News & Reviews

Intel News Release
New Intel® Xeon® Processor Pushes Mission Critical into the Mainstream 

Intel's Fastest Enterprise and High-Performance Computing Chip Provides Average of Three Times Increase in Processing Speed, More than 20 New Reliability Features Largest performance leap in Intel® Xeon® processor history, with an average improvement of 3x across a range of benchmarks. Data centers can replace 20 single core servers with a single new Intel Xeon 7500 processor series-based system1. More than 20 new reliability features and eight-core, 16-threaded Intel® Xeon® Processor 7500 series performance further accelerate mission-critical adoption on Intel server systems. Unprecedented advances in scalability allow new designs to range from two-socket platforms up to 256 chips per system.    
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Corsair® Expands
Dominator Family with New Ultra-High Density 16GB and 24GB Memory Kits
A worldwide supplier of high performance computer and flash memory products, today

announced new 16GB and 24GB Dominator DDR3 memory kits for workstation-level computers. These DRAM kits feature a clock speed of 1600 MHz and a CAS latency of nine cycles. Corsair's 24GB Dominator DDR3 memory kit has been rigorously qualified and tested in platforms based on the Intel® X58 chip set. It is designed for use with three-channel CPUs such as the Core™ i7 980X processor. The 16GB Dominator DDR3 memory kit is designed for use on dual channel platforms based on the P55 chip set. Both module kits include Corsair's patented DHX+ technology, and feature racing-blue highlights and fins.We continue to see increasing demand for high density solutions from programmers, scientist, videographers, and other data-intensive    ===
AMD Divulges
Phenom II X6 Secrets, Turbo Core Enabled

Last month Intel introduced its first desktop 6-core CPU, the 32nm Gulftown Core i7 980X. Running at 3.33GHz we loved the fact that it’s quite possibly the first Extreme Edition part that is able to justify its price. For $999 you get six cores and better performance all in the same power envelope as the current

high end quad-core i7s. The 980X is a great chip, but spending $999 on a single component in your PC is a tough sell for most folks. Luckily, AMD is coming out with its own 6-core processors codenamed Thuban. Below is what we know so far about AMD's Thuban lineup (note, the information in the table was not provided by AMD)  ===
NVIDIA Solves Multi-Monitor Temp Issue on GeForce GTX 480 GPUs
Over the past several days we have updated the video card BIOS of our NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 reference graphics card to the latest mass production release candidate that will be used on the GeForce GTX 480 graphics cards when they come out in just a couple weeks. The latest version we were told should adjust the fan profiles to increase the fan speed so when using multiple monitors you won't be idling at 90C like we found when using two monitors. The engineers at NVIDIA were kind enough to let us try the latest vBIOS build and the BIOS upgrade process was quick and easy just like last weeks update that we tried, but did not reduce  
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