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ASUS M4A79T Deluxe 790FX Motherboard | Posted on: 28/05/2009 @ 7:00

Intel talking about the 16-thread RISC killer | Posted on: 27/05/2009 @ 10:01

Take two Nehalem dies, turn them  90 degrees, add a lot of system interface logic and 8 MB extra of L3-cache and you get - very oversimplified - the impressive Nehalem EX, alias "Beckton". The new Xeon MP is an impressive monster, just like it's predecessor Dunnington. Dunnington consisted of 1.9 Billion transistors, the Xeon MP based on the "Nehalem"...

AMD Phenom II X3 On Linux | Posted on: 26/05/2009 @ 12:50

Earlier this year AMD launched the Phenom II series to succeed the original quad-core Phenom processors, with these newer desktop CPUs being built upon a 45nm process, tripling the amount of Level 3 cache to 6MB, and offering support for both DDR2 and DDR3 system memory. Prior to the launch of the Phenom II we had tested the AMD Shanghai Opterons on Linux and benchmarked these CPUs on OpenSolaris ...

AMD Phenom II X4 955 LHe Overclocking Event | Posted on: 25/05/2009 @ 15:30

Last week AMD organized a small overclocking event for a group of overclockers from North America. Hosted at AMD's facility in Austin, Texas, the event was arranged to match competitive overclockers with the best silicon coming out of AMD's fabs in hopes of breaking some records and possibly hitting 7GHz.

Thermaltake Duo Orb CPU Cooler | Posted on: 24/05/2009 @ 16:10

Today for review I've got a good looking and rather large CPU cooler, the Thermaltake Duo Orb. Having such a large cooler in your system is nice as it works well, but being so large I had to remove my 120mm exhaust fan for it to fit in my case. The temps I got though are very good, read to see how it compared to several others I've got on hand...

Real-world virtualization benchmarking: the best server CPUs compared | Posted on: 21/05/2009 @ 10:10

We proudly present our newest virtualization benchmarking effort: vApus Mark I. The results are quite surprising on the latest server CPUs as it paints a very different picture than VMmark. Get a second opinion on how strong or weak the different CPUs are when they are running heavy-duty virtualized applications on ESX 3.5 Update 4....

Intel's Atom Processor Compared to 68 CPUs in Bench | Posted on: 20/05/2009 @ 20:10

A few months ago I launched something we quickly titled "Bench". The idea behind AnandTech Bench is that it's a publicly accessible version of the database of benchmarks we've run internally.  You can currently compare 34 AMD CPUs and 36 Intel CPUs in the engine across 18 benchmarks.  I'm working on adding power data as well. You can...

Thermaltake SpinQ CPU Cooler | Posted on: 20/05/2009 @ 5:30

With the CPU being the brains of the computer. The task of cooling it needs to be taken seriously regardless of the type of cooling you decide to use. If the CPU runs on the hot side, it will not perform as well as it should while also shortening its lifespan. With passive cooled CPU coolers being the most popular. There are several things you need to take into consideration when purchasing the ...

AMD Catalyst 9.5 Driver For Linux Released | Posted on: 19/05/2009 @ 18:20

If you closely follow the Phoronix Forums you already know that the Catalyst 9.5 Linux driver is available for download. In fact, it has been available since this past Friday on their web server, but it was not officially announced and linked to from their driver web-site until now...

Asus M4A79T Deluxe AM3 790FX Motherboard Review | Posted on: 19/05/2009 @ 5:50

Digital Storm Core i7-965 | Posted on: 19/05/2009 @ 4:00

Our first look at Digital Storm systems, with impressive, raw performance....

Cooler Master Hyper TX3 i5 CPU Cooler | Posted on: 18/05/2009 @ 6:00

Intel Poulsbo Driver Running On Fedora | Posted on: 14/05/2009 @ 12:50

While Intel can be applauded for their open-source work on the xf86-video-intel driver and related components of their Linux driver stack that supports their mainline GMA integrated graphics processors, the driver for their GMA 500 found in select netbooks is a bloody mess. There are binary-only bits within the Poulsbo driver stack, their DDX module is developed outside of the X.Org community and ...

Gigabyte and AMD OC Results | Posted on: 14/05/2009 @ 1:10

We visited with Gigabyte last month at their North American Overclocking Championship 2009 event where the winner will proceed to the world championship event during Computex 2009. This event featured hardware from Intel, NVIDIA, Kingston, and Enermax along with some spectacular results. Gigabyte has been busy on another front as they have been...

