TechNews - New GeForce 9400 GT costs only $59 - tech
(hx) 11:28 PM CEST - Aug,27 2008
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- Inside the Nehalem: Intel's New Core i7 Microarchitecture -
It features a
new Turbo Mode technology which is treated just like another P-state to
the operating system and is completely transparent to any software or games.
The PCU regulates the frequency and power within it's own specs so there is
no need to adapt or tune software for it.
- NVISION 08 Coverage -
Day 1: Jen-Hsun Huang's Keynote |
Day 2: Keynote, NASA, Kyle Busch and Exhibitors
- MSI Memory lover the first motherboard with 8 memory slots -
It supports the IntelCore 2 Extreme / Quad and other multi-core
processors with an FSB up to 1600MHz. The main feature of P45-8D Memory
Lover is the superb memory expansion flexibility.
It has a total
of eight memory slots which users can expand to 16GB by using four DDR2
memory or 8GB by using four DDR3 memories
- New GeForce 9400 GT costs only $59 -
Based on
NVIDIA's G96 GPU, the chip ships with 16 stream processors clocked at
1.4GHz, while the graphics core runs at 550MHz. NVIDIA's reference
specifications also call for a minimum of 512MB of DDR2 memory clocked at
400MHz, with its 128-bit memory interface providing up to 12.8GB/sec of peak
bandwidth, while texture fill rate stands at a paltry 4.4 billion
texels/second (about a tenth of the GeForce 9800 GTX's fill rate).
- Western Digital adds 750GB, 1TB drives to its RE3 HDD series -The
fresh 3.5-inch drives come with 750GB (WD57502ABYS) and 1TB (WD1002FBYS)
worth of storage space, have SATA 3.0 Gbps connection interfaces and bear a
rather striking resemblance to the Caviar Black desktop HDDs
- Samsung 2263DX Black 22inch Widescreen LCD Monitor Tested - The
Samsung
SyncMaster 2263UW is easily one of the best consumer LCD monitors on the
market.
- Microsoft preps laptop mice with new sensor - If you visit
Microsoft's
peripherals site right now, you'll see a teaser for what sounds like a
new series of mice. The teaser video shows people using their mice on a
variety of different surfaces, and it mentions "the technology that will go
anywhere you do." At the end, the teaser shows a pattern of blue eye-shaped
areas on a black background and says simply,
"9.9.08 Say Goodbye to Laser."
- NVIDIA ForceWare 177.92 BETA Drivers - PhysX v8.08.18 included! -
It is very fast
and brings optimalization in 3DMark Vantage, Assassin's Creed, Bioshock,
Call of Duty 4, Enemy Territory (Single) and Bioshock, Company of Heroes:
Opposing Fronts, Enemy Territory, World in Conflict (Dual, SLI). Also the
promised PhysX v8.08.18 was added.
- Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 -
Microsoft has
released the second beta of Internet Explorer. My response: "Who cares?"
Do you?
- BurnAware Free Edition 2.1 -
BurnAware Free Edition
(download)
allows you to easily perform the most common disc burning tasks: write to
all CD/DVD media types, including Blu-Ray; write Audio CDs and DVD-Video
files; create and burn disc images; write multi-session discs and much more.
- Microsoft tweaks anti-piracy check for Windows XP -
Microsoft has
updated software that verifies whether a copy of Windows is genuine in
its Windows XP Professional edition, making it similar to the notification
in Windows Vista and thus more persistently visible to users.
- Project Mojave Experiment Demos Released -
Project Mojave was a focus group where Windows XP users, who hadn't
upgraded to Windows Vista were brought in, interviewed about their
perceptions of Vista and then they got an exclusive demonstration of the
next release of Windows, code-named "Mojave". Of course the kicker is that
the product being demo'd wasn't "Project Mojave" it was Windows Vista.
- Crytek: PS4 And Xbox 720 May Arrive In Three Or Four Years - The
PlayStation 4 and Xbox '720' will arrive in 2011 or 2012...maybe
:-P
- AMD sells its digital TV unit to Broadcom -
The acquisition
will give Broadcom ownership of AMD's Xilleon integrated processors, NXT
receivers, Theater 300 DTV processors, and panel processors.
- Hackers breach Best Western in data heist -Hackers
have broken into the corporate databases for best Western Hotels and may
have stolen the names, addresses and credit card information of every
customer who stayed with the international group since 2007
- Computer viruses make it to orbit -
Nasa has
confirmed that laptops carried to the ISS in July were infected with a
virus known as Gammima.AG.
- BlackBerry Bold Unboxed! (video) -
RIM and Rogers
Wireless launched the Bold and it has everyone in a fever...mainly for
its new features such as its sexy display, 3G and media player!
- Jailbreak Your 2.0.2 iPhone 3G with QuickPwn (video) - The good
guy from
iPhoneinCanada.ca has put together a video tutorial that walks you
through the entire jailbreaking process.
- TomTom GO 930 Tested -
There are
several cool functions though that I have not see any other GPS devices
that have like, lane switch function, cool voices etc. The question is
though is it worth the 500$?
- Rouge from TokyoFlash is trendy and hip -
Deciphering this
watch is not all the tough; the outer ring of small dots represents
minutes, every fifth dot being slightly smaller to distinguish five-minute
groups
- GM Reconfigurable Performance Display - General Motors has
developed a
Reconfigurable Performance Display that can be configured to display a
'gauge' for a number of different things like horsepower, temperature, boost
and so on.
- Quantum Mechanics For Dummies (video) -
It outlines
Einstein's distaste at Heisenberg's uncertainty principle and is a good
starting point in realising that the universe is far, far stranger than can
be imagined.
- Solar plane makes record flight -
The Zephyr-6, as it is known, stayed aloft for more than three days,
running through the night on batteries it had recharged in sunlight
- The 5 Scientific Experiments Most Likely to End the World -
Surely in their insatiable curiosity and desire to put knowledge above all
things, science would never, say, inadvertently set off a chain of
events that lead to the end of the world. Right?
- Crowd Chants "F*ck FOX News!" live on FOX News! (video) -
Dumb reporter
walks into protesters, and unsuccessfully tries to get them to talk to
him
- Man hires hitman to kill wife. Wife Kills Hitman! -
Kudos to the
wife for kicking this guy's ass!
- Madonna - 4 Minutes (Live Sticky & Sweet Tour) - Video -
Well, she still
can dance! Respect!
- This Is Why God Made Little People (video) -
This little dude
has some moves :-D
- Hollyoaks Calendar 2009 - Loaded -
Featuring Claire
Cooper, Hollie-Jay Bowes, Gemma Merna, Roxanne McKee, Jennifer Metcalfe
and Zoe Lister
- Alessandra Ambrosio - Victoria's Secret Supermodel Obsession -
check it out!
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