Monday, July 11, 2011

SuperTalent DuraDrive AT3: Dedicated to extremes

SuperTalent unveiled its new SSD called DuraDrive AT3, with 250MB / s read and 170MB / s write, but not its main feature, is designed for extreme conditions. The new SSD DuraDrive AT3 is designed to be used in demanding conditions where temperature, vibration or other conditions are not ideal for other SSDs.

Other SSDs have their limit of temperature from 0º C to 70º C, DuraDriveAT3 can withstand from -40º C to 85° C, becoming a highly resistant SSD. Available with capacities of 32, 64, 128 and 256GB.

AMD Bulldozer: the first unofficial benches began to circulate

The website has tested a DonanimHaber engineering sample B1 stepping of the AMD FX operating at 3.2 GHz Core 2.0 with Turbo technology that allows high as 3.6 GHz with all cores active or 4.2 GHz only 4 active cores. The sample has 2MB of L2 cache per module (each module has two physical cores) for a total of 8MB and 8MB of shared L3 cache.

The tests were carried out using a Gigabyte 990 chipset UD5 990FXA-FX and a GeForce GTX 580. These are the results: 3DMark11: Chess P6265Fritz: 14197 kn / sPCMark 7: R10 3045Cinebench: 24434x.264: 45.39 fps (P2), 136.29 (P1) SuperPi 1M: 19.5 s From these numbers show that the tests that use the core capabilities of the new benefit greatly Bulldozer CPU.

Social Networking: Google + memory leak led to the flood of spam

Hard to believe but true: The Internet giant Google, on Sunday was out of memory for 80 minutes. This affected the Notification Server, which handles the traffic for about notifications. The result: Many Google + users were inundated by a wave of spam. They received repeated messages to a new commentary or a new person in a circle.
 
One revealed: Google + already registered some 4.7 million users (an increase by a factor of 2.8 in just six days) - and counting.

PoV / TGT GeForce GTX 570 2.5GB UltraCharged and Charged

The manufacturer Point of View, in collaboration with the TGT tuning team, has developed the video card GeForce GTX 570 2.5GB Charged and UltraCharged. These are two custom models based on GPU GF110 (480 CUDA cores) featuring 2.5GB of GDDR5 video memory (double that amount to the reference solutions), the cooling system SuperSilent TwinFreezer (dual-fan with four heatpipes) and a overclocking factory.

MSI announces its first motherboard socket FM1

MSI has just announced its first motherboard socket FM1 format compatible with ATX AMD Llano. The card-A75A G35 takes full advantage of all the features of the AMD chipset Lynx A75. Equipped with 7 expansion slots, using a 4-phase power circuitry, and only two slots for dual-channel DDR3 memory (up to DDR3-1866 MHz).

Connectivity is ensured by DVI outputs, D-Sub and HDMI with 7.1 channel audio, Gigabit Ethernet, 4 USB 3.0 ports and several USB 2.0 ports. There is no eSATA connector for which all the connections offered by the chipsets have been around for six SATA 6 Gb / s internal.

Asus F1A75: New series of motherboards designed for AMD Llano

Asus has introduced its new motherboards based on AMD A75 chipset and designed for AMD Llano has a digital power supply design DIGI + VRM and BIOS UEFI intuitive interface. F1A75-V model EVO is the first motherboard with socket FM1 include support for ATI CrossFireX with dual PCI-Express x8/x8. All ASUS F1A75 series offers native support for USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gbps.

F1A75 series are based on chipset AMD A75 FM1 and socket compatible with AMD's new APU. This new series also has integrated graphics processors AMD Radeon HD 6000 Graphics Dual AMD support. Using a PCI-Express GPU Radeon additional Dual Radeon Graphics mode, the system performance can improve by up to 128%.