WITH SEVERAL REALLY useful new standards on the horizon, wouldn’t it be nice if there was a board or two that did both, USB3.0 and SATA3, and did them well? If you have been waiting for such a beast, the ‘333 Series’ Gigabyte GA-P55-UD6 and X58 Extreme 2 are the boards for you.
Updated: Name changes
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NVIDIA IS RENAMING parts once again. Now the 200 series is the 300 series, just like we told you months ago. Nvidia has no new parts and no chance of coming up with any soon, so all it can do is unethically try to snow consumers.
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WORD JUST IN from the far east says that TSMC may have canceled its 32nm process node. On the surface this might seem very bad, but it is much more nuanced than that.
Update: Confirmed
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G.SKILL’S LATEST AND GREATEST memory kit, the F3-17600CL7D-4GBPIS, comes specified at an impressive 2200Mhz CAS7, and even more impressive is that it only needs 1.65V to get there.
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THE BIG CONTENT MAFIAA just lost another round in the war on consumer rights, and they lost badly. The Pirate Bay won again, ironically by doing exactly what the MAFIAA wanted.
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IT LOOKS LIKE the wait for more Cypress/HD58xx cards just got a little longer, but not by much. One has to wonder how TSMC can be so bad for so long.
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OFFICIAL WORD FROM NVIDIA is that gaming is now a footnote for the formerly leading graphics company, its latest and greatest Fermi chip won’t see the light of day until at least Q1 of 2010, and Fermi’s clock speeds so far are massively off what the firm had hoped for. Yup, it is a mess, just like we told you.
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HP ANNOUNCED that it will buy 3Com for $2.7 billion the other day, and with one swipe of pen on checkbook validated Cisco’s strategy. HP also showed that it won’t be able to compete in the converged network arena for years to come.
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THREE VERY INTERESTING tidbits snuck out in the Q&A session at the AMD analyst day today. It seems that Fusion and the new cores have taped out and are at the fabs.
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AT ANALYST DAY, Chekib Akrout of AMD spilled the beans on the chip company’s two new CPU cores, and Fusion. AMD’s Bulldozer and Bobcat processors plus its memory controller that is called Fusion were all outed.
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THE ANSWER to the million dollar question that’s been preoccupying the geek hivemind, that is, “Will Lucid’s Hydra 200 work?” has finally been answered. That’s a definite Yes. PC Perspective has run the first benchmarks on the Hydra system using a narrow combination of graphics cards from both main vendors and has come up with some very interesting numbers.
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IT LOOKS LIKE TSMC’s 32nm processes are not doing nearly as well as people think. We hear that things are delayed a bit, and performance is far less than optimal.
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IT LOOKS LIKE the brown stuff has hit the rotating blades in the ongoing Intel vs AMD antitrust lawsuits. New York’s Attorney General Andrew Cuomo just filed suit against Intel for all sorts of nasty things.
Updated: Links to the PDF
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WHAT DO YOU do when you can’t keep your promises to investors? You quash fair competition just like Nvidia is doing to Lucid.
Updated: MSI response now included.
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WESTERN DIGITAL HAS finally thrown its hat into the SAS ring with the release of the S25 line. Most observers were not expecting this, thinking WD would go from SATA directly to SSDs.
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Although Intel has announced new high-end parts that are slated to launch later this year the i9-7900X is still Intel’s fastest desktop CPU to date.
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In this article we’ll look at the air cooled version of AMD’s Radeon RX Vega 64.
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Today we’ll be looking at AMD’s Radeon RX Vega 56 GPU.
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In this review we’ll be looking at AMD’s other Ryzen Threadripper chip the 1920X.
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