Archive for April, 2009
Quadro FX 4800 Available for Mac Pro
Share About three weeks after its release for the PC, Nvidia announced the availability of the Quadro FX 4800 for the Mac Pro. Its specifications are:
OCZ’s Z-Drive Available in Three Different Flavors
Share About one month ago, we spotted OCZ’s Z-Drive at the CeBIT in Hanover, Germany. The exciting detail about the Z-Drive is that it is a PCI-Express x8 connection storage device on a 245 mm x 124mm x 22 mm board that boasts up to four 256 GB (MLC-equipped) solid-state drives in a RAID 0 [...]
EVGA releases X58 SLI Hydro Copper waterblock
Share For those of you who puchased an X58 motherboard from eVGA, they have a water-block available now so you can cool down the motherboard chipset.
AMD plans 16-core Opteron for 2011
Share It won’t be very long anymore before AMD’s six-core Istanbul server processors will become available in high volume, and you know what ? That’s the start of a new multi-core race. AMD unveiled it aims to release a 12-core part in 2010 already, and a model with 16 cores in 2011.
Intel Core i5 can do 3.6 GHz
Share Some fun facts about the upcomign Core i5 processors: The Core i5 CPU (LGA 1156), codename Lynnfield, will become available in three versions at first. The frequencies are set to 2,660, 2,800 and 2,930 MHz. The TDP (Thermal Design Power) is supposed to reach 95 watt for the 45 nanometer products.
Realtek HD Audio 2.22 Driver
Share The latest download of Realtek’s HD audio driver version available for Windows XP and Vista, it supposedly runs under Windows 7 too.
Gigabyte launches Ultra durable GTX 275
Share Gigabyte today announced latest GIGABYTE in-house design GV-N275UD-896H with GIGABYTE unique technology Ultra Durable VGA. Built with NVIDIA’s latest processors-GTX 275, GIGABYTE GV-N275UD-896H features 896 MB GDDR3 memory and 240 stream processors.
Complete T-Mobile Cellphone Network Failure in Germany
Share Around 4 p.m. this afternoon, Germany experienced the biggest cellphone network failure to date. T-Mobile, current market leader in Germany, experienced a complete network failure and left 39.1 million people without a cellphone connection for about four hours. Between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. this evening, first parts of the network came back online [...]