Saturday, March 7, 2009

IT News HeadLines (Tom's Hardware) 07/03/2009



Thermaltake's Awesome BMW-designed Case
Design houses from the automotive industry have penned the lines for more than just cars. In fact, some even dabble into computer parts.
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Asus Shows Off Dual Socket 1366 Motherboard
While at CeBIT in Germany, Asus unveiled its new LGA1366-based dual socket motherboard.
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Gigabyte Unveils Core i5 Motherboard
Core i5 isn't necessarily a new term floating around the Internet, however lately there's been quite a bit of talk about the "Core i7 lite," and now there's a motherboard to support it.
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Windows 7: You Can Disable Every Major Feature
According to an update on the Windows 7 Engineering site on MSDN, users will be allowed to disable almost every major feature that ships with the operating system--yes, including Internet Explorer 8.Microsoft noted that due to all the anti-trust deali
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Memory Manufacturers Merge to Save Selves
A chip industry veteran will now lead a new Taiwan-based, state-backed company that merges six memory chipmakers into one collective--the TMC.While the $23.6 billion computer memory industry struggles to stay afloat, Taiwan's economic affairs ministry ele
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AMD 'Bulldozer' CPU Not Coming Early
Apparently, AMD will not release its 32nm Bulldozer CPU before late 2010 even though Intel's rival processor will roll out by Q4 2009.
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Fusion IO's 100K IOPs SSD Goes to HP
Fusion-io has joined forces with Hewlett-Packard to create the HP StorageWorks IO Accelerator, using Fusion-io's ioMemory technology for BladeSystem c-Class servers.
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PC Gaming News - March 6, 2009
Here is today's daily gaming madness...
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MSI WindBox Dismounted, Teased at CeBit
When we saw MSI’s WindBOX at CES back in January, the company had the nettop as it’s supposed to be, mounted onto the back of an LCD panel ...
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OCZ Jumps into Netbook Market with Neutrino
OCZ, a company known for its RAM, SSD's and power supplies, is now jumping into the netbook market with the Neutrino.
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Asus Phasing Out 7-inch, Not 8.9-inch Eee PC
With the netbook selection heading in both directions of getting more affordable and sleeker, Asus is dropping its most modest offering from its Eee PC lineup.
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Windows Vista, Server 2008 SP2 RC Now Available
Microsoft last week released the Windows Vista and Server 2008 SP2 Release Candidates to MSDN and TechNet subscribers, but now it’s available for all who dare to try.
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BenQ, MSI Reveal new Media/Gaming Laptops
BenQ and MSI both unveiled new notebooks today. BenQ's Joybook S57 and MSI's GT725 both come with Intel processors and ATI graphics.
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PC Gaming News - March 5, 2009
Well gang, it looks like you're not going to get rid of me, so here's to kicking off a permanent PC Gaming roundup. Just hang on as I get into the groove of shuffling around gaming and hardware news! Here are a few nuggets to get things just right...
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Windows 7 May Allow Disabling of Internet Explorer
The Windows 7 news just keeps rolling on in. We’ve been hearing snippets about what Microsoft will be offering users with its new operating system for months.
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First Core i7 Laptop Has One Hour Battery Life
First Core i7 Laptop Has One Hour Battery LifeRemember a few weeks ago when we told you about the â€کmobile workstation’ that Eurocom was cramming a Core i7 into? Well now we know more, and we’re a little surprised. Well, not really.
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Just How Fast is OCZ's New 1 TB SSD?
A one-terabyte solid-state drive? That sounds almost as crazy as the device's boasted speeds--600 MB/sec reads and 500 MB/sec writes. A Belgian Web site was able to get its hands (and benchmarks) on OCZ's monster SSD array, and here's how it stacked up!
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A-Data Announces Big 500 GB SSD
A-DATA unveiled its new consumer solid-state drive, packing in a whopping 500GB in an itty-bitty 2.5" space.
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Asus Unveils Green, Wireless Monitors
Today at CeBIT, Asus sported not only sported its new "green" series of LCD monitors, but the world's first wireless monitor as well.
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Onboard Integrated Graphics Gone by 2013
Market research firm John Peddie Research has released a report that indicates the end of the market for the popular integrated graphics processor (IGP) chipset.
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Crysis + 9 VMs: Core i7 and 24GB RAM
Kingston memory demonstrated an Intel Core i7 920 system this week packed with 24 GB of DDR3 of its ValueRAM memory.
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AMD Foundry Spinoff Named GlobalFoundries
In October 2008, AMD announced that it’d be ditching the actual fabrication of its chip technology, and will be spinning off its factories to an outside company.
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Report: TSMC Cranking Out Intel Atom SoC in Q4
Earlier this week, Intel and TSMC announced an agreement that would see the Taiwan chip manufacturer would produce Atom-based System on Chip (SoC) technologies.
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