VIA Revolutionizes Compact Embedded Design with the World's First Mobile-ITX Module
Taipei, Taiwan, 19 January 2010 - VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator of power efficient x86 processor platforms, today announced the VIA EPIA-T700: the first product based on the recently announced Mobile-ITX form factor. Measuring a mere 6cm x 6cm, the VIA EPIA-T700 is a uniquely compact computer-on-module that is designed for a range of u...
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Startech Now Offering USB 3.0 Controllers, Drives, Hubs, and more
Startech, the makers of hard-to-find and specific need adapters, peripherals, other devices, has added new USB 3.0 products to their already impressive catalog. Available now are USB 3.0 interface cards, with docking stations, hubs and other products to follow in January and February 2010. Here's a summary of what Startech is offering to sat...
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Smoking hot portable storage
It might look like a plastic lighter, but there is no butane inside, only a full charge of 60GB of storage. At $60, the XIGMATEK Lighter offers you 60GB of portable storage in a USB 2.0 lighter sized package. As you probably have guessed from the price, this is not a flash drive, there is a rather small platter housed inside the drive; something ...
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Streaming online content to a Linux HTPC
One alternative to the Windows Media Centre when building an HTPC is to go with a flavour of Linux and MythTV. The set up may be a little daunting to those who have never used or installed Linux, but the rewards are worth the time invested. MythTV does have an Achilles Heel, which is its inability to deal with streaming video from the net. Many ...
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NPD Group: PC Game Sales Down 23% in 2009
The latest NPD sales figures are out and it's more doom and gloom for PC gaming. According to the NPD Group, the sales of PC games declined 23% in 2009 to $538 billion total, compared to the 11% decline seen on consoles. It was just a year ago experts were predicting that the game industry is relatively immune to the effects of a global economic de...
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The CULV bears an awkward name, but has the processing power to stand proud
The Asus UL30A is another example of Intel's CULV mobile PC; not quite a full laptop but more than a netbook. The screen is 13.3", the keyboard is 'chiclet' style, with well spaced out keys emerging from underneath the metallic body of the CULV and the trackpad is a series of holes punched into the body below the keyboard. Inside you will find a ...
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My nVIDIA, what big DX11 hardware you have
Fermi is the new family of chips from nVIDIA and GF100 is the first hardware we've seen from this new line up that replaces the ancient G80 which was incredible in its time but suffers when compared to AMD's current lineup of DX11 parts. With the new architecture comes significant changes to the way nVIDIA's chips will process graphics as well as ...
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A deep look at Dynamic Power Manangement
AnandTech takes a deep look into dynamic power management, what it means and how it is managed with current generation CPUs and systems. Processing power per watt has been a phrase used for a long time in the server room, where it can be hard to hear over the roar of fans and platter based drives. It is now a common topic of conversation among al...
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Green Bay plays better in January
To start off the second week of 2010 at the PC Perspective forums is some rather good news. One of our members, Tim Shadler pulled of second place in the ASUS Xtreme Design Contest with his Eight-Tuner-Ruiner custom build. His thread now has a demonstration video along with some rather creative unboxing videos of the various components that went ...
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Thermaltake does a good job at providing bare-bones sub 500W PSUs
Instead of focusing solely on the kilowatt level of PSUs, it is worth keeping an eye on the 500W neighbourhood. Seriously, unless you are planning on at least 2 graphics cards and a 10 disk RAID you do not need that cool 1250W PSU. By pegging the proper PSU, your system will produce less heat and noise and your power bill will drop. Just make su...
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Intel Earnings Report up 875%
Intel has made a mountain of money in the fourth quarter of last year. In their just released earnings report, the chipmaker has posted an astounding $2.3 billion net-income (up $2 billion year-over-year). You can read the whole report here. While such figures will make most of our heads spin (and perhaps make some of you furious given the curre...
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ASUS's new AT3N7A-I; an HTPC should be seen, not heard
The tiny ASUS AT3N7A-I motherboard is home to an Intel Atom 330 with an active cooling system, not that you are going to get to overclock the Atom; but iXBT Labs warns that you may want to modify it as it is quite noisy. As well you will find Bluetooth, HDMI, eSATA, 3 x SATA-II (300 MB/s), 10 x USB, a legacy PCI slot and a pair of DIMM slots. If ...
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ASUS is bringing USB 3.0 to AMD systems
The name is still a mystery, but the pictures at Elite Bastards tell a story of ASUS' new board. The AM3 socket is obvious and the connectors include HDMI, DVI and VGA connectors so you can also be confident that there is onboard graphics, though it is hard to say that it will be a 785G board. The big news that ASUS gave out along with the pictur...
