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AMD Athlon 2650e & X2 3250e - Better than Atom for SFF Desktops | Posted on: 31/12/2009 @ 23:50

We call them the Dell zino HD CPUs, because they're found in Dell's zino HD. You can buy a decent nettop based on Intel's Atom processor or one of these low clocked, low TDP AMD CPUs. Which one should you buy? Read on to find out....

Evercool Transformer 4 CPU Heatsink Review | Posted on: 31/12/2009 @ 19:00

I don’t know if anyone else here watches "Ace of Cakes". It seems like every single one they make is bigger than the last. I’m always sure that they're going to topple over and cover an entire block with icing. He makes the coolest looking stuff, and his motto is; “Make it bigger, make it badder, make it awesome.” I’m starting to think that EverCool took this ...

The State Of OpenGL 3.x in Mesa Core | Posted on: 31/12/2009 @ 10:50

While ATI R600 users only recently received OpenGL 2.0 hardware support within the open-source Radeon 3D stack and there is many more OpenGL extensions to be implemented just not for the ATI Mesa driver but the other DRI drivers as well, Brian Paul has published a document that lays out the current state of OpenGL 3.x within the classic Mesa core. This document lays out what core Mesa supports ...

ASUS Eee PC 1201N: Dual-Core Atom + ION FTW? | Posted on: 24/12/2009 @ 11:21

What happens when you take a dual-core desktop Atom, add in NVIDIA's ION, and you stuff it into a 12" chassis? You get the ASUS 1201N, an interesting piece of hardware if you're in the market for something a bit more potent than your run-of-the-mill netbook....

XFX 850W Black Edition Power Supply Review | Posted on: 23/12/2009 @ 14:11

XFX is well known for making video cards and motherboards. Now they have moved to power supplies, and we are taking a look at their first offering from them, the XFX 850W Black Edition. Join us as we see how it performs with our Core i7 test system.

GlacialTech F101 CPU Cooler Review | Posted on: 23/12/2009 @ 13:51

Ce legătură poate să existe între calculatoare din ziua de azi şi motorul General Electric F101 folosit la bombardierul strategic B-1? Se pare că acesta a fost sursa de inspiraţie pentru cei de la GlacialTech când au realizat cooler-ul multi-platformă F101 şi pentru noi un motiv serios să publicăm încă un review..

Intel i965 Gallium3D Driver To Go Mainline | Posted on: 22/12/2009 @ 14:40

VMware's Keith Whitwell has mentioned on the Mesa3D development list that he plans to merge the new Intel i965 Gallium3D driver to Mesa's master repository. At the beginning of November this new Gallium3D driver emerged and was formed within the i965g-restart branch, which continues to frequently see new work on this Gallium3D driver. Keith's plans to merge the i965g driver to master isn't ...

The Core i7 Giveaway Winner, Next Contest Soon | Posted on: 22/12/2009 @ 14:31

AnandTech reader Gregory Peng sent in his first impressions of the brand new Core i7 system he won last month. ...

AMD Publishes Evergreen Shader Documents | Posted on: 22/12/2009 @ 13:50

Yesterday some R500+ PowerPlay code was started on (but not yet usable), and now at the same time we have more exciting AMD news to report. AMD has just released their shader instruction set documentation for the R800 "Evergreen" graphics processors! This PDF document is available from AMD's developer area and is entitled "Evergreen Family Instruction Set Architecture - Instructions and ...

Intel Launches Pine Trail Technology for Atom Netbooks | Posted on: 21/12/2009 @ 16:10

Today Intel officially unveils the newly updated Atom processor architecture previously known as Pine Trail. A number of months ago it was rumored that the Intel Atom Pine Trail platform would be launched at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas next month, but as you can tell that is not what ultimately happened.

Intel Atom D510: Pine Trail Boosts Performance, Cuts Power | Posted on: 21/12/2009 @ 5:10

After over a year, we finally get our first real update to Intel's Atom processor. An integrated memory controller boosts performance by roughly 10%, and we finally get to say goodbye to the power hungry 945 chipset. If you're going to buy an Atom based system, you want a Pine Trail. But it's not quite enough to kill off NVIDIA's Ion. The forbidden platform...

AMD Catalyst 9.12 For Linux Released | Posted on: 17/12/2009 @ 18:40

AMD has today delivered their last proprietary Linux driver update for the year, Catalyst 9.12. However, if you were hoping Catalyst 9.12 would deliver on some of your holiday wishes, guess again...

Adobe Flash 10.1 Ushers In GPU Accelerated Flash! | Posted on: 17/12/2009 @ 14:20

With Flash 9, Adobe introduced streaming high definition video playback to its Flash empire, just so long as users' systems had the power to play it. After many demands for better performance on low-power computers, like HTPCs and netbooks, Adobe aims to please with their impending release of Flash 10.1. In this article, we put Adobe's claims of higher performance to the test with video and ...

