Intel Releases Core i7 875K and Core i5 655K, Lures Overclockers with Pricing
Intel today rolled out two new high-performance processors aimed at the enthusiast community, which is sure to please users of LGA1156 platform. The release includes the quad-core Core i7 875K, and dual-core Core i5 655K. Based on the 45 nm Lynnfield die, the Core i7 875K is clocked at 2.93 GHz,...
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Rumor: Oracle Kills AMD Opteron on Sun Iron
Oracle is abandoning AMD's Opteron processors, according to a person familiar with the company's server plans. The new owner of Sun Microsystems will not use the new Opteron 6100 and impending Opteron 4100 processors in future Sun Fire x64 servers, and all existing Opteron servers will be...
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AMD: Our HD Netbook Platform Is Netbooks Done Right
Along with many others, AMD Chief Marketing Officer Nigel Dessau was skeptical of netbooks at their inception. Small, underperforming - their only advantage was price. Now, as prices and sizes climb, performance is still a sticking point. AMD VISION is hoping to deliver a HD Netbook platform to...
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NVIDIA Removes Hybrid PhysX Blockage
It seems that Nvidia has removed the hybrid PhysX blockage in the recent 257.15 GeForce drivers. However, it is still a mystery for us if it was done intentionally or perheps it is just a bug. "I'm seriously amazed. I've tested it by myself on Windows XP and Windows 7 x64 - it really works out of...
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ATI F@H GPU-3 Client under Active Development
Hope for AMD ATI Radeon Folding @ Home fans as Stanford posts an update on bringing a GPU3 client to fruition with AMD hardware, too. Hopefully the new client will not only leverage the 9-month old HD 5000 series hardware, but deliver performance increases in line with the scaling seen from the HD...
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Open ATI R600/700 Driver Gains Tiling Support
AMD's Alex Deucher has worked out a set of patches that touch the Radeon DRM, xf86-video-ati DDX driver, and Mesa for providing this 2D and OpenGL/3D tiling support on the ATI R600/700 hardware. While not properly supported yet, these patches also lay the foundation for Evergreen (Radeon HD 5000...
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Apple Is Now the 500 lb. Gorilla in the Technology World
SEATTLE, May 27 (UPI) -- Apple became the 500-pound gorilla of the technology world Wednesday, surpassing Microsoft based on market capitalization. The Seattle Times reported Apple and Microsoft could wind up see-sawing back and forth in the coming months -- but on Wednesday, Microsoft stock fell...
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