the drawing board to E-Tailers, it brought with it DDR3 Dual Chanel memory. Of late, the focus has been on Triple channel memory but with Phenom 2 and Core i5 making its debut soon, DDR3 Dual channel is going to be back in the news quickly. To that end we obtained a Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 4GB Dual Channel Kit to take a look at on the Phenom 2 Platform
. We'll be running the HyperX through its paces and putting it against a single 4 GB kit of Crucial Ballistix that runs at 1333 to see if we get any performance gains from moving from 1333 to 1600MHz. Sometimes that little bit of extra speed can mean the difference between a snappy system and a system that seems to drag.
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Guru3D going green
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Guru3D is ten years of age, and in this week of celebration we felt we had to give back a little to the community. Next to all crazy contests we have organized we also wanted to do something in return, but in this case for the environment. As such last year we started a project called Guru3D going Green.
The project entailed us installing an array of solar PV panels, compensating and reducing most of the CO2 created by the Guru3D.com servers.
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AirLive WL-1200CAM IP Camera Review
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"Home security products are getting popular since pass few years ago which may due to its cheaper price, greater support, features and etc. Today we will have a quick look on one of the AirLive IP cameras; WL-1200CAM. AirLive WL-1200CAM wireless-G dual stream IP camera which supports MPEG4, 2-way audio as well as view through mobile phone."
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Asus M4A79T Deluxe
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Hardwareoveclock Austria has reviewed one of the first released AM3 mainboards, the Asus M4A79T Deluxe. The most important themes in the review are the overclocking features and the handling.
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Super Talent Launches PCIe RAIDDrive Workstations
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Super Talent Technology, a leading manufacturer of Flash storage solutions and DRAM memory modules, announced it is introducing the PCIe RAIDDrive Workstation. These Workstations use Super Talent's patented RAIDSSD�6�4 Technology to accelerate the adoption of systems with very high performance solid state disk subsystems through the integration of large numbers of SSDs. PCIe RAIDDrive Workstations are based on Intel's newest Quad-Core Core I7 Processors, and Super Talent's 1333MHz DDR3 DIMMs.
PCIe RAIDDrive Workstations scale up 6TB in a Workstation Tower form factor. Benchmarking data taken with Crystal Disk Mark v2.2 shows sustained sequential read speed of over 1.5 GB/sec (1500 MB/sec), sequential write speed of nearly 1.35 GB/sec (1350 MB/sec). Benchmarking data taken with HDBench showed random read speed of 725 MB/sec and random write speed of 515 MB/sec.
"Providing system level solutions is a very important milestone for our company. In modern enterprise computing memory and disk architectures have become a major differentiator in system performance. We leveraged our years of expertise in designing and producing world class DRAM and SSD products to provide PCIe RAIDDrive Workstations for our customers. We hope to help the SSD industry extend its market penetration into the enterprise server market." CH Lee, COO Super Talent.
When customers contact Super Talent they will work with a professional trained system technician to help them custom design the system to their needs. Customers can receive this support by e-mailing Sales@supertalent.com with the subject line PCIe RAIDDrive Workstation.
The product will be on display at the 2009 Computex Taipei show in the Super Talent booth June 2-6, 2009 at Nangang Exhibition Hall 1st Floor, Booth J610.
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Cooler Master HAF 922
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Cooler Master's HAF 922 is a mid-tower casing that's actually a smaller version of their previous full tower HAF 932. Does it hold up well? We check it out.
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AMD Phenom II CPU Multiplier unlock
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It is already well-known that one can unlock the fourth core of a triple core AMD Phenom II CPU.
But during a test of the current ASRock A790GXH/128M motherboard at ocinside.de it was
possible to unlock much more than this and that is a no April joke.
The AMD Phenom II 710 X3 CPU became an Engineering Sample with four CPU cores,
unlocked Vcore selection and unlocked multiplier !
All necessary BIOS settings for this modification are explained in the following
AMD Phenom II unlock guide.
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