Friday, September 11, 2009

IT News HeadLines (Legit Reviews) 10/09/2009


Legit Reviews
NVIDIA Releases Industry's First OpenCL Performance Profiler for the GPU

Today, NVIDIA announced the industry's first OpenCL Visual Profiler, providing developers with insight into performance bottlenecks and opportunities for optimization. Key features include:

  • Profiling of actual hardware signals, kernel efficiency, and instruction issue rate
  • Timing of memory copies between system memory and GPU dedicated memory
  • Customizable graphs to help developers focus in on problem areas
  • Basic auto-analysis to reveal warp serialization problems
  • Easy import/export to CSV for custom analysis

Leveraging the extensive performance instrumentation in NVIDIA's OpenCL drivers and hardware performance signals designed into NVIDIA GPUs, the OpenCL Visual Profiler provides developers with insight into performance bottlenecks and opportunities for optimization.


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iBUYPOWER Launches Paladin E-series Gaming PCs

iBUYPOWER announced the Paladin E-series Gaming PC, based on the Intels latest Lynnfield processors and the new P55 chipset. The iBUYPOWER Gamer Paladin E720, E780, and E720 each feature one of Intels new Core i7 800-series or Core i5 processors and newest P55 chipset motherboards. The new Paladin E-Series Gaming PC from iBUYPOWER provides top-notch gaming power in a much more affordable package.

iBUYPOWER Gamer Paladin E720

The Paladin E-Series Gaming Systems will also be iBUYPOWERs first to offer the companys new Power Drive Overclocking Service. iBUYPOWER will offer three levels of service up to 10%, up to 20% and up to 30% overclocking, ranging in price from free for their Level 1 Power Drive (up to 10% overclock) to $49 and $99 for level 2 and 3 overclocking. Power Drive overclocking service is an important addition to iBUYPOWERs innovative array of system improvements and specialized build options.


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Apple unveils new/updated hardware & iTunes 9

Apple has announced new versions of the iPod touch, Nano and the release of iTunes 9. Also mentioned is a firmware update for the iPhone (3.1.1) and potentially other surprises (stay tuned for more info or visit Apple on the web). While the iPod touch has not changed substantially, the Nano now sports a video capable camera, a radio tuner, pedometer, and microphone/speaker.

Apple today introduced iTunes 9, the latest version of the worlds most popular software application to purchase, manage and play media, packed with innovative features such as iTunes LP, Home Sharing and Genius Mixes, as well as a redesigned store and improved syncing. iTunes 9 makes it easier than ever to discover, purchase and enjoy your music, movies, TV shows, and apps for iPhone and iPod touch from Apples revolutionary App Store.


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New Adamo by Dell Teaser: 9.99mm on 9/9/09

Dell has released a new teaser pic of their upcoming luxury 13" Notebook offering. The Adamo by Dell is to be a designer laptop of sorts with a price tag of $1,499 and the new information released today is that it will be just 9.99mm thick!

Adamo by Dell

9/9/09 comes only once and today Dell is offering a glimpse of its highly stylized, thin 9.99-mm Adamo By Dell concept thats as beautiful as todays date is unique. In March, Dell introduced the Adamo By Dell brand and Adamo laptop as the pinnacle of craftsmanship and design. Derived from the Latin word meaning to fall in love with, the Adamo laptop is the worlds thinnest and todays concept shows Dells commitment to taking that to the next level.


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September 9 News from Around the Web

Intel Core i7-870 Processor Review @ Benchmark Reviews and other reviews from around the web can be found by visiting our forums!

When it launched last year, the Core i7 platform redefined Intel's high-end processor segment. Unfortunately, the platform was also accompanied by high-end prices. As such, it has seen only a minimal share of the desktop market. However, Intel has released a new platform that it claims will bring the performance of Nehalem to mainstream price points. Referred to as Lynnfield, the new platform shares its core microarchitecture with the i7-900 series, but introduces a completely new chipset and socket design. This means that not only will we see new processors, but new motherboards as well. Benchmark Reviews has been testing several of these new items and will be covering the launch in detail over the next few days. In this article, we examine the Intel Core i7-870 Quad Core Processor model BX80605I7870.


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Free Homebrew VoIP with Google Voice and Intel Atom
Free Homebrew VoIP with Google Voice and Intel Atom

Google has revolutionized the Voice Over IP world by providing a free phone number that allows a user of Google Voice to associate all of their various phone lines to a single number. Now besides the well known features of voice mail and free SMS text messages, there is another hidden gem with Google Voice that could revolutionize the telephony industry by providing free VoIP service to anyone!


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