Intel intros 40GB X25-V solid state drive :: Posted by THRASHER2
Listed by stores since January (around CES 2010), the 40GB X25-V solid state drive from Intel has now been officially announced and is available for purchase. The new 2.5-inch SSD has 34nm MLC (multi-level cell) NAND Flash memory chips, a SATA 3.0 Gbps interface, a MTBF of 1.2 million hours, and is capable of read and write speeds of up to 170 MB/s and 35 MB/s, respectively.
The 40GB X25-V drive is backed by a three-year warranty and can be found priced at $130 in the US and 100 Euro in Europe.
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Kingston has Westmere-EP-ready DDR3 memory :: Posted by THRASHER2
Beside approving the new 2400 MHz HyperX kit, Intel has certified three Kingston ValueRAM DDR3L registered DIMMs for use with the new Westmere-EP server processors. Kingston's modules, a 1GB Single Rank x8, a 2GB Single Rank x4 and a 2GB Dual Rank x8, work at 1333 MHz with CL9 latencies and are powered at 1.35V which makes them low voltage.
"Intel worked closely with Kingston in developing and certifying their low-voltage DDR3L memory for our upcoming Westmere-EP triple-channel server platform," said Geof Findlay, Memory Ecosystem Manager, Intel. "Kingston's low voltage server memory combined with Intel's 32nm processor utilizing the Westmere architecture will help datacenters increase performance while reducing overall energy costs."
The three ValueRAM DDR3L modules are backed by a three-year warranty.
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XFX HD 5850 Black Edition tested :: Posted by THRASHER2
Review: Pre-overclocked gaming goodness
XFX was working hard to bring AMD cards to the market while waiting for Nvidia’s Fermi. They launched a bunch of AMD Direct X 11 cards starting from the smallest and cheapest HD 5450 which will costs you €35 all the way up to the currently priciest HD 5970, for the price of which you can get as many as fifteen HD 5450 cards. But, XFX is mainly known for their overclocking business, and they’re always among the first to jump aboard the overclocking train. XFX took only the creme of the crop Cypress LE chips and created its HD 5850 Black Edition series of cards. Of course, Black Edition naming scheme says that the card comes overclocked.
The HD 5850 Black EditionÂ’s core is up from reference 725MHz to 765MHz, and the memory up from 1000MHz (effective 4000MHz) to 1125MHz (effective 4500MHz). So the card's GPU is some 5.5% faster than reference, whereas the memory is 12.5% faster than reference.
The HD 5850 is based on AMD's Cypress LE GPU running at 725MHz and has 1440 stream processors as opposed to 1600 stream processors on the Cypress XT GPU (HD 5870). Two of Cypress' SIMD engines are disabled, turning off 160 of its stream processors (or thread processors as AMD tends to call it), and eight of its texture units. The HD 5850's GPU sports 72 texture units but just like the HD 5870, it features 32 ROPs. Unlike the 5700 generation cards, which are powered via one 6-pin connector, the HD 5870 and HD 5850 require two 6-pin connectors. The HD 5850 use GDDR5 memory and has a 256-bit memory interface.
HD 5850 is positioned below the HD 5870 but promises to deliver a much better bang per buck as it is priced lower without sacrificing performance too much.
Each card form XFX gets XFX's 5-star support and the HD 5850 Black Edition puts an emphasis on the Assasin's Creed game. We told you here that XFX bundles Alien vs Predator with selected 5770, 5850 and 5870 cards but they will be available only through selected etailers across Europe.
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Nvidia launches Intel "eye-opener" site :: Posted by THRASHER2
See Chipzilla for what it really is
Fighting Chipzilla is no easy task, and even if the green team didnÂ’t know all the historical consequences of surviving Intel, they surely felt it by now.
Nvidia has now gone into the “fight” more proactively and has made a site that can only be described as anti-Intel. The categories, as you’ll see for yourself, go from pretty technology-oriented “GPU vs. CPU” to more bash-Intel oriented as “Stack of Evidence”.
Nvidia argues that “filings against Intel are more colorful than you thought” and how you shouldn’t “Just Take it From [Them]” as “Major media and industry analysts have been following the Intel cases closely” and how you should “See what they have to say”.
Just for the record, we’re not going into who’s right and who’s not here – on the site you’ll probably learn a thing or two about Intel’s past dealings as well as get a strong urge to defer to the green side in the process, but we’ll leave that up to you.
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OCZ announces its $99 Onyx SSD :: Posted by THRASHER2
$100 32GB SSD, 125MB/s and 70MB/s write
In order to take on Kingston's 30GB SSDNow Intel based SSD, OCZ has announced its new Onyx SSD based on Indilinx controller which should be the most affordable SSD that ever came from OCZ.
It comes as a 32GB version and features Indilinx Amigos controller, MLC NAND memory chips, 64MB of cache, TRIM support and should provide maximum read and write speeds of up to 125MB/s and 70MB/s.
The Onyx aims to be a perfect system drive and its US $99.99 and €99.90 price tag definitely hits the sweet spot. Although, SSDs are still more expensive than the HDDs, the benefit of an SSD is pretty clear, as they read/write much faster.
The new Onyx SSD has already been listed in couple of retail/e-tails shops and according to our info, it should be available in next one to two weeks, and although it is listed at €99.90 the price might even be lower once other shops get it.
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