Hardware Post: 05/23/11

Monday, May 23, 2011

Three i5/i7 ULV Core Intel in cartons

While Intel has just formalize seven new processors Sandy Bridge (four Pentium, Core i5 i3 and two), the smelter would also in the pipeline ULV three processors: the Core i5-2557M, 2637M and Core i7 Core i7-2657M. They would complement the current range of CPU ULV Sandy Bridge, consisting of i5-2537 m (1.4 GHz), Core i7-2617M (1.5 GHz) and Core i7-2657M (1.6 GHz).

Clocked at 1.7 GHz with 2.7 GHz Turbo mode, the i5-2557M graphics chipset will carry a speed of 350 MHz (1.2 GHz max) and 3 MB L3 cache. Dual-core, this CPU has Hyperthreading of course, all for a TDP of 17 watts only. Side of the Core i7-2637M, we would be entitled to a CPU clocked at 1.7 GHz with a frequency of 2.8 GHz Turbo climbing.

D-Wave One: The first quantum computer is for sale

There is a little over four years, D-Wave had Orion processor "quantum" qubits and consisting of 16 supposed to be marketed. The manufacturer had also conducted a demonstration in the wake of a "quantum computer", an experiment at the time challenged by a number of academics. It must be said that the difficulties in developing a quantum computer are numerous: operating temperature of the processor slightly above absolute zero, superconducting materials and magnetic fields are essential to the development of such a computer, not counting the phenomenon of decoherence, which complicates the development of a quantum computer.

Corsair announces new SSD SATA 6Gbps Force Series 3

Corsair has announced the launch of its family of SSD Force Series 3 with SATA 6 Gb / s (SATA3), providing breathtaking speed at an attractive price. The Force Series 3 presents his version of better performance with the latest generation of processors SandForce SF-2281 series speeds off up to 550 Mb / s read and 520 Mb / s write, IOPS with impressive 85000K for responsivity significantly faster system, reducing system boot time and application load heavy compared with the previous SATA 2 interface.

Corsair: The Special Edition White 600T

The manufacturer Corsair has launched on the market a special edition of its Series 600T Graphite housing, housing for the occasion which is adorned with white on the outside, but nevertheless takes the classic black interior of 600T. The side panel has a window, may in turn make way for a panel with a metal grille and supports up to four 120 mm fans.

With four bays at 5.25 inches and six locations internal 3.5 / 2.5 inches, the Special Edition White Graphite Series 600T has a built-in fan controller. The conventional audio connectors, FireWire, USB 3.0 (x1) and USB 2.0 (x4) are placed on top of the box, while three fans (two 200 mm respectively placed on the top and front, and one of 120 mm at the rear) are included with the 600T.

Asus ROG Matrix GTX 580

Shown the first time at CeBIT 2011, the 'ASUS ROG Matrix GTX 580 video card is a custom Asus has developed specifically for the most demanding users. Inspired by the excellent GTX580 DirectCue II of the giant Taiwanese engineers have reviewed and strengthened the PCB, the system power and cooling to create an exclusive product in all directions.

Today unveiled the specifications and features of this model with a slide of internal marketing Asus. Certainly stands out on all the TweakIT system that allows you to adjust the voltage in real time by manually adjusting a few buttons located directly on the PCB. The cooling system is an evolution of Direct-II, always in a compact triple-slot, while the power is entrusted to a powerful 16-step PWM circuit coupled to two 8-pin PCI connector.

More clarity and order: Google Mail: PO Box automatically sort

The so-called Priority Inbox Although there since summer 2010, but only now is for all Gmail accounts. The goal is to mail that is particularly important to place the top of the inbox, while the rest goes into the bottom of the screen. This works much like a spam filter: Gmail detects whether a message is from a sender or preferred occur if the e-letter words that are defined as important.

Of course, the filter is adaptive, so adjust Gmail with time more and more to your needs. Thus, the Priority Inbox to work correctly, needs to check all incoming mail to Google passwords. Who does not want it, on the sort function from the Settings menu.

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GA-990FXA-UD7, the enthusiast mainboard from Gigabyte Socket AM3 +

Thanks to the site Gdm. now revealed the details and photos of a motherboard for AMD socket AM3 + developed by Gigabyte and AMD 990FX based on a combination between northbridge and SB950 southbridge. This is the model-GA-990FXA UD7, Ultra Durable 3 solution of the family aimed at a select audience of people passionate about gaming and overclocking, waiting to debut next month.

The Taiwanese manufacturer also brings up the new AMD platform color "Black + Gold" introduced with the Intel P67/Z68 and propose a new layout that features three PCIe 2.0 x16 slot 6 and a clean layout of all components. The board is able to support Quad Crossfire configurations video and 4-way SLI and uses circuitry 8 +2 phase power DrMOS to ensure adequate stability for overclocking especially pushed the CPU FX-series based on the Bulldozer architecture.