AMD gets back in the development game with OpenCL tools and drivers | Posted on: 17/12/2009 @ 5:40

Swiftech Apogee XT Extreme CPU Waterblock Review | Posted on: 16/12/2009 @ 0:40

The Swiftech APOGEE XT Extreme Duty Waterblock - Optimized for Intel Core i5 and Core i7 cooling but will also yield world class performance on all other processors. The Apogee XT cooling engine combines the benefits of direct coolant impingement over the CPU area with a copper base plate characterized by a pin matrix composed of 225 um (0.009") micro structures. What does that mean? Read on to ...

AMD vs. Intel CPUs for Around 60 Euro (90 USD) @ InsideHW | Posted on: 14/12/2009 @ 23:26

In the past few months, it became possible to purchase very good CPU for relatively small amount of money. Of course, those CPUs belong to, so-called, mid-range that will satisfy most users. We decided to compare performances of four CPUs with price tags around 60€ (90$). We tested them in games, rendering, archiving, photo editing and at the end, took a good look at their virtualization ...

Review: AdvanceTec AT-FX Unleashed | Posted on: 14/12/2009 @ 14:10

This Unleashed rig from AdvanceTec takes the random nature of what you can get from your chips out of the equation, doing all the hard work for you. You see, from the quad-cores at the top of the Phenom II CPU tree down to the low-end, dual-cores, AMD essentially use the same chips. Sometimes particular cores are locked down for a reason, such as faulty/ corrupt silicon, but sometimes this is ...

Review: CyberPower Infinity i5 Achilles XT | Posted on: 14/12/2009 @ 14:10

One of the first machines to cross our test bench with a full Lynnfield setup inside was the CyberPower Achilles, which essentially followed the same specs as this Achilles XT rig, but with a Core i5 chip, slightly smaller HDD, no Blu-ray, but bundled with a 22-inch monitor. That was our favourite Lynnfield rig and, while last month's Scan PC just about bested its performance figures with an ...

Review: AdvanceTec AT-FX Unleashed | Posted on: 13/12/2009 @ 13:10

This Unleashed rig from AdvanceTec takes the random nature of what you can get from your chips out of the equation, doing all the hard work for you. You see, from the quad-cores at the top of the Phenom II CPU tree down to the low-end, dual-cores, AMD essentially use the same chips. Sometimes particular cores are locked down for a reason, such as faulty/ corrupt silicon, but sometimes this is ...

New xf86-video-intel 2.10 Testing Release | Posted on: 11/12/2009 @ 15:30

Less than two weeks ago the first release candidate for the xf86-video-intel 2.10 driver was released, but now the second release candidate can be obtained from its Git repository. Not a whole lot of work has been committed to the Intel DDX driver since xf86-video-intel 2.9.99.901, but 2.9.99.902 is out there and testing is appreciated. The xf86-video-intel 2.10 driver completely drops support ...

Corsair vs. Kingston Intel Core i7 LGA1156 memory round-up | Posted on: 09/12/2009 @ 9:40

4GB, 8GB, DDR3-1,600MHz, DDR3-2,133MHz - we make sense of it all.

Anand's Thoughts on Intel Canceling Larrabee Prime | Posted on: 07/12/2009 @ 3:10

Intel's first discrete GPU has been canceled, I explain why it doesn't really matter....

Noctua NH-D14 140mm CPU Cooler | Posted on: 04/12/2009 @ 13:10

GELID Tranquillo CPU Cooler | Posted on: 03/12/2009 @ 5:20

Intel Has A Single-Chip Cloud Computer | Posted on: 03/12/2009 @ 2:50

Intel demonstrated today their "single-chip cloud computer" processor that offers an impressive 48 cores. While there are 48 cores on a single chip, this Intel processor only consumes as much power as two standard household light bulbs (this "futuristic" processor is operating between 25 and 125 Watts)...

Thermaltake SpinQ Heatpipe CPU Cooler Review | Posted on: 02/12/2009 @ 18:50

Titan Skalli TTC-NC05TZ/NPW (RB) CPU Cooler | Posted on: 01/12/2009 @ 7:20

Intel Prepares Its Major Q4'09 Driver Update | Posted on: 01/12/2009 @ 4:50

There's just a month left until the end of the year, which gives Intel just a few weeks to deliver its Q4'2009 driver update for the Linux platform. The key component that Intel is expected to release in December will be the xf86-video-intel 2.10.0 driver, while they will likely recommend Mesa, libdrm, and Linux kernel updates too as part of their fourth quarter package (Linux 2.6.32 and Mesa ...