Tag Archive for 'computers'


Monday, Jun 23rd 2008 by Satsuki Then

Centrino 2 processors were slated for August, but it might not be that long until we see the new chips in some upcoming mainstream notebooks. Intel is now anticipated the chip to be available to manufacturers as early as mid-July.

Monday, Jun 16th 2008 by Chris Davies

Distributed media specialists CodexNovus have announced their largest home entertainment server, the DMS-6000, which packs 6TB of storage and can support multiple streams of high-definition video and surround sound audio. A 120MBps pipe can simultaneously deliver up to eight 1080p video streams, 12 standard definition video streams, 16 uncompressed audio streams or 48 MP3 [...]


Monday, Jun 9th 2008 by Chris Davies

Not exactly a computer you can pick up at your local Circuit City, but we’ll make an exception for something that can break the petaflop barrier.  IBM’s Roadrunner can fathom in excess of 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second, which makes it twice as fast as the company’s previous machine, Blue Gene/L, that topped out at [...]

Wednesday, May 14th 2008 by Chris Davies

VIA has dropped its already-compact Pico-ITX boards into a hot wash and come up with the PX5000EG, measuring in at just 3.9 x 2.8-inches.  The small size is due to VIA dropping the processor speed down to just 500MHz (compared to the existing 1GHz PX1000G) and thus being able to leave off any active cooling.  It’ll [...]

Wednesday, May 14th 2008 by Satsuki Then

WJS reported earlier that Dell is phasing out its XPS gaming line, however Dell denied that report on a blog post by Dell’s spokesperson, Anne B Camden. As a matter of fact, Dell is apparently giving more love to its XPS gaming line more than ever.

Wednesday, May 14th 2008 by Abby McVay

Any S.T.A.L.K.E.R. fans might recognize this scene of mayhem as the Chernobly disaster, well one gamer decided to make this intricate model and make it a fully functioning PC as well. The top flips open to show you the innards of the PC.

Monday, May 12th 2008 by Daniel Lim

AMD has just introduced its newest Quad-Core AMD Opteron HE (Highly Efficient) processors. The new CPUs operate with far less power requirement at 55-watts compared to its predecessors that use 75-watts and 105 watts.

Thursday, May 1st 2008 by Chris Davies

Psystar may have shown they can deliver their OS X-running Open Computer into customers’ hands, but now attention turns to whether this pre-built Hackintosh can offer comparable performance and, even more importantly, stability to Apple’s own range.  Engadget have been running some preliminary tests [warning: loud autoplay video!] on their unit, and while the benchmarks seem [...]

Wednesday, Apr 30th 2008 by Chris Scott Barr

When you want to get the most performance out of your gaming rig, you’ll naturally want to try and overclock it. However, you have to deal with the excess heat put off by your CPU (or whatever component you’re overclocking). One option is to get a bigger heatsink and throw in some extra fans, which [...]

Monday, Apr 28th 2008 by Chris Davies

HP Compaq has announced two new business desktop PCs, the dc5850 and dx2450, which will be available with AMD’s Athlon X2, Phenom X3 and Phenom X4 processors, themselves freshly branded as ”AMD Business Class processors”.  The dc5850 has ATI Radeon 3100 graphics and AMD’s own Cool’n’Quiet 2.0 technology, and can be specified with up to 8GB RAM and with [...]


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