Archive for September 2009
AMD Hexa-Core Thuban CPU
No doubt an attempt to keep up with Intel and its Gulftown i9 CPU, AMD have just confirmed their Hexa-Core Thuban CPU which will be released next year. What most people were not expecting though was the fact that the new CPU will be backwards compatible with existing AM3 and AM2+ motherboards. An AMD spokesman…
Read MoreUSB Blu-Ray Drive
Asus is about to release an external Blu-Ray drove sometime this month. The SBC-04D1S-U has a single USB 2.0 output, no HDMI, no power, everything goes through the USB. The drive itself reads Blu-Rays up to 4.8X, burns DVD-R and CD-R at 8X. Asus say the drive has a "Turbo Engine for enhanced USB Connectivity".…
Read MoreDell looking into 3D Gaming Laptop
With all the current hype on 3D making a comeback in the field of TV and film and with a few current games releases now in 3D, the future obviously looks like we’ll be wearing silly glasses to do anything. It’s all very exciting and there certainly are lots of rumours flying round about whats…
Read MoreIntel 1.73GHz Core i7-820 QM mobile CPU
Intel’s Core i7 has been a huge hit with the enthusiast market, it is unquestionably the best range of CPUs out for desktop computing today. Intel are now hoping to bring some of that success to the laptop market with the mid-range quad-core 1.73GHz i7-820QM. This quad core CPU is built on the 45nm fabrication…
Read MoreATI 5870 Eyefinity Card able to handle 6 monitors at a time.
AMD are launching their new range of ATI 5xxx cards at the end of this month with the first cards being the 5850 and 5870 with the 5870×2 to follow later on in the year. While there is a lot of secrecy surrounding these cards due to various NDAs imposed on people the few details…
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