The Business of Tech: Intel Gets Fined For Antitrust Violations | Posted on: 13/05/2009 @ 15:00

There are some records you just don't want to set - the EU record for a single fine is one of them. In our previous business articles we've discussed Intel's legal situation in the European Union. In 2001 AMD went to the EU to file complaints about Intel over anti-competitive actions. This perked the interest of the EU and set in to motion a long and slow chain...

Testing Out AMD's DRI2 Driver Stack | Posted on: 13/05/2009 @ 14:10

For as long as I can recall, ATI/AMD video cards have typically had decent support in Linux. It's not hard to pick out points in time where drivers were slow to come (R300 sticks out in my mind), but that was not due to the lack of effort by the open-source community as it was the difficulty reverse engineering a chip with no documentation. Intel seems to be the one getting most of the press ...

Intel incur record €1bn Euro antitrust fine | Posted on: 13/05/2009 @ 12:40

Intel has been fined a record €1.06bn, or £948m for breaching antitrust regulations in the EU by encouraging manufacturers and retailers to exclusively stock its products through incentives

ASUS Rampage II GENE: microATX mobo for Intel Core i7 chips | Posted on: 13/05/2009 @ 9:00

Reducing the PCB size but upping the feature count, has ASUS managed the impossible?

xf86-video-intel 2.7.1 Released With Crash Fixes | Posted on: 13/05/2009 @ 1:50

The focus of Intel's X.Org driver developers is on getting ready the xf86-video-intel 2.8 driver for this quarter's update that will remove the EXA acceleration architecture in favor of UXA acceleration and it completely strips away the DRI1 support. The Intel X.Org team released the xf86-video-intel 2.7.0 driver nearly a month ago, but they have cherry-picked a few fixes from their current ...

GIGABYTE GA-MA790FXT-UD5P AM3 790FX Motherboard Review | Posted on: 12/05/2009 @ 5:40

Intel & Nokia Collaborate To Develop oFono | Posted on: 11/05/2009 @ 21:40

Intel and Nokia have announced a joint partnership today to develop oFono, an open-source telephony solution. The oFono software stack is GPLv2 licensed and includes a high-level D-Bus API for use by other telephony applications and a low-level API for communicating with cellular modems and other devices. More information (along with source-code and documentation) on this new Intel open-source ...

Multi-CPU Supported Firefox In Development | Posted on: 08/05/2009 @ 16:30

The Firefox team has created a roadmap for Firefox that leads to multi-processor support. This would allow Firefox to split work-load between several different processes and therefore taking advantage of multi-core or multi-cpu systems. This could become especially handy when a certain website application crashes your browser but instead of the whole browser going down only the tab the web site ...

VMmark Scores Investigated: should VMmark be part of your hardware decisions? | Posted on: 08/05/2009 @ 5:40

VMmark is supposedly the most important industry standard benchmark today. We investigate the confusing number of different Xeon 5570 VMmark scores and try to understand how relevant VMmark is for the IT professional who is consolidating servers....

Ubuntu Intel Performance Still In Bad Shape | Posted on: 07/05/2009 @ 19:30

We began talking about Intel graphics regressions in Ubuntu 9.04 back in January but for the most part that went under the radar at Canonical up until Ubuntu 9.04 was nearing release. At that point it was then explored whether greedy migration heuristics improved performance as the UXA acceleration architecture was still too problematic to enable by default. We had found that using some of the ...

The Core 2 Quad Q8400: Intel's $183 Phenom II 940 Competitor | Posted on: 07/05/2009 @ 18:10

AMD and Intel have quietly been fighting a quad-core price war. AMD started by introducing a very competitive Phenom II X4 940 priced similarly to Intel's Core 2 Quad Q9400. A couple of price cuts later and Intel is trying a new strategy. The Q8400 is Intel's highest clocked quad-core CPU with only 4MB of L2 cache. Is that enough to compete with the Phenom II...

Evercool Buffalo HPFI7-10025 Core i7 CPU Cooler | Posted on: 06/05/2009 @ 6:30

Evercool Transformer 4 HPJ-12025 CPU Cooler | Posted on: 02/05/2009 @ 6:20

AMD Platform Showdown - Spider vs. Dragon vs. Dragon Reloaded | Posted on: 01/05/2009 @ 9:10