Intel to Stop Supplying Atom Z500 ''Silverthrone'' Processors
Intel in its latest circular to netbook manufacturers said that it will stop taking orders for the Atom Z500 "Silverthrone" series processors very soon. Z500 series is Intel's first line of Atom processors since the introduction of the Atom brand. The series consists of single-core chips with clock-speeds ranging between 800 MHz and 2.00 GHz, with almost 11 models. The series is succeeded by the Atom N200 and N400 "Diamondville" and "Pineview" series.
Intel seems to have stopped manufacturing these chips upon the introduction of the Atom N series, and continued taking orders for the inventories to digest. The company will, however fulfill existing orders from manufacturers such as Acer, ASUS, and MSI, note industry sources. Intel's Atom Z series targets netbooks and mobile internet devices (MIDs).
Source: DigiTimes
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(PR) OCZ Announces the Immediate Availability of the Z-Series 80+ Gold Power Supply Series
OCZ Technology Group, a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance and high reliability memory and PC components, today announced the immediate availability of the Z-Series power supplies, the latest high-end enthusiast offering excelling in both performance and ultimate efficiency. Featuring industry-leading 80+ Gold Certifications, the Z850 and Z1000 PSUs offer the highest efficiency on the market combined with a power output to meet exceptional system demands. The Z-Series is the ideal solution for today's high-end gaming systems and professional workstations, and are now shipping to OCZ's widespread resellers.
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Latest 785G Motherboards Continue to Support Core Unlocking
When it first surfaced that some triple-core and dual-core AMD Phenom series processors could make their disabled cores available under special circumstances thanks to shoddy BIOS-coding associated with the Advanced Clock Calibration (ACC), the anomaly quickly transformed into a potential selling-point for AMD processors, that with the right motherboard, a cheaper AMD processor could be unlocked into a significantly powerful processor for the price. Although AMD made noise calling motherboard vendors to quickly isolate and fix the issue, months on, it hasn't been fixed even with AMD's newest desktop platform based on the AMD 785G+SB710 chipset. An almost deliberate precedent, one we can't have problem with.
Chinese website Coolaler.com has learned that MSI's newest AMD 785G motherboard, the 785GM-E65, can not only unlock the two disabled cores on the Phenom II X2 550, but also provide reasonable overclocking stability for the processor. Coolaler used a retail Phenom II X2 550 on the new motherboard, and simply set the ACC feature in the BIOS setup to "auto" (which enables it from the BIOS end). The system booted with all physical cores on the processor enabled, and allowed overclocking it to 3.609 GHz (18 x 200 MHz, 1.344 V). The chip was subjected to full-load using two instances of Orthos to test its stability, to which it emerged fairly stable.
Source: Coolaler
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