Weekend Tech Reading-Core 2 Duo E6300&E6400 - tech
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 | | Rise of Legends is clearly a game that demands a lot from the processor, and the additional cache in the 4MB Core 2 Duo chips also appears to have more of an impact in this game than in other games. The only Core 2 chip that AMD's FX-62 is able to beat is the "budget" E6300. If other RTS games perform similarly, strategy gamers will definitely want to upgrade to Core 2. Once again we see that overclocking the E6300 and E6400 get you fairly close to the higher end E6700 and X6800 Core 2 processors |
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- Intel intros Core 2 Duo, slashes Pentium prices -
As expected, Intel added the
E6300, E6400, E6600 and E6700 to its price list, at $183, $224, $316 and
$530, respectively - what it was only yesterday charging for its top four
Pentium D chips. Intel also introduced the Core 2 Extreme X6800 at $999. The
Pentium Extreme Edition 955 and 965 remain priced at $999 too.
Gateway has announced new desktops based around the new Core 2 processor:
the FX510XG and the FX510XT. On the Dell front,
there are three new Core 2 offerings: two desktops and one workstation.
- Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 & E6400: Tremendous Value Through Overclocking -
The Core 2 Duo E6300 is a better
performer than the X2 3800+ but is also more expensive, thankfully for the
E6300's sake it is also faster than the 4200+ and the 4600+ in some
benchmarks. Overall the E6300 is a better buy, but at stock speeds the
advantage isn't nearly as great as the faster Core 2 parts
- Systemax Wildcat AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 SLI Gaming PC -
The system has three graphic cards - twin 7900GTX SLI and a Physics PPU, 2GB
memory, three HDDs - included two RAID-0 Raptors, loads of software, a
Saitek Eclipse keyboard and a Razerhead Copperhead mouse.
- Acer Aspire 5650 3G notebook -
The CPU is Intel Core Duo T2300 running at 1.66GHz sitting in an Intel
i945M chipset. Graphics are provided by a dedicated GeForce 7600, with a core
memory clock of 400MHz and 350MHz (700MHz effective) of RAM.
- Alienware M5500 review -
The graphics card in the Alienware M5500 is the Mobility X1600. The X1600
is ATI’s 2nd from top of the range mobile product and is designed to offer
good portability combined with excellent performance. Built on the 90nm
process the core clock of the X1600 is 419Mhz with 256mb of DDR3 clocked at
468Mhz.
- Plextor PX-750A DVD-RAM -
BCC takes a look at the Plextor PX-750A DVD-RAM.
- Internet Explorer 7 To Be Automatically Updated - Microsoft will
release the final public version
of the next Internet Explorer web browser as an automatic update for
Windows XP owners.
- WinRAR to be free this Sunday, July 30! -
They are offering the WinRAR 3.51 single user license non upgradeable
version this Sunday the 30th of July 2006 from 00:00 until 24:00 CET for
absolutely FREE.
- Exercising the Dual-Boot Option with Windows Vista - The Windows
Vista Team published
an article on dual-booting Windows Vista
- Convert your Firefox favorites and feeds into IE7 with 'Firefox To IE7'
- All you have to do is run
the application and if you have firefox installed it will automatically find
your bookmarks, or you can browse for your exported firefox
'bookmarks.html' file.
- 13 Great Firefox Extensions for Web Professionals -
Short introduction to 13 Firefox extensions for web developers or SEO
professionals.
- Spybot Search and Destroy Update -
Update your Spybot S&D detections without the need for the included
WebUpdate.
- Microsoft to Start Charging for Office 2007 Beta 2 - The tester
count for Office 2007 Beta 2 is now at more than three million. Given "how
dramatically the beta 2 downloads have exceeded (Microsoft's) goals,"
the company has decided to start charging $1.50 per download for Office Server
2007 to help the company recover costs, officials said on July 28.
- Microsoft make MSDN Library free to download -
The download itself comes in three
ISO images totaling about 1.6 GB.
- Dreamweaver Killer: Cross Platform Open Source (Javascript, HTML, CSS)
IDE -
Aptana is a robust, JavaScript-focused IDE for building dynamic web
applications. Highlights include the following features: Code Assist on
JavaScript, HTML, and CSS languages, including your own JavaScript functions
Outliner that gives a snapshot view of your JavaScript, HTML, and CSS code
structure Error and warning notification.
- Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0 Alpha 1 Released - It looks like Mozilla
Thunderbird has finally made its way to a milestone
build: Alpha 1. It has some
great new features!
- Ballmer pledges shorter Windows release cycles -
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has pledged to shorten future Windows release
cycles. Ballmer stated, "We will never have a five-year gap between
releases of flagship products." He added that major, time-consuming
projects-like the WinFS storage subsystem, perhaps-will still go forward, but
that they will no longer be promised to customers or "hold up big releases."
Despite these promises, Ballmer stayed mute on the schedule for Vienna,
Windows Vista's successor.
- 100 Mbit/s Internet Download Speeds? If Your Lucky, Yes! - Verizon
says the standard should allow it
to eventually offer home connections with 100Mbps download speeds-two to
three times faster than its current services that top out at 30Mbps and 50Mbps
in some areas.
- Lead PHP developer quits -
The developer, named Jani Taskinen,
has been involved in in the PHP project for six years.
- Netscape.com Hacked -The ongoing Digg versus Netscape spat has
apparently escalated into a
hacking attack against America Online's Netscape.com social media website.
- RIAA Will Drop Cases If You Point Out That An IP Address Isn't A Person
- For years, the RIAA has claimed that having the IP address of a computer
that has shared unauthorized files is the equivalent of having the evidence of
who was actually sharing files.
That, of course, is false. The IP address simply can help you know who paid
for the internet access, but not who was using what computer on a network.
- Samsung SGH-P300 - Super Slim Mobile Phone -
Unlike most phones, the screen in
the P300 is positioned in a landscape aspect ratio, rather than the more
traditional portrait mode. The 1.8in screen has a resolution of only 220 x
176, compared to the pin sharp 240 x 320 screen in the D600.
- MS Has 'Surprises' For Nintendo & Sony - Even though the
possibility of a price drop has been ruled out, the head of
the Xbox
360 Euro division says they have surprises up their sleeves for Nintendo
and Sony. Maybe we can talk MS into bundling the Xbox 360 add on HD-DVD drive?
- Microsoft Brand worth nearly 57 Billion$ -
Here's how
they calculate the power in a name.
- Iconic F-14 Tomcat flying into sunset -
So at age 36, the F-14 Tomcat jet fighter is preparing to retire.
- Resident Evil: Extinction Coming Sept. 07 -
Sony's Screen Gems has set a September 7, 2007 release date for the
anticipated third installment, Resident Evil: Extinction, directed by Russell
Mulcahy and written by Paul W.S. Anderson.
- Where Are They Now - Babes of the Eighties -
check
it out. And what
will today's star kids look like in 20 years?
- The Departed Trailer Hits! -
Yahoo! Movies has up the new trailer for director Martin Scorsese's The
Departed, which Warner Bros. Pictures will release on October 6. The crime
drama stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg,
Martin Sheen and Alec Baldwin.
- Spectacular Use of Stop Motion Video - Must See! -
check it out
- Bird Magician -
check it
out! (thanks Monika)
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