Tech News
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Digital Signage Expo 2010: VIA to demo dual-GPU S3 graphics card
Published: Monday, February 22, 2010 | By: WillWe at Ninjalane have been playing with so many ATI graphic cards here recently that we almost forgot there is others out there. VIA is one brand that not many people will get to excited about, but hey it might be an interesting low end card for the HTPC crowd.
"VIA Technologies has announced plans to demonstrate a dual GPU add-in-board, the S3 Graphics Chrome 5400E x2, aimed at multi-display digital signage applications at Digital Signage Expo 2010, which will be hosted from February 24-25 in Las Vegas."
More than likely not.
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OCZ Vertex LE (Limited Edition) 100GB SSD Review @ Legit Reviews
Published: Monday, February 22, 2010 | By: WillLooks like the new Sandforce controller are moving in on the SSD drive front. Good to see new stuff that makes everything faster, and may also make prices come down on the older SSD Drives. I wonder if this new drive is everything it is hyped to be?
"The OCZ Vertex LE is one of the fastest SSDS that we have ever seen here at Legit Reviews. It was able to give the Intel X25-M G2 160GB SSD and Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB drives a run for their money in many of the benchmarks. We were able to reach read speeds of up to 290MB/sec. and write speeds of up to 240MB/sec in ATTO on the Vertex LE and that was impressive. We were able to get much higher than the 270MB/s max read speed, but we were unable to reach the advertised max write of 250MB/s on our test system in any benchmark. The Vertex Limited Edition SSD has just 5,000 pieces available and with performance results like these they shouldn't be around for too long..."
Bigger drives and lower prices just around the corner.
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Webcams used 42 times to find laptops
Published: Friday, February 19, 2010 | By: Dennisand if you believe the subject you're pretty darn dense.
Young tells The Associated Press that only two technology department employees were authorized to activate the cameras - and only to locate missing laptops.
He says Lower Merion school officials did not tell students and parents about the security technique.I'm not sure exactly what software they are using, but I suspect its similar to "lojack" and when the computer accesses the internet the software will phone home and allow anyone with the proper permissions to remotely access the PC.
The school is within their rights to protect their property but against popular myth not all IT people have a proper moral compass and many will abuse the power they have for personal gain or just for cheap tricks. For instance email admins will read your email, often times not to be nosy but to investigate problems, or look to see why you're sending 5megs of something across the network.
In the end, this may work for finding lost computers but only if they are turned on. Along the same lines if someone wanted to steal the computer it they would likely be smart enough to either disable the camera or reformat the hard drive.
I mean it's not rocket science.
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Western Digital's 6Gbps Caviar Black 1TB hard drive @ Techreport
Published: Thursday, February 18, 2010 | By: WillIt is finally happening. The Hard Drive makers are starting to get the SATA 6.0 drives out into the market. Let's see if the new SATA 6.0 speed only helps out the SSD setups, or is the regular drives coming up with something to help beef up the speed.
"Western Digital's Caviar Black 1TB is the first two-platter, 7,200-RPM drive to use the company's latest 500GB platters. The new Black is also WD's first step into 6Gbps SATA territory, so let's see how it performs in a battery of performance, noise, and power consumption tests."
Good read.
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How CPU Features Affect CPU Performance, Part 7 @ iXBT
Published: Thursday, February 18, 2010 | By: WillHere is a good article on CPU performance and what it means to all of us. So if your up for the read then take a look and enjoy. This section look to cover mainly the memory spot.
"We proceed with our series of articles devoted to analyzing performance of modern CPUs in real applications and finding out the effect of processor features on performance. Today we shall analyze the effect of memory subsystem on performance on the example of Intel Core i7."
Enjoy!
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A Look at ATI's Catalyst 10.2 & 10.3 Drivers @ Techgage
Published: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 | By: WillHere is a little followup on the ATI interview on their new Catalyst drivers. So far everything being added sound just awesome on paper. I think we will hold our praise till we see the real product out for everyone to use.
With its upcoming 10.2 and 10.3 Catalyst graphics drivers, AMD is making sure it goes well beyond the hardware to deliver the ultimate PC experience, whether or not it includes gaming. We're taking a look at all of the features on the horizon, including game profiles, CrossFireX and Eyefinity improvements, mobile drivers and more.
Does anyone smell Fermi coming?
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MSI H55M ED55 @ OC3D
Published: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 | By: WillNot much of a quote on this review of the new MSI H55 chipset motherboard. Let's see if they just did not have a lot to say, or are they just speechless at this boards perfomance.
The H55 chipset invasion has begun! How will MSI's rendition perform in OC3D's labs? Let's find out...
Well the new Intel H55 chipset is all the rage anymore.
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Gigabyte X58A-UD7 Motherboard Review @ Legit Reviews
Published: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 | By: WillThis new Gigabyte board maybe high priced to some, but all of the cool new technology you get is well worth it right. To think about it the last generation X58 board without all of the new technologies are still going in this price range.
"Priced at $349.99 at Newegg the board is a bit on the expensive side but it does come packed with features which does help warrant its price. Gigabyte's entire line of X58-based motherboards are ready to support the new generation of Intel 32nm 6-core processors, so you can rest assured that this board will support the upcoming Intel Core i7 980X Extreme Edition processor. The board also comes with a 3 year warranty without any stipulations for registering the board so if you do purchase it 2nd hand you are covered. When browsing around for boards you have to give credit to Gigabyte for sticking to a uniform color scheme across all their boards. The X58A-UD7 looks quite pretty with it's baby blue and white accents and the dark heatsink snaking across the PCB. Factor in the excellent performance and the easy overclocking and the X58A-UD7 is the real deal..."
Well at least I hope it is worth it.
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Interview with ATI's Terry Makedon - Catalyst 10.2, 10.3 and more @ Elite Bastards
Published: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 | By: WillThis is for all of the ATI fans out there. Also for the guys that just want ot know what is going on with the new ATI drivers.
"Elite Bastards: Moving on to Eyefinity now, and we've seen a number of new features targeting Eyefinity users emerge within Catalyst 10.2 and 10.3, but is there still room for more improvement from a driver standpoint? In particular, I'm thinking about criticism of new games being released which don't work well in an Eyefinity configuration - Is this something that can be resolved at a driver level, or is it more of a developer relations issue?
Terry Makedon: A bit of both. Our main goal is to have a robust Eyefinity SDK available to game devs so that they can make it work seamlessly. This is an ongoing effort and at GDC next month we will be releasing a newer version to them. At the same time I do feel it is up to us to make sure the experience is seamless, so we will do whatever we have to in the driver to make it "just work" (but of course never altering the game in such a way that would violate the ISV's vision of the game)"Marketing blitz. You gotta love it.
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ASRock X58 SuperComputer Motherboard Review @ EXTREME Overclocking!
Published: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 | By: WillLooking for the right motherboard layout cna take you to motherboard makers you never thought of buying before. Here is a review of the AsRock X58 board that has one of the best multi-GPU setup I have seen in a long time. Wonder how the clocking is for this board? I guess I gotta read it to find out.
"The thought of owning your own super computer is probably the dream of most computer enthusiasts. With this iteration of the X58 chipset from ASRock you actually can build your own. Today we will be looking at the ASRock X58 SuperComputer which supports NVIDIA Tesla cards, up to Quad SLI, and up to Quad CrossFireX."
Look at all the fan heads, great spacing of about everything.