HIS Radeon HD 6970 series has the IceQ

Hightech Information System Limited has officially announced a new video card belonging to the family of HD 6000 IceQ. This is the HIS 6970 IceQ 2GB GDDR5 card, available in Turbo and "Standard", characterized by a blue-colored PCB and a custom cooling system which according to the manufacturer in Hong Kong can dramatically lower temperature and noise of operation compared to the reference cooler developed by AMD.

Corsair Hydro Hydro H80 and H100 already on sale

A Swedish online store, as reported by sweclockers.com, has recently sold two models of the system of water-cooler for CPU Corsair Hydro Hydro H80 and H100. The set of solutions includes Hydro water-cooling kit for CPU pre-assembled and closed loop that is relatively inexpensive and are produced by CoolIT and Asetek.

The model uses a Hydro H80 radiator 120x120 mm combined with a block with integrated speed control greater than that already seen on the previous model H70. The Corsair Hydro H100 uses a cooler with even greater surface area of 240x120 mm which can be installed on two 120mm fans on each side (the manufacturer provides only two bundled fans) while the main block with a pump and controls seems to be the same model H80.

MSI 990FXA-GD80: specifications

The arrival of the new AMD Bulldozer, or FX-Series, is always as close as you can imagine the amount of details that emerge from the manufacturers of motherboards Socket AM3 +. Today is the turn of the flagship home of MSI, as indicated 990FXA-GD80 "Big Bang Conqueror." This motherboard is equipped with Socket AM3 + with support for AMD FX-series and is based on AMD 990FX chipset with SB950 SouthBridge.

BioWare already thinking about Dragon Age 3

With a message on Twitter - Alistair McNally, director of creative development BioWare Edmonton has launched an appeal addressed to "exceptional artists setting" to search for new employees to the project Dragon Age 3. It 's the direct confirmation that the Canadian software house in the pipeline development of the third chapter in the saga Dragon Age.

There are many expectations of recovery after half slip made with Dragon Age 2, an episode that has lost most of the features of pure RPG to undergo a process of simplification and "consolizzazione", which infuriated the PC enthusiasts. For now BioWare is working intensively on Star Wars: The Old Republic and Mass Effect 3, but since the various internal teams available is perfectly able to support a further project in parallel.

Brazos shelf 110W MSI $ 600

Unveiled at the CeBIT in March, the tablet WindPad 110W MSI just made its appearance in pre-order, with an estimated availability date at June 1 next, and announced a price to 599 dollars. Based on a platform Brazos, the 110w has a touch screen of 10.1 inches diagonal, capable of displaying a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels.

There is also a GG E-350 (with two x86 cores at 1.6 GHz and a Radeon HD 6310), 2 GB RAM, 32 GB of flash memory, an SD slot and WiFi 802.11 and Bluetooth controllers 3.0. A webcam, a USB 2.0 port, a mini HDMI port and a 4200 mAh battery complete the package, all running Windows 7 Home Premium.

IBM has passed and will pass before Microsoft

IBM's market capitalization exceeded that of Microsoft for a moment Wednesday and Friday. It is a highly symbolic step for Big Blue, which had been preceded by Redmond in the 80. He continues to see its share collapse and its difficulty to meet the mobile revolution do not help matters. Microsoft stock indicators are bad.

As highlighted Geekosystem its stock has lost 58% of its value since the early 2000s, that is to say since the arrival of Steve Ballmer as CEO Its share rebounded after closing its market capitalization and turns to 206.50 billion dollars. However, since the early 2000s, the share of IBM gained 57% and should again move second and consolidate his lead this week, unless a twist.

A-Data 4 GB DDR3-1333 low voltage

The catalog of the manufacturer A-Data expands with the arrival of two new dual-channel kits of DDR3-1333. Consisting of two 2 GB modules, these kits come sit in the ranges XPG (Xtreme Performance Gear) More Gaming and A-Data. Equipped with an aluminum radiator, the 2GB DIMMs support timings of 8-8-8-24 to 9-9-9-24 Plus version and the model for gaming, all with an operating voltage of 1.35 V.

Two new APU Fusion below 7 W

Meanwhile the bulldozers and Llano, AMD launched two new ultra-low power Fusion for the market called "embedded". The T40E is composed of two Bobcat x86 cores clocked at 1 GHz, more GPU Radeon HD 6250. Its TDP is 6.4 W. The T40R is identical to the T40E except that it has only one core Bobcat. Its TDP is even lower, only 5.5 W.

According to AMD, the chipset accompanying these processors only consume a few watts, it is possible to design a motherboard consuming whole less than 10 W it is easy to cool passively. We are curious about the machines that manufacturers could assemble from these chips.

Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD7: photos and info

Some pictures and especially the characteristics of the GA-990FXA-UD7 Gigabyte recently made their appearance on the canvas. This is an opportunity to discover more about this motherboard for future processors on Socket AM3 +. Based on AMD's 990FX chipset, along with a SB950 southbridge, the motherboard has an ATX power supply stage at 8 +2 phase and enjoy the Ultra Durable 3 of the manufacturer.

Nvidia Optimus finally Linux compatible

You can now use technology Optimus Nvidia, that is to say enabling the fly to a GeForce installed in a laptop in addition to Intel's integrated GPU processor with Linux. This small miracle is the result of Martin Juhl, developer of Open Source program Bumbledee. Bumbledee is not yet at the official Nvidia drivers in Windows: it does not switch automatically between the GeForce IGP and depending on the application launched.

TDJ: 46 CPU Comparison

Our fellow Cowcotland just update its comparative processors dual, tri, quad and hexa-cores. The Phenom 975 and 980 II are therefore their appearance in this roundup, bringing the total number of CPUs (Athlon II Phenom II, i5, Core i7 ...) tested at 46 ...

Pentium at Sandy Bridge are finally here

Intel has formalized seven new processors built on the Sandy Bridge architecture. There are two i5 (i5-2310, i5-2405), Core i3 (i3-2105) and four Pentium (G620, G620T, G840, G850). Prices range from $ 205 to $ 64 for these models to the entry and midrange. The information comes from CPU World who has put his hand on the lists for OEMs.

The most powerful of the seven is the i5-2405. It has a TDP of 65 W and a 6 MB L3 cache quad core this is clocked at 2.5 GHz with a frequency of 3.3 GHz Turbo. It represents an update of the i5-2400 because it uses the chipset instead of the HD 3000 HD 2000. Core i3-2105, is also an update of the i3-2100 and enjoys the same trend.

Intel Core i3 2120K: Small come with unlocked multipliers.

Intel is preparing a version of the Sandy Bridge processor i3 with its unlocked multiplier, this is the 2120K i3. Until now, users wishing to Sandy Bridge processor with unlocked multiplier would have to go Core i7 models i5 2600K and 2500K, both quad-core processors, with the launch of Core i3 2120K, it will become the Sandy Bridge processor faster dual core.

As to your specifications share the same i3 model 2120, which is 3.30Ghz clock speed, 3MB cache, Hyper-Threading technology, Intel HD2000 integrated graphics and integrated memory controller. It also has the same TDP processors i3 family, that is 65W. In terms of price is estimated to go on sale for about $ 150.

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A screen 23 "IPS to 190 €

The general public has become accustomed to screens TN LCD panels and their defects because this technology has always been much cheaper to produce. Fortunately, the time has come to erode the price slabs VA or IPS, far more interesting, so much so that there is now a monitor 23 "IPS Full HD only at 190 €, the AOC i2353Fh.

The additional cost of the IPS compared to TN is more than fifty Euros and is fully justified in our view by the best viewing angles of the IPS. Presented at CES in January, the COA has also i2353Fh an LED backlight which gives a thickness of only 9.6mm. MEDPI Seen by our colleagues at the Digital, it will be available in stores in August.

Retrospective: 30 Years of handheld consoles

30 years have elapsed between the Nintendo Game & Watch 1980's and 3DS. The opportunity for us to come back with images and specifications about the flagship models that have marked this evolution.

[Video] Augmented reality by Sony

Sony introduced its Smart AR, an augmented reality system capable of using the video sensor of a smartphone and a stereoscopic screen, according to a statement posted on the website of the Japanese. The video below shows a very impressive demonstration. Sony claims to have begun his research into augmented reality systems in 1994, the statement said.

The first models were taking pictures of a bar code, then added the related information. In 1998, a software running on the VAIO PCG-G1 used a 3D bar code named Cyber Code. SmartAR stands of ancient prototypes by the absence of marker. Recognition technologies allow 3D objects not to barcode and track the subject scanned at high speed to continue layering information or images on his movements, the very principle of reality grew.

Foxconn victim of an explosion

Foxconn has sent a press release to confirm that an explosion took place at its plant in Chengdu in China on Friday to 7 pm, local time. He explains that two people were killed instantly and a third died of his injuries Sunday. Fifteen other workers were injured and six of them were already being treated and sent home.

The depth reports that the findings of a preliminary investigation believe that the explosion was caused by the presence of fuel particles in a pipe string polish. Several witnesses uncorroborated by Foxconn and Apple, the factory produced iPad 2. Cupertino nevertheless advised All Things D was working with Foxconn to determine the cause of the explosion, which seems to confirm that the affected production lines were dedicated to him.