Tag Archive for 'amd'
Life is full of colors, and MSI Computer believes a laptop should too. MSI introduces its new 12-inch PR210 YA Edition ultra portable laptop. It sports widescreen LCD and comes in Denim, Blue, Coral Pink, and Lime Green color.
So if you are curious, here is the difference between Intel and AMD’s quad-core offerings, I am not going into price or performance, but how they are made. AMD’s quad-core processor is a single chip with 4 cores on it. Intel uses a MCM or multi-chip module that more or less allows them to connect [...]
This moment was a long time coming. We’ve heard about the Barcelona line of processors from AMD for some time now, but the release date kept getting pushed further and further back due to unnamed “complications.” In a world where dual core has become the norm, AMD is pushing the envelope by providing us with [...]
It looks like AMD may be refreshing their entry and mid-range graphics cards at the beginning of next year. At least that’s the direction that the rumor mill is currently pointing.
So how does a run of the mill NAS on steroid sound? Well, that’s basically what Microsoft and HP have thrown together.
First, it has a faster processor than my HP laptop, with the server packing a 1.8GHz Sempron. Then it adds on 4 SATA drive bays and 4 USB ports for adding more. There are [...]
I was always taught that you can’t judge a book by its cover. I’ve learned in recent years that you can’t always judge a piece of hardware by early benchmarks either. However, for those of you that like to know these things as early as possible the first benchmarks of the new AMD K10 have [...]
So the processors using this new instruction set aren’t due to be released until 2009, but AMD wants to give people time to make compilers utilizing this instruction set and give programmers time to get used to/start implementing the changes.
So what changes for the programmers? First of all, instead of having to empty at least [...]
If you are in the market for just about the most basic PC still on the market these days, Data Evolution Corporation is there for you. Their decTOP PC is billed as a basic server.
That description isn’t far from wrong depending on what your intentions for the device are. With its 128MB of RAM, 10GB [...]
Remember that story a little while back about the big recall from AMD? Apparently not only AMD was confused by it, but so were Asustek Computers, MSI and Gigabyte Technology as they were all cited as receiving faulty video cards.
According to AMD there was no recall whatsoever. Both Asustek and Gigabyte Technology have confirmed that [...]
If you happen to have an ATI Radeon HD 2400 or 2600 card that isn’t working quite right, AMD is aware of the problem, and some of the graphics card makers have already issued a recall.
An issue was recently discovered with AMD’s official diagnostic and validation software that allowed the defective cards to slip through. [...]