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NVIDIA Ion 2 Revealed to be GeForce G310?
Over the past few weeks, the buzz about NVIDIA's ION 2 and it's coexistence with Intel's Pinetrail CPUs has been the subject of much speculation. As we near the 1/2 way of the first quarter of 2010, more details of NVIDIA's discrete graphics chip are being revealed. At Blogee.net, they got their hands on some promotional material that would im...
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A well integrated review
One of the many pieces of big news around the web this week is the Clarkdale IGP, which has moved from the motherboard directly onto the CPU. Intel has hopes that this will turn around their current reputation of producing IGPs that should be avoided at all costs. The current favourite does still sit on the motherboard, as part of AMD's 785G chip...
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Upgrading graphics - So easy, a monkey can do it!
It's been a hot season for PC gamers, with the recent releases of games like DiRT 2, Modern Warfare 2, and Dragon Age: Origins. To get the most out of these games - to play at the best frame rates, at higher resolutions, and with the most eye candy turned on - a graphics upgrade might be in order, and, for some of your readers, that prospect ma...
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Think fast and small
The biggest news in storage this week is not a review and it is possible that many never heard of it because of how quietly the launch took place. The news is that Intel now has a 40GB SSD and it is for sale, at a price of $129! You might feel a little cramped with only 40GB, your OS install along with a few favourite programs will come close t...
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Taking a poll: if you have an AMD Radeon 5000-series graphics card, please read this
I have a started an informal poll of users with the Radeon HD 5000 series graphics card installed on their system here in our forums to help me diagnose a potential issue. The area we are focusing on is monitor/display noise in both 3D and Windows mode of the graphics card with varying monitors, etc. This example is something we s...
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Oh AMD, you and your paper launches
To get the bad news out of the way first, the new HD 5670 from AMD is not yet available anywhere but is targeted for around a $100 price point. Sometime in the next few days to a week we should start seeing the cards, but AMD has to be very careful as to the pricing. As Ryan mentioned in his review, the HD5670 really doesn't have the performanc...
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Pencil Mod a TA790GX 128M
Hi everybody, :) This is my first post on this forums and I have a question that I have been looking for an answer to for quite some time. I have...
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Gigabyte-EP45-UD3P missing drivers after install-XP Pro
I'm not sure why this is happening, but I just built this system, and installed windows and updates in the following order (please see below)...
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WTS: Stand Up Arcade Machine with Many games _ Mpls, MN
*** For sale in Person ONLY *** Twin Cities, MN G R E A T ___ FOR ___ P A R T I E S ( Friend has one and people from 10 to 60 were playing...
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will this memory work
will 533 memory work in a mobo that supports from 677 to 1200(OC)?
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It's so quiet around here
a little too quiet...
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Triple Channel Memory
I am currently using OCZ Reaper HPC 6GB (3 x 2GB) DDR3 1866mhz RAM. I was thinking of trying to upgrade to have more than 6GB. I suppose putting...
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SSD RAID Worth it?
Do you think it is worth it to upgrade to raid 0 with multiple SSD's?
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780GXE/128M question
I have an AsRock 780GXE/128M that multiboots into XP-MCE SP3 2005 x86, Vista Ultimate SP2 x86, Win7 Ultimate x64 (beta build 7100), Ubuntu 9.10 and...
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Let us welcome a new Froggie to the Pond !
*A Froggy Welcome To* *chillnoosa* *to the* *PC Perspective Folding Frogs* *Team 734*
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Win 7 - Fails internet after waking from sleep
Boot up from restart and/or cold boot and there is internet. Doesn't connect to internet automatically after waking up from sleep. :( Should be...
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Power Outtage at Stanford Jan 19
FAHMON showed some problems today so did some searching. Stanford experienced a power outage today and they are slowly getting things back online....
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Get Out Of Our House!
http://goooh.com/ :D
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Whom would you like to see run against Obama?
---Quote (Originally by Dutchcedar)--- The secret's out. All the FOX News babes are gonna run for president against each other. :p I give ya...
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Shuttle SP35P2 Barebone
Hello I recently built a system using the Shuttle SP35P2 barebone. I like the idea of these small factor PCs and am pretty new to them but this one...
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Win 7 - Very high interrupts/sec
I am using performance monitor and my interrupts/sec are at about 90,000 average. :eek: It is using approximately 20% of the CPU at all times. I...
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