Friday, February 27, 2009

IT News HeadLines (HARDSPELL) 27/02/2009


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Asus to show off Marine Cool motherboard at CeBIT
From time to time, motherboard manufacturers come up with something new and interesting, although sometimes it just ends up being plain weird and from the very slim details that has been provided by A
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Galaxys Non-reference GTX 285 Graphics Card Unearthed
NVIDIA has entitled AIC to produce non-reference GTX 285 which has been known as the strongest single-GPU card, and now more details of Galaxys non-reference GTX 285 Graphics Card surface.Compared wit
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Dual-CPU Nehalem systems pump up the bandwidth
A MONTH FROM NOW, Intel will officially introduce the dual processor Nehalem-EP, aka Gainestown.Essentially, it keeps the same format and LGA1366 socket as the uni-processor Core i7, just dual CPU sup
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Intel says it will be MID king
RESPONDING TO ARMs efforts to muscle its way into the world of mobile computing, Pankaj Kedia, Intels MID(dle) man, recently spoke to the INQ about the firms plans to stand its ground, with Moorestown
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Intel changes all logos
As Charlie reported earlier, Intel just got into business of changing logos, and we just found out how the rest of the line up looks like. The new logo is much wider than the previous one and on the t
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Geforce GTX 280M up to 50 percent faster than 9800M
Nvidias soon to launch flagship notebook GPU is, as we said, based on G92b 55nm architecture. The high-end version new notebook chip branded as Geforce GTX 280M will come with 128 Cuda processor cores
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Nehalem based Xeons on last day of March
Intel will officially launch the Nehalem generation of Xeons on the very last day of March. While it will show itself in Intels pricelist on March 28th, the official launch and availability is planned
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Yeston Non-reference GTX260 Engineering Sample Spotted
Till now, GeForce GTX260 has been designed according to three different PCB design plans: 65nm P651, 55nm P654 and current P897 Edition. Just as some other manufacturers, Yeston is also preparing non-
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CeBIT 2009: MSI unveils new products
Micro-Star International (MSI) plans to showcase new products including X-Slim series ultra-thin notebooks, Wind Top all-in-one PCs, a performance motherboard, and military-specific graphics card at C
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Triple-core AMD CPUs seeing demand upsurge on unlock reports
Consumer demand for AMD triple-core Phenom II CPUs is seeing an upsurge following recent reports that the fourth core can be enabled by BIOS settings on certain motherboards, according to board makers
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Nvidias Hybrid SLI technology no longer matters
One of those technologies that showed so much promise, but delivered so little last year was Nvidias Hybrid SLI technology. We covered this in quite a lot of depth even before the actual products arri
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Nvidia cant compete without CPU, says Intel boss
The increasingly fierce war of words between Intel and Nvidia saw no sign of abating yesterday, as Intels CEO Paul Otellini took a swipe at its new tech nemesis at a tech conference in San Francisco.
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Intel hurries release of two ultra low voltage processors
While last years leaked Intel roadmaps showed them as being Q2 parts, the Core 2 Duo SU9600 and Core 2 Solo SU3500 have now been pulled into Q1 and will debut at the end of next month. Set to be part
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Radeon HD 4890 still at 55nm(?)
Weve known for some time that AMD will launch a new flagship product soon, momentarily forgetting about Radeon HD 4870X2 since it sports GPUs. Previous rumors have stated that the card would be named
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ATIs RV740 revealed
The Guru3D crew managed to get their hands on ATIs RV740 engineering release card and do a decent performance preview of it. As you probably already know, this is the first card made in the new 40nm m
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Intels GN40 Atom chipset can do 1080p
Intel representative is insisting that the companys new GN40 chipset will be able to play 1080p HD content. Many sources we talked to can confirm that this new old chipset can play 720p and many, like
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Ion 2 comes in Q4 2009
Nvidia has confirmed in its presentation that we will shortly post, that there will be a next generation Ion chipset. We decided to call to Ion 2. We heard the codename and we will try to get it and w
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Gainward announces its GTX 260 GS GLH card
In addition to the rumored GTX 285 Cao Cao edition, Gainward has announced a Goes Like Hell version of the GTX 260 card. The new GTX 260 GS GLH is using the same dual fan cooler previously seen on Gai
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Gainward preparing a new GTX 285 as well
According to a post over at Expreview.com, Gainward is also preparing a new custom cooled GTX 285 graphics card, the Geforce GTX 285 Cao Cao Edition. The card is apparently named after Chinese warlord
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Intels official comment on Nvidias Ion
Intel declined to talk about the FUD document, but it was kind enough to send us the following statement. "Netbooks are for basic internet tasks, such as browsing, email, social networking, etc.
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Intel sues Psion over netbook trademark
It seems like not only Dell are upset with Psion Teklogik, but it seems like Intel has now joined the fight to "free" the word netbook (or is that Netbook?), as Intel has filed a lawsuit aga
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EVGA X58 SLI Classified pushed to 2nd week of March
Earlier this month, we reported that EVGAs flagship X58 SLI Classified 141-BL-E759-A1 motherboard was going to release between mid-February and the end of February. However, due to some unforseen chan
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Intel to launch new CPUs for ultra-thin notebooks
Intel plans to launch two new ultra low voltage (ULV) CPUs by the end of March this year mainly targeting the companys consumer ultra low voltage (CULV) platform for ultra-thin notebook products, acco
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ATI RV740 Performance Figures Leaked
RV740 Benchmarks place it comfortably between the HD4830 and HD4850Despite an uncharacteristically tight-lipped stance from ATI on its first 40nm parts, hardware review website Guru of 3D has managed
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