Eurocom D900F Panther notebook
March 18, 2010
Eurocom's D900F Panther notebook is special as it is the first six-core notebook from the company, which places it comfortably as a desktop replacement machine. Inside, you will find a speedy 3.33GHz Core i7-980X or Xeon 5600 processor, where you can hit resolutions of 1,920 x 1,200 or 1,680 x 1,050 pixels, as well as touching a whopping 24GB DDR3 RAM in the process. Storage should not be a problem since that monstrous notebook can hold a quartet of hard drives for a total of 2.56TB. Graphically-speaking, you can enjoy the wonders of NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 285M or the Quadro FX 2800M/3800M chipsets. All these need some serious juice, which is why Eurocom has thrown in a 12-cell, 6,600mAh battery, tipping the scales at a massive 12lbs. Prices start from $3,674 upwards.
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Zotac ION upgrade kit
March 17, 2010
Zotac is first off the blocks to offer an ION upgrade kit from NVIDIA, where it comprises of a tiny profile factor motherboard alongside a Zotac ION graphics card with 512MB of DDR3 RAM, 16 shaders as well as DirectX 10.1 support. You won't find the ION upgrade kit to be lost in any way when it comes to hardware acceleration since it is full well capable of handling MP4, DivX, AVC and H.264 video, not to mention Adobe Flash Player 10.1 beta. Other features include an HDMI output that allows you to hook up to an external display. No concept on pricing or availability, but the PC card itself comes with NVIDIA CUDA which lets you enjoy hardware acceleration for selected image and video processing software.
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Asus Rampage III Extreme Motherboard Pictures Released
March 17, 2010
Asus has officially unveiled pictures of its Asus Rampage III Extreme motherboard, which is based on Intel’s X58 chipset. While details such as price and the period of release are still unknown, thanks to the released pictures, a bunch of technical info can be gleaned regarding that LGA 1366 motherboard. Technical specifications that are currently available for the Asus Rampage III Extreme include:
- Support for Intel’s LGA 1366 CPU
- Triple-channel DDR3 support
- Four PCI-E x16 slots with Nvidia NF200 bridge chip
- Support for SATA 6.0Gbps
- USB 3.0
- Gigabit LAN
- 7.1 channel audio
- eSATA
- Firewire
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Asus P7F7-E WS SuperComputer motherboard
March 16, 2010
Asus' latest P7F7-E WS SuperComputer motherboard ought to get all of you geeks out there salivating - after all, it does maximize transmission speeds by integrating the industry's latest I/O technologies including USB 3.0, SATA 6G storage interface and the IEEE 1394b FireWire standard. Apart from that, you will plus benefit from the LGA1156 socket and the latest Intel 3450 chipset with onboard graphics. Folks who love gaming can pick up a quartet of ATI CrossFireX cards or 3-way/2-way Nvidia SLI cards to go along with that aptly-named SuperComputer motherboard, not to mention its ability to leverage Nvidia Cuda parallel computing architecture to support up to four Nvidia Tesla cards with Clarkdale Processors. Hmmm, best to have a great cooling system in there.
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ATI Open Stereo 3D Initiative announced
March 16, 2010
GDC 2010 in San Francisco was the platform where ATI announced their Open Stereo 3D Initiative, where it involves a slew of partners to ensure support for multiple different stereoscopic 3D solutions. The whole concept behind that movement would be to offer consumers more choices when it comes to selecting an S3D solution, alongside additional innovations and a concerted effort in lowering costs for both hardware and software so that the adoption rate will be increased. Among the upcoming line of 3D products will comprise of a 3D-enabled ATI Eyefinity technology (a rival to Nvidia’s 3D Vision Surround), 120Hz 3D-ready displays and notebooks, active shutter glasses and passive polarized ones, S3D support for DirectX 9, 10 and 11, Quad Buffered OpenGL and Blu-ray 3D support among others.
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Tegra 2 tablets are pretty zippy
March 15, 2010
The Tegra platform from NVIDIA is the conclusion of a marriage among an ARM processor and an NVIDIA GPU which is meant to enable tablets, netbooks and smart books handle playback of HD video with aplomb, not to mention its ability to run 3D graphics without lost a beat. Several demonstration tablets made their way to the Game Developers Conference by the week, and they did not disappoint. While that doesn't mean you will be able to play shout of Duty: contemporary Warfare 2 on your netbook anytime soon, but it ought to pack ample muscle to handle MMORPGs and casual games.
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AMD Fusion processors out next year
March 11, 2010
Netbooks looks set to be here to stay for many more years, co-existing peacefully with notebooks, and that has finally caused AMD to shift gear by catering for a committed netbook processor under their Fusion range that ought to see action sometime next year. It seems that the Fusion chips will have capability consumption in the 10-15 watt range alongside decent integrated graphics performance without the need for Ion-powered graphics, all found in a device no larger than 12" in size. What do you think - will Intel and NVIDIA be quaking in their boots?
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