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The Sandy Bridge Preview | Posted on: 28/08/2010 @ 1:36

Every two years Intel is committed to introducing a new microprocessor architecture. It's a part of the whole tick-tock strategy that Intel hatched back in 2005 - 2006. Thus far, every tock has been a knockout - with no competitor able to touch it. It started with Conroe in 2006, continued with Nehalem in 2008 and early next year we'll meet Sandy Bridge - the third tock in Intel's cadence. ...

Microsoft Posts IE9 Preview on its Russian Website | Posted on: 26/08/2010 @ 0:48

Microsoft is expected to reveal its revamped browser in the form of IE9 on September 15. But seems like, somebody at theheadquarters got a bit too revved up and posted a preview of the browser on the company’s Russia website. Now, before … [visit site to read more] Microsoft Posts IE9 Preview on its Russian [...]Microsoft Posts IE9 Preview on its Russian Website is a post from: UK Gadget and ...

Intel Core-i3/i5/i7 LGA1156 Overclocking Guide | Posted on: 25/08/2010 @ 12:18

Thanks to a better and more efficient technology, along with the reduced manufacture's size, the entire LGA 1156 gamma is able to overclock in a very decent way within air-cooling conditions, and that's what we're analyzing today. Benchmark Reviews will teach you how to understand overclocking values while doing the process at the same time. After that, the Core i3, Core i5 and the powerful Core ...

AMD reveals details on Bulldozer and Bobcat | Posted on: 25/08/2010 @ 1:00

AMD will be revealed details on the two new processor architecture Bulldozer and Bobcat during the night. While we wait for the NDA to lift on the more technical details AMD has released some of the information in advance.

2K Games Mafia II PC Video Game Review | Posted on: 24/08/2010 @ 0:24

Mafia II is the single-player sequel to Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven, in which players assume the life of World War II veteran Vito Scaletta. Driven by a passion for fame and riches, players take on thugs in Empire Bay, working their way to the top in Mafia II. Built on 2K Czech's proprietary Illusion game engine, Benchmark Reviews tests Mafia II using ATI Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce video cards. ...

Desktop PC Platform: Statistical Obituary | Posted on: 19/08/2010 @ 10:56

This is the third piece in an ongoing editorial series, in which the introductory article identified several threats which could potentially put an end the desktop PC platform. To summarize that piece, desktop computers are at risk of extinction by a wide range of predators: notebooks, netbooks, Smartphones, PDA devices, and gaming consoles. For this article, worldwide sales statistics make a ...

A Common Compositing Window Manager Specification | Posted on: 15/08/2010 @ 22:48

Martin Gräßlin, one of the KDE developers that works on the KWin window manager, when not working towards OpenGL 3.0 support for KWin in KDE SC 4.7 has been writing a draft specification for what he proposes as a unified specification for compositing window managers. Martin hopes for this to become a FreeDesktop.org specification and that KWin/Plasma, Compiz, and other compositing window ...

The X.Org Multi-Touch Protocol Specification Is Drafted | Posted on: 06/08/2010 @ 19:36

Peter Hutterer, one of the few X.Org input developers and the developer behind Multi-Pointer X when he was a student in Australia, has now published the first public draft of the multi-touch protocol specification. The multi-touch protocol specification is a low-level spec to be integrated with the X Input Extension for further enriching the multi-touch capabilities on Linux and other operating ...