Scythe: a cooler of 1.6 kg with 4 Ventilos

The manufacturer Scythe has announced the launch of a new model of cooling system for CPUs, Susanoo. Compatible with the CPU on socket AM2 and LGA 775/115x/1366 / 3, this cooler is rather large, with dimensions of 210 x 210 x 160 mm. It is also relatively heavy since it reached 1565 grams on the scale.

Composed of a radiator through which 12 copper heat pipes, four 100 mm fans (running at a speed between 500 and 2000 revolutions per minute) and a copper base is also topped with a little extra heat sink, the Susanoo should not be difficult to dissipate heat generated by any CPU. Note finally announced maximum noise 37.69 dB (A).

Cortex A15 confirmed in 2012: 4 cores, 2.5 GHz

MRA confirms its next core release in 2012. Currently, two ARM cores share the market: the Cortex A8 and Cortex A9. The first has only one core in-order type, and it is gradually becoming a smart entry. The second usually has two cores (soon four) and proposes a treatment out-of-order, more efficient.

Cortex A15 - who must fight against the changes Snapdragon (krait), and can be the first core CPU NVIDIA - will have one to sixteen cores, will obviously out-of-order and will offer two interesting innovations. The first is the hardware support of virtualization, such as x86 lately, with the ability to quickly move from one context to another (and therefore a virtual machine to another).

Seagate buys the division of Samsung hard drives

The next day an anonymous source that will advise the prestigious journal "The Wall Street Journal" that Samsung was interested in selling your hard drive division, hoping to raise $ 1.5 billion in capital, Seagate has announced the purchase of the division Samsung hard drives. The news has been announced by Seagate as a "broad strategic alignment" with Samsung, which among other things, Seagate gives full control over the division of Samsung hard drives.

A USB drive that thinks it's a chameleon

The manufacturer Silicon Power has announced the launch of the Blaze B10, USB 3.0 compatible SuperSpeed, showing dimensions of 72.4 x 17.4 x 10 mm and weighs 9.5 grams. Capable of reaching speeds of about 70 Mbps, this USB drive has the ability to change color (from red to blue) as a function of operating temperature.

More precisely, part of the hull is covered with a pattern printed with ink that reacts to temperature. Needless, therefore necessarily essential? The Blaze B10 should be offered in capacities of 8 GB, 16 GB and 32 GB The price and date of availability have not yet been provided by Silicon Power.

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3D mode window on a notebook

The manufacturer Toshiba has unveiled a new notebook model, the Qosmio T851/D8CR. Based on Sandy Bridge platform, this notebook has a 15.6-inch LCD screen with LED backlight that can display full HD resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels. Toshiba also indicates that the Qosmio T851/D8CR is capable of displaying 3D content at the same time as conventional 2D content (in a separate window, so), all without requiring dedicated glasses.

Portal 2: How good is this puzzle game?

There are games that are true critic favorites. You grant from dozens Top Ratings and Awards by the press. They celebrated as a game of the year. In the past, they still turn out as duds. Examples of the action game "are" and the slow-shoot-"Dark Project - The Master Thief." Electronic Arts has just one title released in this country, which threatens a similar fate could be: "Portal 2".

The impression you get at least if you visit the website. The offer collects and publishes test notes the press and makes it into a scoring average. In the case of the PC version of "Portal 2" is an average score results of 95 percent (as of 21 April 2011). A perfect score, having reached only a few games before.

Practice Test: Smartphone: HTC Sensation: Android-power package with 4.3-inch display

Thus on the 4.3 inch display everything goes smoothly, tinkers in a 1.2 GHz HTC Sensation fast dual-core processor from Qualcomm (MSM 8260). In speed tests, the sensation is not just his name. The benchmarks showed average values, however, are to be treated with caution: The software is not yet final, and most measurement programs are not designed as multi-core processors.

This is true for almost all the apps so far. Much more important: in practice there is nothing to complain about! The sensation respond almost instantaneously to inputs. Everything is going very smoothly, despite elaborate animations. This is how the use of fun. The SLCD screen in 16:9 format 960x540 pixels brings (QHD) for blasting.